Give the satellite to radio amateurs for experiments. Why Not? The Gift for 300 Billions USD 🙂 Controllers in Contact with Russian Satellite Dropped Off in Useless Orbit The Russian Express-AM4 satellite launched Aug. 18 into a bad orbit is communicating normally with ground controllers, has partially deployed its solar arrays, pointed to the sun…
More an more LED lights are entering the market and are being used by radio amateur and their neighbors. There is a limit to maximum disturbance voltage on the mains port defined in EN55015, which is equivalent to the protection of EN55022, however it is not fully implemented within the EU due to a transition…
Regional Emergency/Hurricane Nets Please keep the following Amateur Radio HF Frequencies clear Frequency (KHz) Net 1984.0 Virgin Islands (VI, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles) 3710.0 Puerto Rico 3815.0 Caribbean Emergency and Weather (1030 & 2230) Inter-island (continuous watch) 3935.0 Belize 3950.0 Hurricane Watch (Amateur-to-National Hurricane Center) (altn) 7055.0 El Grupo Seguimiento de Huracanes (Spanish) 7060.0 Mexican…
Today I was running WSPR on 20 meter band with my tuned (by YAESU FC40) End Fed 9m long Wire. The results are not bad at all. Wake Island (KH9) in Pacific (WA2YUN) with 5 /50/100 Watts (Average distance = 11977 km), and all Europe including the “dark” 20m zone to OE3KFB (Austria). Also contacted…
Transceiver: TenTec “Eagle” 100w. Antenna: Random wire on fishing pole with Z11 Pro ATU. For my DX Vacation – Ten-Tec “Eagle” seems is the BEST. K3 and TS590 are too large, K2 is not stable in digital mode, FT857 and IC706 are too small to use with not good receiver. Source About Ten-Tec “EAGLE” transceiver…