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i've always wondered if there are old crotchety ham dudes that refuse to use meters and talk about bands in imperial?
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nah, a good bit of early radio development was done by europeans and metric was pretty in place at that time. you will hear them refer to hertz as "cycles" though sometimes. Also it seems as though HF frequencies on 40 meters and below are specified in KHz (or kc). "meet me on 7180" versus "meet me on 14.313*" cjs: copied a CW CQ from one IW9HKM. listening to euro airwaves owns *NO ITS A JOKE DONT GO TO 14.313
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 20:36 |
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14.313, the superbowl of 20 meters
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 20:37 |
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i want to get my General and set up an automated SSTV station that transmits a never-ending stream of corgi photos, one every five minutes
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 20:47 |
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Jonny 290 posted:nah, a good bit of early radio development was done by europeans and metric was pretty in place at that time. you will hear them refer to hertz as "cycles" though sometimes. Also it seems as though HF frequencies on 40 meters and below are specified in KHz (or kc). "meet me on 7180" versus "meet me on 14.313*" Yeah the CB band here is still called 27MC for megacycles.
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 20:47 |
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atomicthumbs posted:i want to get my General and set up an automated SSTV station that transmits a never-ending stream of corgi photos, one every five minutes quite possibly the only possibly-NWS post in this thread slow scan TV is the coolest thing. Mundane and cute: Tightening up the graphics on level 3: going down the rabbit hole funny, that doesn't look like a "tony" wait uhhh hrm And a cat to clean things up.
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 21:00 |
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i'm the pussycat
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# ? Mar 24, 2014 21:19 |
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ok after an hour of drills and a day of listening to 40m CW on the utwente SDR server, i'm almost 100% copy on anything below 10 WPM. ive never actually made a CW QSO though so i'm skittish about all the prosigns and the protocol etc etc. also i want a gd paddle http://www.radioqth.net/cwmanual http://cw.dimebank.com/cak/k6dbg/k6dbg_cw.html i.....i think my beard is trying to level up e: oh my god http://cw.dimebank.com:8080/ live streams of CNN's twitter feeds, converted to morse Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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johnny if you want to practice on air when you get a key PM me also, if you want to learn to use a paddle and keyer IMHO you should get a double lever paddle so you can learn iambic keying (more pro than traditional single-lever keying) if you decide you want to go the traditional way by learning on a straight key look into SKCC (http://www.skccgroup.com/) you can get a SKCC number (it's free) and hang out in the slow areas of 20 and 40 and you will find all kinds of people to help/work you. they will usually go as slow as you need them so and everyone is very patient. only catch is they only use manual keying FISTS is another CW club but i'm not a member of it. both FISTS and SKCC have activity nights and weekend mini-contests that are usually pretty fun. i didn't bother using a straight key until later, i started with a paddle right off and it didn't kill me or anything contrary to what everyone says.
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 00:36 |
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oh hell naw i'm not going to try to go nuts with a straight key, i used to be able to bang it out on a bencher twin paddle and i'll probably lean towards one of those unless the quality has gone to poo poo this sounds like the perfect opportunity for an arduino keyer project too
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 02:40 |
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got my RTLSDR and immediately rediscovered how bad all radio software is can we hire a user interface designer or something? just one good program is all I ask
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 09:09 |
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quote:In recent days Inmarsat developed a second innovative technique which considers the velocity of the aircraft relative to the satellite. Depending on this relative movement, the frequency received and transmitted will differ from its normal value, in much the same way that the sound of a passing car changes as it approaches and passes by. This is called the Doppler effect. longer version (posted by malaysia on facebook lol) https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=740971779281171&id=178566888854999&stream_ref=10 coffeetable fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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yeah the airline also apparently notified the passengers' families by text message
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 13:42 |
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REDNECKS ON THE RAAAAAAAAADIOquote:An Oklahoma Amateur Extra class licensee is facing a $12,000 fine for operating his Citizens Band radio to “interfere with the communications of other CB stations,” the FCC said in a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) released March 21. In May 2013 an FCC agent used mobile direction-finding techniques to positively identify the source of a continuous carier of CB channel 19 (27.1850 MHz) to the residence of Orloff Haines, KF5IXX, in Enid, Oklahoma. Haines was not at home, but his wife showed the agent her husband’s CB station, which was transmitting on channel 19. http://www.arrl.org/news/view/radio-amateur-facing-substantial-fine-for-cb-violation
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 14:39 |
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Jonny 290 posted:REDNECKS ON THE RAAAAAAAAADIO yeah... i think i'd probably knock it off when the feds sent me a letter
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 15:42 |
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dude's wife is PISSED
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 15:42 |
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off topic but the thing i think i like most about ham radio is its pretty blind to socio-economic status, even if its all white men for the most part. some redneck rear end dude from OK can pass the extra exam. theres a dude on local repeater who has his general license. he works construction and is like >50 years old. there's also a chemistry prof from the university and maybe even a doctor in the local club. Not a lot of things are like that, at least around here. idk i hope i don't sound like a rich kid right now i just think its rly cool
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 15:46 |
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If anyone needs a 2m rig Gigaparts has a great deal on the TM-281A ($137) http://www.gigaparts.com/Product-Li...gn=BuzzerBeater Expires today I think
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 20:47 |
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i dig those new big monobanders with the front firing speaker. wouldnt fit in the bimmer but i'd sure love to slam one in my truck, save an external speaker e: "new" anything newer than mid 90's is a "new radio" to me. icom 746? thats a fuckin new radio! ts-2000? poo poo that thing still has the wrapping on it
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 20:55 |
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yeah i have 12 year old icom v-8000. it puts out 70 watts and has a loud-as-poo poo 3 watt front-firing speaker that will wake the dead i'll never get rid of it ever ever ever i use it as a base now but back in the day i had it in my pontiac shitbird
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 21:05 |
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70cm seems to get as much use as 2m here so id hold out for a dual bander
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 21:18 |
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icom needs to make an updated R3 with a DSP and poo poo for decoding all sorts of things
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 21:24 |
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got my basic 23cm transceiver topology done for now, gonna build it as a front-end preamp+PA and remote modulator/discriminator, basically a transverter in a box near the antenna with two pin-diode switches for TX/RX switching the transmitter will be a single conversion solution, modulating a 86.85 MHz carrier (true FM) using a VCO+synth, the front-end will mix it up to 1240-1300 MHz (LTC6946-1 VCO and LTC5510 active mixer), filter and amplify, a second T/R switch and a helical band pass filter, assuming i can hack it, will eliminate harmonics and image frequencies for the receiver the receiver will use the same VCO in the front-end, but with 1-2 low noise MMICs to provide good front-end gain for a low noise floor, then mix it down with another mixer to 86.85 MHz, a basic BPF to eliminate images of the LO then transfer that over the same coax to the head-unit the VCO and T/R will be controlled over a bidirectional serial bus, probably RS-422, i'll be using linear tech mixers and VCOs, the VCO has a SPI interface and they provide arduino code for all the interfacing and PLLWizard to calculate the settings and loop filter, I'll put a 10 MHz TCXO in the front-end and a separate one on the head-unit to provide stable timing the head unit will have a matching T/R switch and a second microcontroller to provide a UI and control the second LO and general radio stuff to make the TX signal a MC145170 based PLL circuit and a commercial VCO will be configured to generate a 86.86 MHz signal, by designing a slow loop filter overriding the tune signal from the synth should allow me to modulate the signal and the synth will make sure the average frequency is correct a SAW filter with 50 kHz BW will ensure no splatter or harmonics are transmitted for RX a MC3372 single conversion narrowband FM detector IC will be used directly on the 86 MHz LO, the modulator LO will have a selectable loop filter to provide a low phase-noise signal for the receiver, and the frequency will be offset by 455 kHz since the discriminator uses an internal mixer to demodulate at 455 kHz, obviously I'll disable the modulation input when receiving the MC3372 also provides the RSSI metering, IF gain+limiter and squelching (i'll probably build my own soft squelch with a variable gain amp at some point though) there's gonna be some IF amplifiers in there somewhere, just have to read the fine print wrt. levels in and out to ensure everything's to spec the good part: should provide good RX performance, although i had considered a triple or even quad conversion system i don't think there's enough interference sources to warrant that kind of over engineering can add a bigger PA as needed the head-unit could be modified for wide-band tx and RX without changing the front-end, just bypass the SAW filters SAW filters are nice could add an IF output port for a SDR dongle or second discriminator can use standard RG-58 coax over to the front-end should be fairly compact the bad: probably gonna take a few months before i can do any real testing, it's basically impossible to breadboard a QFN package with a thermal pad in the middle, so kind of hoping i get it right the first time will require modified or two complete radio sets to do full duplex
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 21:43 |
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One week left to try to grab TX6G http://tx6g.com/ Fuckers. I've tried for them on 12, they are booming right in at 24.94 most afternoons, no luck yet though split operation is weeeeird
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 21:50 |
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my sdr dongle is cool but is there any way to get rid of this bullshit and all the other apparently spurious signals scattered around which, since they stay in the same place on the waterfall as I tune, I'm guessing are generated by the tuner
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# ? Mar 25, 2014 22:06 |
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just worked Mongolia on 10m CW 357 degrees from here, almost a complete polar path on 10meters at night awesome
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 01:53 |
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atomicthumbs posted:my sdr dongle is cool but is there any way to get rid of this bullshit yeah, ive got loads of crap like that going on, trying to listen on police bands in the ~450MHz range and its a total mess. i dont know enough about radio to figure out if this is poo poo caused by the dongle, the crappy antenna, interference from poo poo in my room, a combination of all that, or what. gotta try getting this set up on my laptop, find a better spot for reception maybe any recommendations for a better antenna for a total moron like myself? would want something relatively small and for indoor use. i know thats probably not optimal but im a total n00blord here with no electronics skills so stringing up a shitload of coax up in the attic or whatever isnt an option at this point.
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 01:54 |
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meanwhile ive started decoding pager signals! HAS CATHETER BLOOD IN URINE PLEASE CALL T1 AT 2610. THANKS, DICK im pretending "dick" is being used as an insult here Strong need for Social Worke?r in the East Wing starting now.
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 01:55 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:meanwhile ive started decoding pager signals! i like the beeps it makes at the end of the message its it looks like there's 2 discrete signals also and why aren't those freqs in radio ref DB for my county?
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 02:24 |
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PuTTY riot posted:i like the beeps it makes at the end of the message its we were irc chattin bout this, its prob b/c technically pagers are illegal to receive/decode its not like you cant find them. scan the bands and look for the loving enormous splattery FM signal that overloads the piss out of your radio (as a ham i am sworn by generations of intermod-caused hate to despise pagers) oh and Dijkstra posted:just worked Mongolia on 10m CW this is really cool i am way inspired. 10 meters is one of those bands that i want to love and use all the time but its so rarely hot in my ham career. i came in at the top of a cycle in the 90s and talked to argentina with a borrowed hr-2510, but that was the extent of my HF experience till i was 22 and bought the 735. but then i was in poo poo apartments and it was the bottom of a solar cycle, radio habana was about all the fun i could have now its great and though i'm going nuts packing up to move, i am trying to sort out my antennas for HF and operate a bit. my goal is to have basically a 100% complete field day class station, portable but still usable in a semi permanent environment. that way i can just load my radio case and antenna bag in the back of the blazer and go camp on a colorado hilltop for a weekend and work everybody i hear. better than trying to eke out a home station when i'll be renting for the next 5 yrs Jonny 290 fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Mar 26, 2014 |
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i've never heard of these guys but this could be some big news:quote:Connect Systems, Inc. has been building analog and DMR (MOTOTRBOtm compatible) digital handheld radios for commercial service pretty cheap. CEO Jerry Wanger recently learned that hams have been using them on the ham MOTOTRBO systems and getting pretty excited about them. So he's building a model tailored more for hams (keyboard programmable, etc), and he's planning a model that will combine MOTOTRBO and D-STAR. That would make his model CS7000 the first D-STAR radio not made by ICOM.* http://connectsystems.com/index.html their "untitled document" bad html page only lends credibility to their products imo. theyre probably too busy selling radios
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 16:32 |
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More bloggin' http://www.rtl-sdr.com/reverse-engineering-rf-controlled-ceiling-fan-rtl-sdr/ seriously people are hacking on all the RF systems with these things. we're at a big turning point, get on board if you're interested
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 17:32 |
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never heard of these guys but this could be some big news: whoah sweet, a combination dmr/dv radio would be great for the dmr community, i've been considering buying a dmr radio for a while so getting a useful dstar radio at the same time would be a big plus for me
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 17:47 |
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Jonny 290 posted:More bloggin' dis owns i wanna automate all the fans + garage door and poo poo. also if i had a repeater that could send sms somewhere else i could do a wireless alarm system w/ no monthly fee. thats still acceptable amateur-type use right?
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 18:16 |
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honestly i am still trying to slog through all the 'unattended station' rules because i want to build a simplex repeater, and want to make sure it's done legally
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 18:18 |
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when googling for that i found this gemquote:Dear Mr. Decho: http://utahvhfs.org/fcc_coord.html
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 18:39 |
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Jonny 290 posted:honestly i am still trying to slog through all the 'unattended station' rules because i want to build a simplex repeater, and want to make sure it's done legally another example of FASCIST GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS keeping down the hard-working business-man THANKS OBAMA
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 18:51 |
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i don't know whats more annoying, the slurring rednecks on 75 meters complaining about obama or SA posters doing ironically
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# ? Mar 26, 2014 18:58 |
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Dijkstra posted:i don't know whats more annoying, the slurring rednecks on 75 meters complaining about obama or SA posters doing ironically it's ur posting
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hmm multipsk can decode a whole bunch of digital modes, AND directly control an RTLSDR dongle. guess I'll give it a tr
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