Rtty on John Flinchbaugh KD3EE

985 Workbench Net - 2024-03-18

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This Week in Ham Radio

I keep tweaking the outside 2m dipole
- I got it a little higher
- It tests different day to night
- Signal is good then gone every so many seconds
- Checked it for loose connections in the wind. It seems fine.
I’ve been learning to configure fldigi more
BARTG RTTY contest over the weekend
- I finally successfully ran the frequency for a bit calling cq and getting responses
- I stuck to the 5W QRP class
I’m scanning more frequencies for satellite repeaters
Weather is nicer, so I got out on my bicycle. It’s time to activate some parks (on the bike?). The Tram mirror mount for vertical antenna might clamp nicely to the bag rack.

21 Tech Net - 2024-03-17

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This Week in Ham Radio

Tried a couple RTTY sprints
- tough to get configured in 30 minutes
- had to fix up logs
BARTG (British Amateur) RTTY Contest
- I’m getting more advanced on my fldigi setup
- 27 contacts
- 5W to qualify QRP class
The Quansheng charging on its base causes a mess of interference for 40m on my X6100
I chatted with Tom (KA3TKW) the other day and added a few satellites to scan on my Quansheng for random repeater traffic
egzumer firmware scans very fast
I’m looking forward to some POTA now that weather’s getting better.
I’ve been using the same antenna for too long.

985 Workbench Net - 2024-03-11

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This Week in Ham Radio

RTTY NA Sprint
The 2m dipole is flopping around outside on this windy day.
I heard the ISS pass on scan. That’s always pretty cool.
I checked into the Simplex Net in Lancaster County I reached the West check-in to Mount Joy with my external antenna and my Quansheng UV-K5 running 5W.

CQ WPX RTTY Contest

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I did the CQ WPX RTTY contest over the weekend. RTTY is fun and more interactive than FT digital modes.

RTTY Round-Up

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I participated in the RTTY Round-Up.

Trouble with fldigi/R1CBU

I screwed around lots trying to get fldigi talking to the radio. R1CBU software works great with wsjt-x, but fldigi and flrig completely failed to connect. It wouldn’t key the radio. Switching back to stock software on the radio worked fine with flrig, but where’s the fun in that.

For flrig, I could tell it that it was an older version of the radio (X5105?), and it would key and set frequency, but flrig wouldn’t read back the frequency when updated at the radio.

I ultimately got fldigi talking to R1CBU by using flcat with an xml file for G106.

Then I could “tune” power output following instructions in fldigi manual.

Working!

I started making some contacts on 10M and 15M. It’s much more like voice contacts: yelling back and forth on the same channel. I’m using macros and sticking to those for the contest. They’re on the 3rd page of macros in fldigi.

I’ve made at least a few contacts, so I’ll submit them to the contest

Busy 40m

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I used the fully-extended, large dipole kit and the RTL-SDR to successfully receive lots of 40m signals. It may have been especially busy, since it was Labor Day in the US and Canada. I found FT8 (40m and elsewhere) signals from St Lucia, Slovinia, South America, Cuba, and a little FT4 (40m).

I also found some BPSK31, RTTY/45, and still unidentified digital signals.