• SV5BYR Blog

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Ham Radio/Blogs/EuropeMike's amateur radio blog from Rhodes Island ,Dodecanese, Greece

  • Basic Multimeter project

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Technical Reference/Test Equipment/MultimeterA basic multimeter project with full schematic diagram by G3PTO

  • EMCoS Anntenna VLab

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    EMCoS Anntenna VLab Resource details Search EMCoS Anntenna VLab EMCoS Antenna VLab Student Version edition contains the full-functional MoM based 3D EM solver . It lets to solve task that fits into as big as 2GB memory for incore or out-of-core calculations . Both , 32Bit and 64Bit versions are . available Antenna analysis Software Antenna analysis Antenna analysis software EMCoS Anntenna VLab is listed on dxzone.com since 2012-10-31 till now received 12 Hits , has been rated 0 times for a total ranking of 0.00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The scale is 1 10, with 1 being poor and 10 being . excellent Add a Remote rating to your site . Who visited EMCoS Anntenna VLab in Software Antenna analysis category , also visited EMCoS Anntenna VLab ASAP Magnetic Loop Software GuyMast ICNIRPcalc Online

  • Software Spectrum Analyzer

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Spectrum Analyzer in your PC. Freeware and shareware program that can convert your PC into a powerful spectrum analyzer.

  • Build a Test Meter

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Technical Reference/Test Equipment/MultimeterThis article include a circuit that allows a cheap 0-1mA meter to be used as a micro-ammeter or a milli-voltmeter

  • Antenna Scope

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Antenna Scope Resource details Search Antenna Scope Do you want to measure antenna impedance at resonance With this Antenna Scope , you have a simple RF Bridge for getting started in an exciting part of Ham Radio , building your own Antennas that work well Test Equipment Technical Reference Test Equipment Test equipment projects and products Antenna Scope is listed on dxzone.com since 2012-10-29 till now received 87 Hits , has been rated 0 times for a total ranking of 0.00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The scale is 1 10, with 1 being poor and 10 being . excellent Add a Remote rating to your site . Who visited Antenna Scope in Technical Reference Test Equipment category , also visited Antenna Scope Radio Frequencies Measurement Field Strenght meter NEQRP Noise Bridge Measuring SSB transmitter power

  • Simple RF Measurement Probe

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Technical Reference/Test Equipment/RF ProbeThis probe is useful for any low level RF work, and simply connects to your multimeter.

  • VGA To Scope Converter

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Technical Reference/Test Equipment/OscilloscopeConverting a computer\'s VGA output for an oscilloscope

  • Android Oscilloscope

    Updated: 2012-10-31 21:12:44
    Software/Oscilloscope<brRun an oscilloscope under your Android phone

  • How many G’s do we need? [As you’ll see, AT&T or T-Mobile’s HSPA+ networks can give the 4G networks a run for their money]

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:51:52
    “As you’ll see, AT&T or T-Mobile’s HSPA+ networks can give the 4G networks a run for their money” That’s a quote from: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=226448&?itc=edit_stub Titled: The Best 3G & 4G Cities in America Not all 4G is created equal It should be noted that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Leap Wireless International Inc. (Nasdaq: LEAP), MetroPCS Inc. (NYSE: PCS), Sprint Nextel [...]

  • J28RO (Freddy): Pylône télescopique 42m

    Updated: 2012-10-31 06:46:03
    Voici la vidéo d'un pylône qui sort de l'ordinaire, un télescopique de 42m, de quoi faire rêver certains d'entre nous...

  • J28RO (Freddy): Le patrimoine de Kerguelen numérisé

    Updated: 2012-10-31 06:46:03
    Nathalie Moreigneaux et Jacques Rebière (LC2R) ont animé une conférence le 20 octobre dernier au Luc-en-Provence sur la conservation du patrimoine des TAAF et plus particulièrement sur le site Port-Jeanne-d’Arc, avec la projection de la numérisation 3D de ce site...TAAF

  • Sandy knocks out communications (telecom) infrastructure in New York

    Updated: 2012-10-31 03:20:35
    I got this link in email … http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Storm-Sandy-Cell-Phone-Towers-Outage-Websites-Telecommunications-NYC-Sandy-176489491.html Sandy Takes out 25 Percent of Cell Towers But not only that … Emergency Call Centers, other Telecom infrastructure, Web Hosting Centers (big blog and forums - Gawker and Huffington Post) … and obviously people with Power Outages can’t do anything with Cable or Landline based Internet - if they [...]

  • J28RO (Freddy): Station radioamateur dans un film

    Updated: 2012-10-30 23:40:12
    Prochainement sortira le film "L'air de rien" avec Michel DELPECH, deux brèves séquences dans lesquelles vous pourrez voir un pylône avec une TA33 et une VHF ainsi qu'une station radio. Le matériel a été prêté par le radio-club F5KDC de Clermont-Ferrand. info F6BDE...

  • EA1CS: H44A, H40A, Salomón Is.

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:59:10
    : , , . EA1CS pasión por el DX Dxpeditions . Noticias . Propagación . Actividad antártica . Colaborador de Dx-world.net CWops 825, Información libre y gratuita . La radio . sana y con . estilo martes , 30 de octubre de 2012 H44A , H40A , Salomón Is . Ralph H44RK Actualmente estoy volcado en la organización del radio club aquí en Guadalcanal , islas Salomón . Nos han otorgado los indicativos H44A y H40A , que serán utilizados para diferentes actividades . Si quieres más información sobre el tema o bien consideras oportuno hacer una donación para el radio club ponte en contacto : conmigo E-mail para info E-mail para donación con Paypal 73´s , Luis EA1CS Enviar por correo electrónico Escribe un blog Compartir con Twitter Compartir con Facebook Entrada más reciente Entrada antigua Página

  • G4VXE (Tim): WSJT-X for LF: Now I really will have to look at a top band antenna...

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:05:33
    : : . G4VXE.COM Amateur Radio or at least , my version of . it Tuesday , October 30, 2012 WSJT-X for LF : Now I really will have to look at a top band antenna . A couple of days ago , I read a post that the wonderful Joe Taylor , K1JT was working on a new mode for use on LF . It wasn't until this evening that I read up a little . more Joe says , on wsprnet.org If you are on 160 meters , or perhaps on 472 or 137 kHz , you may be interested in a new mode called JT9, designed especially for making QSOs on these bands . JT9 uses the structured messages introduced in 2003 for the JT65 mode , now widely used for EME and for QRP operations at HF . JT9 can operate at signal levels as low as 27 dB in a 2500 Hz reference bandwidth with one-minute timed transmissions . It also offers slower

  • G4ILO (Julian): 10m WSPR spots 30 Oct 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-30 17:50:49
    : Tuesday , October 30, 2012 10m WSPR spots 30 Oct 2012 10m WSPR spots G4ILO 30 October 2012 Sorry , Tim Labels : 10m Propagation WSPR posted by Julian Moss Tuesday , October 30, 2012 : Comments Post a Comment Subscribe to Post Comments Atom G4ILO's Shack One Foot in the Grave Blog Home Archives Subscribe RSS Rate this blog Copyright 1998 2012 Julian Moss , G4ILO . All rights . reserved

  • J28RO (Freddy): Matériels militaires

    Updated: 2012-10-30 09:30:27
    Le site Web ci-après vous présentera un large éventail de matériels des transmissions de l'armée de terre, beaucoup ne sont plus en service mais les données techniques pourront intéresser certains, dommage qu'il n'y ait pas plus d'images. lien

  • J28RO (Freddy): Nouveau coupleur Palstar

    Updated: 2012-10-30 09:30:06
    : F5IRO Freddy Blog radioamateur mardi 30 octobre 2012 Nouveau coupleur Palstar PALSTAR vient d'annoncer la mise sur le marché d'un nouveau coupleur d'antennes HF . Le HF AUTO 1500. Celui-ci permet l'accord automatique des antennes du 160 au 6 m , puissance de 2 à 1500 watts . l'accord demande quatre à six secondes , trois prises type SO239 pour vos antennes . Le boitier est en aluminium pour un poids total de 12.5 kg . Par contre pour le prix cela risque de dissuader la majorité des OM , 1495 soit 1150 environ , de quoi s'offrir une très belle antenne et rotor . PALSTAR Libellés Matériels vidéos Aucun : commentaire Enregistrer un commentaire Merci de laisser votre indicatif pour que votre commentaire soit . accepté Message plus récent Message plus ancien Accueil Inscription à Publier les

  • Amateur Radio in the News – 10/18/12

    Updated: 2012-10-30 03:13:14
      Ahmedabad students to make ‘space call’ to Sunita Williams. Sunita Williams, an Indian-American (right), will speak to students in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India at some point between November 12 and November 16. The article says that Williams, KD5PLB, is an avid ham radio operator and “has talked to a number of groups from around the world [...]

  • ST2NH: WE WISH packet frames.

    Updated: 2012-10-30 02:11:20
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Pages Home Back to Basic HO-68 Schedule October 30, 2012 WE WISH packet frames . WE WISH HK DATA The beacon is a mix of cw and packet frames this clip contain only the packet frames Ohayou(JA-Time Mike san Nader san TNX Soft Mike san and enjoy . trip GD RCV Nader , san I decoded the sound of your . Blog I sent . Image Dewa Tetsu JA0CAW Posted by ST2NH at 10 30 2012 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Labels : We Wish No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Total Pageviews ST2NH . Nader's Satellite Blog Welcome to the Blog Archive 2012 131 October 25 WE WISH decoder WE WISH packet . frames AENEAS Telemetry WE-WISH BEACON MODE New pictures from NIWAKA by . 5.8GHz

  • EA1CS: La ARRL cerrada por Sandy

    Updated: 2012-10-29 21:38:09
    : EA1CS pasión por el DX Dxpeditions . Noticias . Propagación . Actividad antártica . Colaborador de Dx-world.net CWops 825, Información libre y gratuita . La radio . sana y con . estilo lunes , 29 de octubre de 2012 La ARRL cerrada por Sandy 29 octubre ARRL El Gobernador de Connecticut , ha ordenado cerrar todas las carreteras , excepto para el tráfico de emergencia . Para que los funcionarios de la ARRL puedan llegar a sus casas con seguridad , la Liga cerró a las 15.30z de hoy lunes 29 de . octubre No habrá boletines W1AW . La mañana del martes dependiendo de la situación , se tomará una decisión y esta se publicará en la . web 73´s , Luis EA1CS Enviar por correo electrónico Escribe un blog Compartir con Twitter Compartir con Facebook Entrada más reciente Entrada antigua Página

  • EA1CS: Radioaficionados y el huracán Sandy

    Updated: 2012-10-29 21:27:16
    : EA1CS pasión por el DX Dxpeditions . Noticias . Propagación . Actividad antártica . Colaborador de Dx-world.net CWops 825, Información libre y gratuita . La radio . sana y con . estilo viernes , 26 de octubre de 2012 Radioaficionados y el huracán Sandy De la NASA IARU Región 2 click Radio Noticias Jorge Crespo , 26 octubre , 09.29 . horas Vientos de 175 Km hora han causado cuantiosos daños en Cuba . A su paso por la isla , el huracán Sandy ha derribado postes telefónicos y eléctricos , según han informado los Radioaficionados encargados de mantener las comunicaciones y que se han confirmado como la principal fuente de . información Árboles y techos de viviendas volaron literalmente a raíz de este huracán de categoría 2 en la escala Saffir-Simpson , que se dirige ahora hacia las . Bahamas

  • EA1CS: Buscando piratas

    Updated: 2012-10-29 21:22:25
    : EA1CS pasión por el DX Dxpeditions . Noticias . Propagación . Actividad antártica . Colaborador de Dx-world.net CWops 825, Información libre y gratuita . La radio . sana y con . estilo jueves , 25 de octubre de 2012 Buscando piratas IARU Región 2 10 octubre Brasil se integra al sistema de monitoreo de la IARU En español Click DXBrasil 23 octubre 2012 El punto máximo del ciclo solar , propició una gran mejora en la propagación , especialmente en las bandas de 10 y 12mts . Además de proporcionar altos niveles de actividad en las bandas , los Radioaficionados son constantemente molestados ante la masiva llegada de estaciones piratas . Es común escuchar emisoras PIRATAS que operan ilegalmente en las frecuencias exclusivas de Radioaficionados , principalmente en esas bandas mencionadas de 10

  • 2E0HTS (Simon): CQ WW 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-29 21:14:29
    : Ham Radio Monday , October 29, 2012 CQ WW 2012 As usual I was active throughout the weekend on the HF bands during this years CQ World Wide Contest . I spent some cash on a new alloy pole which I used to raise the height of my Cobb-Webb multi band antenna just in the knick of . time Despite my enthusiasm I did not beat last years result as I ended up working fewer zones than previously , but I still had some great DX even though conditions were not quite as good as last year . nbsp I worked lots of stations from all over using my FT1000MP Mark V and Cobwebb antenna . I kept myself mainly focused on 10 meters , 15 meters and 20 meters with a few qso also made down on 40 80 . meters Overall I had a blast I must have worked the whole of the Caribbean as well as South and North America . My

  • W2LJ (Larry): Landfall !!!

    Updated: 2012-10-29 19:29:28
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Monday , October 29, 2012 Landfall Hurricane Sandy has doubled her speed from 14 MPH to 28 MPH and has made landfall around the Cape May area of New . Jersey Courtesy of Wunderground I now know what a Christmas Tree feels like , with the lights blinking on and off so much . But hey , at least for now they are continuing to come back on . The next six hours or so should be the . worst I have switched from the desktop to the laptop . The desktop doesn't seem to like the sudden power downs too . much 72 de Larry W2LJ Q RP When you care to send the very least Posted by Larry W2LJ at 7:29 PM Labels : weather : Reactions No : comments Post a Comment Older

  • EA1CS: S79NU, Seychelles Is.

    Updated: 2012-10-29 19:11:38
    : , . EA1CS pasión por el DX Dxpeditions . Noticias . Propagación . Actividad antártica . Colaborador de Dx-world.net CWops 825, Información libre y gratuita . La radio . sana y con . estilo lunes , 29 de octubre de 2012 S79NU , Seychelles Is . Hardy DL8NU , operará desde la isla Mahe , en las Seychelles , del 9 al 24 de noviembre 2012, en modo . holiday-style QSL VÍA DL8NU 73´s , Luis EA1CS Enviar por correo electrónico Escribe un blog Compartir con Twitter Compartir con Facebook Entrada más reciente Entrada antigua Página principal Entradas más populares última semana VP5 W5CW TURKS CAICOS Radioaficionados y el huracán Sandy Buscando piratas CY0, QRT urgente CQ WW Dx Ssb 2012 T6LG , pirata CWops en NH8S PJ2A CURAÇAO . IS Radar meterológico Monitor de terremotos Hora local Avilés ,

  • Ham Radio Logging Software On Linux

    Updated: 2012-10-29 18:52:05
    Ham radio logging software on high performance Linux O/S. I use and recommend the Linux Ubuntu distribution. Details here. 73 de VE2DPE.

  • EA1CS: Isla Escondida, SA-096

    Updated: 2012-10-29 18:46:24
    : , EA1CS pasión por el DX Dxpeditions . Noticias . Propagación . Actividad antártica . Colaborador de Dx-world.net CWops 825, Información libre y gratuita . La radio . sana y con . estilo domingo , 28 de octubre de 2012 Isla Escondida , SA-096 Cezar VE3LYC informa a través de Dx World 27 octubre Tenemos el placer de anunciar nuestra próxima IOTA Dxpedition a la isla Escondida , SA-096, prevista para principios del mes de enero 2013, bajo los auspicios del radioclub de Puerto Madryn . Un equipo de 4 operadores , Cezar VE3LYC , Johan PA3EXX y dos más LU , intentarán poner 2 estaciones en el aire durante un máximo de 4 días . nbsp Escondida significa oculta en español , ya que la pequeña isla rocosa está prácticamente cubierta por el mar con vientos fuertes , que pueden comenzar de manera

  • ST2NH: AENEAS Telemetry

    Updated: 2012-10-29 17:53:41
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Pages Home Back to Basic HO-68 Schedule October 29, 2012 AENEAS Telemetry AENEAS Telemetry via soundmodem . software O rbit 674 Signal was strong after TCA to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osted by ST2NH at 10 29

  • G4ILO (Julian): 10m WSPR spots 29 Oct 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-29 17:48:06
    : Monday , October 29, 2012 10m WSPR spots 29 Oct 2012 10m WSPR spots G4ILO 29 October 2012 Labels : 10m Propagation WSPR posted by Julian Moss Monday , October 29, 2012 : Comments Post a Comment Subscribe to Post Comments Atom G4ILO's Shack One Foot in the Grave Blog Home Archives Subscribe RSS Rate this blog Copyright 1998 2012 Julian Moss , G4ILO . All rights . reserved

  • W2LJ (Larry): Two to four hours from landfall

    Updated: 2012-10-29 16:48:11
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Monday , October 29, 2012 Two to four hours from landfall and the winds are picking up . This is the maple in the backyard that serves as the center support for my 88' . EDZ So far , recorded gusts from nearby weather stations have topped out at 45 MPH . That may double as Sandy makes landfall . I heard a loud crack before . Turns out a branch in the neighbor's back yard snapped . Hope that's not in store for . us Power has gone out briefly several times already . Marianne has called to inform me she might be stuck overnight at the dialysis clinic where she's an RN . Seems that some of the local roads have been . closed 72 de Larry W2LJ QRP When you

  • J28RO (Freddy): JT9: nouveau mode pour les LF

    Updated: 2012-10-29 09:34:00
    K1JT connu déjà pour divers logiciels comme WSJT, WSPR...vient d'annoncer un nouveau mode de communication spécialement dédié aux LF, le JT9. Voilà qui devrait ravir les amateurs de ces fréquences basses.  PDF logiciel - forum - logiciel

  • All over but for the waiting

    Updated: 2012-10-28 21:32:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Sunday , October 28, 2012 All over but for the waiting I spent another three hours with my CERT Team today , filling and distributing sand bags to the citizens of South Plainfield who requested them . I left an hour early as I came home to clean out the gutters , which had filled up with leaves again Did I ever mention that I hate heights and I really , really hate ladders I fell off of one as a child , and have had an intense dislike of them ever since . But you do what you have to . do The garbage cans have been securely bungee corded to the fence . All Halloween decorations have been brought in . I also covered the grill and secured that in place

  • Preparing

    Updated: 2012-10-27 22:45:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Saturday , October 27, 2012 Preparing Courtesy of the National Hurricane Center So this is what we're looking at . A possible Category 2 or 3 hurricane , which has not encountered ANY huge land mass to speak of , paralleling the coast , making an almost 90 degree left turn and slamming into the US , somewhere between the DelMarVa peninsula and Cape Cod . Unfortunately , New Jersey looks like the prime target as of right . now In addition , we will have Full Moon tides to deal with and the fact that Sandy has not hugged the coast line makes a huge difference . If Sandy had hugged the coast , there's the chance she could have weakened . But she will be

  • Broken Link Repaired

    Updated: 2012-10-27 14:36:58
    A link that was pointing to a Web page containing contact information of every official amateur radio organization in the world - has been repaired. The Web site owners had changed the name of the page without warning! Such things happen, unfortunately. Happily, we have a feature on our Web site's infrastructure that alerts me of such incidents automatically. That allows me to repair the broken link swiftly. The broken link has now been repaired in our Web page on "Amateur Radio License Requirements". (Link below) 73 de VE2DPE Claude Jollet

  • The Perfect Storm - Hurricane “Sandy” ++ = “Frankenstorm”

    Updated: 2012-10-26 10:08:13
    In South Florida we got off easy, according to what I’m reading … http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57540360/hurricane-sandy-may-slam-into-u.s-east-coast-as-halloween-week-frankenstorm/?tag=contentAux;mostPopular There was a book, and a movie, called The Perfect Storm … describing a similar meteorological (weather) set up to what is predicted to take place in the Northeastern United States. The Perfect Storm book image (wikipedia) The Perfect Storm - Movie Trailer “Nature has [...]

  • Oh, joy!

    Updated: 2012-10-26 02:10:00
    . , W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Thursday , October 25, 2012 Oh , joy I received a telephone call tonight from South Plainfield's Director of Emergency Management . He wanted to know if I can come down to the Emergency Operations Center on Saturday from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM to help distribute sand bags to the various South Plainfielders who want them . Possibly Sunday , too . Good thing I wasn't planning on participating in the CQWW DX SSB Contest this . weekend Courtesy of AccuWeather All of this in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy arriving sometime early next week . Of course , I offered my assistance immediately . Hurricane Irene is still fresh in my mind , even though it's been

  • KB6NU is now a columnist for World Radio Online

    Updated: 2012-10-26 01:00:13
    Yours truly is now the “Amateur Licensing” columnist for World Radio Online. My first column appears in the November 2012 issue. Each column contains three or four related questions from each of the three tests. As you might expect, I take this material from my No-Nonsense License Study Guides. I write a little intro about [...]

  • On the Internet: $100 supercomputer, 13 yo reviews his HT, HackRF covers 100 MHz – 6 GHz

    Updated: 2012-10-25 16:45:15
    Here are  a couple more interesting tidbits gleaned from the Internet over the past week or so: Personal supercomputer for only $100! This blog post describes reports on a company called Adapteva, which sounds like it’s still basically a basement operation, that’s developed a low-power, high-Gflops processor chip. Their current project is to develop a very [...]

  • Yachts - Lightspeed II Marine WiFi [Video]

    Updated: 2012-10-25 16:19:47
    Many of you may know we have the Lightspeed II Marine WiFi Hotspot Sharing System which has its home page on: http://www.wifiyacht.net Here is the video from that page demonstrating the web browser based control pages and showing the WiFi Spectrum Analysis that it is capable of. It shows basically how to connect to a WiFi Hotspot [...]

  • Sun to cause problems for contest this weekend?

    Updated: 2012-10-25 02:47:50
    The Washington Post reported yesterday that there was a X-class solar flare, the most powerful type of solar flare, on Monday, and that more might be on the way. The article notes, The X-class flare was not directed at Earth. But space weather forecasters caution the very active sunspot region – known as AR1598 – [...]

  • My Boat Show “app” Screen Shots - Re: Fort Lauderdale Boat Show

    Updated: 2012-10-25 02:05:29
    The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show 2012 starts tomorrow … I took some screen shots of the “MyBoatShow” app. http://www.marinetelecom.net/MyBoatShowapp/ enjoy! — Alan Spicer Marine Telecom +1 954 683 3426 communications @ marinetelecom.net

  • Operating Notes – 10/23/12

    Updated: 2012-10-24 04:02:42
    10m has been open for the past couple of days. Last night, I worked Hiro, JH0INP from here at my home QTH, using only my loop antenna. He gave me a 559 report. Of course, I’m sure that his seven-element tribander had something to do with that report. :) I seem to work DX in bunches. [...]

  • Interesting what 500 mW can do.

    Updated: 2012-10-24 02:21:00
    . . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Tuesday , October 23, 2012 Interesting what 500 mW can do . NY3A W2LJ 3560.4 CQ LoTW 9 dB 20 wpm 0112z 24 Oct K3MM W2LJ 3560.4 CQ LoTW 5 dB 19 wpm 0112z 24 Oct W4KKN W2LJ 3560.4 CQ LoTW 13 dB 19 wpm 0111z 24 Oct KM3T W2LJ 3560.4 CQ LoTW 8 dB 19 wpm 0111z 24 Oct NY3A W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 11 dB 19 wpm 0109z 24 Oct K1TTT W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 7 dB 19 wpm 0109z 24 Oct W4KAZ W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 5 dB 20 wpm 0108z 24 Oct W2RDX W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 12 dB 19 wpm 0108z 24 Oct KQ8M W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 5 dB 19 wpm 0108z 24 Oct AA4VV W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 8 dB 19 wpm 0108z 24 Oct W4KKN W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 16 dB 19 wpm 0108z 24 Oct KM3T W2LJ 7041.0 CQ LoTW 7 dB 20 wpm

  • Activate rare grid squares with the Michigan 6m Group

    Updated: 2012-10-24 01:34:11
    A friend of mine, Bruce, KT8TD, has started a Yahoo Group—the Michigan Six Meter Group—to organize “DXpeditions” to activate rare northern Michigan grid squares on 6m. The plan is to get a small group togethere sometime in the near future to operate from these sparsely-populated areas. I’m not a big 6m operator, but it sounds [...]

  • Alan Spicer Marine Telecom on LinkedIn

    Updated: 2012-10-22 21:09:20
    Alan Spicer, Alan Spicer Marine Telecom is on LinkedIn (early adopter - on for many years) You can search for “Alan Spicer Marine Telecom” and see my profile. I have over 2300 connections. I am in 49 groups / forums. I have 8 years 9 months + of experience working for sail and motor yachts and [...]

  • Make Your IPV6 Address “Cool” (Shorter, Customized)

    Updated: 2012-10-21 07:32:51
    If you have IPv6 on your Internet connection and you’re going to be driving around the Internet giving out that address (every web site and server will see it, some will tell you what it is on their web pages.) - you might as well make it a cool, shorter IPv6 address. You can go here: http://ipv6-test.com/ or [...]

  • Interesting tidbits from the Internet – Homemade tools, more kits, a CMOS replacement

    Updated: 2012-10-21 00:39:17
    This set of links include a website for homemade tools, another source of kits, and a report on an electronic technology to replace CMOS. Home-made tools. This is a new site from the founder of Hotrodders.com, established to organize all of the homemade tools posted on forums and websites around the net. The site currently has [...]

  • Something new every night

    Updated: 2012-10-20 01:39:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Friday , October 19, 2012 Something new every night Working HF is definitely like fishing or maybe like the proverbial Forrest Gump box of chocolates You never know what you're going to . get Last night , I cast my net out upon the waters and was fortunate to have two nice QSOs on 40 Meters . One was with Rick KC4KNN and that was immediately followed up with a nice chat with Scotty KG3W . I have worked both ops before , Rick once back in 2006 and Scotty several times in various QRP events . It's always nice to run into someone you've worked in some contests . The chance to QSO and talk for a bit longer than 559 NJ 5W is very . pleasant Tonight , I was

  • “FM (No Static At All)” - Quad (audio) failed back in the day - CEA sets Ultra HD standard

    Updated: 2012-10-20 01:30:19
    With FM there was “No Static At All” - Steely Dan sang about that … and there was even a movie FM. (Back in the day when I worked at Radio Shack they told me Don’t Use FM Stereo to demonstrate a HiFi System. Use another source like Tape or Vinyl Record. Of course those [...]

  • Amateur Radio Videos – 10/19/12

    Updated: 2012-10-19 23:50:11
    Here are some more videos for your amateur radio viewing pleasure. History of the transistor radio. The PBS show History Detectives featured a segment on the Regency TR-1 transistor radio, the first transistor radio ever made, and some of the other early transistor radio models. The website says the show will air on October 28, 2012. [...]

  • And now for something completely different.

    Updated: 2012-10-18 02:21:00
    Courtesy of Rem K6BBQ - questions that I guarantee you have never been asked before!72 de Larry W2LJQRP - When you care to send the very least!

  • My Ham Radio Heroes

    Updated: 2012-10-17 00:54:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Tuesday , October 16, 2012 My Ham Radio Heroes Sounds silly , doesn't it But yes , I do have Ham Radio heroes . They include the ones who Elmered me and the ones who have mentored and motivated . me But tonight , I'd like to concentrate on the ones who have inspired me , in a very particular . way My big dream as a QRPer is to someday be in the position where I can operate from the Great Outdoors on a regular basis . Whether it be SOTA or a far away DXpedition like Steve WG0AT and Guy N7UN . Or day hikes like Jim W1PID or Ron WB3AAL . Or even perhaps , someday , serious trail hiking like Steve KD1JV . And then there are always the pedestrian mobile

  • Antenna planning

    Updated: 2012-10-15 01:53:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Sunday , October 14, 2012 Antenna planning I measured out the distances from the house to the maple tree in the back yard and over to the mast in the upper right corner of the back yard . The 85 foot W3EDP will fit just fine , with room to spare . There should be less than 10 feet worth of Dacron rope between the end of the antenna and the . mast The drawing is not to scale but the run along the side of the house accounts for no more than 15 to 20 feet or so of the antenna run . The EDZ currently follows the same route more or less but I am hoping to get a dog bone insulator which will serve as the wire bending point up about 10 to 15 feet higher in

  • 25, 50, and 75 Years Ago in QST

    Updated: 2012-10-14 17:20:01
    QST publishes a column every month towards the back of the magazine that highlights from issues 25, 50, and 75 years ago. Now that the QST archive is online, it’s really worth taking a look at these articles. Here are a few that were interesting to me this month: October 1937 Modernizing the Simple Regenerative [...]

  • To quote John Lennon

    Updated: 2012-10-14 01:41:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Saturday , October 13, 2012 To quote John Lennon Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans Yes . The original plan today was for self indulgence to spend all afternoon playing in the QRP ARCI Fall QSO Party . Needless to say , it didn't happen . Not by a long . shot There was grocery shopping to get done , lawn mowing and leaf clean up to get done , baking to be done for the Sacred Heart Music Ministry bake sale tomorrow . All things that had to get done , which left me not much time on the . radio After dinner , I have gotten on the air and have made some contacts on 20 and 80 Meters . 40 Meters would be nice but the RTTY'ers are once

  • 11 New Amateur Radio Operators

    Updated: 2012-10-13 01:25:21
    Last Saturday, I taught another session of my one-day Tech class. Their callsigns finally made it into the FCC database today: Joe,  KD8TGZ Kieran, KD8THA Reginald, KD8THB Richard, KD8THD Curtis, KD8THE Judith, KD8THF Robert, KD8THG Ulysses. KD8THH Chris, KD8THI Lizabeth, KD8THJ Richard, KD8THK Eleven out of twelve passed. The twelfth was a teenage girl who really was [...]

  • Enough with the nitrates, already !!!!

    Updated: 2012-10-11 00:46:00
    . , W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Wednesday , October 10, 2012 Enough with the nitrates , already There's a couple of threads going on the KX3 e-mail reflector today . One is titled QRP Baloney and the other QRP Sausage Both threads are a discussion trying to determine what QRP really is I , for one , originally thought that QRP was making sure your transmitter put out 100 Watts or less . Well , that was back in the Ancient Times in the Mesozoic Era when I originally joined QRP . ARCI Somewhere along the line , that changed and the definition of QRP became a power output of no more than 5 Watts for CW and 10 Watts for SSB . I am fine with that definition . . Period Now we have some

  • We may have just missed the solar max!

    Updated: 2012-10-10 02:15:13
    See New Scientist article http://bit.ly/Oq9F0z

  • Solar activity has already peaked!

    Updated: 2012-10-10 01:49:54
    Sun heads for quietest spell since 1715. Sniff! Source: New Scientist Mag. Sep.29 2012 Special Issue.

  • Antenna contemplations

    Updated: 2012-10-10 01:05:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Tuesday , October 09, 2012 Antenna contemplations The wire from my Inverted L End Fed Zepp met its doom this past August . I went outside after a particularly bad evening of thunderstorms to find wire hanging down on the back porch and the other end hanging down the mast that was supporting the far end . The gusty winds caused it to fall apart somewhere in the . middle I didn't use it much as I could never get a decent match on the antenna tuner . For whatever reason , perhaps the truly random length of it and the lack of a decent counterpoise , it always gave my auto tuner fits and . starts This evening and for the past few evenings I was following a

  • Big Brutus

    Updated: 2012-10-09 00:29:00
    . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Monday , October 08, 2012 Big Brutus If you are a regular reader of this blog , you know how much I love Amateur Radio . Two of my passions within a passion are operating QRP and taking QRP to the great outdoors and operating . portable I use this blog as a vehicle to promote and publicize those two passions among others So you will forgive me while I extol the adventures of the 4 States QRP Group and their portable operations at Big Brutus What the heck is a Big Brutus you might well be asking yourself . I did the first time I heard of . it Big Brutus is a gigantic electric powered coal shovel that was used in Southeast Kansas . In 1985, Big Brutus

  • Apologies for my absence.

    Updated: 2012-10-08 01:33:00
    . . W2LJ's Blog QRP Do More With . Less Pages Home Projects Station W2LJ Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Sunday , October 07, 2012 Apologies for my absence . But during the past week , we had another family milestone event . The last of our parents , my mother-in-law , Nora Dunmyer , passed away last Monday . The funeral was this past Friday . Needless to say , it was a hectic week mostly for my wife Marianne and her brother , . Tim Obviously , the photo above was taken on the day of our wedding 14 years ago , when I was much thinner and my hair had way less gray in it In the photo , my father-in-law , Joe is standing next to Marianne , and my mother-in-law , Nora is standing next to me . She was a wonderful woman who was born in Donegal , Ireland into

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