Fairly disastrous session this evening - Almost completely dead on RX and it was obvious that not many others could hear me either. Heard some comments about the band being dead so assumed everyone else was suffering too. Unfortunately my issues were more to do with the dead short in the antenna-side of the coax :( Not repairable at the side of the road so an early finish for me.
Read MoreA while ago I organised a group buy of Anthony F4GOH's Arduino Nano/DRA818 APRS Tracker modules, along with all the necessary components - most of which were shipped from China. Dealing with all of that is a story for another day, suffice to say that ordering on the leading edge of a global pandemic originating in China was probably not my best move...
I have kept three of the modules for...
Read MoreAntenna problems with the 23-ele DK7ZB again, although not entirely surprising because I still haven't managed to wrestle it into conformance yet. Still, some reasonable DX worked.
Read MoreThis is an effort to come up with a scoring system for running a club accumulator-style 'contest'. The intention is that activity over a long-ish period of time (say, 3 months) counts towards your score. Scores could be reset after that period or it could use a rolling 3-month window. The scoring should be easy to calculate programmatically from uploaded log files. Whilst it would be nice to have bonuses for things like using a homebrew rig, that can't easily be determined...
Read MoreThis session didn't start too well - my primary site was unavailable, I'd forgotten the laptop PSU (and didn't have any pens/pencils so couldn't even log on paper), the mast support on the roof of the car decided to cease to be a support and the FT857d screen is now so badly zebra-striped that it is unusable. My dad generously offered to run the PSU out to me, the CAT connection to the rig actually worked for once (so I could cope without the screen) and everything else was sorted out on...
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