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Comment on RX Antenna 160m/80m Band Splitter/Switch by w4kaz

w4kaz — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:05:31 +0000

Fortuneately both of my radios have separate RX antenna inputs. I have a freind who made an RX mod to a TS-830. Seems like there is a transverter jack on that radio. I’ll try to find out what he had to do, and shoot you back a noet. Also, try searching the “topband” list on contesting.com. It’s a problem for the 160m ops, odds are there is some info there.

Comment on RX Antenna 160m/80m Band Splitter/Switch by Al Jones

Al Jones — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:59:55 +0000

Thanks for your information. I have been trying to figure out the best way to connect
the output of a K9AY antenna I am building, to my Kenwood Transceiver. The Kenwood
has some utility plugs on the back, but none of them seem to be suitable to enable me
to receive the signal from the k9ay antenna. I want to continue using the regular transmitter antenna connected to the main antenna connector on the rear. I am surprised
that there doesn’t see,m to be any articles about this problem on the internet.
How have you been handling this problem?

Al Jones. w6sqm@verizon.net

Comment on Field Day 2010 as NR3X by w4kaz

w4kaz — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:09:32 +0000

Thanks. Lots of Butt-in-chair time. Missing the 10K mark is a little disappointing, since I know I lost more than those 100 Q’s having the 20m station idle debugging and for the storm.

But we had lots of fun clowning around too. And a pair of grilled hot dogs with all of the trimmings, courtesy of “Chef Archie” on Saturday for lunch really hit the spot.

Heard yesterday the temps hit 101F on Sunday. I know it felt like it Saturday too. The ‘drink lots of fluids’ strategy helped.

Comment on Field Day 2010 as NR3X by N0HR

N0HR — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:36:41 +0000

Wow.

Great score. We had trouble with storms as well, but that was at 3am local.

40 & 20 CW… the money station, as it should be.

Fun stuff,
Pat N0HR

Comment on Linux Tinkering by Howie

Howie — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:16:34 +0000

Wanted to document a cool add-on to linux filesystems.
This allows me to manipulate host filesystems like they were mounted locally–without paying for SSH.

If you have ISP(s) but do not have ssh support, then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
is for you !

Allows you to mount your host as a mounted filesystem. Waycool.

73, Howie

Comment on 2010 Dayton Hamvention Collection by Duane Whittingham

Duane Whittingham — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:54:13 +0000

I have a few pics at: http://twitpic.com/photos/radiodude

And I did do some video archived at Ustream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/radiodude

(Some are of the trip there and back)

Duane – N9SSN

Comment on 2010 Dayton Hamvention Collection by Gary Pearce KN4AQ

Gary Pearce KN4AQ — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:42:16 +0000

Thanks for the plug and nice comments for ARVN videos! Yes, we were shooting at Dayton 2010. We got the ARRL “Power Line Noise” forum, the D-STAR Forum and Friday Night event, the FCC Forum and the DX Forum. With all those forums, we never got to the Flea Market (except for a burger or three). But we did talk to all the big manufacturers about their new products. As usual, with this volume of material and production level, it takes a while to get on the market. So enjoy the various YouTube offerings, and our DVDs will be out toward the end of summer (I hope). 73, Gary KN4AQ

Comment on Linux Tinkering by howie

howie — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:57:22 +0000

FB Kaz.
Certainly know what you mean about forgetting stuff !

I tend to use Macrium reflect to a tb usb drive that can be moved between pc’s.
Clonezilla b/u also works great BUT the ‘beginner mode’ sets you to multi-core mode (-zip) and, at least for my hyperthread pc, saturates the cores. Going to expert mode and setting for something like z3 compression seems to fix that.

I have been experimenting with different files systems on Linux and concluded that the ext3 seems optimized for general desktop usage. Also there are some ancillary issues with ext4. Very easy to use the fsarchiver backup software to change f.s. tho.

Working with Dmitriy on a few so2r type problems but tr4w is worth the shot. It, basically, should work out of the box after you tell it about your type of tcvr and ports (you may also need to initially give it a nudge via ctl-alt-f1 followed by ctl-alt-f7 (wine bug, which also keeps one at wine 1.0).

BTW, the new Ubuntu 10.04 seems like a winner.

73, Howie

Comment on Linux Tinkering by w4kaz

w4kaz — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:11:40 +0000

Hi Howie,

Thanks for the tips. The backup option is something I really need to add to the mix. I’ve been muddling by with data only backups – it sure would be nice to be able to just grab the entire partition. Its also more feasible now that storage is getting so inexpensive. And with so many boat-anchor computers floating around, its pretty easy to hack together a cheap NAS solution. Yet another fun experiment…..

My current level of distractions is pretty high, so I don’t know how much effort I’ll put into it immediately. That’s what this stupid blog is really about – saving these “hints and kinks” in a search-able format. The gray matter has become too porous. [literary reference: Entering the declining stages of Charlie Gordon from "Flowers for Algernon". I still remember when I was smart.....]

Alan mentioned having config problems with TR4W when you tried it out for the Russian DX in a multi op. At least a multi op situation is unlikely if I decide to give it a shot. I think I will need to migrate to a winkeyer soon. The USB port makes sense, but it is currently hard to home brew that sort of solution.

Tnx es 73 de w4kaz

Comment on Linux Tinkering by howie hoyt n4af

howie hoyt n4af — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:11:31 +0000

Hi Kaz -

a few items you may be interested in-
as long as you have windoze in your multi-boot scheme (I am up to 5 o/s under grub2), you might consider Macrium Reflect backup.
Altho I bought it, the free edition works great. More germane:
it will back ALL your partitions. Two of mine are EXT4, he handles them fine. I have restored from reflect many times.
I have a couple other backup solutions, but MR is hard to beat for mix of windoze and linux distros (must run it from windows, the the restore is from standalone linux disk).
I have compared MR to linux FSarchiver and compressed image size fairly comparable.

RE: TR4W. Alas, you will no doubt end up with TR4W. I can give you a long list of negatives. But the best there is. Also, most of my complaints are RE: SO2R.
OTH, you may wish to also look at the trial WinTest (wine). Might be a better fit for you.I think you can google ‘wintest linux’.
RE: TR4W,
Unless you get lucky, you need to review WineHQ bug #20265 on TR4W. I put a circumvention in, but presently waiting on development for
a permanent fix. Also, you will need to Symlink your USB. Sumpin like
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com6
where you tell linux how to access your usb serial adapter. I seem to recall WT documents how to do a similar USB setup.

Best of luck & hope you keep working w/ Linux.

73, Howie N4AF
p.s. I HIGHLY recommend CQRLOG, but think you already know about it.