Monthly Archives: January 2020

Successful WFD Satellite Contact

Posted on January 26, 2020 by robert

A bit of planning goes a long way… There was a 8:30L XW-2A satellite pass this morning.  I pointed my Arrow x-beam to the NW at about 25 degrees elevation.  By 8:33, I was in contact with NK1N in SNJ … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready for WFD/Satellite

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Bob Beatty

I don’t have the stamina of my youth, and especially don’t push things in New England Winters.  That said, this coming weekend is Winter Field Day.  I’ve participated the past five years with my club, W1SYE Newport County Radio Club.  … Continue reading →

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Just so nice to have FT4 logging working

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Bob Beatty

Today I had a chance to pop onto 20m FT4 for a bit and worked a couple of stations just to see that FT4 logging was working end-to-end.  Sure enough the correct modes was entered into LotW, and it confirmed … Continue reading →

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Using a TYT MD-430 with a pi-star Gateway

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Bob Beatty

*** Updated 19:15 UTC Jan 21 *** My thanks to KB1YSK, Stan, who was the first station that I heard on NA TalkGroup 93.  We had a nice contact, confirming that my first guess at a CodePlug for the MD-430 … Continue reading →

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DX Labs working with WSJT-X

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Bob Beatty

Between acting as the Pilot Station for W1SYE’s Florida Islands Activation, I managed to install DXLabs and now have it controlling my K3s, and have pulled in all the log entries from my old HRD log.  LotW/tQSL have been configured … Continue reading →

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Moving on to DX Suite

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Bob Beatty

I’ve been a loyal paid supporter of HRD for a decade (back when contributions were voluntary, and continuing through all the paid subscriptions.  Like many others, I suffered through the exploits of one of the owners, who was quite toxic, … Continue reading →

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8000 Confirmations in LotW

Posted on January 16, 2020 by robert

Last time I reported this metric, was in May of 2018, when 6,001 confirmations had been recorded in LotW. Today confirmation 8,000 was received in LotW.  What an amazing system.  Thanks ARRL!!

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Where we wound up: ID-5100 Programming for the Blind

Posted on January 15, 2020 by robert

Over the past few days I’ve put in about 18 hours trying various methods of programming the ID-5100 so it would be useful for a blind ham.  I’ve discussed the problems with the radio and its very limited speech synthesizer … Continue reading →

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Stymied with ID-5100 Programming

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Bob Beatty

My struggles continue to get a useful programming set for Ryan’s ID-5100.  I’ve been at this for many hours over the past few days.  Every time I think I’ve worked out something that might be useful, some quirk shows up … Continue reading →

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A Plea to Amateur Radio Gear Designers

Posted on January 13, 2020 by robert

I’ve commented a few times about a young ham that I spent about 18 months getting ready for his Technician License.  This was a bit more difficult journey due to Ryan being blind.  After a year of being on the … Continue reading →

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