A spectacular example of how to do this right has been set by PVRCers at
the Collington Continuing-Care retirement community in Prince George's
County MD. See the QRZ lookup for K3CCR. These 5 guys have
demonstrated what can be done, and they're doing it most every weekend.
73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.
On 12/15/2019 9:02 PM, Raymond Sills via Elecraft wrote:
Another option to consider with "retirement home" operating is what I've been
doing:
I use a KX3 feeding an AlexLoop (small magnetic loop) set up in our bedroom to
check into a local 10 meter net. Works quite well.The same setup also had me
working a DX station in Moldova... during a RTTY contest. I used the KX3's
built in RTTY feature for that QSO. Oh... and I was running 3 watts on 40
meters. And that was with the AlexLoop set up in our sun room.
So... it can be done.
73 de RayK2ULRKX3 #211
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gilbert <[email protected]>
To: Bill Frantz <[email protected]>; elecraft <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2019 7:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Operating from a retirement home
Bill, if you want to get in at least some ham radio action you might
consider using TeamViewer (free for private use) to link up with a
friend who trusts you and is willing to let you tap into his station to
operate FT8 via the internet. QST had a recent article on it and it's
pretty simple to set up. I have a friend who is stuck in a condo and he
has used my station several times to make contacts all over the world
that way.
It's not the same as chatting with some interesting DX, but it's not a
whole lot different than what passes for most DX contacts. You could
even operate one of the FT8/4 contests that way without being at much of
a disadvantage.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/15/2019 4:52 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
73 Bill AE6JV, who hasn't been on the air since moving into a
retirement home.
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