Feild day plans

nothign specail and even less with the rain


was going to put a new tenna but not in this rain

look for as 1 E MI tomarrow

yea i know

got ont he air a bit no contacts sadly just psk-31 not having the patience to really sit around and work it

got on the air a bit

nothing much just some psk-31

hmm

well it seems few if anyone eqsl for FD meanng one lessreason for me to do it

an interesting event

link here

another feild day has come and gone

was fun

more fun and less effort than in other years

now if the runner of PSK-31 would stop calling cq so some one could answer them things might have been even more fun

why Id hate reapirs

finaly got the backets in place and lined up to install a new 4X4 mast to reapair the damage done in this inceident dark ness fell befoe before I put up the full new mask to the end of my longest antenna back up to being 44 ft off the ground. on top of the new mast is already in placed with the mast on the ground that second antenna for the kb9rqz reapeater means I hope to have that in operation soon

on Feild day looks for Kd8CTL 2 B MI

planing on operating near here together why not use my wife's call

I expect my wife will operate voice while I like will be running psk 31 and maybe a few other digtal modes

why will my wife operate voice well after a gal on the air get a better response

my current paterns of operations on twitter

a new first I writing this for a tweetee (or is for tweeter) neither to be confused with my sweetie KD8CTL

bt I have exploring something I know little about (that is why I am exploring it) like mthe tweetie know about as a much about local prop as I do and at hf that is not much

been using PSK-31 a digital mode meaning I use it access the net as I am doing now and watching the "Dead pool" on DVR

first since I am not sure my tweetee in this is famiier witht digital mode and it is educational anyway I will explain briefly the radio needs an interface like this for my ICOM she uses a yeasu and needs either this or other interface nd software of course

I choose my freqs from here

normaly I start on 20 m 14.07 and stay there till I make a contact or 3 then move down toward 30 40 and even 80 meters trying to get a real feel for propagation

On twiiter I can annouce that Iam starting but I don'tsee derect messages till I ht my email I am in fact some place where phones don't go

I guess 40m near sunset would be the chance to reach my tweetee at some point

ps the post has been assiged a short url http://snipurl.com/jlked

well been a bad boy

have not been on the air much since to visit to my inlaws

trying to get back in the habit again

again the goal is to make one or more contacts on 3 seperate band each day

still having lot of fun with psk-31

trying to get a contact on 20m 40 and 80m a day the 20 and 40 goes well 80 is a bit harder

been having fun on air

been having fun on air with with PSK-31 using a new interface used to use another interface (with the ft847 but going back and forth between mode was frankly a pain I tnded to neglect it. the IC 817 and this interface make things much easier

well at last for what it is worth

finaly recieved the backordered brace I need to restroe my wodden masting and achor it to house again so my long wire anttena for 160 etc can be put back into operation of course instaling the bracket is a pretty well out of the question right and likely for at 5 weeks or so

a nice day on air

finaly managed to get the conection to my vertical to stay in one piece trhough a set of storm had seris and then fired up with good swr and called cq on 12 15 17 and 40m and someone came back to me loud and clear each time

all in all a nice day on Air and nice till I get the masting fixed on the house (I can start that process

feild day 2008

with my wife doing the Wisconsin RenFaire this she has thought oof doing FD from there

looking at the rules looks like she and here friend qualify for 1b making em likely kd8ctl 1B WIS

my wife will be oretaing mostly in the evening so I and wants to keep it very simple since it will be the first she wowill have set up wholely on her own

last she set up a staion for 20m but refused to turn it on till I checked it over. this time she is feeling a bit more confindent

since she is not going to be around I am thinking of staying home and operating 1d or 1 e ( i have droped a note to guys at the ARRL checking some thing on the 1 e that I think my grid intertie system allow for 1 e at 500 watts for me

articles wanted

http://techkb9rqz.blogspot.com/

some notes on the staions maintianed by KB9RQZ and KD8CTL

well been loking at the sation and comparing it to what i had set up about year ago this time when we were merely expecting the anoucement of d-day

 

I still have the FT847 and it is still one of the rigs I use most often either on 6m SSB of now digatil modes through hf and 6m

 

added is the primary hf voice staion built around IC -718  a nice rig easier to adjust and operate in many ways than the Ft 847 and it is driving (when

 needed sadly whch most of the time at this point in the cycle) an amp the AL-811 which seems to be giving that last db or so that  need to be heard

some days

 

I am a bit shocked that I have a mobile HF set up at this point mostly that the wife wanted the FT 857, programs with every VHF repeater in the area,

 form EueClaire down to Green Bay and over to Marquette, and a 10m repeater if we ever get to try it with anttenas for 75m, 20m, and 10 meters with

an autoturner to cover the rest

well the HF goes mobile

given the renewed workability of the of the Ft 847 the ft 857 can do what is is mean't to do go hf Mobile with an tennas fo r for 80 and 10 m so far (20 m was backordered oh well) we plan to take it on the road tomorrow going to perhaps esky and Iron Mountian

and the 857 will nice esp for my wife as it memeroies can be renamed to be a bit more transpereant as to where the repeater is

interesting lesson for ...and now from the kosher ham

I had thought my older radio the Ft 847 was badly broken...maybe not

let me back up when I got the amp the ameritron 811 it warned me to ground the amp so I grounded the amp and the radio I had attached the IC-718 to to the grounding rod too

I was amazing at the impovement in the radio's preformance.

well tonight I had a brain storm and set the ft 847 in place of the IC718 and coneted to the Ground rod as I had the IC 718 and

one the ft 847 no longer makes a funny flicker on the loewer bands

two test the radios outut with an external SWR metter I find that the full out put of the 847 matchs that of the ic 718 about 100watt despite the yeasues internal meter says something very different

I wil check out the radio transmistion sound when gav get back from her fathers place (she went to vist and attend a craft show in Elkhorn) so sometime sunday or monday I should know if I was simply mistaken about the condiction of the 847 or not

well the latest for the Kosher Ham is...

the adding of the ameritron 811 to the station

haven't had a lot of time with yet but it looks to improve the prefromance here