Meeting Reminder - With the move to the Third Monday evening each month, this month’s meeting will be tomorrow:
The Move to the Third Monday was made to fit the schedules of several members who have a regular second monday conflict.
We have lots to discuss and a full briefing from Dayton Hamvention 2012 to follow.
Final Field Day 2012 Plans will be made as this meeting as well!
See you there!
Please find the pdf copy of the membership meeting minutes attached:
Mancorad_Member_Minutes_April_9th_2012_pages.pdf
Several have asked where is the club room, so we thought we get this picture up.
Meeting Reminder - With the move to the Second Third Monday evening each month, this month’s meeting will be tomorrow:
We have lots to discuss and a nice presentation to follow.
If this new time works better for you but you happen to be gone this month, please let a club officer know. We very much appreciate the couple members who have passed on their regrets for April while hoping to attend in May.
See you there!
HF Vertical Fence Mounted, Ugly-Balun, and Extra Band
(A how-to for 18AVT, AV-12/14, 5/4BTV resurrection)by N6JSX /8, MS-EET
I bought this used Hy-gain 18AVT 5-band (80/40/20/15/10m) vertical in the mid 80’s. I mounted it 12” off the ground in California, it sort of worked but I was NOT impressed with few DX contacts. Now with +40yrs of HAM’ing, all the Internet articles, and QSO’s that continue to tout HF verticals being the theoretical best antenna for DX it was time to resurrect my mothball from the rafters. Here is what I did to restore my 18AVT, making it one of my NEW FAVORITE HF antennas at my Ohio country home.
Meeting Times - We are moving the meeting to the Second Monday evening each month, in the Club Room starting at 6:30 pm. The traditional “lunch” snack will return.
As a discussion point to be brought up at the meeting, we are considering not meeting for the summer. Operating Event instead?
We will be discussing Field Day on Monday evening!
See you there!
From the good folk at Radio Free Redoubt, this PDF explains how to listen to PSK – a very interesting, and in case of emergency potentially very important, amateur radio digital mode – with a receiver with some earbuds, a computer with fldigi and a piece of tape.
The PDF is “Popeye’s” article with the comments distilled into an paragraph appendix.
Of course other PSK software will work. The fldigi selection is solid and it is available for a lot of platforms.
This works – at the club we’ve done a demo a few years back doing it this way, including adding the other link between the computer & in our case transceiver to do the transmit side.
The technique fits very well with the Freecom idea of personal preparedness.
Source URL for fldigi http://www.w1hkj.com/
Download URL for fldigi (Linux, Windows, OS X, Puppy Linux and Source) http://www.w1hkj.com/download.html
Original Post at Radio Free Redoubt http://radiofreeredoubt.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-receive-ham-radio-digital.html
The Radio Free Redoubt main page http://radiofreeredoubt.blogspot.com/ (expected to change this Spring to http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com/ – that URL presently in testing and will make their website MUCH more readable!)
Tuck this away for rainy day. It is worth downloading the fldigi program mentioned, as a “just in case.”
Of course you can try this now too!
Link to the PDF’s URL:
