DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #06:
Activity will be on 80, 20, 15, 12 and 10 meters using SSB, RTTY, SSTV, PSK31 and JT65. QSL direct to home calls. MOROCCO, CN. Members of IARU Society Association Royale des Radio- Amateurs du Maroc are QRV with special callsign 5C2P until February 14.
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Archive for month: February, 2012
How to Listen to the World
Getting started in shortwave listening, amateur radio, AM-FM DX, Free-to-Air satellite TV/Radio, Internet Radio and Cord-cutting. With active table of contents.Getting started in shortwave listening, amateur radio, AM-FM DX, Free-to-Air satellite TV/Radio, Internet Radio and Cord-cutting. With active table of contents.
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Amateur Radio Techniques
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Check out these Amateur Radio images:
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Steve Early, 2006 President of Palomar Amateur Radio Club, presenting at 1 February 2006 General Meeting.
Yaesu FTM-350R – Pre-modification
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New Yaesu FTM-350R 2m/440cm amateur radio, stock configuration. Highlighted 0Ω resistor in the lower left (at about 4 O’Clock from the CPU) is just a bridge which needs to be removed to enable extended transmit. It was a snap to do with a good iron, no problems.
Thanks @moleculo at worldwidedx.com for posting this information first!
1998 The Arrl Handbook for Radio Amateurs (75th ed)
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www.amsat.org http & www.littlefamilyfarm.com 1-540-808-2880 -floydlcfgroup@gmail – PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091————-Arissat 1, is currently in development. This satellite will contain experiments built by students and other equipment. Unlike SuitSat-1, the batteries on Arissat-1 will be charged by solar panels, and is predicted to have a lifetime up to six months. Originally planned to launch in October 2007, the project has been delayed to a later date.———Gould Smith, WA4SXM writing on behalf of the ARISSAT-1 team said construction of the flight unit begins in early February when Tony Monteiro, AA2TX begins electronic assembly of the first US flight unit for ARISSat. The ARISSAT-1 team has had prototypes working for months. The enclosures have been painted by NASA and the cables prepared by Larry Brown, W7LB. The flight boards were built by the Microchip ARISSat team and Chuck Green, N0ADI, with Chuck checking all the flight units. Lou McFadin, W5DID has nearly assembled a complete flight structure (see photo above) designed by Bob Davis, KF4KSS. Lou expects to exhibit the structure in the AMSAT Booth at the upcoming Orlando HamCation. The first two flight TX receiver modules from Bill Ress, N6GHZ are due to arrive in February. We just found out that ARISSat will receive a new callsign and some additional Russian greetings will be added. We will have more than 25 international greetings from around the world in twelve languages broadcast on the FM …
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Some cool Amateur Radio images:
Amateur Radio
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So that’s what amateur radio folks and your average podcaster look like, then? (vintage poster at the Computer History Museum, Palo Alto)
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Randy Glenn KG5RSG. This guy does so much for the Choctaw Amateur Radio Club that he is owed a huge thanks. He is a very giving person despite his external front. This is just my opinion for what its worth… Paul
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Larry K5VVD. I don’t know him but he seemed to be having a good time and so are those with him. He is the Choctaw Amateur Radio Club treasurer.
N7TFP demonstrates what equipment would be considered very important to have in any amateur radio station.
HomeBrew of the DC motor Control Amateur Radio Satellite feedback position with AS5040 Magnetic Rotary Encoder. Using Magnet above of the IC no contact to the shaft at all. to complete control by Orbitron Software with auto tracking and using DDE give the output to ROTOR CONTOLLER using PIC 16F84 and A/D – Kit from Dinesh (FoxDelta) and The Rotor was build from DC motor compatible as Yaesu Rotor and be able to use G-5600 Rotor controller. see detail Document here www.siamsq.net and also from my blog blog.siamsq.net Thank you for watching. 73 – K6XOX
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Aqui os dejo un video del funcionamiento de la antena automatica de Yaesu, la ATAS – 120A y el FT-857D, en la intalacion del mi movil.
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Some cool ARRL images:
Field Day 2009 (3)_45
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Terry Graves (K7FE) right. Speaks with Marty Wall (N6VI) who is the Vice Director of the (ARRL) in the Southwest Division, who came to visit our site.
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Michael, age 6, chats up other children over the air for Kid’s Day, sponsored by ARRL.
A little bit of PSK31
second clip 70m rotaiting antena on the train platform. HF large antena broadcast Radio station from 3Mhz to 30Mhz installation on the train platforn to rotating antenna pattern. Very impressive.
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Family Ties and Balkan Wars
The biggest drama in his life, aside from the rumors of war that his mother insists on shutting out, is a new ham radio antenna that can connect him with America. Then the father Martin never knew (a leonine Miki Manojlovic), comes back from a 20-year …
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The Virgin Father
Behind the house, near a lemon tree, a 50-foot antenna collects radio-astronomy data from solar flares and broadcasts Trent's ham-radio signal. Inside, there is a low, near-constant murmur of electronic machinery: radio static, conference-call chatter …
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Scanning Icom VHF air band transceiver IC-A24 . Nothing special only to show it working . Near my local airport YUL in Canada .
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skywarn.mcaraweb.com Hurricane Hazards Seminar on July 30, 2011 sponsored by Indian River State College WQCS radio station, along with the National Weather Service and Martin County SKYWARN held at the Chastain campus, Stuart Florida, in the Wolf Center. Guest speakers Jill Roberts for WQCS, Ron Tagg from the Martin County SKYWARN group, Stephen Marshall from Martin County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Keith Hollman, Director Martin County Department of Emergency Management, and the keynote speaker, Dr. Scott Sprat, WCM from National WEather Service, Melbourne.
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THIS IS MY NEW 6m antenna Model 52-4S 4 Element Yagi Elements are 3/8″ Solid Aluminum Boom is 1″ sq. Tube, Length is 115 inches (2 piece) In Line (Direct Feed) Gamma Match with SO239 Connector Instructions show how to adjust for a center frequency from 50 MHz. to 54 MHz. (2:1 Bandwidth is over 4 MHz.) Mounting Hardware included. (Stainless Steel) Mounts on a mast up to 1 1/2 inches. Horizontal or Vertical.
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A fun day on 6 & 10-meters with a very modest station running 100 watts, a vertical Buddistick and a homemade 6 meter dipole. USEFUL HAM & 10-meter LINKS BELOW . . . 73! MY RIG Yaesu 857-D 100 watts barefoot Vertical Omnidirectional Antenna = Buddistick _______________ Simple Antennas for Ten Meters www.amwindow.org 10 METER HAM BAND INFORMATION FOR THE TECHNICIAN CLASS HAM NEW TO 10 METERS www.hamuniverse.com 10 meter Band Plan en.wikipedia.org A Ten Meter Vertical Antenna for All License Classes by Rich KR7W www.w7dk.org _______________ BUDDIPOLE www.buddipole.com Buddistick http Buddipole Tripod www.buddipole.com Buddipole Mast www.buddipole.com _______________ DX Sherlock VHFDX – 10meter North America QSO/SWL Map www.vhfdx.info QRZ www.qrz.com _______________ iPORTALBLE PORTABLE EMERGENCY / FIELD COMMUNICATION STATION STANDS www.iportableus.com iPORTABLE RACK • Speaker • Transport Covers www.iportableus.com
Don Woody performing at Viva Las Vegas in April 2007. Video is filmed by John Caspermeyer (St. Louis Missouri). The Audio: DBSchramm MFB Productions Mission Viejo California
Capris – Morse Code Of Love
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Sorry Germany- Radio Frequency Interference and Arson?
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Introduction to logic and scientific method / per. from English. PS QSL / Vvedenie v logiku i nauchnyy metod / per. s angl. P.S. Kusliya
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This may be the easiest, least expensive antenna launcher you can build. It took less than 30 minutes to build and under if you had to buy everything new! Easy to use and works great.
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DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #04:
Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31 with two stations active. QSL via IK5CRH. JERSEY, GJ. Richard, K2WR will be QRV as GJ2A in the CQ 160-Meter CW contest as a Single Op/High Power entry. Before the contest he is active as …
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ARNewsline Report 1999 — Feb 3 2012:
… the Congo between March 10th and April 5th. Activity will be limited, probably mainly on the weekends and some days during the week. Listen out for him between 1200 and 1600 UTC on 40 through 6 meters using CW, SSB and PSK31. QSL via his home callsign.
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Nice QSO on the 20m band VW T5 Yaesu 857-D Yaesu ATAs-120
Mark Knopfler was presented with APRS Sound Fellowships
This is the Drake Tono Theta 7000e communications computer. It was polular in the 80’s and still is hard to beat if RTTY is your pleasure. Tono was a Japanese quality manufacurer of digital communication equipment and was way ahead of its time. They made many products but this one was by far the most polular model with hams. The unit is built very well.
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TA3HM /M qso with PY2NZ TRX: Yaesu FT-857D Ant: Atas120A Pwr: 100W Date: 20.08.2011 18:30 Utc Frq: 21.285 MHz
Denise Brown at the helm on a classic tube Ham radio rig. Made a CW contact on 40 meters with a little assistance from N6tlu. This station will always be in the family.
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How to build a 2 meter cubical quad antenna out of PVC pipe, part 1 of 6. A great homebrew ham radio beam antenna for fixed or portable use. Part 1 is an introduction including materials needed and antenna dimensions.
Demonstration of the new Yaesu FTM-350 receiving APRS Beacons. For a full review of the Yaesu FTM-350, visit www.worldwidedx.com
Here’s a description of how a tape rule antenna was built. This video can help show how to set up your Yaesu VX-8R for ISS APRS packet data sending and receiving and other aspects to make a digital contact with the International Space Station. You can also learn how to interpret the audio prompts when packet data is being received.
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A short radio conversation in morse code
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Retargetable Code Generation for Digital Signal Processors
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Opto 22 SNAP-PAC-SB1 – SNAP PAC Serial Brain, Analog/Digital, with High-Speed Digital Functions
- Communications and I/O processor
- Provides distributed intelligence for your SNAP PAC system
- Communicates over serial RS-485, 2- or 4-wire
- Handles analog and digital SNAP I/O modules all on one mounting rack
- High-speed digital functions: counting up to 20 KHz (depends on module), quadrature counting, pulse generation and measurement, TPO (time-proportional output)
The SNAP-PAC-SB1 brain is an I/O and communications processor for your SNAP PAC system. Designed primarily to work in distributed systems controlled by a SNAP PAC S-series controller, the SNAP-PAC-SB1 provides local intelligence that frees the controller for supervisory tasks. As an I/O processor, the SNAP PAC brain independently handles functions such as latching, counting, thermocouple linearization, watchdog timers, and PID loop control. These functions continue to work on the brain even if c
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psk31 is like being with 20 or so in a hall…everybody whispers..when you go to a person you can whisper back and understand each other…..on the other hand, if one of them starts to shout,….. all the others cant’t hear each other no more ……….output volume way to high…..
A more complete description of the tuner.
This video is of a MFJ model 989c antenna tuner. It shows the front panel controls, the watt meter functioning during tune up and checking SWR output. The video also shows SSB modulation of transmitter on avg and peak RF output meter readings levels.
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Unboxing a new Icom IC-7000 transceiver, along with the Icom IC-RMK-7000 Remote Kit, the LDG IT-100 Automatic Antenna Tuner and an Alinco DM-330MV Switching Power Supply. The video includes high resolution images of the front and rear of each device.
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An update of the ham shack after the lighting strike a couple of months ago. By being frugal I’ve been able to get back on the air for a reasonable investment.
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A few nice QSL images I found:
Yuri Gagarin Amateur Radio Commemorative QSL
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Amateur Radio QSL from the USSR.
In the old Soviet Union days, Radio Amateurs were give or purchased rather patriotic QSL cards to use that would be distributed worldwide. The Soviet radio amateur would get a stamp with his/her call and other info such as Oblast, name, etc post it on the card. I have a bunch of these pre-fab QSLs from contacts I made when I was a kid that I will post from the late 70s and 80s.
Hams @ QSL Bureau ARRL HQ
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Hams collect cards that we call QSL cards to confirm a 2-way contact. There is a clearinghouse for these exchanges at a discount rate in bulk for members of the Amateur Radio relay League [ARRL] based in newington, CT USA. Here are me ham pals Frank, WB2BXO and Howard N2GOT entering the world-wide hallowed sorting room.
2W0RMR this is a how to video , showing you how to add visual and sound alarms when your friends are using psk31 you can also be alerted is someone is calling you, part one of two videos
Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) Field Sensor for the EM Eye Meter
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KELLNER: Improving the TV-to-computer connection
What I did get, versus an over-the-air antenna, was quite a bit more: Broadcast channels from Washington and Baltimore, their HD “extra” channels, certain public-affairs and local-government-related channels (some of which can cure the most persistent …
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LCD-, LED-, plazmatelevízió
Most már általában mindegyik tévében van DVB-T vagy DVB-C tuner, ugyanis ezt a két standardot alkalmazzák Európában. A MPEG–4 tuner, amit Szerbiában terveznek bevezetni, jelenleg még nincs beépítve az új tévékben. Ezt a technológiát egész Európában …
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LG DM2350D: Recensione
LG Cinema3D DM2350D ha caratteristiche tecniche simili a un normale monitor per PC di ultima generazione, formato 16:9, 23 pollici di diagonale, risoluzione 1920×1080, un tempo di risposta di 5ms, tuner digitale terreste con supporto ai canali HD, …
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Calling CQ via BPSK-31 on 3.580.150 usb. Setup: Kenwood TS-450s HF rig. LDG AT-100ProII Antenna Tuner SignaLink USB Ham Radio Deluxe & Digital Master 780 v5.0 build 2893
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It´s so easy to listen the Crossband-Repeater from the ISS. It works only with an Diamond X 50 Antenna and an Yaesu FT-8100r.
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Matching up the impedance for various bands. Also a dummy load for tuning.
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QSO Absorption Lines: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 21 – 24 November 1994 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia)
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A few nice HF antenna images I found:
Alpha Delta DX-LB Plus Antenna
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
The recent ice storm broke the HF antenna and today January 12, 2008 Larry, KD5MAF and myself reinstalled it.
As soon as we installed it, we turned on the HF radio and made contacts with South Carolina, St. Louis, Tacoma, California, Cuba, among others. I think the antenna is working perfectly. I received some good reports on the signal from many. I am very pleased that it tunes up great on 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 40, 80 meter bands with ease. The top of the HF antenna where the pole comes off the left is 50 feet above the ground.
HF ANTENNA assembly for SB-1
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A few nice Yaesu images I found:
lunch @ siam orchid (tokyo station yaesu basement mall)
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Corridor with Silver Ducts between Underground Mall in Yaesu and JR Tokyo Station
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The corridor shown in “Corridor in Tokyo Station under Construction” has a dog-legged corner here. When the construction finishes, will we see a new underground mall here? I do not know.
lunch @ siam orchid (tokyo station yaesu basement mall)
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「イサーン・プレート」だって。ガイヤーン、ソムタム、カオニャオのセット
A slideshow created by on4vlm that shows the activity of the NLB Amateur Radio Club during the annual WPX RTTY Contest in februari 2011…
Digipeater PY2TK-15 in action.
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Quiksilver Austin Dream Dress – Women’s Apricot, S
Quiksilver Austin Dream Dress – Women’s Apricot, S
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I thought have some fun with the FT817ND, lots of contacts around the globe, much more than i’d imagined.
238C antenna tuner Ten-Tec HF Recorded @ uStream.Tv
National Weather Service Spotter Class in Sioux Falls SD (KFSD)
Skywarn spotter class for 2010. Part 1. IMPORTANT: Watching this video does not certify you as a Skywarn spotter! You must attend a class in person.
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Answering a couple of UV3R questions, a quick look at a Puxing PX888, Yaesu VX8DR and the Icom IC-91AD with vids on the individual rigs to come later. if you would like me to test something or check something specific out whilst using the rigs etc please let me know. Recommended channels for interesting Ham info USNERDOC and KC2UOO.
Yaesu CD-41 Desk Rapid Charger For VX-8DR & VX-8GR Series of HandHeld Radios
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- Charges The FNB-101Li & FNB-102Li Batteries.
- Drop-in Radio or just a spare battery.
Genuine Yaesu CD-41 Desk Charger for the VX-8GR, VX-8DR & VX-8R & “E” model Handheld Amateur Radios.
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ICOM IC-T7H
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ICOM IC-T7H
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One of the bargains from Barford Rally 2009 which is organised and run by the Norfolk Amateur Radio Club. I’m over the moon with this reciever and have already hads lot of enjoyment tuning and finding interesting things. I connect it directly to my MFJ-948 Its not the easiest to tune at first but once learnt it makes it easy to loose an afternoon tinkering. 73 M6RKY
HS0011SWL JT65 15M Vertical Antenna 2012/01/07 use program JT65-HF
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HomeBrew Rotor Controller project got new Tripot and FUNcube Dongle worked with Orbitron using DDE. I modified the DDE base code from CX6DD and added the Function to control FCD-IO.DLL for Funcube Dongle SDR that received the Download Doppler from Orbitron Directly, I like Orbitron because it ‘s free and easy to use and can modified DDE, I did try WZTRACK but it seem not the full version that I have to pa for the Register, So that why I stick with ORBITRON for a while and happy with it. — I was be able to control ROROR with my Own Rotor that I build from nothing, I can buy the Yaesu which work the same way but it seems that not cool enough that always buy for the HAm gear then I build from the piece of aluminum in Machine shop so that it looked so cool,. aso very high precision too!!!!.. ENJOY and Thank you to watch my video, I almost finish my arduino Rotor controler which more cool than this.
HI I am using a homemade 12vdc motor and a H Bridge interface with parallax BS1 Basic stamp. Would like some help in basic programing for AO 51. More info on hardware at ka6puw.tripod.com mail to KA6PUW@arrl.net
Unboxing a new Yaesu ft-450d Purchased online from Lentini Communications in Berlin CT
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