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Huh? / Century Edition of ARRL Handbook for $80.00 hard cover.
« on: November 01, 2022, 1817 UTC »
https://handbook.arrl.org/ Oh yeah!!!! Always a wealth of info. I´ll even keep the older editions for the info in those.
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Huh? / Halloween DX'ing? Hope so!!!!
« on: October 29, 2022, 1843 UTC »
Tis the season for those Halloween pirates, like MW stations from 1710kHz - 1790kHz, late at night. Most stations pretty much heard on 43M in North America, but with F2 propagation back in there, now could be a decent time to check-out 11.401MHz, 13.900MHz, 15.050MHz, 17MHz region, 19.0000MHz even, up past 21.450MHz, and the entire 11M INT band, 25.670MHz - 26.100MHz. You'll just never know what ya might hear. Even, 87.9MHz on FM. Happy Halloween DX'ing!!!!!
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Equipment / C.Crane’s new CC Skywave SSB 2? An improvement, or an over-priced P.O.S.?
« on: October 25, 2022, 1836 UTC »
Yeah, SWL´ing rip: https://swling.com/blog/2022/10/c-cranes-new-cc-skywave-ssb-2/ Ya know, for $200.00, I could get an older YB-400, and have much $$$$ lest over. For a good used price, I would consider the C Crane SSB2, but not for $200.00 new.
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10/11 meters / Some douche teasing LSB´ers on CB CH38 with NBFM, 1600UTC.
« on: October 24, 2022, 1806 UTC »
I was wondering when I was going to hear domestic NBFM on CB, with it now allowable. Well, heard it today, and of all places, the very informal Gentleman´s Agreed LSB CB calling channel 38. This dude was teasing the LSB´ers saying that he can use any voice mode that he wants there. No idea upon where he was TX´ing from, and I don´t think that he was going to tell that anyway. 10min later, he finally went to LSB to talk to whatever. Got to admit, that was different.
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MW Loggings / 1630kHz KCJJ back to booming-in at SW WV, 00:50UTC.
« on: October 21, 2022, 0700 UTC »
Had KCJJ, again, to listen to on a job site commute. And, surprise, the female DJ was live, talking about the 1st tune she heard at the time when 1st working there as a teen in 2015, and then playing it as her choice. (WOW!!! A commercial station that still let´s you do that? That´s rare, today!) Top of the hour ID, CBS News, and local Iowa city, IA news, then back to 10-year-old hit music. Nice, to have this to listen to, again, with it getting darker earlier.
https://www.1630kcjj.com/
https://www.1630kcjj.com/
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Equipment / Radio Jay Allen reviews the NordMende GlobeTraveler II!
« on: October 18, 2022, 1736 UTC »
https://radiojayallen.com/nordmende-globetraveler-ii/
Heck, I´d take one today. That 5¨ X 7¨ speaker must be a treat for a portable. I use to have those as car stereo speakers in the 80´s.
Heck, I´d take one today. That 5¨ X 7¨ speaker must be a treat for a portable. I use to have those as car stereo speakers in the 80´s.
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Huh? / Uh-oh... Not going to get a g.d. thing done with a Doctor Who channel on.
« on: October 14, 2022, 1831 UTC »
Ok... I know that a lot of radio buffs are Whovians out there, and since I´ve been show that Classic Doctor Who channel, on Pluto TV, I might be hard-pressed to get a damn thing done around here late at night. https://pluto.tv/en/search/details/channels/doctor-who-classic/ From 1963 - 1989, from William Hartnell to Silvester McCoy. And, surprise!!!! Reanimated fill-in episodes of the BBC trashed 79 episodes, where the audio tracks were still saved, and original scripts. What I don´t like is that these are presented in the 30min chapters, instead of the 90min ones that PBS did in the USA in the 70´s and 80´s. Hey... During that 1980´s sci-fi depression, Doctor Who was the great fill-in, back then. There!!!! Now, you too have a reason to not get anything else done.
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Huh? / SWL´ing rip: WRMI repairs campaign, after Ian´s damage.
« on: October 12, 2022, 2121 UTC »
https://swling.com/blog/2022/10/campaign-to-help-wrmi-after-extensive-hurricane-damage/
Somehow, I suspect that a lot of stations are in this state of ´need repairs´ in Central FL.
Somehow, I suspect that a lot of stations are in this state of ´need repairs´ in Central FL.
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Equipment / New Multi-band, Multi-Mode, toys? The Q900 and HS2!
« on: September 29, 2022, 1901 UTC »
Well, these seem intriguing. https://qrznow.com/q900-version-3-all-band-all-mode-hf-vhf-uhf-transceiver/
and https://www.ailunce.com/Product/HS2/Overview
Hmmmmmmmmmm... Which is the better of the two?
and https://www.ailunce.com/Product/HS2/Overview
Hmmmmmmmmmm... Which is the better of the two?
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MW Loggings / It´s what I am not hearing. Cuba, on 1620kHz, 9/28/2022, 0330UTC.
« on: September 29, 2022, 0429 UTC »
Hearing earlier that Cuba´s power grid was down, I tuned to 1620AM, to see if that station from there, was off-air. Apparently, it seems to be. I hear Pensa Cola, FL and another classic hits station, in there, on the drive home from work. So, those MW , and maybe SW, FREQ´s, that are normally dominated by Cuban station might be freed-up for a few days.
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Amateur Radio / Hurricane Watch Nets reminders, due to Ian.
« on: September 28, 2022, 0602 UTC »
https://swling.com/blog/2018/09/how-to-listen-to-hurricane-watch-net-frequencies/ Info from 2018, but still pretty much valid. And, https://www.hwn.org/policies/activationplans.html
Could make for some interesting monitoring these next few days.
Could make for some interesting monitoring these next few days.
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Propagation / Will last week of Summer be great for Tropo on VHF / UHF?
« on: September 18, 2022, 1923 UTC »
Looks like a last hurrah of hot, summer-like, temperatures, around the 1st day of Fall, THUR 9/22/2022, then crash to around lower 70´s, or Fall-like weather for where I am. So, could this be a possibility that we could see some nice VHF / UHF Tropo Propagation? https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html The last time that I´ve DX´ed those conditions was in late September 2004, where 2M, VHF MURS, 222MHz, 440MHz, and 462MHz GMRS, acted like daytime 40M. From North Hill, in Southern Western New York, to London, ON, Canada was had on 446.000MHz Simplex with just 4W! (About 160 miles!!!) On a MURS FREQ, (For USA.), the London, ON ambulance corp., could be heard toned-out, like it was a local! Rochester, NY TV DX´ers were watching TV channels from Beckley and Bluefield, WV! So, could we see those conditions, again? Let´s hope so.
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Equipment / Receivers Introduced at pre-IBC Event to be Seen at RAI on Sep 10th, DRM.
« on: September 14, 2022, 1610 UTC »
https://www.drm.org/receivers-introduced-at-pre-ibc-event-to-be-seen-at-rai-on-sep-10th/ I understand that there are some Part #15´ers experimenting with DRM, so it would be nice to have gear to test with. Might be the only way to get DRM on to the AM / FM bands in the USA. Still, waiting to see if if catches on SW here.
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Huh? / Expansion of FM Band, a.k.a. Wide-FM, 76-88MHz, back in the news.
« on: September 11, 2022, 1836 UTC »
FWD from Boomer: https://recnet.com/node/3601 and http://wide-fm.com/ Now, will this actually help-out LPFM´ers and even Part #15´ers? I doubt it, especially with the 800lbs gorilla called The NAB in there.
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Part 15 AM and FM Station Operation / Hurricane Intelligent AM Medium Wave Broadcast Transmitter MW. Part15 compliant?
« on: September 03, 2022, 1830 UTC »
I´ve heard about this. Boomer just linked me to the ebay site. https://www.ebay.com/itm/184784608562 To me, this looks like an AM version of the ´ol Ramsey FM-30B in menu set-ups. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
UPDATE 9/7/2022: Well, chances are, this maybe, spec-wise, Part #15 compliant, but not Part #15 certified by the FCC. Could get around that by having it in kit form.
UPDATE 9/7/2022: Well, chances are, this maybe, spec-wise, Part #15 compliant, but not Part #15 certified by the FCC. Could get around that by having it in kit form.