I keep my SLA (sealed lead acid ) batteries fully charged. The ones not in active use get topped up once a month. All my HT’s work on LIPO batteries. In theory the battery life is shortened when they

Wikipedia suggests the altitude of Carnation is 82 feet above sea level. Where, exactly, in Carnation that would be, I have no idea. But if the altitude in town is *generally around 80 feet* then a de

If you do it, please sweep it with an analyzer before and after so we can see if it changed the tuning at all. I do know that putting a ladder line j-pole into sched 40 pvc will change the tuning some

Knowing what the gauges in various locations would generally read is helpful. The depth listed for “Tolt River Road” is 90 feet. Generally the Tolt River Gauge, which is near the end of Tolt River Roa

My understanding, supported by what I’ve seen on the Winlink site, is that ARDOP will be the Winlink supported protocol going forward, with WINMOR being abandoned over time. So ARDOP will not go away.

Motivated by the Weekly Net check-in via Winlink I have been experimenting with Winlink again. In particular I was interested in what changes happen as a result of the abandoning of the Winmor connect

I am happy to let someone else snap the mixer up but I’m super interested in how you have this set up in your shack and what sort of stuff it does for you. I’ve been pining or a way to have multiple m

The problem with two tuners is that they’re solving for a tuning solution at the same time, at varying speeds and by adjusting impedances in different ways. In essence, each tuner is expecting a stati

Good on you for figuring it out! -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

Apparently everyone else in SnoVARC either stays up later than I do or gets up earlier. I vote with Dan - measure to the hole in the insulator. Any place where the wire is wrapped around itself, the e

The Wilderness Protocol specifies monitoring 146.52 with 446.0, 52.525, 223.5, and 1294.5 Mhz serving as secondary frequencies. (Those are the FM calling frequencies on 2m, 70cm, 6m, 1.25m, 23cm bands

47-32-39.0N 122-06-30.0W RX @ ~300' and TX @ ~100’ AGL -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

I grit my teeth and use Google Earth Pro. I make it a bearing of 204 degrees and a distance of about 14.8 miles. That’s to a point just a bit east of Duvall, I’m not real clear on exactly where Howard

I’d be happy to cover psk31. If we’re doing it via Zoom it would be pretty easy to do live demo from my home station. It might be nice to throw in some other digital modes as well, if only so that whe

Last Sunday Tom WA7TBP alerted me to a problem with W7PFB-11 where it was allowing connections but reporting it could not connect to a CMS. Rebooting the Raspberry Pi that hosts W7PFB-11 did not solve

1. Ensure you have your radio configured to send DTMF 2. tune radio to the SNOVARC repeater in question 3. Hold down the PTT and dial 123 on the keypad 4. Release PTT. The repeater should respond with

I think I’ve got this nailed down. I was wrong about the signal width. On the waterfall it looks to be about as wide as a normal signal. But it is very clearly digital. So. Close examination gives me:

I don’t know about anyone else but I am hearing this intermittently, still. Today I hooked an SDR and took a look. I had expected to see a pretty wide signal, spread from maybe 146.4 up to 146.6 Rathe

Yeah, that looks as if it would do fine. I’d like to have 160M, sure. Right now I’ve got no antenna that will do 160M. My observation is that on HF, I’ve got perhaps a hundred QSOs on 80m, hundreds of

Uh, no. Not going to try to talk you out of something to do with your Jeep. As I pointed out before, there are lots of parts of Jeeps I don’t know anything about. Ask me about a Land Rover and I might