My Week in Radio
- I’ll miss field day.
- POTA around Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster.
- Mostly FT8/FT4
- Also have been chase some phone park-to-park, and have been getting good reports with my little QRP radio
- Exclusively testing the 20m-long EFHW I built.
- Upgrading firmware from a 3rd party for my x6100, and my own patch to show me band boundaries by privilege
- Moved the 1/4 wave ground-plane antenna higher in the tree.
- Always get perplexing interference at start of this net, otherwise clear all day. It’s a net on the big repeater over in York that’s 15khz lower. Maybe I need to build a yagi next, so I can get more directional.
Other Discussion
- Vic (KC3TYX) was making contacts with VARAC, not for winlink. The software let’s you beacon on 14.105MHz, and has 15 slots (channels) near the calling frequencies for conversation. Fire a beacon or 2, and check pskreporter to see if anyone’s listening.
- Lots of digital modes have conventional calling frequencies.
- WB8NUT website has sounds of digital modes. http://wb8nut.com/digital/
- Jim (AF3Z) suggests a 5khz shift to help alleviate interference from W3HZU’s net on 145.970, so I redefined 985 as 146.990MHz with a -605MHz offset. That works in a test after the net.
- Trying to move things around in the radio blew away the offset and PL when I saved the new 990 frequency. The computer works better or that programming.