My Week in Radio
- On a vacation cruise, so no radios allowed.
- Wire was down when I got home, so I got to throw it again. I threw it with a pulley and halyard this time: 42ft up.
- I built a T2LT flowerpot antenna on PVC pipe and pulled into a tree. It replaced a slim jim built from ladder line.
- I was looking for that Iran station, but didn’t really hear anything.
- I got me spinning through other 49M shortwave and looking up the station locations.
- On the subject of open source: ft2.
- When you write code (or a book), you have copyright automatically.
- You choose the license.
- GPL license says: “I provided the source code for free, so you can modify or build upon it, and when you distribute a derivative work, you need to afford your users the same privilege: distribute your modified source.”
Others
- K3EA, Greg:
- contests
- saw NA RTTY QSO Party
- state QSO parties
- next weekend: ARRL SSB contest next weekend: new countries
- https://contestcalendar.com/
- DX report
- good for HF propagation
- quiet space weather
- http://spaceweather.com
- Bouvet Island, 3Y0K, https://3Y0K.com
- Nigeria
- N3GK website to see
- original hamclock server has been duplicated
to keep original hardware working
- hamclock.com for instructions
- QSL cards in the mail:
- Equatorial Guinnea, Africa.
- Anguila
- Ethiopia
- KA3TKW, Tom:
- thanks for update on ham clock
- contests
- WQ8M, Scotty:
- Parker, CO
- IRLP
- project is probably 30 years old
- VE3HOH, Pete:
- starting with meshtastic: 1 node found so far
- considering NVIS dipole for 40M
- KA3TKW, Tom:
- Iran radio from London: 0300-1600UTC, 9800khz, otherwise 5885khz, and another
- 9:55pm: starlink launch to the east/south
- N7JMS, Jon:
- FT2:
- 8 QSOs during net
- central africa
- less sensitive
- Meshtastic: use unlicensed mode, instead of licensed modes, so you can keep standard encryption.
- FT2:
- WA1SMG, Matt:
- cornwall townlhip
- reviving an old lafayette receiver: crystal controlled
- can be used for CW to satellites
- KC3VZU, Bob:
- marveling at the testing experience of older hams
- drawing radio diagrams
- 20wpm CW
- marveling at the testing experience of older hams
- KC3RYQ, Gary:
- Yaesu 8135 with RT Systems: trying to get it programmed
- KD3AGU, Richard:
- first net in 2-3 months *** Swap and Shop
- VE3HOH, Pete:
- Kenwood
- Drake TR7s
- KA3TKW:
- 2-3 DX440 SW radios
- some small Sony SW radios
- RadioShack 10M mobiles