My Week in Radio
- Backyard antenna
- build
- cleaned up the backyard
- threw wires high in the tree near the top of the hill
- took my time
- routing
- tied and supported solidly,
- no stress on connectors
- first floor window to high on the hill
- the hill is to the east
- testing, discussion last week
- made some contacts on 30m
- switching
- FT8 on 15m and pskreporter
- counted decodes in wsjtx
- new antenna had fewer decodes on average
- compared the map - missing europe, since it followed the hill and not enough of the antenna is above the ridge
- old antenna is mostly flat, but is 2nd floor and above
- scheme to get more of the wire higher
- build
- Reading the manual for fldigi
- better prepared for contesting and logging
- less fixing logs
- Observing some very boring HF propagation
- if it weren’t for the propagation reports, I’d think I broke something.
- leaves also came in on my antenna tree
Discussions
- Tim, W3QP, talked about sota.
- Ron, WA3VEE, is helping a new operator shop for equipment.
- Ron’s going to the antique radio show to sell.
- Leon, AA3LH, is practicing CW.
- Jeff, W3JAM, why do we conventionally use LSB and USB?
- Bill, KC3OOK, does internet time sync work through hotspots?
- John, KC3WWC, What are better interfaces to SOTA?
- map: https://sotl.as/
- phone apps
- sota spotter
- sota activator (update the maps periodically)
- uploads and data: https://sotadata.org.uk/
- Tim’s presentation: https://w3gmsrepeater.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sota-an-overview.pdf