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Southgate ARC — To our knowledge, Summerland Amateur RRadio Club conducted VK’s first net for new hams. (Under the catchy ‘moniker’ of F-TROOP.) Well in Canberra their Foundation of F net is attracting newbies far and wide
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Southgate ARC — Bundestag member Alois Rainer (CSU-Strraubing) attended the 10th international radio amateur meeting, held Saturday, May 12 at the local association of Straubing radio amateurs in Grandsberg
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Southgate ARC — Many of you will have read with concerrn reports regarding the ‘expulsion’ of members from the WIA
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Southgate ARC — Many special call signs from countriess participating in the Football World Cup tournament in Russia, as well as from other FIFA member countries that did not qualify for the finals, will be active between 1 June and 15 July. The call signs have either ‘FIFA’ or ‘FWC’ as suffix
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Southgate ARC — In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joineed by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Bill Barnes N3JIX to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episode’s feature is — Dummies Guide to DMR
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Southgate ARC — In the June issue of the free Hackspacce magazine radio amateur Jenny List G7CKF describes how to grow a hackspace by attracting members from a wide variety of backgrounds
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Southgate ARC — We start the news this week with the WWireless Institute of Australia who have started controversial expulsion proceedings towards several members and the news that members of Amateur Radio Victoria are extremely unhappy at the treatment of one of their members by the WIA
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Southgate ARC — Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that tthe solar activity is expected to be at low levels
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A team consisting A65DC, A65DR, SM0CXU and VE7HDW will be active from Christmas Island OC-002 as VK9XT during September 29 to October 6, 2018. QRV on 10–160m CW, SSB and various digital modes — 24/7 from the island. FT8 might be used at times. More information to follow. Visit VK9XT webpage or Facebook page
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VK9XT Team will be active from Christmas Island, IOTA OC – 002, 29 September — 6 October 2018.
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Regarding our recent review of the Sangean WR-7, SWLing Post reader, Donald Brown, writes:
Hi, my name is Donald Brown, and I did a video review of the Sangean WR-7 and I thought that you might want to have a look at it and even place it onto your site as well. The YouTube address is here below:
Click here to view on YouTube.
Also, just to let you know, I own a country Internet radio station called Pure Country 100 which can be found here below. I have provided you with the site as well as the direct streaming link.
Site: http://www.purecountry-100.com
Direct Stream: http://wasitviewed.com/index.php?email=dbrwn@aol.com&id=10823
Be sure to spread the word about the station to as many people as you possibly can. Also, send me a reply to let me know what you think of the video as well as the station.
Thanks for sharing, Donald–I’m quite happy to spread thee word!
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Shortly after posting a set of photos I took at the 2018 Hamvention, I received a number of reader inquiries regarding one particular radio: The Mission RGO ONE.
I found this cool tabletop transceiver in the flea market area of the Hamvention early Saturday morning and included it with my inside exhibits photos. I wasn’t able to gather a lot of information from the representative at the time because the Hamvention staff opened the gates to general admission a full 30 minutes early, so I had to make a sprint to my table at the other side of the fairgrounds.
The following specifications/features were listed on the RGO ONE product sheet:
- QRP/QRO output 5–50W
- All mode shortwave operation — coverage of the 9 HAM HF bands ((160m optional)
- High dynamic range receiver design including high IP3 monolithic IC in the front end and H-mode first mixer
- Low phase noise first LO — SI570 chip
- Full/semi QSK on CW; VOX operation on SSB.
- Down conversion superhet topology with 9MHz IF
- Custom made crystal filters for SSB and CW and variable crystal 4 pole filter — Johnson type
- Stylish and professional look
- Compact and lightweight body
- Multicolor FSTN LCD
- Silent operation with no clicking relays inside
- Modular construction — Mother board serves as a “chassiis†also fits all the external connectors, daughter boards, inter-connections and acts as a cable harness.
- Optional modules — NB, AF, ATU, XVRTER
- PC control via CAT protocol; USB FTDI chip
- Memory morse code keyer (Curtis A, CMOS B)
- Contest and DXpedition conveniences
For even more detail, I recently contacted the rig’s developer, Boris Sapundzhiev (LZ2JR), who kindly answered all of my questions.
Boris replied:
Hello Thomas,
Thanks a lot for your message and interest about our new homebrew project that we called RGO ONE. Here you can find more about the radio:
https://lz2jr.com/blog/index.php/qrp-hf-transceiver/embed/#?secret=KuKgvHNJaR
There are clickable highlights on the text which lead to a schematic diagram for each module so you can have a look if you like. Final documents and last revision of schematics will be available soon.
The idea of this project was inspired of an old TEN-TEC radios with 9MHz IF — their perfect analogue design and crystal crisp audio both CWW and sideband. Mine have two very old TEN-TEC ARGOSY 525D and several moreTEN-TEC equipments. So with the help of the new electronic components available on the market we realize this old concept…
We’ve been working hard for almost three years to see what you saw at Dayton flea market table. A real performing HF 50W CW/SSB transceiver. We are 4 people in the team.. Other team mates are very good in industrial electronics manufacturing and helping very much with electronic PCB design, parts delivery, microprocessors and other things.
The idea of the front panel and other constructions design is mine .. I literally drew it in a couple of hours then our CAD designer put it in AUTOCAD/INVENTOR 3D design software.
Click to enlarge.
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LCD we made in China and already stocked plenty of LCD and backlight units. Front panel is made by means of plastic mold method:
So far we got two samples that we tested already in real conditions and made several contest (LZ2RS helped with this task).
You can seek for video clips on YouTube (my channel) to see how it works.
Click here to view on YouTube.
I am back in Bulgaria now and today we had a team meeting so it is decided to start first lot 10pcs which will be completely ready to run. The time range of this is somewhere next two months. Then next lot will be 100 units probably some of them or most of them will be in a kit form with ready populated SMD small foot print components.
At the show in Dayton we revealed our target price for the base version — $450-$550. Hope to keep it as promised but final price will be avvailable when first units come to alive.
First units will ship from Bulgaria, then we will try to stock more units in US.This is briefly about our intentions of the project. A lot of interest, expectations and positive “WOW†feedbacks received so this urge me to go fast forward.
73, GL
Boris LZ2JR/AC9IJ
Thank you for the detailed reply, Boris! I will certainly follow this project with interest and post updates (readers: bookmark the tag RGO ONE).
I love the size of the RGO ONE and the fact it’s capable of a full 50 watts out in such a portable form factor. The front panel is very attractive, ergonomic and the backlit LCD screen is quite easy to read at any angle.
Boris, if you manage to hit your target price of $550 or less, you’ll no doubt sell these by the hundreds! I’ll be watching this project with interest.
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WA7BNM Contest Calendar — 1900Z-1929Z, Jun 1 (40m) andd 1930Z-1959Z, Jun 1 (80m)
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Foundations of Amateur Radio
How to find other Amateurs on Air
Where are all the Amateurs is a question that I am asked regularly by new entrants into our community. The journey most new amateurs go through and the one I followed starts with becoming interested, getting a license, buying a radio, setting it up and then turning on your radio. If you’re lucky you are at this point surrounded by other amateurs, hopefully in a club setting, or you have a friend nearby and you’re off and running.
The reality is likely that even after a successful first on-air adventure, you’ll be on your own in your shack asking yourself where everyone went.
I’ve talked in the past about picking the right day, for example, a Wednesday is likely to have less people on air than a Saturday, but that’s only part of the story.
One of the things that had never occurred to me until a while after I became an amateur is that listening is a really important way to find other amateurs.
Let’s start with some things that might not have occurred to you.
Most amateurs are not in your time-zone.
There is amateur radio activity almost all the time, 24/7 on whatever the appropriate band is.
Not all bands sound the same.
What worked yesterday might not work today.
This hobby isn’t exact or precise, that is, there are an infinite number of variables which each affect the experience either positively or negatively and even if you used your radio in exactly the same way with the same settings on the same band in the same location at the same time with the same antenna, the landscape around you has changed, the ionosphere is a lot like the ocean, flat and calm one day, storms and waves the next.
Those things aside, each of which could be a whole story is still only part of the story of finding other amateurs.
There is a tendency for new amateurs to think of frequencies as numbers, as parameters to add to your radio, pick 7.093 MHz, pick 21.250 MHz, or 28.500 MHz, they’re just numbers, things that you pick with your radio, set-up your antenna to and listen.
That’s part of the story, but there is another part.
If you think of light and you go from Infra-red through visible light through to Ultraviolet light and beyond, all you’re doing is changing a number, from somewhere around 300 GHz through to 3 PHz. It’s a long dial in amateur radio terms, but the difference is just a number, right?
It should be obvious that the human day-to-day experience of Infra-red and Ultraviolet are completely different. The 28.5 MHz 10m band frequency is on the same spectrum as both Infra-red and Ultraviolet but you don’t expect to see these frequencies or use them in the same way.
The same is true for amateur radio bands. The 80m band, the 40m band, 15m and 10m are all different. They’re in use by radio amateurs, but their experience is also completely different. Some are good for day-time communications, others for night-time, some work regardless of the solar-cycle, others need solar flux. Magnetic activity affects some bands more than others and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
If you have a hand-held radio and you’re used to listening to a local 2m repeater it’s likely that you’ve set up the squelch on your radio to hide noise and your day-to-day experience is one where there is silence when nobody is talking. You might tune to 15m and look for the same silence, only to learn later on
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In issue 77 of the free IARU Region 1 VHF newsletter the Chair of VHF-UHF-uW committee Jacques Verleijen ON4AVJ highlights the threats to vital amateur radio spectrum at VHF, UHF and Microwaves.
In less than a year we will have our interim meeting about the use of the spectrum above 30 MHz. We have to face some challenges. I want to invite all Member Societies to think about how to promote, defend and use our frequencies.
They are wanted by others, both government and commercial, users. So this is a wake-up call to be aware that if we not are using those bands we will lose them. Such a setback will not be the responsibility of IARU(R1), if we lose them, but from the amateur community who often have more commitment to HF, than VHFup.
I know that this statement will shock some of you, but it is true. Our survey on the use of VHFup made this clear. So I want to invite all Member Societies to think creatively (out of the box, as we say now) to think how to improve activity on our dear bands.
Like some have said: “use them or lose them†and “HF is not the only bands for ham radio, but they are the easiest to useâ€.
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There are a lot of reasons to get a ham radio license, and if you are one of those that think ham radio is dead you can probably skip this post. However, if you have been interested, but didn’t want to drop a lot of money on a station, [KE6MT] has got some great advice for you. He says you can have a rewarding time in ham radio for about $100 of spending.
The post is the advice he wished he had been given in 2015 when he got his license. It turns out you can get on the air very inexpensively these days, especially if you aren’t afraid to build gear from kits.
There are some caveats. With low powered gear, you might want to stick to Morse code, a mode with which it is much easier to make contacts. He didn’t mention it, but PSK31 is good for that as well if you’d rather type than do code. He did borrow a “big radio†from a local ham and got some time with the microphone, but he still prefers the code.
He found an interesting solution to having problems making contacts with people. He participates in something called SOTA, or Summits on the Air, where you bring your equipment to the top of a mountain and then people try to find you. This is a pursuit at which the small portable equipment is an advantage. If you don’t have mountains nearby though, there are other ways to become a rare station. There are hams who try to work islands, for example. Or rare US counties. If you can make yourself a rare station, you can sit back and let those hams chase you! Great idea.
If you aren’t up on the code — you now you don’tt have to pass a code test anymore — [KE6MT] has some online resourcces for you, including the amusingly-named Morse Toad iPhone or Android app.
The centerpiece of his station, though, is the QRP Labs QCX kit. Although he praises the instructions, he adds a few things about winding the receiver input transformer toroid. Of course, you also need an antenna, and he covers that with another kit, as well. Rounding out the kits is a CW paddle you build yourself.
You don’t need the paddle to send code, but a lot of people do prefer it to a straight key. With a straight key the dots and dashes are formed by hand, while with a paddle (and an associated keyer) a press on one side of the paddle produces dots while the other side produces dashes. Press both at once and you’ll get an alternating pattern. For ultimate convenience a computer produces the exact lengths of dots and dashes required for the speed you desire. Handy, but not necessary, if you were really on a budget.
So with no code requirement and $100 in gear, why don’t you have a ham radio license? You can experiment legally on ham frequencies, do public service events, or do many other activities.
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Marcel, OK2QQ will be active from the islands of Kalymnos and Telendos as SV5/OK2QQ during June 12–22, 2018. QRV on 40m to 2m; CW, SSB and FM. QSL via LoTW, eQSL or direct info via email.
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