I failed to check-in do to RF issues, but my summary is still good.
My Week in Amateur Radio
- Antenna movement
- Trying my dipole antennas in new places
- hanging dipole in back yard
- still getting debilitating interference over 985
- 21 and k3ir coming in pretty good
- Restrung the EFRW antenna for HF
- a little higher, straighter in the tree
- It’s great fun to throw wires and strings in trees
- Trying my dipole antennas in new places
- Overload on UV-K5 with better antennas
- UV-K5 & UV-K6 for comparison - not broken
- Balance antenna location good enough but not too good
- Going to try a bandstop filter, but not sure about transmitting through it
- Love the firmware options on Quansheng radios, but do I need a better radio?
- It kills me that I’m so marginal for accessing my favorite repeaters.
- Modifying params database on xiegu x6100
- Now shows me accurate bands and privileges, so i won’t accidentally wander beyond my privileges.
- Modified the source code and rebuilt the database from my source
- I picked up an Evolve 3 laptop that runs on 12v
- Getting linux installed on it
- Still learning CW
- 20wpm
- It’s so difficult to stay focused copying at 20wpm even for 1 minute