Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:32:28 -0400
I continue to upgrade my hamateur radio station for the upcoming winter RTTY contest season. Recently I sold my Icom IC-756 Pro 3 which had served me well for allot of years and purchased a new Icom
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:25:41 -0400
I've been operating the digital modes since 2003 and RTTY contesting since 2006 and I've had 100's of QSO's destroyed by PACTOR stations that didn't listen before transmitting on top of my QSO. Liste
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:08:22 -0400
Yesterday evening I was on 20 meters working a DX station on RTTY. The frequency was 14082.000 kHz and a PACTOR station came on frequency and wiped out the QSO. Mark N8HOU you can try to gloss over t
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:18:43 -0400
Allot of overseas hamateurs use MACROS because they don't have a command of the English language, many only know just enough English to have a brief QSO whether it be on RTTY or any other of the digi
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:48:56 -0400
At 0021 UTC on Thursday October 12, 2016 I worked RL4F on 7042.917 kHz here in central Florida. Most of the activity begins showing up from Europe around 0000 UTC. I usually see a few signals each ev
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:57:15 -0400
I used an Icom IC-718 as a dedicated RTTY contesting radio for 1 year. It was tough as nails on transmit at 100 watts full duty cycle, go figure! But it wasn't good as far as IMD at 2 kc on receive.
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:55:33 -0400
John the weak signal modes JT9, JT65A and WSPR operate between 10137 kHz and 10142 kHz and that's what you ran into. Often they are there but can't be heard by ear. These modes regularly get QRM'ed b
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 07:10:32 -0500
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: I have decided to begin posting some of my daily solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussions and HF radio wave propagation forecasts in my
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:35:16 -0500
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: I have decided to begin posting some of my daily solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussions and HF radio wave propagation forecasts in my
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 07:51:30 -0500
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: I have decided to begin posting some of my daily solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussions and HF radio wave propagation forecasts in my
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 09:25:17 -0500
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: I have decided to begin posting some of my daily solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussions and HF radio wave propagation forecasts in my
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 10:21:09 -0500
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: Feel free to redistribute this "not for profit" solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussion and HF radio wave propagation forecast, as long
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 09:43:26 -0500
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: Feel free to redistribute this "not for profit" solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussion and HF radio wave propagation forecast, as long
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:51:53 -0400
For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: Feel free without advanced permission to redistribute this "not for profit" solar, space and geomagnetic weather discussion and HF radio wave p
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:07:29 -0400
I drive an AL-80B with an Icom IC-7600. It easily does 800 watts in the RTTY mode but it's only rated for 500 watts. I only run 400 watts in RTTY contests and can work everything that I can hear. 73
Author: "Thomas F. Giella" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:46:09 -0400
And I've had allot of success in RTTY contests since 2003 using only 100 watts. At the time I was using a 300 foot long square horizontal loop with each corner 35 feet above ground level. 73, Thomas
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 13:59:42 -0400
Ed I owned a new Kenwood R-1000 receiver in 1984-1987. The VFO is an PLL system and stable enough for AM radio station listening but probably to drifty for SSB and especially RTTY reception. It also
Author: "Thomas F. Giella W4HM" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 14:07:26 -0400
Dick yes virtually all digital modes operation is on channel 3. If you set your VFO on 5357.500 kHz USB-DATA you will be fine. I've personally never printed an RTTY signal on 60 meters, it's mostly J
For my fellow RTTY contesters, this weekend's HF radio wave propagation looks pretty bad. No surprise there. For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: Feel free without advanced permiss
Author: "Thomas F. Giella" <thomasfgiella@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:02:07 -0400
For my fellow RTTY contesters, this weekend's HF radio wave propagation looks pretty bad. No surprise there. For my hamateur radio and SWL friends around the globe: Feel free without advanced permiss