Spaceweather.com is reporting a big M class flare and a geomagnetic storm as well! 40 is so long even now that the West coast stations are still running S7-9 at 10 a.m. Even in-state CW signals on 160 and 80 were so weak as to be unreadable at 5 this morning while Shin, JA1NUT, was 20 over 9 for a while on 40!

Last weekend during the ARRL DX contest 40-10 meters stayed wide open through most of the 48 hour operating period. Haven't seen condx like this for qyite a few years!

W0EB

Sent from my iPad

Hello Jim and Terry,

Thanks for your quick and competent replay. So I will go this way and have a reason to get some solder smoking and putting the magic box together. I have understood the mechanism and will look at the schematics of the Ultimate 3. There is one line coming from the Atmel which triggers the pa. Perhaps I can use this signal. Have to ask Hans.

I have troubles getting into my Yahoo groups since several weeks. Even if I want to reset my password, they will not accept a password of any kind. So could you please send the schematic via email? Thanks for your kindness

And all the Best

Hajo

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... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn
... http://hajos-kontrapunkte.blogspot.com/

No takers today, the band is in bad shape with the A index at 47. Must have
been a CME on the sun. I hear very few signals on 40 and those are weak. This
doesnt bode well for the 80M Fox Hunt tonight either.

Next week will be better. Thanks to all who tried this morning.

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Back to the bench, Winter's too valuable to waste.
I love this radio stuff !
72 WA0ITP
www.wa0itp.com
www.4sqrp.com

On 2/20/2014 6:58 AM, Hajo Dezelski wrote:

Hello,

Greetings Hajo,

I am not an engineer, so bare with me:

No problem.

Currently I am experimenting a lot with Wspr using the Ultimate 3 from
Hans Summers.(See activities on my blog.) I only transmit in a time
frame of 10 minutes once and have the other 8 minutes free.

What causes the transmitter to come on the air? Is the signal that makes that happen available to the outside of the Ultimate 3?

So I

wanted to listen and report to wspr with another receiver, but I have
only one antenna.

The MagicBox could switch the antenna for you, so to speak so that when the Ultimate 3 isn't using the antenna, the receiver can be.

So I remembered a kit, which is still unsoldered: the magic box. My
question: Is there a way that I can connect the tx and the Rx so that
the Rx is automatically muted when the wspr tx starts to make it's
transmission.

Yes, that's exactly what it does, but it needs a signal from the transmitter to tell the MagicBox that the WSPR transmission is going to happen.

The maximum output is 200 mW, but normally I use between

10 -100 mW.

No problem there.

So I am looking for some sort of HF sniffer which triggers the magic
box to do its work.

No, you need the signal from the Ultimate 3 that causes it to transmit and use that signal to key the MagicBox and cause it to go from receive mode to transmit mode. The MagicBox keys using a voltage being grounded, like closing a key.

Any ideas which can be performed by an amateur?

See above.

72 de
Hajo

72 and have fun,

Jim, K8IQY

Hello,
I am not an engineer, so bare with me:

Currently I am experimenting a lot with Wspr using the Ultimate 3 from Hans Summers.(See activities on my blog.) I only transmit in a time frame of 10 minutes once and have the other 8 minutes free. So I wanted to listen and report to wspr with another receiver, but I have only one antenna.

So I remembered a kit, which is still unsoldered: the magic box. My question: Is there a way that I can connect the tx and the Rx so that the Rx is automatically muted when the wspr tx starts to make it's transmission. The maximum output is 200 mW, but normally I use between 10 -100 mW.
So I am looking for some sort of HF sniffer which triggers the magic box to do its work.

Any ideas which can be performed by an amateur?

72 de
Hajo

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... indessen wandelt harmlos droben das Gestirn
... http://hajos-kontrapunkte.blogspot.com/

80 was stretched out a loong way tonite. AC4PA was a first timer, thanks Pavel. And thanks to everyone who tried, it was noisy and with qsb here.  Making it in were:




Hope to cu again next week. 

Don't forget the 7122 net tommorrw morning at 8:30 Central time.  I'll be on the mighty Cyclone.

72 es tnx again.

3564 is busy. 3565 sounds clear so look for me there. zero beat pretty well,
I; have to use the 500 hZ filter
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Back to the bench, Winter's too valuable to waste.
I love this radio stuff !
72 WA0ITP
www.wa0itp.com
www.4sqrp.com

On 02/18/2014 20:15, wb8yyy@yahoo.com wrote:

Phil


If you are still shopping for a pc log program, another one to consider
is winlog32.

That's what I started using to replace my aging DOS version of Log-EQF. While I can still run it under a DOS emulator, I figured it was finally time to update my ham log software. After looking over a few programs, I chose Winlog32. It does everything I need it to, and the neat thing is that I can automatically upload logs to eQSL.

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Tom Sevart N2UHC
St. Paul, KS

This Four State net meets each Thursday morning at 8:30 AM Central on 7122 kc,
the Four State 40M hangout frequency. NCS is WA�ITP and this is a Four State
members only net.

Add anything to the exchange that you wish, member number, temp, rig, ant, etc.
After the net, a list of checkins will be posted on the Four State reflector.

Hope to cu tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM Central time.


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Back to the bench, Winter's too valuable to waste.
I love this radio stuff !
72 WA0ITP
www.wa0itp.com
www.4sqrp.com

The Four State QRP Comfortable nets meet each Wednesday night
beginning at 7:30 PM Central Time.

If we have to QSY, I like to move up, Wayne likes to move down,
and Dick doesn't have to move much at all.

Add anything to the exchange that you wish, temp rig, ant, etc.
Checking into all, sessions is encouraged. We call it the "Clean Sweep".

7:30 Central time ... 40M CW Net on 7122, KC�PMH NCS
8:00 " " ... 80M CW Net on 3564, WA�ITP NCS.
9:00 " " ... 80M PSK Net on 3580.5, N�TGR NCS

All are welcome! After the nets, a list of checkins will be
posted on the Four State reflector.


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Back to the bench, Winter's too valuable to waste.
I love this radio stuff !
72 WA0ITP
www.wa0itp.com
www.4sqrp.com

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Interesting Curt and TNX.............4sqrp is a real resource!

I'm about settled on using both LOTW and eQSL, seems that of the tens of reponses I've gotten,
mostly from this reflector.  have gone that way. Makes sense.  I'm curious about the ADIF format
and will look into that just for fun. I'm also about settled on using the Amateur Contact Log, AC4.x, by
Dave Cole, N3FJP. Read a good review on that at NK7Z's blog page - http://nk7z.net/

Our local club, W0UK, has used an older version of N3FJP's  Field Day program for contesting.
I want a compatible contesting program to go along with AC4.x.......or some other combination,
so your comments are helpful. TNX agn.

72, Phil Anderson, W0XI
Lawrence, KS






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