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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: December 08, 2020, 2326 UTC »

Hearing it well via KFS  kiwi with south facing array, not at all on Sedona kiwi.

Seems to be settling into it's transmission cycle well. Good signals tonight and an interesting listening target.

Good job DW maker!

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For Sale / Wanted / Barter / Re: For Sale: Working HR2510-10M CW/SSB/AM

« on: December 08, 2020, 1817 UTC »

SOLD

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The RF Workbench / Re: Building your own RF spliters

« on: December 08, 2020, 1603 UTC »

I built the 4 port active splitter documented here

https://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/multicoupler_2.html

It works well, and the amp just makes up for the 3dB loss every time the signal is split (12dB total gain).

You can try it with :   mykiwisdr.hopto.org:8074

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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: December 08, 2020, 0102 UTC »

Could hear it tonight via the KFS Omni, also nice copy of Windy (I'm a fan!) :-)

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: RX888 go on!

« on: December 05, 2020, 0100 UTC »

Jari, thanks for the tip. Looks like I may have ordered a Chinese HeathKit 

 

Except Heathkits came with detailed instructions !

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HF Beacons / Re: Letter beacon "c"

« on: December 03, 2020, 2043 UTC »

Are you still hearing this or was it a one time shot? Thanks!

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HF Beacons / Re: New whooper beacon on 4095.6

« on: December 03, 2020, 1344 UTC »

I wonder if the time when it was sending 12.7 was at the end of a fully sunny day?

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: November 23, 2020, 2321 UTC »

Road trip!

(a bit of a slog from the east coast, but it would be good to swap out the batt)

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: November 22, 2020, 0034 UTC »

Battery needs replacement. Anyone want to volunteer to swap in a new one?  I'll pass the hat.

John (Windy Fan Club member)

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For Sale / Wanted / Barter / For Sale: Working HR2510-10M CW/SSB/AM

« on: November 01, 2020, 1649 UTC »

I have a HR2510 10M CW/SSB ham rig I was going to use on 10 M beacon applications, but I built a QRPlabs rig for that.

Comes with mobile mount , copies of manual/documentation, etc.

125$ plus actual shipping cost to your location in my bullet proof packaging)

Paypal please

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: October 28, 2020, 2244 UTC »

Evening check showed it's 79 in hell today and windy is pinging away with almost no wind.

4096 hrd riding qsb peaks too.

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: October 27, 2020, 2243 UTC »

Batt up to 12.1 and sending the normal telemetry

It IS a cold day in hell  (71!)

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HF Beacons / Re: Windy 4102.85 malfunction?

« on: October 27, 2020, 0000 UTC »

Windy sure needs a battery swap....

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Equipment / Re: equip question : new member: first post, i need help

« on: October 26, 2020, 1136 UTC »

Puzzling.....................

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Equipment / Re: New T2FD Antenna Construction and Performance

« on: October 26, 2020, 1134 UTC »

Received some bamboo "spreaders" Friday. Will get to work on one of these before long.

I found the original CQ article (1956?) about these in my old magazine stash.