------------------------------ *From:* BVARC <[email protected]> on behalf of Daniel Poirot via BVARC <[email protected]> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 28, 2026 4:01:12 PM *To:* BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> *Cc:* Daniel Poirot <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [BVARC] Tuesday's Stir Crazy Net Hi Don, SO pleased to meet you. As you start your TinySA journey of discovery, please keep our totally new users in mind. Please let us know if you find a helpful YouTube video, website, or other resource! Thank you! 73 Dan KJ5IZK On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM Donald Loocke via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: Enjoyed the Stir Crazy Net today. I am new member(last Fall/new Ham (Last Fall) with a General rating and very much in the learning mode. Just working to get equipment and setup a mobile radio and home station. Been playing a bit as time allows on a zBitx radio /FT8 at home and deep diving on Youtube. Along with a few HT's, I have a new Radioddity DB50-B VHF/UHF/APRS radio for the truck to install and have APRS working between the HT and it. I made a copper pipe J-Pole for this and it works well at the house for now. Have a EFHW antenna for the zBitx just run in the house for now until I find a good location for the HF setup. I also have a HF-009 for POTA and backyard HF work but time and weather has slowed that. A new ic7300mk2 is waiting for the house. Much to learn there. Trying to make up for the time I missed in Amature Radio....;-) I like the discussion today on tools (hardware and software) as I am looking at all of those. Anderson Powerpoles are nice. Used them years ago in our lab for DC power connections but have been adding them to my battery boxes and cables. The nanoVNA is neat. I have used very expensive ones testing 1,000 ft rolls of custom complex cables before and these are amazing for the $$ paid. I have used mine to check antenna resonance and tuning. I am building a small ATS-100 tuner kit and plan to use it for testing the wound torrid inductors for correct values. I did get a tinySA, but have not had a lot of time to use it yet. I have a old heavy HP SA that is an older 80db analyzer that I have spent *much *quality time with. Mostly for audio and low frequency A/D work. So I am looking forward to using this guy for audio feeds and spurious emission testing. Since I am still working at our stores most days, I cannot get on the nets to discuss topics but I do try to listen when I can. The Discord link is good and I have been using the Group.io sites for several feeds for nanoVNA, tinySG, and other topics. These bring up the issues and any firmware updates and keep me going to learn more about them. Also listen to several podcasts and Youtube channels. Way better then normal TV watching. will say 73's and thanks again for keeping my engineering/technical brain cells fired up. Don - KJ5MVN
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