My Week in Radio
- muted the APRS channel on my UV-PRO,
so I don’t need to hear that squawking away
- there is an option to mute digital, but it only works when it recognizes it’s digital
- been testing a doublet built from:
- a split speaker wire,
- 44ft end to end
- a 4:1 balun
- choke balun
- 30 FT8 contacts on 20M at 1W for a park activation
- 80M EFHW today for better receive to place 21.6M-long EFRW
- worked contests:
- PSK Fest: 15 contacts
- RTTY Roundup: 70 contacts
- gave one of Tom’s cool little ATS radios to a friend’s kid, get him bitten by the bug
Others
- K3EA, Greg:
- special event station
- this past weekend:
- rtty contest
- psk31 contest
- NA QSO party, CW next weekend
- WB3LNY, George:
- working on some 12V power supplies
- VE3HOH, Pete:
- ordered some radios
- great tuner
- KA3TKW, Tom:
- RS-40 pass at 8:40 tonight
- 437.625
- no special equipment needed
- trivia net on wednesday
- Saturday Hamfest in Harrisburg, W3UU
- new commercial satellite:
- AST bluebird 6
- mod firmware for ATS v4 radio
- waterfall
- s17432
- decodes CW and RTTY
- DigiRig Mobile: $49
- audio
- PTT (no need for VOX), so better than just a USB sound card
- connect lots of radios
- lots of SSTV
- ordered a UHF Moxon SSTV antennas
- big in RC airplane world
- range video LLC
- K3DMM, Denny:
- not much luck with SSTV yet
- KC3VZU, Bob:
- not getting to the ham fest
- working on full-band radio in truck, replaced the mic
- W3MW, Don:
- finishing wiring of antennas
- getting shack back in order
- KC3ZBI, Ron:
- doing paperwork to do a ham radio program for a local school
- KC3EWN, Curly:
- new Arrow antenna
- Icom W-32A, full-duplex, 5W
- ready for satellite
- K3EA, Greg:
- DigiRigs have wiring for old rigs
- VE3HOH, Pete:
- watch 401MHZ and 401.025 for occasional satellites