Good stuff about grounding that Jim Aspinwall N01PC posted to the SBC ARA Facebook site… Ham Radio Now Episode 401 – Elmercast 1: From the Ground Up! YouTube: https://youtu.be/wykEaPa8jUM (about an hour an a half)
Especially if you liked the Ham Fun night on Grounding – great discussion about grounding.
As we talked about earlier this year about operating FT-8 using Ham Radio Deluxe, WSJT-X and JT-Alert. I mentioned keeping all those in sync has been a pain and there have been a bunch of changes with JT-Alert and the FT-8 standards. Well, here is a way to only use two of them…
Haven’t tried this yet, but anxious to do so…. Will post my results here.
From the Ham Radio Deluxe e-mail…..
Video Demo of WSJT-X Connected Directly to Logbook
Greetings folks!
As mentioned in the 6.4.0.886 release notice sent recently, we have improved the ability to integrate WSJT-X with Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook.
Prior to this release, the use of JTAlert was required. Many customers enjoyed this method and tens of thousands of (FT8, JT65, JT9, etc) QSOs have been made with this method. We will still continue to support this method and the efforts of the JTAlert developer to continue and improve JTAlert.
With this release, Ham Radio Deluxe users can connect WSJT-X directly to Logbook and QSOs made in WSJT-X are automatically added into Logbook. This feature is called “QSO Forwarding” in Logbook. WSJT-X refers to it as “Reporting”.
We had many requests from our clients to provide this feature and I’m very pleased with how it works.
I have created a 7 minute video that demonstrations how to configure WSJT-X and Ham Radio Deluxe 6.4.0.886 to do this. The first two minutes of the video demonstrates the setup. In the remaining five minutes, I make a few FT8 QSOs and you can see them going immediately into Logbook.
The video is on our YouTube channel here
Got this from the ARRL:
I am writing to you today because we are at a crossroad in our efforts to obtain passage of The Amateur Radio Parity Act.
Our legislative efforts scored a major victory in our campaign when The Amateur Radio Parity Act, S. 1534 now moves to the Senate, where we need every Senator to approve the bill. This is the companion Bill to H.R. 555, which passed in the House of Representatives in January.
You are one of over 730,000 licensed Amateur Radio Operators living in the United States. Many of you already live in deed-restricted communities, and that number grows daily.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL HAMS TO GET INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS!
• If you want to have effective outdoor antennas but are not currently allowed to do so by your Home Owner’s Association, SEND THESE EMAILS TODAY!!
• If you already have outdoor antennas, but want to support your fellow hams, SEND THESE EMAILS TODAY!!
• If you want to preserve your ability to install effective outdoor antennas on property that you own, SEND THESE EMAILS TODAY!!
We need you to reach out to your Senators TODAY! Right away.
Help us in the effort. Please go to this linked website and follow the prompts:
https://arrl.rallycongress.net/ctas/urge-us-senate-to-support-amateur-radio-parity-act
The 27th Sea Otter Classic will be held on April 20-23, 2017. Help from amateur radio operators has been a vital resource for communication in the Fort Ord National Monument back country and the Gran Fondo (“Great Endurance”) Carmel Valley Route.
The Sea Otter Classic attracts over 9,000 athletes and over 70,000 spectators and is now universally regarded as the world’s premiere cycling festival. The areas where we assist have little or no cellular or repeater coverage. It is an excellent opportunity for demonstration and practice of emergency communications and help build readiness for a real disaster.
Continue reading “Looking for Amateur Radio Operators to help with the Sea Otter Classic”
We’ve discussed the features of the AA-600 as being great, but the over $600 price tag is a turn off. As I mentioned, I was lucky at one point when HRO had them on sale long ago and I think it was about $550.
But, there are lower cost alternatives. If you only want it for your HF antenna, there is the AA-54 for only $335 at HRO as of today. Don (AA6W) brought either this or the AA-230 Zoom at our tech night last month and I found it quite similar and seemed to perform well.
| Here is a review of it at eHam…
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 … I still love my AA-600 (this picture and link are of the AA-1000 which has a higher upper frequency and cost. |
