Sandy W7NRS and I had our sights set on Turk’s Head for our next Summits on the Air activation. This one is nearly 6 miles round trip. Along the way I talk a little bit about the Sonoran Desert. Once we arrive on top, there is plenty of radio time for us both too.
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John Martin, KB5GGO, writes about his frustration tuning an inverted vee for 3.9 MHz, part of the 75M band (which in turn is part of the 80M band). Let’s look at his situation and see if we can offer some constructive suggestions at the same time recognizing the limits of dipoles (or any tuned antenna) on 80M.
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Today’s we get to know Peter Schrader VK4EA in another Ham Radio Shack Tour! Peter lives in Brisbane, Queensland and is a keen amateur radio operator on the microwave band, active up to 47 GHz.
As well as his impressive portable microwave station, Peter also runs DMR and DStar at home and mobile. He is also an APRS tragic with the SSID of VK4EA-9.
He is a member and past president of the Redcliffe & Districts
Radio Club, treasurer of the Brisbane VHF Group, member of
the SEQATV Group and vice-president of Austravel Safetynet
(V M D 750). Peter also volunteers as a AMC and VE Assessor and holds the US callsign, KQ4PS.
Peter is also nominating for the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) Board in 2021.
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Sandy W7NRS and I have our sights set on Turk’s Head for our next Summits on the Air activation. This one is nearly 6 miles round trip. Along the way I talk a little bit about the Sonoran Desert and once we arrive on top, there is plenty of radio time for us both.
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Episode #16 – Parks on the Air with Don W1FYG
Don W1FYG is a top Parks on the Air activator on the leader board. He has had some great experiences and is very willing to help others get involved in POTA. He also has a great YouTube channel listed a little further down. Join us Don gets us all up to speed participating in POTA on this episode of the All Portable Discussion Zone “AP/DZ”.
Every aspect of Portable Ops is explored in this biweekly live stream as we discuss news, gear, achievements, the workbench, contests, awards and more – find all Portable Ops related topics here.
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This is a recording of a Sporadic E propagation presentation that I did for the Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club in Tucson, Arizona, USA. They graciously asked for me to give a presentation on 21st of March 2021.
In this presentation I go through the mysteries and theories of how Sporadic E forms as well as:
– What is Sporadic E propagation
– When the skip occurs
– Bands affected
– Predicting openings using WSPR
⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Understanding Sporadic E Propagation for VHF DX
1:10 What is Sporadic E?
3:23 What causes Sporadic E?
7:57 About the "Clouds"
9:19 Skip Distances and Bands
12:30 Multi Hop
14:34 When does the band open?
16:49 How often does it open?
19:47 Relationship between MUF and cloud
22:43 Example of a short path E cloud allowing a higher MUF
24:02 What Antenna and Polarization do you need?
25:24 How do we know when it opens?
27:10 WSPR Overview
28:17 Using WSPR to detect paths on 50 MHz
30:37 Using WSPR to detect paths on 144 MHz
32:02 Long Sporadic E paths USA to Australia
33:38 Using WSPRView to detect the MUF rising to 144MHz
35:48 Understanding the results
37:48 Resources and further info
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Oggie Johann Brummer, VK4AHR, asks if there’s some software that he cn use on his computer to better see what’s on the too-small IC-7300 screen. There is! It’s Win4Icom (https://icom.va2fsq.com/). It brings essentially all the Icom features to the computer screen. I do have concerns about ease of changing frequencies, but perhaps someone will comment on an easier way to do that.
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Theme music is "Sour Tennessee Red," by John Deley and the 41 Players, courtesy YouTube Music Library.
I use drawings from OpenClipArt.org, including the "walking man"
Technician training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/training/
General training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/general/
Amateur Extra training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/extra/
List of the Ask Dave videos, see http://dcasler.com/ask-dave/#askdavelist
Thanks to my sweet wife, Loretta, KBØVWW, for both audio and video assistance! (Her website is www.aldea-art.com.)
My primary website: http://www.dcasler.com
The ham radio part of my website (direct link): http://www.ke0og.net
My publishing website: http://www.mtsneffelspress.com, where you can find my fantasy and science fiction books, as well as some local history books I publish for the Ridgway Railroad Museum and the Ouray County Historical Society
My Amazon author page, which lists my print and Kindle books: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00471I0Q4.
I’m often asked what equipment I use to create the videos. The devices include the Panasonic DMC-G7 camera, Panasonic HDC-TM90 video camera, GoPro Hero2 HD camera, Tascam DR-05 audio recorder, Audio-Technica ATR-3350 lapel microphone, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W560 digital camera, the Kodak Zi-8 video camera, my iPhone 5S. Software used: CyberLink PowerDirector 17 on an HP Gaming Pavilion, also using Smoothdraw 4.0.5.0, FastStone Image Viewer 5.3, FastStone Capture 8.0, Audacity 2.1.1, LibreOffice 5.0.4.2, and Ink2Go 1.7.2. You can see how my studio is set up by viewing https://youtu.be/wFSQ8vtNA5A.
