I've been chided for having early morning cw rag chews on 1826.5, yet I
heard ARRL code practice sessions Tuesday evening from 7PM and later on,
while waiting for a top band sprint to start.
Seems to me more egregious than having to work around ops trying to make
some WAS or DX contacts using
Meteor Strike on NOVA Website
You can always stream this or any other PBS re-run from the collection of
NOVA vids on the PBS NOVA website.
TIP: If your local station doesn't show this (or any other PBS vid) change
you local station to one in a big city.
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:00 PM,
Waterproof Boxes
The orange waterproof boxes marine flare kits come in make good boxes too
as they are taller and have o-ring seals on the hinged lid.
You can get them up the road in Searsport, at Hamilton maine, Bruce.
They repack the flares (which come in 5-gal steel buckets) to make up kits
now comes the laborious process of sifting through all the info to make a
choice
good info from lots of responses so tnx!
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Looking for tips for headphone types for K3, CW only, so need 1/4 inch
stereo jack.
Object is to isolate from ambient noise in the shack, such as relay clatter
from 1K-FA amp when keying.
Been using a cheap set that came with Yamaha keyboard - I like how they
attenuate hi freq band noise, but
Based on your audio of recurring beep and stated azimuth, my guess is a
fish gear beacon or Woods Hole research buoy. Georges Bank is WSW of
eastern mass and not far offshore.
If you want to see a good depiction of comb generator signal, check out
W2AEW's vid of the same name. I've seen and
tnx to all for info on vp8sgi srt.
Looks like I have a few days to get another band, which is what I was
curious about.
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anybody know when vp8sgi will go QRT? checked the website but did not see
any updates.
tnx
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de AB1VL
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Get some old garden hose and use it as an above-the-ground conduit. beats
taking it to the transfer station.
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NAQCC #6799
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tnx guys! BTW, OpenOffice *will* run the ADIF-to-spreadsheet converter Greg
mentioned.
73, chuck
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Looking for some tricks on getting LOTW download report into a more usable
format.
Yes, I can import the adif it generates into N1MM+ to get each QSL on one
line, then export another adif, then import to a spreadsheet or database.
But that's not so slick, and loses some detail. I guess I could
My QTH is about 6 miles inland and 500 MSL from the head of the Penobscot
Bay. I get great propagation to the East and South. IMHO unless you need to
get radials within a critical distance of Salt Water I would opt for
something a few miles inland and on a ridge.
More importantly, have you done
FWIW I agree after reading the position email that the ARRL is in effect
saying the problem is too big to solve by leaving it up to the op to do
the right thing without giving more explicit guidance on what the right
thing ought to be. So what are 'the better principles of ham radio these
days? As
The ARRL could take the lead in creating an Unlimited class where anything
goes, which would at least by implication
recognize the folks like me who would rather engineer around the
limitations of their QTH and get the DXCC awards
the old fashioned way. Seems to me the awards are traditionally
Hey guys,
I'm doing some winter antenna daydreaming based on Low Band DXing and other
sources. Is
it safe to say that an E-W Beverage or a BOG would be ineffective if the
wire were run through a wooded area,
with or without a narrow lane cut for it? or is try it and find out the
favored
All,
ON4UN lists optimum turns for binocular braid breaker baluns, but I have
not found similar info for toroidal baluns.
Using ft-106 type toroid and want to know if more is better or should I
limit bifilar turns to 2-3 as per binoculars?
I run qrp or 100W max, for now at least.
Just putting
I'm a 160M wanna-be that's read the ON4UN book and this list for a few
weeks.
So it occurs to me that before I pick a frequency for trying a cw QRS net,
I might want to ask
for guidance on the most gentlemanly place to run it. I take it anything
between 1800-1830 would
be likely to QRM more
Thanks for your explanations Charlie es Tom. I guess return loss is the
opposite of what it sounded like to me. At any rate, you've explained why
it varies inversely with SWR.
Next question: in the manual the ALT IMPEDANCE explantion uses a 4:1
transformer example, which I get. I've been
Just getting started modelling and looking for answers to questions not
found in manual so far. For example, what exactly is included in the
Return Loss figure shown in the SWR window? Just ground reflection loss,
total system loss, something else? Trying to understand why Return Loss is
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