VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

hmmm delays in the USA... what a chance alignment of the stars, we may actually benefit from a Trump twitter tantrum for once, now have to check if there is room on the credit card for a 9700 or be an onlooker.

Peter.

Hayden,
does it sound like switch mode noise? I have it from the solar charger, my Victron Blue wanders across the band

Hi Adam, well I think most of the wish list has come to reality but alas I think the separate keying lines for each band is something Mr Icom is allergic too but sooo easy to include.. I did notice the face book group has degraded to those wanting it for FM use or winging why their pet band (220) wa...

Please be patient this is a work in progress. . . . Sick of the serial ports re-assigning their values in Linux... /dev/ttyusb0 becomes /dev/ttyusb1 on restart? I am.. GRR.. please note the details below are specific to Raspian stretch and not other distro's some may have loaded BUT this can do no h...

Hello, as of today at 23:00Z all of the VK5RBV beacons are off, I am working on integrating the 50 MHz PA and hope to have it back on air in the next few days.

thanks to all who have made the conversion to the new FT8, hope it goes well for the rest of 2018 and into 2019 and beyond.

Okay, so USA time, 10th of Dec, WSJT-X 2.0 was made available, the majority of the earlier bugs seem to have been killed off.... You NEED to read the release notes FIRST, please do not ask questions unless you have read them, there are a few prerequisites like an extra package for SSL that has to be...

Hello RO, for a long time it was my go to O/S for PC but when they stopped improving it and Windoze leapfrogged ahead with applications that could not function on OS/2 (Win 95 and 98) it was hard to stay with it, I still have the disks and CDrom from "Warp 3" and had loaded it onto a moder...

well the things you find when doing odd searches.. I was looking for a network connected volt meter so I can monitor my batteries... turns out if you ask some one can provide and some versions have ammeter and a relay for not too big of an expense.. ( 55 euros ) http://www.digital-measure.com/index....

Grant, um at some point you may have set a password for the 'pi' user of your PI or it is still set to the factory default (google that one for the answer) oh okay, The default user is pi , and the password is raspberry (see here https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/users.md ) so yo...

Hello, some of you may not know but there is to be a NEW release of the WSJT-X software in Dec 2018 that will include new version of the FT8 and MSK modes that are NOT backward compatible with the current FT8 and MSK144. The big hit will be the new FT8 version 2 which has a longer transmitted payloa...

Hello Pi people just a short update, its now late November, the PI here has been going 24/7 since first configured with WSJT-X in late September, no hiccups and no annoying windows updates to deal with (shouting out "thankyou Jesus" like they do on the movies :D ). Have two radios connecte...

Hi Adam,
FYI users of IE see no link, just lots of vacant space in the posting - Peter

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Time for an update - 18-Nov 2018 have built a rack for my batteries that sits outside my shack that provides shelter and ventialtion for may batteries and ancillary equipment, it includes a vehicle style (Narva brand) battery isolation Key switch so I can if needed cut the battery suppy to the shack...

Hello, I am happy to report that today I have received and paid the invoice from the ACMA for the updates to the VK5RBV beacon allocations on 50 MHz and approval for the addition of 144, 432 and 1296. At present the 144.456 MHz beacon is on at a 10 watt power level to a single 'PAR omni angle' anten...

Hi Wayne,
once the new inverter is up and running, can you please update this thread with its noise performance as it may help others in the future when they need to choose a new inverter.

VK4WTN wrote:Ive managed to source an ABB inverter ( same as the Aurora) so all should be good
Wayne

please please no odd frequencies, the WIA have given the guidance that 144.320 is where we should be and a few of us have already made some good QSO's there. I am unsure if there is any similar guidance for our cousins in ZL but hope they can come to the party on 144.320. Do not pay heed of what is ...

Hi Wayne,
the fronius brand of inverter is also RF quiet, I had a SMA before that and it was RF quiet. Now the Bigger fronius inverters do have fans in them so if it is mounted on a house take that into account.

Hi Tim, the use of an SMA on compact VHF hand held radio's has become common place and people often want to connect an external antenna to the hand held radio for use in the car or at home. Yes you are right, normaly it is an odd combination but needs create odd bed fellows :om2: Regards, Peter, vk5pj

Hello Steve, if you had read all the material you would know the current pre-release unit has a SMA connector on the back panel for 10MHz in, which is also documented in their pre release PDF document... stop wasting your money on oil for the sports car :om: revamped 910 waiting for the gps locked v...