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This weekend was a rather interesting one. Propagation was not what I expected, but I got a very good about of contacts! Over 50 this weekend! I guess the incoming solar storm is affecting things a bit. Hey, I'll take it, I got a whole mess of new POTA parks, so it's a win for sure!
#amateurRadio #hamRadio #hf #80m #40m #20m #17m #15m #POTA #solarStorm
Figured I'd give the Kenwood TS-130SE one more weekend of fun before I get it all ready to go back to it's owner. Here's where I hunted POTA this weekend with it, and it did quite admirally! Even managed an 80m contact on it this weekend! (80m at my QTH is /very/ noisy)
@SwiftFoxPGH you should be all good to go with the radio once we get it all set up at your QTH!
Been really enjoying the EFHW antenna for sure! I'm coloring the markers by band now, 'cause that seems way more interesting. I'm especially happy to get Nova Scotia this weekend!
Red=80m Green=40m Blue=20m Purple=17m
#hamRadio #amateurRadio #POTA #parksOnTheAir #ssb #efhw #17m #20m #40m #80m
Got up very early this morning to activate #POTA DE-0192 while it was dark. 53 QSO between moon setting and sunrise. On #80m I could not DX due to an antenna connector not being plugged in correctly. Better stuff on #60m and #30m.
Worked US, St. Barthelemy and Guinea Bissau on 60m, Guyana as #atno plus New Zealand on 30m.
Thanks hunters!
@_maleficentgirl ich hatte Bestätigungsverkehr.
#80m #deutschlandrundspruch
Oha!
Der Autor des neuesten Editorials der Zeitschrift #Funkamateur hat sich wohl versehentlich im #80m-Band befunden und #QRP-Hasser getroffen.
Funkamateure sind auch nur ein Teil unserer Gesellschaft (vorwiegend der älteren, männlichen Kohorten), und die sind mitunter ... schwierig. Weil sie alles ganz genau wissen! 🤡
In Vorbereitung zum #WAG meine inv-L Antenne für #80m umgebaut. Dabei musste ich feststellen das sich laut #floraincognita eine Orchidee hier angesiedelt hat. Jetzt müssen wir miteinander klar kommen. Gut DX
This Icom 746 can tune almost anything, I got it to tune my #EFHW8010 for #160m / #FT8 (which is surprising, consider I sometimes have trouble tuning #40m and #80m with it, heh, probably because I had to splice it back together at some point and probably lost a little bit in length)
I've heard the phrase, "my tuner could tune a coat hanger"
I might need to try that 😂 with this, lol
New Award for the #80m "senior" band.
(German 'Altherrenband'). 🤠
the french net running digital SSTV on 3.736Mhz LSB are on and running tonight
EasyPAL being used to Decode the images
Tonight at 1900 UTC the August edition of the #DARC #FT4 #Contest will commence. It’s just one hour short and quite interesting for me since I wasn’t able to develop a proper strategy with my modest setup so far (5 W #QRP and just 10 m of wire). I hope to see you on #80m. https://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/conteste/ft4-contest/darc-ft4-contest-english-version/ #HamRadio #Amateurfunk #elecraftk3
me_irl (nearly every weekend) 🙃 #80m #digitalmodes #contest
(Caution: May contain traces of sarcasm)
Note to self…
- 802.1Q VLANs… don't just check what untagged VLAN members, check the PVID too.
- UniFi U6-LRs don't work if the Ethernet cable is sitting 5mm out of the socket
On the plus side, my noise floor on #80m and #40m hasn't jumped back through the stratosphere when I plugged that cable back in.
I'm going to have to work on my lower bands set-up. #80m and #40m used to be regular and frequent haunts for me years ago.
Just tried a short QSO on 3.595MHz… and I had to wind back to 10W just to keep the ALC under some semblance of control. Something's seriously out of whack there.
It's been many years since I did 80m actually, but back around 2008 ~ 2012, it was a weekly ritual.
Noise floor now is real bad… I remember it being S8~S9, but this is 10dB over… consistently.
A lot has changed since back then, so it's hard to pin down what might've caused this regression.
Suffice to say, I'm going to be buying a crapload of ferrite beads. Probably a bit of wandering around the house with a portable shortwave set and a loop antenna too.
ARRL Kids’ Day
1800 UTC - 2359 UTC today
#ARRL #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #hamr #SpecialEvent #ARRLKidsDay :
“ . . . designed to give on-the-air experience to young people & to foster interest in getting a license of their own . . . “
~ arrl.org/Kids-Day
suggested bands & freqs (in MHz):
▪️#10M : 28.350 to 28.400
▪️#12M : 24.960 to 24.980
▪️#15M : 21.360 to 21.400
▪️#17M : 18.140 to 18.145
▪️#20M : 14.270 to 14.300
▪️#40M : 7.270 to 7.290
▪️#80M : 3.740 to 3.940
Info:
~ arrl.org/Kids-Day
I recently discovered #HamAlert for #Android while searching the Google Playstore for a #pskreporter app
I've been able to set pretty granular search/triggers to see if/when #Alaska is on #80m / #FT8 and can be heard in here in #Ohio 😃
I know a desktop app exists, but I didn't know an Android app exists to do this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hamalert.app
@jlewallen oh no! yeah, that would be a rough start, but I'm glad you got it all fixed up
yeah, someday I'd like to pull off a #160m or #80m dipole
My EFHW is about 130ft-ish (40 meters) and when I bought it, they said it can "do #80m without a tuner" lol I have to use MFJ949E and even then it isn't perfect, heh
Ok folks. Fairly new to HF here, thinking of putting up a horizontal loop for 80M (and harmonics).
I'm in the UK, I have some trees I can use but it will need additional poles/supports in some places. What are people using for this, maybe 25 feet or so? Preferably not too expensive and i can mount to a wall and fence. #hamradio #amateurradio #hf #80M #radio
23 check-in’s and counting on the pre-net check-in list of the Early Bird Transcontinental Net on 3.940MHz (I’m just listening in) at 0828UTC. Sounds like the net will start up at 0845UTC. #HamRadioNet #AmateurRadioNet #KE0FFTnets #80m ~ http://www.earlybirdnet.com/
