21 Tech Net: 2024-12-29

 Posted on 2024-12-29

My Week in Radio

  • ISS on scan, so caught part of an image
    • passes are a bit early right now, and low
  • POTA yesterday:
    • 2 CW + 28 FT4 contacts on 20m
    • pretty rusty on throwing the line into the trees
    • bad section of coax
  • some antenna maintenance on a nice day

Others

  • K3EA, Greg:
    • Special event station with local station:
      • W2T, Battle of Trenton
      • W2P, Battle of Princeton
    • Contests
    • Propagation report and DX
      • Dominica
      • Fiji: 3D2GE, CW only
      • watch the DX clusters
    • after DXCC award, go for every country on every band.
  • WB3LNY, George
    • built a new pc with chirp, and synced up all his HTs
  • VE3HOH, Pete
    • cleanup, indoors.
  • KA3TKW, Tom:
    • ISS on night shift: good passes aren’t during the day.
      • there’s a packet digipeater
      • SSTV is active
      • it was only doing telemetry over the weekend
    • good passes for SO-50
    • https://n2yo.com/
    • ham lunch had about 32 people
    • thanks Glen for talking about DXCC
    • zbitx
      • 5 watt QRP SDR TRX
      • will be buying one
      • shipping in February
      • 44 bit ADC
  • K3DMM, Denny
    • caught SO-51 with a Baofeng 701
  • KC3VZU, Bob:
    • setup a new tyt 9000D with a slim jim outside
  • KK4KKW, Steve:
    • new end fed antenna strung into the trees, inverted L, trying it on 10M
  • KC3ZBI, Ron:
    • new antenna that’s not on the car now,

Swap and Shop

  • WB3LNY, George
    • dummy loads
  • VE3HOH, Pete
    • paddles, bugs
      • vibroplex
      • brown brothers
    • oscilliscopes
    • a couple Drake TR7s
    • tower sections
    • a couple Kenwood 130s
    • email is good on http://qrz.com/
  • KA3TKW, Tom:
    • 2 shortwave receivers: RadioShack DX440
      • 0-30MHz all mode
    • UHF motorola repeaters, 25W
    • Yaesu FT1XD, dual band, APRS
  • K3MIJ, Troy
    • looking for a commercial propane generator
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