Portable Doublet
I built a doublet experiment at a park today.
- split 6.25M of speaker wire to be a 12.5M-long, center-fed, non-resonant dipole, like my portable EFRW I usually carry.
- the rest is balanced feed line
- right to the radio
- tuned 20M and barely tuned 40M on my X6100
- 2W FT8 heard in africa and europe
- next try it with a 4:1 or 9:1 balun to match better
My Weeks in Radio
- feel lucky to be in this area with lots of repeaters and traffic
- flagpole with YAGI snapped in the wind a week or 2 ago.
- strung the slim jim in the tree a little higher
- playing with nicsure firmware on the RadTel RT-880G.
- saw a great youtube video on APRS bots:
- MPAD being very versatile for: weather, callsign lookup, location report to email
- ISS bot that tells you the next pass
- listened to a couple sweepstakes contacts: to lazy to try to communicate that much exchange QRP SSB
Others
- WB3LNY, George:
- Tried La Grange repeater in KY, but no one answered.
- Keep as active as we can.
- Use it or lose it: they’ll take it away
- linking repeaters may help generate more traffic
- VE3HOH, Pete:
- working on some Yaesu FT-100’s
- predecessor to FT-857.
- working on some Yaesu FT-100’s
- KA3TKW, Tom:
- lunch Thursday this week
- everyone share a radio gadget
- lots of mini demonstrations
- ISS scrubbed the SSTV after first couple days
- ISS ham repeater is still good though
- high pass monday, 4:45pm
- Russian satellites doing SSTV
- 435.890 ARCTICSAT-1: 2 good passes Monday morning
- 5 minute cycle, so don’t be discouraged
- lunch Thursday this week
- KK4KKW, Steve:
- many times can’t make contacts while traveling: 2M or 10M
- hearing people on HF, but not making contacts
- N7JMS, John:
- digipi doing SSTV to get ARCTICSAT-1 images
- K3DMM, Denny:
- doing some of the sweepstakes
- got Hawaii
- definitely trying morning pass of arcticsat-1
- trying for ISS pass as well
- doing some of the sweepstakes
- KD3BOV, John:
- rain gutter antenna
- getting started with the ICOM 2730
