My Week in Radio
- I moved the tape-measure yagi
to the top of a 25-foot flagpole
in the backyard.
- 10 W, but not quite doing it.
- There’s still too much of a hill.
- I upgraded the X6100 baseband, stock firmware, and 3rd-party firmware.
- Some CW
- barely got 2 CW contacts hunting POTA, but I got into their logs
- heard AF3Z on 40m out on his trip
- morsle app to practice copying CW words and call signs
- I redesigned and printed a new antenna winder.
- I heard some AM and some RTTY during contests.
- I cleaned up and organized all the radio stuff from the move instead of contesting.
- I’m going to try for my extra ticket at the next Ham Fest.
Others’ News
- KB3RFG, Jim: all the bands open today in lots of directions
- NA3CW, Chuck: lot’s of AM fun
- AF3Z, Jim
- spectated some RTTY contesting
- 10m CW conversations
- WA3VEE, Ron: LMR400 (KMR400) coax is lowest loss practical
Questions
- KN3I, John: How does one make an AM rig sound good? Carrier power, modulation, etc.