I think ham radio is all about experimenting with new and weird ideas, this is one! CW is beautiful!
Big thanks to Adam K6ARK for being a good sport as always!
It’s harder than it seems playing morse code on a guitar and trying to keep it pleasing to the ear, but also easily readible. You don’t have the normal level flexibility you have as a musician in terms of how long your notes are and how much space you fill/don’t fill! There are a couple of mistakes in here but it was all a single (first!) take!
Notes: I consulted with a lawyer who is also a ham who looked through the regulations to see what exactly the rules stated around broadcasting "music". He was of the opinion that this would be completely fine on the ham bands just don’t broadcast the beat. I consulted with another ham friend (not a lawyer) who thought it was a big no no. I didn’t want to make anyone upset and so I put my TX signal over an IP link, NOT on the ham bands. I wanted to work a pileup on the SSB portion with my guitar but hey, such is life! 🙂
This is our weekly FT8 Sprint where we try to make as many contacts as possible in 1 hour. I say "try" because mostly we get distracted and talk about squirrels. Conquer the Bands, but be polite about it!
I have seen a lot of videos about the Xiegu X6100 and was curious how it would perform for me in the field. Having received a loaner X6100 from Radioddity I decided to use it for my latest Summits on the Air (SOTA) activation. This activation includes a scenic hike along Saguaro Lake, a little route finding, a steep hike to the top of a cliff, and some great QSOs. After operating for a couple of hours I give you my first impressions about this radio. I also give a brief loadout of my pack.
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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.
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x6100-wspr Github Repo: https://github.com/sstjohn/x6100-wspr
(You can download the files from the repo directly, clone the repo or download a zip file, here’s what I did)
Click the Green "CODE" button, Select HTTP and copy the web address.
Login to your raspberry pi’s command line/terminal and:
cd
git clone https://github.com/sstjohn/x6100-wspr.git
cd x6100-wspr
scp * root@(ip address of your x6100)
ssh root@(ip address of your x6100)
cd /
tar -xzf /root/x6100-local.tgz
(edit) /etc/profile and add (:/usr/local/bin) to the end of the path statement
(save and exit)
(verify /etc/resolv.conf has:
nameserver (some DNS server IP address)
in it, edit, save and exit if not)
export TZ=’UTC’
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
cd
(edit) spotter-loop.py
(
uncomment frequency, call, grid
add your callsign
add your grid
save and exit
)
set your radio to your favorite WSPR frequency in USB mode
./spotter-loop.py
wait patiently for spots to appear
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