Some repairs to the skimmer station set up have been made after losing the 20m and 10m softrocks. \u00c2\u00a0Both were probably damaged due to modifications I made to the voltage regulation circuits. \u00c2\u00a0That appeared to eventually fry the QSD chip, which is the heart of a softrock.<\/p>\n
The 20m skimmer was replaced completely with a new softrock lite. \u00c2\u00a010m is pending re-work, but replacement would probably be the best bet.<\/p>\n
So for WPX 2013 there are five bands available, 160m through 15m. \u00c2\u00a0These will be active during WPX intermittently. \u00c2\u00a0I intend to bring them up and down based upon my own operating. \u00c2\u00a0The skimmer will be down when I am operating.<\/p>\n
Other changes made to the skimmer station include loading windows XP onto the Optiplex 360 that had been running windows vista. \u00c2\u00a0Vista was able to run one instance of CW skimmer, but was not able to support two instances simultaneously due to sound card conflicts. \u00c2\u00a0Windows XP does not seem to have a problem with the two sound cards, and is an OS supported by CWSkimmer(Vista is NOT supported by skimmer).<\/p>\n
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Some repairs to the skimmer station set up have been made after losing the 20m and 10m softrocks. \u00c2 Both were probably damaged due to modifications I made to the voltage regulation circuits. \u00c2 That appeared to eventually fry the QSD chip, which is the heart of a softrock.<\/p>\n
The 20m skimmer was replaced completely with a new softrock lite. \u00c2 10m is pending re-work, but replacement would probably be the best bet.<\/p>\n
So for WPX 2013 there are five bands available, 160m through 15m. \u00c2 These will be active during WPX intermittently. \u00c2 I intend to bring them up and down based upon my own operating. \u00c2 The skimmer will be down when I am operating.<\/p>\n
Other changes made to the skimmer station include loading windows XP onto the Optiplex 360 that had been running windows vista. \u00c2 Vista was able to run one instance of CW skimmer, but was not able to support two instances simultaneously due to sound card conflicts. \u00c2 Windows XP does not seem to have a problem with the two sound cards, and is an OS supported by CWSkimmer(Vista is NOT supported by skimmer).<\/p>\n
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