Any idea how long I should expect between applying for DXCC and receiving the award? I applied on 7/2/24 and it's just shy of two months later. All my QSOs are still in process.... Should I wait 3 months? 6 months? Not sure what is reasonable.
on hf packet setup do I bring the xmitlvl up until I hit the recomended wattage my radio is supposed to put out? My radio calls for 25 watts hf for high duty cycles? Thanks de Mike N8FWD
Good video but I am looking for info on modifying the net control info. I’d like to add a column for traffic y/n?, eliminate sig reports and state and country. Can I modify just the net control without changing my main configuration?
a unrelated question; say I don't have a server station available and I want to send a msg to station that I am not close enough to connect directly, is there a way to use a intermediary station that can connect to him and act like a digipeater and relay my msg on to the second station.
You are almost always going to have a Winlink RMS station that you would be able to contact to send your message. Then the recipient could retrieve it at will from any RMS station world wide. But if for some reason you don't, about the only option that I can think of is to send the message to the relay station you want to use, and then ask them in that message to forward the message to the desired station. I don't know of a way to do it automatically in a P2P session.
Thanks for the video. I'm fairly new to packet radio and have been going through the exercise of setting up BPQ since we don't currently have a local node. Great to see it in action. 73 W5JEP
Rick, KE0GB, has helped lots of new users set up BPQ nodes. If you need help or have questions there is no better resource than Rick. Good luck and 73.
I can head copy plain language at up to 30 or so wpm, copy on a keyboard at up to 35 wpm, send with Iambic in true iambic mode, or non-iambic and with single lever key with either hand. I'm sorry you only have one tool in your box. It must be tedious.
Nothing wrong with using a computer for sending cw! I have tried using a few programs for decoding but tbh, my ears are far better. I can send and receive cw with a pair of ears and a key, but computers are very handy for keying eg contesting or dxpedition pile up working. Contesting is more or less impossible these days without a computer for logging and keying but you still need a good station and a good pair of ears.
Hello Hope you are well The 1st clas RadioTelegraph license test was 20 wpm code groups and 25 wpm plain language And for the 25 wpm exam you could use a mill From what ive read most people cant write faster than 25 to 30wpm Anyone know someone who could copy code groups long hand using pen and paper at over 30 wpm ? I saw a video of a russian girl doing 45 but using short hand 73
For 43 contacts in 19 min, you minds well run FT8 and call it a day. Bit then again I never got the who contesting thing even before this latest round of insanity. Former HAM CW op from the 1970s & 1980s. Back when after a QSO we would know things about the other op. Like name, age, line of work, other hobbies, latest electronics experiments or experiences, etc. Just like FT8 it seems no one has more than 30 seconds to spare it's all about quantity of contacts now quality. Nice CW skills, strange application of them........an old SK Op.
I usually don't respond to whiney carping but I decided to make a rare exception in your case. Well, thanks a lot for your insight into what a waste of time my operating is. For a guy that likes to tout the importance of knowing something about his fellow ham operators, your sure gave yourself away that you don't know Jack about me! You can go blow your carping BS crap elsewhere my friend. Click READ MORE and don't stop reading until you reach the end: Guess what? I use FT-8, just like I use and have used all of the following: AM/SSB/FM phone; RTTY with mechanical teleprinters mode 14 and ASR28 as well as PC with soundcard modem; Satellite operation using CW/SSB/FM/Packet; Digital contact with astronaut Michael Foal on Russian MIR Space Station; Satellite Worked All States; 9 Band DXCC in 3 modes; Handled Viet Nam refugee traffic from refugee camp on Guam in 1975 on Western Pacific CW Traffic Net, as well as civilian and service member traffic from Gaum from 1972 to 1976; I also use orthogonal multiplexing to contact other hams and spend lots of time talking about lots of things our names, age, line of work etc. In fact I've been doing that in many modes for over 50 years. I am also a CW Academy advisor and guide new CW ops in learning and using the code in twice a week Zoom meetings. I'm also a VE through two different VEC's. In addition to the above I also enjoy contesting on Phone CW and RTTY. I have three Division plaques for November Sweepstakes Phone and CW contest, 3 top score Michigan QSO party dual mode phone and CW, and top score Indiana QSO party out of state QRP (5 watt, CW only) plaque. I have file folders full of first first place in Michigan certificates in various contests. Click this link and enter my call (K8BZ) in the search window for a small sample. contests.arrl.org/certificates.php KEEP READING ARRL DXCC Honor Roll, 9 Band DXCC, 6 Band WAS, 3 mode WAS, DXCC Challenge at 2000. I better not overlook the other important things you mentioned. I'll be 70 years old in September; I am a retired police lieutenant and was 911 dispatch center director in two Michigan counties; other hobbies are hunting, fishing and sailing; latest electronics experiments building a square wave generator using a 555 timer in astable mode and feeding the output to a 74HCT393N dual 4 bit binary counter that displays 8 LEDs that count in binary from zero to 255 (0000 to 1111 binary) and then using two 74SL04 hex inverters to display the inverse of the above counter which simultaneously counts down from 255 to zero in binary. Then I work on duplicating that result using an Arduino Max programmed with Arduino IDE software. There, now you know a little bit about me, seeing as how you place such high value on such knowledge. 73, K8BZ
Well, now you have been categorized with the "whiney carpers". Welcome to the club. Just remember, you've been put in your place by one of the fastest computer typists in ham radio.
Your reply is a great. What a great Elmer you are, so patient, kind, knowledgeable, willing to share, and respond with such good will. You represent HAM radio very well. You are an amazing Elmer for sure. I have already learned so much from you. Keep up the FB work OM. A pleasure to have gotten to really know you. 73
Your radio reception is not high on the power companies' priority list. Keeping live wires from falling on the ground will be near the top of their priority list! Good catch, this could even save a life.
Set your scope sync to "line", any power line generated noise will be in perfect sync. Of course that won't rule out dimmers and whatnot in your own or your neighbors house.
Thanks for putting so much time into this. I had a bad noise problem with my ladder line feed antenna that largely was eliminated by going to a coax fed antenna. However when I rotated that directional antenna west to try to pick up NZ and VK in the recent contest a noise level reappeared. This direction points right at a pole and the power lines. In the morning when I rotated the antenna to the east for Europe the power line was off the back side and I didn’t hear the noise anymore. So I believe I do have some invasion from the power line 100 feet away next to the street. I also detected a broadband signal in the higher 28 MHz band, a definite handshake or back and forth of signals that appeared with a different tone and shape on the spectrum display of the transceiver. This occurred regardless of the direction of the antenna. I guessed it was some sort of communication between devices, but a definite switching back and forth like a query and response, but it may not have been exactly that. I didn’t note exactly the width during the contest but probably 60 to 100 kHz above 28.7 MHz or so. I’ve got a little work to do and will inspect the lines and hardware out by the pole to begin with. Not sure if I have enough convincing information to approach Dominion Virginia Power.
I was surprised how responsive the power company was here in Michigan. They have an individual who's job it is to look into these noise complaints. I wouldn't wait to contact them. Sounds like you have a pretty good idea where it's coming from. Good luck.
Thanks for this video. I now know the correct way to handle P2P messages. One of the best laid out and presented videos I have seen. All facts and all information, no extraneous BS.
just picked one up, came w/a Bencher... two LEDs non-functional, wouldn't retain settings.. opened it up - no CR2032! put one in... LEDs were twisted, shorting out, untwisted, and voila! perfectly working unit, which looks unused... i like it
Thank you for your video!. In October 2022 Kantronics doesn't pack any cable kits neither a CD-ROM with the KAM-XL. They provide only the DC plug. Recently my son bought a KAM-XL directly from Kantronics. Very sad! In a packed paper Kantronics refer to Associate Radio for purchase of specific connectors or complete plug and play cables.
I wasn't going to watch this video, for long, until I saw one of my (CW) elmers pop up--KF2AT. If it weren't for him, and a couple others, I wouldn't fallen in love with CW. Sitting here now recalling those late nights with Percy running us thru some CW drills on 10M prepping for our 20 WPM test t back then. Seriously, thank you for this video!! de N2QN
Hello Steven, A question for uou, can you input old QSL card info into N3FJP? I have a ton of old cards that have never been saved into an electronic log. Many thanks fir all the great info!
Hi Greg, Yes you can. It's easy. Just right click on the log entry for the QSO and it will open a window where you can modify the QSO data. In the window, just lick the QSL Received check box. See you on the air.
Hi Steve Bob AA6XE with another question. This is more about a CW Abbreviation or Slang, as I put it, as used by W1AW. Specifically I reference the string used at the start of a code practice group dah dit dit dit dah. You copied it as two separate letters BT. To me there is no spacing and it is one distinct character. And looking it up from several different sources yields no clear answer. For the longest while I wasa under the impression it wasa for a double dash --. I looked it up again a few years ago and Round two more meanings. That of a paragraph desginator or a line feed. Can you shed any light on this matter?
Hi Bob. BT is one of several of what are known as prosigns on CW. In international Morse code dah di di di dah is a double dash, written as and equal sign = When used as a prosign it is most commonly written as BT but some write it as TV. It's the same dits and dahs either way, with no space between letters. It is used as a separator between parts of a message. Or in ham radio conversations, in place of a period at the end of a sentence. In the ARRL code practice files, BT is used to separate the description of the file (the speed and QST issue and page that the text is from), and the actual magazine text. Since the text itself is from a magazine article, there are no BT's in the text itself. When reading a printed text, a prosign is written as the letters that make up the prosign, with an overstore above the letters indicating there is no space between the letters. Other common prosigns and meanings are: AS Wait SK End of communication, or contact K Over, or Go ahead, invitation for the other station to transmit AR End of message
@@stevewuelfing6326 Hi Steve. Thanks for taking the time to type up the response. In the 50 years I've been licensed that is the first time I have receiver a proper explanation of a Prosign. I was aware of what AR, SK and AS interpretted to. It's interesting to note the ARRL uses the Prosign AS improperly in their W1AW Code Practice Transmissions . AS is the command to wait implying there will be a pause in transmission but a response will be forth coming. W1AW sends AS with no discernable break in transmission. Another Prosign I was 'aware of' is ES. It is the Prosign for Ampersand (&) which is shorthand for the word 'and'. Again I picked this up as kind of a 'shorthand' without ever having a formal understanding from where it originated. I had another ham explain the abbreviation to me shortly after I earned my Advanced Class License in 1974.
Hi Steve tnx for the excellent video. I was licensed as a Novice in May 1972 and was copying 20 WPM within 15 months. I really wished I had taken up typewriting in High School and put IT to use copying code. Steve how old were the guys that you came across on this duty? Were any on their first hitch? IT sounds like you guys were really busting your humps with the schedule you outlined. (AA6XE ex-K1TA)
Thanks for the remarks Bob. I was fresh out of high school, age 18 when I enlisted in the Navy. I was 19 when I completed the training in Pensacola FL. Arrived on Guam in December 1973 age 19 and began duty as a Morse code intercept operator. After a little over 3 years on Guam, age 22, I was supervisor of my watch group (basically my shift) at the time my enlistment was over and I was discharged.
@@stevewuelfing6326 Interesting ywas there any radioteletype at that station? Did you have to attend to it's operations/maintenance or were those responsibilities assigned to another unit ?
@@WestCoastMole Yes, there were others that dealt with RTTY and probably other modes. We were very restricted and only allowed in areas necessary for our own assignments. All maintenance was performed by a maintenance branch of my MOS.
Can any winlink type message be intercepted by other stations and decoded? Or is it a secure type of communication? I know the emails only go through radio and do not touch the internet unless sending to a email on the internet and then it has to have a internet connection at a server site correct? But did not know about peet to peer. The vara peere to peer qso sounds interesting.
