Leigh,
Thanks for the update - sounds like Lakeview has updated their product line
since I last bought a HamStick.
At lunch today I tried a brief Ham Radio Experiment, and answered my own
question: took my 40M HamStick base and put a shorty whip from an old 2m
antenna on it -- 9 inches of
My apologies to the Elecraft group. I have NOW blocked my out of office
auto-replies to NOT respond to Internet addresses. It was NOT my intent
for this to end up in your mailboxes!
Sorry73, de K5AVJ
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Ron AC7AC Said: --
This is a list of the prosigns I'm familiar with:
BK - Invite receiving station to transmit
CQ - Calling any amateur radio station
SOS Distress
Hold on a second (AS) there Ron :-) My understanding is that BK, CQ and
SOS are
I cannot make any contacts with the KX1. I have a gap vert. Challenger and an
inverted VEE up 30 feet 103 feet long. Now Yesterday I was at a museum and took
the KX1 with me and hooked up to a hustler vert. mounted on top of bldg and had
no problem making contacts around 7030. In 2005 only made
Kieth wrote:
Hold on a second (AS) there Ron :-) My understanding is that BK, CQ and
SOS are not to be sent with no space but as individual letters complete
with the proper space around them.
There's the **biggest** mistake in Morse telegraphy!
SOS is ALWAYS to be sent with NO space between
I remember seeing an article/recipe for loading a Ham-Stick style monoband
antenna using a shortened whip and the next lower band antenna, for example
using a 30m base with a 12 whip for 20 meters.
Anyone ever seen anything like this?
I am interested in mounting a monoband vertical on my Honda
Leigh,
I found the advice from Jerry below very useful and the solution to my
WTCPT problem.
Jeff
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Sent: 1/11/2006 11:33:11 AM
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Jeff:
I use the same 700 degree tips and they last for YEARS!!!...I am
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Sent: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:49:34 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Prosign confusion (was: Anticipating Morse)
As for BK, that is two
Sorry about this. The policemen are at it again.
Geoff, GM4ESD
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I looked up the W1AW schedule so I'll know when to find them
again. It's much better, in my opinion, than tapes or computer-
generated stuff, because it's 'real', over the air. The computer
stuff and tapes always seemed to me to be too sterile, too perfect.
Perhaps too boring and
Good suggestions, but how about just turning on the rig and reading the
mail for a while for some experience of real fists? If you're just
listening, no one cares if you miss characters as you build proficiency...
Ron AC7AC
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I looked up the W1AW schedule so I'll know
Aron,
Close, but not exactly what I was looking for
I have a few HamSticks, and a couple of HamStick clones (made by Valor, I
think) and they do indeed work pretty well. Typically the stick part with the
coil wrapped around it is about 3 1/2 feet long, and the whips run about 4
feet,
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From: Ron D'Eau Claire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:37:44 -0800
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Prosign confusion (was: Anticipating Morse)
One might ask what is CQ an
abbreviation of? Some say it's a
Q: When QRP is great?
A: Every time!
I have K2 but work with 5W or 500mW.
170 countries 5W and 70 with 20...500mW.
The difference is the same to HiPower boys
whatever sunspot number. It just need your
equipment been correct and some additional
operator skill.
For PROSIGN CONFUSION:
I think
Jim, N2EY wrote:
(CQ is) a two-letter abbreviation like QRZ.
--
But neither of them are abbreviations (i.e. shortened words). CQ has no
credible meaning as an abbreviation that I've ever seen. QRZ is one of the
common Q codes that are sent as three distinct letters. The
Nigel, G8IFF/KC8NHF wrote:
If CQ is a prosign, i.e. a single character without embedded space,
please explain how I should pronounce it such using 'phone modes.
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Dah-di-dah-di-dah-dah-di-dah?
Seriously, once you go to non-CW modes, all bets are off.
Some examples of morse as a living language.
In the mid 70's, when I first started, QSOs were ended with Shave and a
hair cut to which the other replied 2 bits. Of course it was all
done by sending dits to the rhythm. I went QRT for several years. When
I came back in the mid 80's the exchanged
When I was learning CW I made the mistake of telling my kindergarten
class about this novice custom, and the entire school bus began chanting
dit-diddle-it-dit until I got off. Despite this early trauma, I
managed to get my license.
Bill W9ZN, the CW powerhouse of Chicago, will happily do
Darwin, Keith wrote:
Some examples of morse as a living language.
In the mid 70's, when I first started, QSOs were ended with Shave and a
hair cut to which the other replied 2 bits. Of course it was all
done by sending dits to the rhythm. I went QRT for several years. When
I came back in the
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Darwin, Keith wrote:
Way OT: I copied a guy on 40 SSB a couple of days ago complaining about
his Icom rig. He called it a RAY-diddey-oh. Oh boy, did I hate that.
I felt like interrupting with hey good buddy, ya got yer ears on?. Ah
the joys of CW.
In some areas it
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Vic K2VCO wrote:
The shave and a haircut business started in the 1950's, and generally
indicated that the user was a lid.
How things changenow it's a contest or something like that.
Thom
www.baltimorehon.com/Home of the Baltimore Lexicon
In the prosign thread, it has been suggested that Morse Code (which,
if the world were even remotely fair, would be the Vail Code) is a
language. Fortuitously, I was about to have lunch with an old friend
who retired as a Professor of Linguistics, so I asked him over my patty
melt, Does Morse
I hate to add to the qrn on this topic, but my understanding (a
phrase I use to avoid the dogmatism I would otherwise employ) is that
a prosign is merely a means for indicating two (or more) letters ***
which, when run together *** mean something. Thus, someone earlier
suggested that
On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Darwin, Keith wrote:
It used to be one would say oops by sending 8 dits in a row. Now, I
routinely hear a couple of short odd spaced dits instead. I
suppose it
works but it is more risky.
This phenomenon is actually a very interesting and natural evolution
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, w2agn wrote:
Thom R LaCosta wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Vic K2VCO wrote:
The shave and a haircut business started in the 1950's, and generally
indicated that the user was a lid.
How things changenow it's a contest or something like that.
Not changed that
I would put Morse
code in the class of phonetic alphabets, where the sounds equate
to symbols in a symbolic alphabet that can be combined to form
elements (i.e. 'words') in any language that employs that symbolic
alphabet.
Above about 20 WPM or so, CW does become sort of a 'language'
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Linguistics, so I asked him over my patty melt, Does Morse
code class as a language? He said, Hmmm, that's something
I've never thought about. Probably not. I would put Morse
code in the class of phonetic alphabets,
Very good point which I was about to
Folks,
I think we are all getting mixed mesages here - when to use a letter space,
and when not to is the question.
I checked the table in my 1994 ARRL Handbook for CW abbreviations and
prosigns (the new handbooks have eliminated this info for some reason!).
Earlier handbooks just listed the
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The 'prosigns' listed in 1994 are: QRL?, CQ, AR, K, KN, BK, R, AS, SK, and
CL - but the only ones indicated to be sent without a space (as one
character) are AR, KN, AS, and SK - all others are indicated as being sent
as 2 or more letters (indicated with a bar).
QRP from a bare K2 isn't so easy when
there are people who are just plain rude.
I called a G station on 160m on a clear
frequency (widest filter) and received a
QRZ? back.
Someone, callsign witheld, pinned the last
LED on my K2 with no preamp, speeding nearly
twice the G speed and blocked me
Ian,
I am sorry to hear that you were subjected to such inconsiderate behavior,
but ...
You are correct that QRZ? is not CQ, but unfortunately, they are commonly
used by some DX op I have heard just as though they were interchangable -
and many more (DX and non-DX) seem to get on that bandwagon
I caught this on the DX-Chat reflector - notice the last line.
72 de Larry W2LJ
Beginning of post
Ok, I'll get in on the game.
I need:
BS7
E3
ZL9
Lotsa luck to me.. Hi
Looking forward to seeing everyone in the pile-ups.
73,
Mike, W5UC
QRP is like a margarita with no Tequila
Hello,
The Jan. 2006 Polar Bear Moonlight Madness Sprint / Hunt is going to be
held on Jan. 14th, 2006. Yep I know the NA Contest is going on the same time
but it looks like any Polar Bears that are going to be on 40 meters will
hang out around 7.110 MHz.
Anyway, if you are interested in
When many stations are calling me then QRZ? as in Who is calling me?
seems a reasonable thing to send instead of initiating a new CQ.
Traditionally (my tradition...not anyone elses) I use CQ to originate a
call for anyone. If no one comes back I CQ again. If I get 2 or more
stations calling
In a message dated 1/12/06 1:18:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Jim, N2EY wrote:
(CQ is) a two-letter abbreviation like QRZ.
--
But neither of them are abbreviations (i.e. shortened words).
An abbreviation isn't always a shortened word
Hi,
the lb for pound comes from Spanish(and its close Latin)libra
meaning pound.
73 de Bob K3YT
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L. B. Cebik reports favorably on vertical dipoles at Cebik.com. When
elevated sufficiently; since they are a complete antenna, not requiring a
radial set; they radiate quite well at DX angles. See www.cebik.com
-Stuart
K5KVH
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Stuart, K5KVH wrote:
L. B. Cebik reports favorably on vertical dipoles at Cebik.com. When
elevated sufficiently; since they are a complete antenna, not requiring a
radial set; they radiate quite well at DX angles.
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You are missing the fact that
Greetings,
I am looking into getting started on PSK31 using the K2. I have the
KPA-100 as well. I have read the WA7SPY app note and several items on the
reflector. I have a basic question. Where can you get a connector to
interface to the K2 microphone connector? No one seems to address
If a station signs Callsign/qrp
do they want me to log them that way?
This would be an issue if I use LOTW or E-Qsl
Just been on my mind!!
:)
73 - Clint - WS1V ..
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Regarding the thread I started a couple of weeks
ago...
I found some strong intermod products from AM (medium
wave) broadcast stations on and around 80m when using
a large inverted L and low-pass L-network antenna
tuner. The strongest was the combination of 2 x 1310
kHz + 580 kHz, two local 50
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