Paula and I will attend! -p W7PFB paul.butzi.org 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

Jenn- It would be good if volunteers knew what the gathering point is, or at least knew where their stations were going to be. For the hams who have volunteered, we will be using: Primary: Myers repea

I’m planning on attending, thanks. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

You can get a wide variety of shelves on Amazon. Make sure you match the depth of the shelves to the depth of the rack inside the case. For a portable setup aluminum shelves are nice but they are hard

Yeah. If there’s any hope for me and morse, it’s that I find a good way to practice head copy. I can copy on a keyboard ok (although not at full speed). But somehow doing it all in my head is the big

Paula and I play Wordle every evening. This game bears absolutely no resemblance to Wordle in any way. It’s basically a morse copy challenge, one word, with some cleverly done interface stuff. https:/

I’m interested if it’s a joint thing with Issaquah. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

Yes, a faraday cage need not be an absolute enclosure. But an aperture wide enough to admit microwaves will admit, well, microwaves and anything with shorter wavelength. And a wire running from outsid

What about the gap thru which the magnetron injects microwave radiation into the cavity? Either the magnetron is outside the shielded cage and there’s a window it injects thru, or the magnetron is ins

For small items that won’t be used often (backup HT’s for instance) a good solution is to put them in a metal ammo can and then cover the gap between the lid and the container parts with aluminum tape

www.wsprnet.org Plenty of people running WSPR to check propagation, test antennas, and generally see how far their signal can travel and still be decoded. So it’s not *all* the ham traffic. Just a ver

While it’s certainly worth considering what impact loss of connectivity would have… the internet is not a monolithic entity that is either all working properly or all not working at all. So much of wh

My cousin Curt K7ZOO is pretty active with SOTA in Arizona (among his other interesting projects is a plan to do summit to summit SOTA using heliographs). His experience is that he is often able to he

Yes, the busy detection is sensitive to audio level settings, so get that straightened out. You want whatever sound card you’re using for the radio selected for both input and output. The Realtek spea

If you’re getting a constant indication that every channel you try is busy but you don’t actually hear any signal on that frequency, there’s some setup problem. If you’re actually hearing signals on t

https://rosmodem.wordpress.com/ That’s the website of the VARA developer. -p

Many thanks to everyone involved! -p

I’ve just changed the frequency for my VARA-FM and 1200 baud packet RMS station has changed from 144.950 to 144.990. The Winlink.org directory should update automatically at some point. Based on past

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Whoo! Great news! -p