Archives: 2019
February 8, 2019
I've been following @SWRadiogram on twitter and was around to listen into on 7.780MHz this afternoon. Here's what I decoded: Before RSID: > Q= oex¬/sib eÏinzeÜo ee in9ti¾hm et Welcome to program 86 of Shortwave Radiogram. I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA. Here is the lineup for…
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February 2, 2019
Drew KO4MA, VP of Operations of AMSAT gave a really good presentation on Amateur Radio satellites at this month's SPARC club meeting. He even brought everybody outside and made a couple contacts during a pass of XW-2B. I built my own antenna for working satellites but it's not working very well. I…
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January 28, 2019
This year we setup for Winter Field Day at the Clearwater Fire Training Center again. It was a joint efferent between the SPARC, CARS and UPARC clubs. We put up a 20-15-10 beam, two end fed slopers in different directions with remote tuners and an OCF 80m dipole antenna. These fed into a patch…
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January 23, 2019
I saw a post on reddit about WEFAX so I looked into it. National Weather Service broadcasts weather related WEFAX images and text in various different HF frequencies from different stations around the world, pretty much constantly. Using fldigi, I was able to decode the signal from Boston and New…
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January 20, 2019
Did some of the NAQP SSB contest today. Came out with 101 contacts. This is a more leisurely contest. I ran a cable from my antenna ground panel on the side of the house over to the porch and did some of the contest from there with my POTA radio (FT-891). Started to get warm here in FL so I moved…
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January 11, 2019
E44WE sent a magnet with his card from Bethlehem, which is great because I like magnets. Also got a card from a DXpedition to Barbados. I'm seriously considering a vacation there and bringing my radio.
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January 7, 2019
I put some serious effort into the first contest of the year and came out with 496 contacts. This is by far my largest number in a contests(its 18.5% of my total contacts in ham radio). Really pushed at the end to get to 500 but couldn't quite get there. It's a 30 hour contest and you're allowed to…
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January 4, 2019
I like these special events where you have to contact a bunch of stations. I got all of them again, 2 on CW. Someday I might like to run one of these, I'm going to look into it.
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