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Re: Thursday Morning Net [1 Attachment]
John Stevens (K5JS)
Hey Terry! Took a shot at the net this morning from BTR. Nuthin'. Well, nearly. Heard a weak station or two but I never caught a call. I did hear "cyclone" perhaps that was you. :-) A few minutes later I heard KV6Z in Claremore. We exchanged 449s. QSB made it difficult with his signal just above noise. Heard NE5DL right after on his vertical (from QRZ page) at 549 or so. My 90' wire inverted L at 35' doesn't tune well, so I'm going to have to do some antenna matching improvements this weekend. Even the L-Network tuner does poorly. Vertical section is about 30'. My matching transformer has broken wires for me to fix. Hope that does it along with wire radials under the vertical part of the wire. Supposed to be down to 25F here tonight, but that's just a nice spring day for you guys. :-)
73 john k5js
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:58 AM, WA0ITP <wa0itp@...> wrote:
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Brrr... must be it's still winter
Dale Putnam
3 inches of new snow... no wind... (yet) and I woke up to a big fat 9 degrees. Now it is a huge overwhelming 10F
IF the wind comes up... it'll be fun, this snow is real lite and blows easy... I went out to feed, sneezed and created a white out. Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy
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Thursday Morning Net
WA0ITP
Nice net this morning, six checking including a first timer, thank
you Barry. I was using my Cyclone and it seemed to hold up well on
this end. Everyone was cool today, and the temp here was -2 at the
end of the net.
Thanks to all who made it, and those who tried. 72 WA0ITP
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Re: Tonites 40m Net
priveye997
Hi Wayne, I tried to check in at 7:30 but only heard W5XE and one other very faint station. Up until 7:36 there was other station on QSO on 7.122. Do I get partial credit? LOL 72/73 John NS5Z Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 22, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Wayne Dillon <wayne.dillon@...> wrote:
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Wed. night PSK checkins.
Dick Hammond
KA0KRN David, Ottumwa, IA AC0WZ Dan, Fulton, MO AB0AH Larry, Augusta, KS WB0MHU Bill, House Sprgs, MO Tnx fer checkins, good band, see you all next week.
N0TGR Dick, Augusta, KS NCS
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KV6Z Email Address
WA0ITP
Bill your email address is bouncing, could you pse contact me offline?
Thank you ---------------------------------- 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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Re: Wed Nite CW Net
WA0ITP
tnx Jerry, hafta do a roundabout way to get them but fast enough
with a little practice.
---------------------------------- 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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Re: Wed Nite CW Net [1 Attachment]
Jerry Haigwood <jerry@...>
Terry, pretty columns......
Jerry W5JH
"building something without experimenting is just solder practice"
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Re: Tonites 40m Net
WA0ITP
I could hear stations working Wayne but couldnt hear him. Should have
asked for a relay.
---------------------------------- 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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Wed Nite CW Net
WA0ITP
Good net tonight, thanks to all who checked in. Cold here and
getting colder. I was the coldest at 3 deg at net time,and ts now 2
de headed for -6 tonight, Stay in and stay warm. Making it in were:
Thank you and hope to cu next week. ps Don't forget the Thursday Morning net on 7122 tmrrow morning. 72 WAØITP
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Tonites 40m Net
Wayne Dillon
Good evening all, here are tonite's participants: KB4QQJ - Randy - NC - 559 - 854.1 Mi
W2SH - Chas - NJ - 559 - 1117.3 Mi KF7WNS - Gary - OR - 339 - 1607.2 Mi
WA4ZOF - Tom - AL - 539 - 615.9 Mi W5XE - Ray - TX - 559 - 750.7 Mi
WC7S - Dale - WY - 559 - 600.9 Mi
Deep QSB on all QSO's but we made it, very pleased to welcome Gary to the net from OR, thanks for making the effort. To all a huge vote of thanks and I'll look forward to next Wednesday's net, if'n I don't get you before that!
72/3 es God Bless de Wayne - KC0PMH P.S. Don't forget Terry's Thursday morning net @ 08:30 Central on 7.122.
http://www.qsl.net/kc0pmh/ Under construction but please visit anyway.
QRP - EFFICIENCY AND SKILL, NOT POWER.
I'm British by birth but American by CHOICE! Jesus came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owe a debt we cannot pay... The Lord bless you and keep you The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up his contenance upon you and give you peace. God Bless from Wayne Dillon - KC0PMH Joshua 24:14-15 2 Cor 5:17 1 Jn 2:17 4 State QRP Group NCS - 40m & 160m 4SQRP #95
FPQRP #342 (Flying Pigs QRP Club) G-QRP-C #11504 NAQCC # 0759
QRP-ARCI #11505 SKCC #1155C SOC #848 30MDG#1176 NEQRP #693 GORC #192 DMC (Digital Modes Club) # 06686
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Net Relay Wayne
Dale Putnam
I lost you on the net, Wayne... but KF7WNS checked in.. Gary is in Or
Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy
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40 m nets tonite
Wayne Dillon
Good early net but I'm calling off the late net, the band is getting worse with s9+40 noise here. Thanks all and I'll post the participants in the morning. Thanks again all and to all God Bless de Wayne - KC0PMH
http://www.qsl.net/kc0pmh/ Under construction but please visit anyway.
QRP - EFFICIENCY AND SKILL, NOT POWER.
I'm British by birth but American by CHOICE! Jesus came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owe a debt we cannot pay... The Lord bless you and keep you The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up his contenance upon you and give you peace. God Bless from Wayne Dillon - KC0PMH Joshua 24:14-15 2 Cor 5:17 1 Jn 2:17 4 State QRP Group NCS - 40m & 160m 4SQRP #95
FPQRP #342 (Flying Pigs QRP Club) G-QRP-C #11504 NAQCC # 0759
QRP-ARCI #11505 SKCC #1155C SOC #848 30MDG#1176 NEQRP #693 GORC #192 DMC (Digital Modes Club) # 06686
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Re: WX & Other thoughts...
Jerry Haigwood <jerry@...>
Hi Dan,
I have looked at Farhan's Minima
transceiver. As is, I doubt if the transceiver will put out more than a
few microwatts. If you look at the design, the transmitter has only 1/2 of
a bidirectional amp using a 2N2222 as an output before going through the crystal
filter. Crystal filters cannot handle more than about -10 dbm before being
overdriven and subject to failure. I asked Farhan about the amount of
drive going through the crystal filter and he stated it was about 200mV in and
about 50 mV out. He didn't state if that was RMS, Peak or
Peak-to-Peak. If we give him the benefit of the doubt and call it RMS,
then coming out of the crystal filter is 50 microwatts (assumes a 50 ohm
load). After the crystal filter, the only active device is the
mixer. Something is amiss here. I suspect Farhan meant to say that
he can get 1 watt out of the JBOT amp with the Minima driving it. To get
up to 5 watts, another stage of amplification will be needed. You will
also need a low pass filter after the JBOT amp.
Jerry W5JH
"building something without experimenting is just solder practice"
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Re: WX & Other thoughts...
Dale Putnam
I've 20F and 2 mi in light snow... no wind tho.. But it is upslope... Stay warm! Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy To: 4sqrp@...; on30ng@... From: jomatlock@... Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:05:17 -0600 Subject: Re: [4sqrp] WX & Other thoughts...
Ge Dan Well our hard cold is arriving tonite! Supposed to be 1 deg by morning with hard north winds, but no frozen stuff! New news to me on the new XCVR, sounds neat! Can you imagine the first chatter about the KD1JV rigs, "wow 5 watts in an Altoids Tin"
72 Take care Johnny AC0BQ
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, <on30ng@...> wrote:
-- QRP....."more smiles per watt"
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Re: WX & Other thoughts...
Ge Dan
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
Well our hard cold is arriving tonite! Supposed to be 1 deg by morning with hard north winds, but no frozen stuff! New news to me on the new XCVR, sounds neat! Can you imagine the first chatter about the KD1JV rigs, "wow 5 watts in an Altoids Tin"
72 Take care Johnny AC0BQ
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, <on30ng@...> wrote:
-- QRP....."more smiles per watt"
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Re: WX & Other thoughts...
bobby rolph
Yeah. I saw it on the Soldersmoke blog. Keep us posted on the build Dan. I would really enjoy to follow your progress. Post some pics once you get started on it! Bobby Rolph kb4qnr
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Re: WX & Other thoughts...
Shawn Reed <neivahul@...>
On 1/22/2014 9:05 AM, on30ng@...
wrote:
Howdy Dan. I've been following all the chatter with the development. Farhan seems to have a good bunch of developers working loyally his way. Very interesting and exciting to see a star born, with the "minima" 73, Shawnr kf7yff
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WX & Other thoughts...
Been cold in beautiful central IL. I just looked and we're having a heat wave - 13 F! We still have snow on the ground. Sure has been a weird winter. I don't remember this much snow since I was a kid. We have a lake in Decatur and as a kid I remember people used to drive on it in the winter. Recent years that wouldn't work so well.
Has anyone heard about Farhan's new transceiver design? (Farhan developed the marvelous BITX transceiver) It's called the Minima - http://www.phonestack.com/farhan/minima.html It uses an Arduino for some general functions, and to drive an Si570. He uses the KISS mixer and drives it straight from the bandpass filters with no RF amp. CW/SSB and all HF. Real unusual tuning control. Instead of a encoder he uses a 100K pot. From the 'center' you tun the pot left to go down in frequency and right to go up in frequency but like a jog/shuttle knob on a VCR the further you turn from center the faster the frequency moves. A little unusual but should work. As-is the XCVR puts out 1 watt but Farhan also has a nice amp called the JBOT (just a bunch of transistors) that can up it a bit. All open source like. After I get my G-59 going I plan to try to build one. Only expensive part is the Si570. I see Si no longer allows you samples! :-) 73 Dan - KB9JLO <><
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FOX: N8SS and WC7S 80M Fox Thurs
Dale Putnam
WC7S 80m Fox I am the other FOX Thurs evening. Located in Cheyenne, Wy. and using a promising new designed antenna, (at least new to me, and having spent the last 3 months modeling it nearly every day)... I'll call it a "BowTie". It is at 50 ft on a tower. With it under test... and props the way they look to be... maybe we can give it a good wringing out.. on 80m coast to coast and border to border. The Wx forecast is for snow... so we'll get to see how it does in snow static too. I'll be running 5 w from a K2, working split until the rush is over.. then I'll start checking on my tx freq. To start with, please spread out.. I have a vfo and I know how to use the knob... (grin)... the freq offset is only one part of the equation to be heard.. the other part of it is timing. I may do the list thing.. listen a bit longer.. make a list, then call the listed stations, one after another... giving my information only once...then listening after each call for the exchange from you, after calling your call. IF I can get that going, it should be more efficient for us, saving time and allowing more pelts. The other improvement, on this end... will be a different way of handling the rst reports. Tues evening, I tried to give honest assessment reports... with a properly calibrated S meter. I found that very difficult to obtain, and keep the flow going well.. so watch for a change there. Might be that I learn how to do it the right way, and still provide honest reports. Good LUck to each of you, hope to see you all in my log after Thurs nite hunt, at 0200z between the trees marked 3550 and 3570 in the 80 acre wood. It's the fastest 90 minutes in radio. Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy N8SS 80M Fox
I am one of the foxii for Thursday night.
I am located in Detroit. From here there is no meters like 80 meters so I expect to have coast to coast propagation during the hunt period. Its 5 watts to a dipole at 90 feet. I am sure I will start out working split and listening up but will change to simplex as soon as the pile gets whittled down. CU in the log Thursday night. RST MI Earl 5W
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