Happy New Year. Hope this one is fun! Let’s talk about the ARRL Contests that are yet to come this month. You can always get a look at the contest calendar by following this link: http://www.arrl.org/contest-calendar.
January 8-9 – RTTY Roundup
From the ARRL’s Contest Website:
Amateurs worldwide contact and exchange QSO information with other amateurs using digital modes (Baudot RTTY, ASCII, AMTOR, PSK31, and Packet …
EDIT: This post has been lost due to operator error! Sorry!
I’ve been playing with a new application on my iPhone 4 that takes panoramic photos. Check out a couple that I’ve taken so far as tests on the Photos page at the bottom by clicking on the title, “Panorams.” Pretty cool stuff!
(Click and hold in the center of the image, then move your mouse left, right, up, or down, to move the panoram.)
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Lately, I’ve been wishing that I had a better way to get out on 20-meters, 40-meters, and 75-meters. The 75- and 40-meters are a bit long for the small amount of space that I have available to hide an antenna (local residential, contractual, restrictions), but I did some measuring around, and I think I found an ok spot to try to string a dipole!
Check out these drawings I made late at night (mind I’m no artist).
Probably hard to conceptualize my diagram in your mind, but I have a deck over a patio outside of the “Shack.” There are 4 beams that support the deck that I believe I can string the dipole from! I will try to get the supplies and cut this to length very carefully–I don’t have an antenna tuner. I’m hoping I can also tune on 10-meters, as a full wave dipole. I will probably post pictures and such on the Projects page as I go.