My Week in Radio
- Tried some new firmware for X6100, but no good
- Moved Houses
- installed some antennas
- 71ft random wire
- 1/4 wave ground plane
- installed some antennas
- POTA weekend
- Michaux State Forest
- Caledonia State Park
- King’s Gap Environmental Education Center
- Pine Grove Furnace
- Used an EFHW for everything
- Ran out of battery on Pine Grove Furnace on the second day, so did the whole thing with 1W FT8.
- Tried calling CQ on CW to see if RBN would pick me up.
Questions
- Charles, KC3SWC: What books about operating do you recommand?
- Ron, WA3VEE
- ARRL Operating Guide
- ARRL: Basic Electronics for Radio
- Electronics for Hobbyists
- John, KC3WWC
- Spend lots of time listening to others
- Youtube
- Chuck, NA3CW
- Lots of people are listening
- Keep it civil
- Keep it technical
- Don’t bore people with aches and pains
- ARRL Operating Manualy
- ARRL Handbook
- ARRL Antenna Book
- Be helpful
- Be interesting
- Ron, WA3VEE
- Wayne, KC3SQI: How do you tone squelch for receiving and filtering away QRM
from another repeater on the same frequency?
- Ron, WA3VEE: tone squelch or “split tone”
- CR, W8CRW: T-SQL = tone squelch
- Chuck, NA3CW: would be useful when the band opened and a distant DMR is overtaking 985.
- Ron, WA3VEE: Yaesu HTs can only do one of the other, not both.