love Amateur Radio for so many reasons. I grew up in a Los Angeles suburb and I had several friends that had fathers that were Hams. I loved seeing their Shacks and the antennas on their cars. This was in the 1950s and I remember seeing Collins, Drakes, Swans and Hallicrafters radios. My father was…
I have to say this was probably the hardest episode to put together so far. I managed to not record the first 20 minutes of my side of the episode. Then there were bits from Episode #057 that needed to be put in. I recorded secondary items that didn’t match up with the original first […]
Here is my first QSL card for JT 65. There was a question about signal reports on the QSL’s. Here is a better view of the signal Report. As you can see the signal report is “-07” the signal report has to do with the signal to noise ratio. It will be given to you…
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I spend a lot of time checking out equipment around the shack. I will be cleaning and find something I forgot I had and check it to see if it still works. This was the case the other day. I was checking out a Yaesu FT-5100 I had here and had it set to the…
Quality is not great but it was compressed and uncompressed a few times
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Quality is not great but it was compressed and uncompressed a few times
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Time for another video kids. This time we do a short introduction to the digital mode JT-65 on HF
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Recently I have been working some JT65 contacts on HF. I have been trying to get used to using that mode and having some success. Especially on the 10 meter band of all places. This surprised me because 10 meters has been pretty much dead since the start of the current solar cycle. Now most…