[digitalradio] Re: Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew O'Brien
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Joe Veldhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest you just use your car. The radio will obviously run off the battery directly. If the laptop's battery voltage is close to 14V you can probably wire up a power cable to go directly to the car battery,

[digitalradio] Yaesu FT-757GX Enhanced CAT interface proyect

2008-05-21 Thread Javier Albinarrate
Hi, This is a project I am currently into. I am passing the information so it gets recorded somewhere for others, and also because I have a few information requests. I have a FT-757GX from the 80s. I just cannot afford what a newer HF costs. Also I got to like this one :) It has a

[digitalradio] Re: Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew O'Brien
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Sholto Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy if you don't mind a little leg power you could try the Freeplay Weza: http://store.sundancesolar.com/frfrwe.html I bought one a while back and I can run the FT-897 on it for quite sometime before needing to

Re: [digitalradio] Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread WD8ARZ
Below are the items I use to power my system, base, mobile or portable. This extra battery is not part of the vehicle, though the vehicle charges it when running. Other wise a 15A 13.8 volt ac power supply does the charging when not running the vehicle. All this sounds more complicated and time

[digitalradio] Equipment for a digital station Fund Day's ?

2008-05-21 Thread WD8ARZ
Equipment selection for emergency service can be viewed from many angles, but in general:, goals need to be defined so selections can be made to fit the goals: - Minimum amount to carry that does the most in the fewest packages using the least power that does the tasks needed to be done. -

[digitalradio] Digital station options?

2008-05-21 Thread WD8ARZ
Many HF rigs use relays for bandpass filter switching, and other tasks. Unfortunately when changing bands, these relays cycle to the configuration needed for each band range. When using software to scan the bands, these relays are being cycled with each band change request from the software. Some

[digitalradio] Data Suggestions, Interfacing, RFI, Audio and Performance

2008-05-21 Thread WD8ARZ
There are a variety of challenges in interfacing radios, computers, data interfaces, cabling interfaces and antennas. All have to be addressed individually, but sometimes it is hard to make choices when there are so many choices. Nothing wrong with home brew here Hi Hi Two of the biggest

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread Sholto Fisher
Andy, From a flat battery you can get all the LED's to come on in around 15-20 minutes of pedaling. It depends on how hard you make the flywheel spin. You don't have to recharge that way though, only in the field because you can also plug in a wall wart at home and charge it up beforehand.

[digitalradio] ARRL Introduces Fifth Pillar at Dayton Hamvention®

2008-05-21 Thread Mark Thompson
ARRL Introduces Fifth Pillar at Dayton Hamvention® On Saturday, May 17 at the Dayton Hamvention, ARRL President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, plans to announce that the League will expand its identity program to include greater emphasis on technology. Harrison explained that Ham radio operators, and

Re: [digitalradio] ARRL Introduces Fifth Pillar at Dayton Hamvention®

2008-05-21 Thread Sholto Fisher
Harrison explained that Ham radio operators, and particularly ARRL members, closely identify with current and emerging radio technology. Today, we are naming 'technology' as ARRL's new fifth pillar. No doubt they will inform the amateur community of these intentions in an ASCII bulletin

RE: [digitalradio] ARRL Introduces Fifth Pillar at Dayton HamventionR

2008-05-21 Thread David Little
Too bad all the potential hams that wanted to hear this 20 years ago are now top Cell Phone engineers, WiFi Gurus, running Satellite Radio stations, etc. Paragraph 4 is the affirmation of this and the effect from the cause. It could have read that professional technical minds have always

[digitalradio] New PSK31 Reporter features

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew O'Brien
http://www.pskreporter.info/pskmapn.html -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)

Re: [digitalradio] ARRL Introduces Fifth Pillar at Dayton Hamvention(R)

2008-05-21 Thread Russell Hltn
I'll believe it when I see a change in QST that puts more emphasis on advancing the radio art and less on preserving it. (Not that I have anything against that, it's just not part of our purposes - or ARRL's pillar.)