Re: [BVARC] 2618

2024-05-25 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
https://www.cpkcr.com/en/community/final-spike-steam-train/#steam-train-route About halfway from Shreveport to Beaumont, as of 1 PM. On 5/25/2024 12:33 PM, Jonathan Guthrie, KA8KPN via BVARC wrote: I heard it was going to leave Beaumont about 12:50 this afternoon. On 5/25/24 00:22, Robert Po

Re: [BVARC] Can you please identify?

2024-03-30 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
Unskilled at CW reception, but I have VLC and can play back at 1/4 speed: audio_30_7600_-_New System 1_Group 0_  30_7600MHz_L 449_125413_125418 AA P U 857 -=-= -==- --= ===-- - ==--- 09-20-17_15-06-2018 K W G 4 7 9 =-= -== ==- = ==--- - 23-23-09_15-06-2018 G 9 7 ==- - ==--- 33-

Re: [BVARC] Coax Cable Connector Weatherproofing

2024-03-10 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
Definitely useful. Keep in mind which connections are stiff and which need to be flexible. Strain relief makes connections last much longer, as does pretty much any mechanical support. Self-fusing tape will need to be cut off carefully, and it can squeeze into crevices. I sometimes use a release

Re: [BVARC] Land line

2024-02-14 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
Phone options: https://www.captel.com/captel/phones/ Phone cost: https://www.weitbrecht.com/captel-captioned-telephones/ On 2/14/2024 2:23 PM, wb5itt via BVARC wrote: It works off the audio received...shouldn't be affected any since a VOIP line uses an ATA or analog terminal adapter to allow a

Re: [BVARC] Cw practice???

2024-01-18 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
For example, at Bayland Park, where BVARC has a classroom already pre-scheduled every month. With a headphone splitter and two keys wired in parallel, two people can practice CW in silence. Or an entire silent roomful. Also, you can plug splitters into splitters, and wire multiple keys in paralle

[BVARC] Iris design for tunable GHz-range antenna

2023-06-05 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications/article/21266708/electronic-design-compliant-3dprinted-mechanism-produces-deformable-tunable-ghzrange-antenna Also see their paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36143-6.pdf

Re: [BVARC] OT: Looking to source electronic components

2021-07-25 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
Octopart.com is a multi-distributor search engine owned by Altium. It's used internally by their PCB design programs. In normal times, it'll give you mostly-accurate stock data, both for authorized distributors (safe supply chain, very unlikely to get counterfeit parts) and for various other sales

[BVARC] New BVARC Project Build Sessions

2019-03-29 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
Saturday, April 6, 12 PM to 2 PM (option to stay until 4 PM) Bayland Community Center 6400 Bissonnet St Houston, TX 77074 BVARC is organizing ham-oriented project build sessions. The idea is to schedule time to spend on the hobby, and get together with other people to share knowledge, skills, and

[BVARC] Sad news you may have missed

2015-09-23 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/radio-amateur-deputy-sheriff-shot-and-killed-in-florida ___ BVARC mailing list BVARC@bvarc.org http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org

[BVARC] Here's your entertainment for the day

2015-06-15 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
http://piccoloshash.blogspot.com/2015/06/there-is-term-out-there.html If this is a representative sample, I need to get involved in MSWE. Donovan Balli KG5BDZ ___ BVARC mailing list BVARC@bvarc.org http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.or

Re: [BVARC] BVARC Digest, Vol 67, Issue 15

2015-04-18 Thread Donovan Balli via BVARC
Results from Wolfram Alpha, the computational knowledge engine: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+furlong+per+fortnight+in+meters+per+second 1.663×10^-4 m/s (meters per second) 166.3 µm/s (micrometers per second) 0.1663 mm/s (millimeters per seco