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10/11 meters / Re: SSTV 12/4/22

« on: December 04, 2022, 1954 UTC »

Post up your images please.
Go to https://imgbb.com/
upload images
use the BBCode full linked embed code
copy and paste that link to the body of your message here.
easy peasy, no need to signup...


rgg

47

10/11 meters / Re: A lot of SSTV activity on 11 meters

« on: December 03, 2022, 2134 UTC »

I copied a few from Florida this morning. 




2RGG001
rgg

48

HF Mystery Signals / Re: FSK signals around 27359 USB 1701 UTC

« on: November 05, 2022, 1721 UTC »

Turn on your USA only filter, that should help.

rgg

49

10/11 meters / Re: 11 meter activity 25 Oct 2022

« on: October 25, 2022, 2208 UTC »

Made contact to South Africa 27385 lsb. Havent done that in a decade or so.
88 division Cuba was listenable on 27555 usb again this afternoon.

rgg

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6925 USB 0135 UTC 17 October 2022

« on: October 17, 2022, 0145 UTC »

WWWW per the late start/weak sstv image I received.
Thanks for the broadcast.

rgg

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10/11 meters / Re: 11 meter SSTV 16 OCT 2022

« on: October 16, 2022, 2352 UTC »

27.700 mhz usb

rgg

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10/11 meters / Re: 11m Activity 28 SEP 2022

« on: September 28, 2022, 2156 UTC »

Lots of SSTV now on 27700 USB, posting it to the HFU Discord: https://discord.gg/hfunderground

First time in over a decade I was able to make an 11meter sstv contact overseas,  Milan France was booming in today.

rgg

53

North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: Radio Genix 1720 AM 0048 UTC 18 AUG 2022

« on: August 20, 2022, 0337 UTC »

About S5 at the hfu 8073 kiwi, hearing Queens Radio GA GA 03:30
thanks to whom ever...

rgg

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man Radio 6925 AM 2305 utc 12 Aug 2022

« on: August 12, 2022, 2333 UTC »

Due to inflation it is now the 1.5 million dollar weekend, tnx for the tuneage.

rgg

55

Huh? / Re: How to save images in MMSSTV?

« on: August 06, 2022, 1540 UTC »

The receiver was the W3HFU KiwiSDR (I also tried the Northwest Ireland KiwiSDR and got the same results), my sound card is the Sound Blaster Audigy Rx, the audio source is set to “what u hear” (the program will hear whatever is playing through the computer),

Do the images look ok using the kiwis built-in sstv decoder?

rgg

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6980 AM 0255 UTC 26 JUN 2022

« on: June 26, 2022, 0330 UTC »

It's making a barber-pole pattern on the waterfall.  Is there something wrong with the modulation, or is it on top of some digital ute?  I've seen a pattern like that before.

codar

57

General Radio Discussion / Re: Need a rig repaired. Apparently, this dude can do it.

« on: June 15, 2022, 2319 UTC »

frm hamradio.repair website:

June 12, 2022:
I am unable to assist with repairs at the moment. Please check back towards the end of August.

For Yaesu my go to is: http://www.midwest-technical.com/index.html

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Equipment / Re: Mixing tubes in Ameritron

« on: February 23, 2022, 0154 UTC »

Also, I have this issue, I have the load all the way down to 0 and anything slightly above that the output drops significantly. I have a 1.1 swr on my vertical antenna. Also, at this low load setting the tubes glow, they glow harder when I set it higher. Do you know how I can get it to where the tubes are not glowing and the power is not lost due to a tuning mismatch? I am operating at 6920 khz and the band setting is set to 40 meters.

Do you know how to properly tune a tube amp to resonance?
Does your plate current dip at all?
Tubes in amps are supposed to have glowing plates...just not too much for too long....

59

Equipment / Re: 'CB' amplifier for HF

« on: February 23, 2022, 0131 UTC »

How well would a CB type amplifier work on bands such as 15/20 meters? Talking about the standard Texas Star/RM Italy type. I'm wanting to buy a Xiegu G90 and it would be nice to be able to use it mobile here and there.

A Texas Star drops off fast on power outside 11 meters. As moof noted most the older models are 3-30mhz. I had good results with the the older Messenger brand units. Make sure to get an ab biased model if you plan to use ssb. My experience with the RM Italy is opposite of what is posted. I run the RM HLA 150 at CCS at 50% output without a hiccup as my driver amp.

rgg

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6960 USB 0057 UTC 13 FEB 2022

« on: February 13, 2022, 0207 UTC »

S6-7 at a kiwi located near Rome Italy.
Outstanding.

rgg