VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

A little more info from a YB station who wishes to remain anonymous: You are correct - they are non-amateurs. BUT (and this is where it gets weird) - they ARE homebrewers! They are running variants of the Indian BITX low cost transceiver design, followed by individually-designed linear amplifiers ba...

Top marks to those that correctly identified the language as Bahasa (Indonesian). It has been going on for years. It is partly nonlicenced "inter-island radio", and partly licenced amateurs. The shouting game (called "Lollo", apparently) is mostly licenced amateurs. An umpire lis...

The trick with running paper through the contacts on the relay(s) likely won't work, as they are tiny little sealed things. Is the problem worst on only one band? If so, it's likely the relays on the PA filter board, if it's like my old '706 original. Replaced most of the relays in by now, I would t...

MMANA-GAL will probably get you up and going faster. The key is to find a .maa file from somebody else :-) Quite a few ship with the base install, but there are even more in the files section of the Yahoo group. Even if you have to alter the dimensions, height above ground etc. to suit your particul...

If I understand your question correctly, MMANA-GAL will do it. Dunno about a graph plot - maybe it does, but I have not found it yet, being a "baby steps" user of the software still.
Cheers
John VK4TJ

Never done it, but I cannot help thinking:
http://pe2bz.philpem.me.uk/Comm/-%20Rec ... fetgen.htm
is a bit more exciting than a crystal set.
Followed by a "best DX" competition, of course!
Good luck
John

Related, but not quite on-topic - has anyone figured out how to stop the annoying "Free upgrade for a limited time" pop-ups?
I am NOT going to upgrade (I get the web via my phone, and W10 would blow my limit for many months to come).
Getting the pop-up every 10 minutes or so....
Thanks
John

Ummm, actually, we DO see digi dudes encroaching on the CW sub bands, Robert. Lately, we see a lot of JT65 skeds in the 14050-14060 window, for whatever reason...and PSK31 gradually creeping downwards....and some new mode that has adopted 14067 as it's centre frequency. Don't even get me going about...

It will be the optical encoder. Early Icoms are famous for that. Dunno if it is an Icom homebrew job like the 701, 720, 211 & 245 use, or something store-bought like the later rigs used. If homebrew, you can often get it working again with compressed air. If that doesn't work, there are usually ...

Got a link, Harry? Had a look, but could not find it on Ebay.
Thanks
John VK4TJ

VK2MUS - Actually, assessors *ARE* obliged to pack around a load of gear. Those of us that did assessor training in a classroom setting had that made abundantly clear. The creators of the program probably had a well-heeled club in mind. Once again, what works in the larger centres doesn't work quite...

To get the topic back on track - another option is to become a "learning facilitator", if all you want to do is sit in second seat for a lone assessor. I'm one of those "lone assessors" in the bush, and I rely heavily on LF'ers. The LF'er process is a little weird, but it is defi...

Actually, on HF, I have seen as much as 550 watts (into a dummy load, of course!) from a single Gi-6b. Pretty much in line with the various US web pages describing conversions. I was probably power supply limited, using the power supply out of my FAA single 4CX250B amplifier. It was groaning pretty ...

I did a single Gi-6b (pretty much the same thing. Works great!
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John VK4TJ

I think you will find "V" on 7091.5 pretty much any time we have a path to UA9 on 40....

John VK4TJ

A bit light on south of Toowoomba, but easy copy. That's with a 10 element log periodic pointed away from it, though.
Haven't tried getting into it yet.
73
John VK4TJ

There has been a massive revival of interest in hand-sent Morse. See www.skccgroup.com. They're about to kick over 13,000 members and growing. If you have any interest in that sort of thing, a pumper makes sense, though many run bugs as well. I use the Czech military key, and am extremely pleased wi...

The fingers between the head and the main rig can cause that, too. The earlier suggestion to clean the contacts was a good one....
73
John VK4TJ

Don't think you will make many friends with that 10 mtr frequency, Andy. It is the international CW QRP calling frequency, and is heavily used by SOTA operators as well.
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John VK4TJ

That's a bit more science than most of us put into it :D 1) First ever experience with a random wire - L shape between 2 street lamp poles (council NOT amused), then back to the house. Couldn't work out why my primitive L network tuner would not bring it in. Disconnected tuner, found out the SWR was...