[RSM] RSM Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7

[Dan Keizer]

OK .. finally -- put the WSPR beacon back on the air .. will see how
conditions are to be heard with 1/10th of a watt and a multi-band vertical
:-)

73, Dan ve4drk

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Dan Keizer <ve4drk at gmail.com> wrote:

> i have a 20m WSPR beacon .. it is a TAPR board for the RPi.  It runs 100mw
> into my ground mounted vertical in the back yard.
> I have not had it on for over a month as I moved cabling around --- but i
> will look at hooking it back up today.
>
> anyone else in the city besides Ed and myself tried FT8?  interested in
> hearing your station calls ..
>
> 73, Dan ve4drk
>
>
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>> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:35:16 -0500
>> From: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net>
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>> Subject: [RSM] Reading the mail
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>> Listening to Ed and Cary Friday on 6m: Cary must have had that big 6m
>> yagi pointed right down my throat: I needed to switch in 12dB of
>> attenuation for him to sound clear!
>>
>> I know it wasn't because you were driving that K3's mic gain to within an
>> inch of its life, right, Cary?
>>
>> ;-)
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>> 73, kelly, ve4xt
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 09:49:43 -0600
>> From: Gord Kosmenko <gord.kosmenko at gmail.com>
>> To: rsm at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [RSM] Reading the mail
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>> Last night's 6M opening from here was short
>> and signals were laced with Au ripping.
>>
>> The opening started in EM and EN for about
>> an hour, faded away and peaked again about
>> 45 minutes later in my usual 6M region of DN
>> and DM.
>>
>> 6M has really been less of a performed this year than
>> ever.
>>
>> I have observed during the last couple of high K
>> during magnetic storming on 2M some beacons
>> jumping out of the noise. But again, with much
>> distorted signals because of  Au conditions.
>>
>> Also last night, in the noise on 160M VA2RAC was calling
>> CQ. Local atmosphere QRN was big making copy
>> under 30% of the time. This was about 30 minutes after
>> my sunset.
>>
>> As I write, 20M has just opened to Europe.
>>
>> Anybody deploy a WPSR beacon at their station?
>>
>> 73, Gord
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Kelly Taylor <ve4xt at mymts.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Listening to Ed and Cary Friday on 6m: Cary must have had that big 6m
>> yagi
>> > pointed right down my throat: I needed to switch in 12dB of attenuation
>> for
>> > him to sound clear!
>> >
>> > I know it wasn't because you were driving that K3's mic gain to within
>> an
>> > inch of its life, right, Cary?
>> >
>> > ;-)
>> >
>> > 73, kelly, ve4xt
>> > Sent from my iPhone
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