My Week in Ham Radio
- Chuck’s repairs sound fascinating
- enough basic electronics from childhood to get to general
- HF radio
- QRP X6100 with 3rd party firmware - R1CBU
- Maintainer is flaming out
- ungrateful complaints
- unhelpful bug reports
- Source code is available, so some of us may pick it up
- UI is an app running on a small embedded linux computer
- Flashed new firmware onto my Quansheng UV-K5 HT
- Restrung a random wire
- From a steep sloper into a tree in front yard to flat horizontal to the shed in the backyard.
- Patterns in FT8 contacts look a little different
- Learning CW
- Morse machine
- All 40 characters they quiz: Koch method
- Try the feel with a 3d-printed iambic key
- Next try a different character set: cwops
- Next more traditional copying exercises
Question
- Often rebuilding and testing antennas
- On HF, I can test with FT8 and pskreporter
- See effect of my changes and maybe more propagation conditions
- For VHF, how variable are the conditions?
- On the fringe of accessing 985.
- Slight repositions with unintuitive results
- What conditions affect propagation to a repeater like this one?
- What can I measure?
- Requirements for the Scout badge in radio?