| Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| CQ100 |
CQ100 is a program for use exclusively by licenced radio amateurs and is a simple and effective way to keep in touch with hams all over the globe 24 hours a day without any propagation. If you are interested you can download a 3 month free trial if you follow this link I have already heard many CQ calls through the CQ100 virtual radio and I will be listening out for you all, and monitoring all the other bands at the same time on my real rigs! 73 C u agn Simon |
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| Saturday, November 24, 2007 |
| Homebrew 40/80 Trap Dipole Design |
This Antenna design was one that I used about 4 years ago, it worked exceptionally well on 80m and 40m. The size of the antenna makes a Half wave length on 80 meters, and with the traps a half wave on 40m with a SWR (standing wave ratio) of 1:1-1.5 across both bands. It worked well also on 20m with the use of an A.T.U (antenna tuning unit). I made my version of this antenna using 3mm multi strand copper cable which I left covered by the PVC insulation. The traps can either be home brewed using some 40mm diameter plastic drain pipe and winding wire around the pipe approximately 10 turns, then connected in line after the 10 metre lengths. Or the alternative is to purchase some commercially made 7.1 MHz traps, and fit them in line the same way. The antenna can be fed with 50 ohm coax with a home brew balan or again a commercially purchased balan. The wire lengths of the dipole are 2x 10 metres and 2x 6.7 metres as shown on the diagram above. This antenna can be mounted quite low to the ground if you wish to produce a high angle of radiated signal which is good for distances of 0-1500 km. For DX work a lower angle of radiated signal can be obtained by mounting the antenna 10 metres or more above the ground. The higher the better! If you get chance to try this simple design, I am sure you will not be disappointed. Good luck and hope to hear you on the bands. de 2E0HTS 73 |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ November 24, 2007 |
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| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| Heil Goldline Studio Mic |
Greetings to all, I recently acquired the Heil mic and had planned to use it in the mobile with the ft-100, but after trying it out I decided to stick with the original fist mic from Yaesu. The Goldline from Heil had struggled to pick up my voice from the dashboard mounting bracket, and with the whole idea of making mobile operations more inconspicuous by not drawing attention to myself, fitting a hands free mic seemed to be out of the window. I was having to shout that loud to hit the alc level, most peoples heads were turning and wondering what I was shouting at. So back to basics and the fist mic wins!
I then decided to try the Heil microphone in the shack on the ft-767. This was the beginning of a potentially beautiful relationship as the rig and mic compatibility seemed good with some good reports from experienced G-Stations on 80 meters. I have been using the microphone for the last couple of days and I am finding it OK with the wired PTT switch in my hand and ready to engage. The switch reminds me of a missile detonator, so you can imagine the pressure every time I transmit. h.i.
I am impressed so far with the new microphone so I decided to make a miniature tower style mic stand to mount the Heil Goldline. You can see the finished installation on the picture, I hope to make some more noise soon. 73 good DX
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| posted by MØYKS Simon @ November 06, 2007 |
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| Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| Q-CODES |
I have recently had the pleasure of assisting a fellow member of Staff at work by helping him train to become a radio amateur. Chris is an electrical lecturer at the college where we both work, I was extremely happy when Chris asked me to help him get into the hobby and with his electrical/electronic knowledge it will be fairly simple to pass the foundation examination and obtain the licence which will allow him to operate his recently purchased yaesu ft-847.
Good luck with the exam Chris and welcome to the world of Ham radio.
Chris asked me about Q-codes so I decided to post the list of Q-codes which are used by radio amateurs around the world. The Q-codes were originally invented for use with telegraphy and then Morse code allowing messages to be transmitted quickly without having to rattle out long and difficult sentences. These days they are still used as a way of sending voice messages as well as Morse, whilst communicating with another station. The Q-codes can be very useful especially when two stations in communication with each other may not speak the same language as the Q-codes are a universal language.
QRG Exact frequency
QRI Tone (T in the RST code) UR QRI IS 9
QRK Intelligibility (R in the RST code) UR QRK IS 5
QRL This frequency is busy. Used almost exclusively with Morse code, usually before transmitting on a new frequency
QRM Man-made interference ANOTHER QSO UP 2 kHz CAUSING LOT OF QRM
QRN Natural interference, e.g. static crashes BAND NOISY TODAY LOT OF QRN
QRO Increase power NEED QRO WHEN PROP POOR
QRP decrease power QRP TO 5 W
QRQ Send faster TIME SHORT PSE QRQ
QRR temporarily unavailable/away, please wait WILL BE QRR 30 MIN = THAT STN IS QRR NW
QRRR Distress Distress call recommended by ARRL
QRS Send slower PSE QRS NEW TO CW
QRT Stop sending ENJOYED TALKING 2 U = MUST QRT FER DINNER NW
QRU Have you anything for me? QRU? ABOUT TO QRT
QRV I am ready WL U BE QRV IN UPCOMING CONTEST?
QRX will call you again QRX @ 1500H
QRZ You are being called by ________. QRZ? UR VY WEAK (Only someone who has previously called should reply)
QSA Signal strength UR QSA IS 5
QSB Fading of signal THERE IS QSB ON UR SIG
QSD Your keying is defective QSD CK YR TX
QSK Break-in I CAN HR U DURING MY SIGS PSE QSK
QSL I Acknowledge receipt QSL UR LAST TX = PSE QSL VIA BURO (i.e. please send me a card confirming this contact).
QSM Repeat last message QRM DROWNED UR LAST MSG OUT = PSE QSM
QSN I heard you QSN YESTERDAY ON 7055 kHz
QSO A conversation TNX QSO 73
QSP Relay PSE QSP THIS MSG TO MY FRIEND
QST General call to all stations QST: QRG ALLOCS HV CHGD
QSX I am listening on ... frequency QSX 14200 TO 14210 kHz
QSY Shift to transmit on ... LETS QSY UP 5 kHz
QTA Disregard last message QTA, DID NOT MEAN THAT
QTC Traffic STN WID EMRG QTC PSE GA
QTH Location QTH IS Baildon in Yorkshire U.K
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| posted by MØYKS Simon @ November 01, 2007 |
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| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| Pure Fun playing Ham Radio |
Greetings once again, I've been playing radio quite a lot since I repaired the ft-100 /mobile rig, making many successful DX and local QSOs on 40m, 20m and 2m. The next stage of improvement for my mobile station is to fit the heil base mic that I recently acquired from Ron 2E0DOG.
This should be an easier way to operate hands free as well as maintaining top quality audio. I tried a hands free kit from Watson last year but the quality of audio was poor, so I've been using the standard fist mic from Yaesu ever since.
I shall fabricate a bracket to mount the mic in the Toyota at the side of the steering wheel close to the dash. The mic has a separate PTT switch that will fit at the side of the hand break. I am awaiting a mic lead which will convert the round pin plug to the ft-100 mod type plug this should hopefully be arriving soon allowing me to begin operating the new set up.
The other equipment has also been working well, especially the old ft-767gx which I have been running on HF the last fortnight. It was collecting cobwebs after a 2 year rest and I had forgotten how truly great it was to use. The ft-767gx still performs as well as ever with a quality RX sound produced through the matching ext speaker and good audio quality provided through the MD1 desk mic. This rig still seems to work really well and with the new delta loop on 20m I have been having some excellent results and hours of fun.
The home brew Delta loop which is horizontally mounted works exceptional well giving me a new Country to add to my list which was Alaska when I spoke with Joe KL7LF.
The loop regularly brings better reports than the 6BTV and G5RV, I can strongly recommend the design posted previously. I am looking forward to getting the chance to try it out some more during the World Wide CQ contest this coming weekend. This weekend also celebrates meeting my lovely Lady Louise M3TLL which is the best thing that has ever happened. I am a lucky guy!
Last weekend I got to play /portable with my hand held radio whilst taking in the breath taking views of the Yorkshire Dales from the summit of Beamsley Beacon near by to Bolton Abbey in Wharfe Dale North Yorkshire.
I made some 50 mile to 80 mile distance QSO on 2m with 5 watts from the Kenwood th-f7 hand held rig. The little rig lives up to the name of "Handy" proving to work well with the Diamond SRH771 antenna for 145/433 mhz and wide band receive capabilities which I replaced the standard rubber duck with.
During my operations the bands were quite busy for a change and I worked quite a few different Stations on 2m and 70cms during my walk about with Louise and Dudley our Dog.
Radio has been good fun lately and I have met some nice people on the bands and I am looking forward to meeting many more the next time i switch one of my radios on.
Thanks for the visit 73 de 2E0HTS |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ October 24, 2007 |
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| Saturday, October 20, 2007 |
| 50th Jamboree On The Air |
Today has been a good day for Bradford North scouts, Bradford South scouts, Windhill Shipley scouts and Keighley Scouts who have all been active on the bands with the club station call sign MX0KSC. During the event the scouts got a chance to learn about Morse code, Q-codes, phonetics, International pre-fixes and call signs, as well as speaking world wide on amateur radio, also logging and e-qsl/qsling.
All of the scouts sucessfully completed a range of tasks enabling them to obtain a scouting radio communicator badge. They were all extremely happy with thier achievements.
The JOTA event is running all weekend and as it is celebrating 50 years of activity on Ham radio you can imagine all of the bands are extremely active with this celebration for jota. We spoke with 20 different Stations and all scouts spoke with each operator so if you multiply 40 scouts with 20 QSOs we had a total of 800 exchanges of voice contacts and greetings messages, not bad for 7 hrs of operation.
Thanks to all Stations worked and special thanks for your patience.
All the best of luck to other stations who will be on air all weekend.
73 de 2E0HTS |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ October 20, 2007 |
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| Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| Full Size Delta Loop for 20M |
I came across a simple delta loop design courtesy of dxzone found on the net some time ago and have been planning to give it a go for a while.
This weekend I had a couple of hours spare, so I decided to give it a go using some 2mm multi strand wire cable, a dipole centre and a mixture of 75 ohm and 50 ohm coaxial cable.
The delta loop is supposed to be resonant on 20 meters but I found it to be a little high so at present I am tuning the Loop with my mfj-969 which copes extremely well. The resonant frequency is 13.2 MHz at the moment so the next chance I get, I shall shorten the overall length making sure that each of the three sides are still equal in length, and hopefully adjusting the antenna for maximum performance ATU free for 14.2 MHz.
I believe the miscalculation in the resonant length is probably down to the fact that my wire is covered in the plastic sleeving from the manufacturer which always effects the swr as I have noticed in past experiments with dipoles you always get slight differences with sleeved and bare wire lengths, for accurate resonant results you will benefit by using bare hard drawn copper cable without sleeving. If you are into playing around and adjustments like myself plastic sleeved cable is a superb and cheap way to get the job done.
The basic layout of the 20 Meter Delta loop, each side is 7.71 meters in length with the feed point 3/4 of the way down one side (5.78 m from the top) fed by a quarter wavelength of 75 Ohm cable (3.5m long) which is connected to a 50 Ohm cable coax into the ATU
Despite having to use the ATU at the moment I am getting some great results and signal reports with QSOs being made into Alaska, Canada, Azores, Belarus, Italy and Slovenia.
The information given at dxzone recommends that the Delta Loop should be suspended vertically with the assistance of some tall trees. Unfortunately The trees near to my QTH are not so tall, so I decided to try the Loop in the horizontal position instead and like I said so far so good.
If you are thinking about trying one of these antennas you will not be disappointed and there is more info available at
Homebrew 20 Meter Delta Loop
Good luck and let me know how you get on all comments are appreciated.
I have been comparing the Delta loop to the G5RV and Hustler 6BTV, it's early days but seems to be working well on the 20 meter band. The Delta Loop and 6BTV both terminate at a two position switch which allows me to switch between the two antennas very easily.
73 to all and thanks for visiting Ham Radio, good Dx de 2E0HTS Simon in Yorkshire, North England. |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ October 09, 2007 |
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| Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| 50 Years of Space |
As most of you know its been 50 years since the historic launch of Sputnik. This link will take you to an interesting artical on Sputnik at the ARRL website.
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2007/09/28/03/
Its well worth a read if you havent seen it 73 all the best. |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ October 04, 2007 |
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| Saturday, September 29, 2007 |
| FT-100 VFO Rotary Encoder replacement |
For those of you that are regulars you will all know about the problems i have had in my mobile station over the last fortnight and for anyone who is here at ham radio for the first time,hello and welcome to my web blog.
After operating all week from the mobile on the recently fitted ft-857 I was now missing my old friend the ft-100 which was suffering with a locked up solid vfo with no easy way to tune up or down. So I struggled all week on the ft-857 that seems to not be able to blank out the rfi from the engine too well but still made a couple of QSOs on 20m, 40m, and 2m asking for a audio reports.
The Conclusion
FT-857 vs FT-100
The Old ft-100 in this case is better than the new ft-857 on Receive, Audio quality,and overall performance on HF and FM.
As for the ft-857, is easy to use and looks good but that's about it, as soon as the FT-100 gets back in its right full place the better.
Well, Karl G1YPQ got it right when in qso he was telling me that I did not sound as clear as usual despite trying numerous settings. "You would have thought that they would have taken the good bits that worked so well on the ft-100, and put them together with new improved technology then put it all in the box of a new ft-857 to produced an even better rig. But instead it seems that something did not quite go as planned, as the old rig seems to out perform the new one".
I agree with Karl and that's why I got on the telephone and spoke to some very helpful people at YAESU UK Limited, and was able to order a replacement rotary encoder (vfo) for the ft-100 at a total cost of £18.49. The service from yaesu uk was fantastic, friendly and knowledgeable and I ordered the part early Friday morning receiving it early Saturday morning, that's very fast for U.K. I was highly delighted to be on my way back to operating the ft-100 from the mobile as soon as the vfo transplant was completed. I decided to take some pictures to show how simple the task really was and the total time that the job took was less than 15 minuets.
Rotary Encoder courtesy of Yaesu UK limited cost £18.49. next day delivery.
Pull all the knobs off by hand, use a small allen key to unlock vfo nob after the rubber grip has been removed.
Remove the two screws from the rear panel of the head unit. Gently prize the the back panel open and separate.
Flip up the plastic clip that the tape power lead is plugged in, allowing it to be gently removed and separated.
Unscrew the brass locking nuts on the front panel nobs and vfo.
The radio head mother board will now detach and allow access to the board.
The damaged vfo rotary encoder is in view and still connected. Unclip the white connecting plug to detach.
The new vfo rotary encoder connected with the old damaged one removed
All parts can be re-assembled by carrying out the above in reverse, and more important,all fully functioning again ready for me to try wear it out again.
So a happy ending for the favorite rig of mine, I shall be fitting it back in the Toyota tomorrow curing all rfi and noise problems with the radios superior noise blanker, putting the ft-857 back in the home shack where it gets used for satellite tracking and to be fair it does an excellent job.
All ends well in this scenario and as a result of changing things around i decided to swap the QTH shack around some more, so I can work on the HF bands on my other older rig the ft-767gx with the MD-1, giving the ft-847 a break for a while from HF but trying it on vhf instead. I guess i shall be mentioning any noticeable results in the near future, but until the next post its 73 and all the best from Simon 2E0HTS Baildon Moor, Yorkshire, in the North of England. |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ September 29, 2007 |
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| Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| Update On New Radio In The Mobile |
I managed some good reports today whilst driving too and from my works QTH. At about 7.15 utc I worked into the Azores on 40m from the ft-857 with 50watts into a maldol hfc40 mono band antenna. I was given a 5/6 report which was well received at 5/9, I then tuned to 20m and switched to the hfc 20, where I managed a 5/9 into Italy just as I was arriving at work. The best report of all came on my home bound journey at around 15.45 utc from Gary EW1MM on 14.174mhz who I have made QSO with many times from my mobile, my home station, and at the STAR Centre.
Gary gave me a super critical report of sounding sharp and clear with a very occasional clip on the odd word.As soon as I was stationary I reduced the ssb mic gain down from 40 to 30. I will see how that setting works and hopefully it will be a true 5/9 if I can manage to refain from shouting into the mic, I have constant reminders from Louise that I can get quite loud when struglin to get through the QRM whilst in QSO. You no what its like when you get excited.
As far as the QRN I mentioned last time, the noise is only present on 14mhz whilst the engine is running, and when operating on 7mhz there is no noise what so ever. The next experiment will be re-routing of the coax to the 20m antenna mount, and I shall also check the mount ensuring a good earth to the chassis is still present.
But first, probably tomorrow morning I will exchange the 20m antenna to the mount of 40m antenna to see whether this eliminates the noise on 20m, if not I shall be trouble shooting as mentioned.
I would be grateful of any ideas and help, perhaps you have experienced something similar, if you have a few moments spare maybe you could comment with a magic cure that makes the rfi created by the engine disappear?
I shall catch up with you all soon with more on the ft-857/mobile in experimental mode. 73 tnx |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ September 25, 2007 |
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| Monday, September 24, 2007 |
| New Radio in My Mobile |
I have worn out the VFO on the magnificent little ft-100 that has served me well in my mobile. The rig works fine apart from the actual vfo that has now locked up which makes it awkward tuning around the bands using the select knob and mic buttons instead of the vfo, and of course driving at the same time.
After trying to operate this way for a couple of days, I soon decided to take the ft-100 out of the vehicle and exchange it for the ft-857 from the shack at my QTH.
The ft-100 will be ok interfaced to the p.c where my mouse, keypad, and screen control my rig. I will send off at the same time to yaesu UK and hopefully obtain a replacement VFO which looks fairly simple to install.
In the meantime I have been running the two rigs in reverse rolls, I am just about getting used to the changes in my mobile. I am not sure about the ft-857 on 20M or 40M as I have only had a couple of QSOs on each band so far, but apart from the electrical noise picked up from my Toyota Rav4 all is well. The ft-100 seemed to have a better resistance to QRN created from the vehicle ignition system unlike this more modern ft-857.
The ft-857 has a more pleasant sound through the same ext speaker especially when the engine is no longer running. I fitted an RFI choke close to the battery and another near the rig so hopefully time will tell of how the rig truly performs in the mobile after such an impressive predecessor the ft-100.
73 and if you hear me on I'd appreciate a report. |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ September 24, 2007 |
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| Saturday, September 22, 2007 |
| MX0KSC Keighley Star Centre QSL Cards |
MX0KSC is the Call Sign of the Keighley STAR Centre which is part of park Lane College Keighley. The Station has been active for around three years and was set up to promote Science, Technology, and Maths using the theme of space to inspire learning.The shack is found along side a mock space craft, mission control, laboratry and mars landscape all located in the STAR Centre.
Since the project started over 2000 students aged 6years to 86 years have visited the STAR Centre and experienced the Radio Comms Shack of MX0KSC and as previously mentioned, many scouts have gained radio communicator badges and some Air Cadets have recently passed their exam and now own foundation licences to operate Amateur Radio.
MX0KSC usually operates During the week days or evenings and sometimes Saturdays whilst engaged in training and learning, also on special events such as JOTA, TDOTA, Scout Camps, National science week and Keighley show.
The Club station is run by , Louise M3TLL, Phil M1PAC, Barry 2E0OOC and myself Simon 2E0HTS as well as our fellow licenced club members. When you hear us on the bands, we are often in the company of the public, school children, college students and uniformed organisations such as Scouts Guides and Cadets, So if you hear us get ready for a big audience in the shack and maybe a few questions from the students/audience.
Here are the QSL Cards that you are likely to receive when we are operating the college club station MX0KSC.
Operator Simon 2E0HTS and logging Phil M1PAC
We hope that we will be filling in your Call sign on the back of this.
Operator Louise M3TLL on the mic & Phil M1PAC on PSK31
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| posted by MØYKS Simon @ September 22, 2007 |
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| Morse Code From The Begining |
History of Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Jedidiah Morse, a pastor. Samuel Morse trained as an artist and worked as a portrait painter until the 1830s. However, today Morse is remembered for inventing the electric telegraph and the related code system known as Morse Code in 1837.
In 1832, while returning from a period of art study in Europe on the ship Sully, Morse overheard a conversation about the newly discovered electromagnet and came up with the idea of an electric telegraph.
The electric telegraph was basically an electrical circuit made up of a battery, a key, and an electromagnet, all connected by wire. The battery created electricity that travelled along the wire. The key, at one end of the wire, was pressed down to complete the electrical circuit. The electromagnet, at the other end of the wire, had a pencil attached to it, which moved and made a mark on a paper tape whenever the electric current passed through it. The marks were short or long, depending on how long the key was held down, which led Morse to develop a code of dots and dashes that corresponded to each letter of the alphabet.
In 1840 Morse patented his new code that used combinations of dots and dashes to represent all 26 letters in the alphabet and numbers from 1 to 10. This code, known as Morse code was developed to use over telegraph wires, he was not trying to make a secret code, he wanted a code that could be used easily by many people. Morse code is arranged for the easiest possible use. As E is the most frequently used letter in the English alphabet, Morse gave it the shortest sound – a single dot. T is the next most frequently used letter and it has the next shortest sound – a single dash.
In 1843, Morse secured funds from Congress to construct the first telegraph line in the U. S. from Baltimore to Washington D.C. Then on May 24, 1844, from the Capitol building in Washington, Morse sent a Biblical quotation as the first message on the line to Baltimore: "What Hath God Wrought!"
In April 1845, the line was opened for public business under the control of the US Post Office. One cent for every four characters was charged. During the first four days, one cent was received. By the end of the week, the receipts had risen to one dollar. Morse had developed what was to become a popular and successful method of communication.
An advantage of the Morse is that you could hear the signal arrive meant trained operators could translate incoming messages as fast as they could be sent. Morse’s original code was the sound of long and short clicks but the code you hear now is long and short beeps.
The Morse Code alphabet we use today is known as Modern International Morse code and was invented by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848.
Morse died of pneumonia in New York City on April 2, 1872, at the age of 80. He is buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery.
Morse Code is now not in popular use, however there are many marine radio operators and soldiers with a knowledge of Morse and the code is still used by radio amateurs around the world. It can still provided a way of getting urgent messages through by lights or flashing mirrors - or when other communications systems break down. Whatever the case, dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot is still widely recognised as 'S-O-S' - and one day, that might just save your life.
We know Morse as dot dot and dash dash, but operators are trained to say 'Di di' and 'dah dah'. Morse code can be a “sound” code by tapping with pencils, snapping fingers, or blowing whistles. It can be a “sight” code by waving flags, flashing lights or moving items slowly or quickly. Morse is very useful as it can be heard when other signals may be too weak to be heard.
Morse Code is also known as CW or Continuous/Carrior Wave which is the type of wave used to transmit Morse Code.
I Hope you liked this post as it was put together by louise M3TLL. Thanks Louise I look forward to some more posts soon. 88 & 73
Useful links
http://www.wrvmuseum.org/fun_morsecode.htm
http://www.philtulga.com/morse.html |
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| Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| Thanks For Looking At Ham Radio Operator dot Blogspot |
Here is the location of the last 100 visitors
Thanks for visiting 73 to you |
| posted by MØYKS Simon @ September 17, 2007 |
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| Back To Work After The Summer Break |
I hope you like the new blog look that Louise has found me.
The past week has been very busy at the College where I work.There are many new Students starting new courses in various Vocational subjects. Its the one of the busiest times so you can imagine I am running around trying to remember everyones names. I am looking forward to seeing these young learners progress and succeed and at the moment its good to see some good behavior and enthusiasm from young learners.
As you may have guessed it has not been so easy to play radio the last few evenings.
I have been riding the recently purchased Kawasaki 750 to work due to the good weather lasting, so working mobile has been limited.Its been fun and also saved me a fortune on petrol.
This Thursday evening I am gonna be in the STAR Centre with Louise M3TLL, we will be helping a group of Ranger Scouts learn a bit more about radio and propagation with the aid of the Centres Radio Communication shack situated next to the MARS Landscape. It should be a good night and the course will be in two parts so i get to do some more in a fortnight. I shall probably have more to say in the near future.
Coming up in OCTOBER on Saturday the 20th will be Jamboree on The Air where we usually have Cubs and Scouts visiting from West and North Yorkshire. I will be mainly on the HF Bands, 80m,40m and 20m from 9-4pm with my own callsign and hopefully we will operate MX0KSC once i get conformation that my fellow club mate Phil M1PAC can attend.
I shall attempt to call CQ on 2m in the hope that we hear another local Scout station as previous calling on 145.500 has proved to be a rare thing when any response is heard from well received local amateurs.
I am always happy to speak with distant amateurs who take the time to quickly say a few friendly words to the students in the shack, this always puts a smile on all who are in the vicinity of the Yaesu FT 1000 mp mkV. This rig is the same one used in the video of MX0KSC/p and has performed well up until the minor fault we had the other week,but seems good now.
The students often log many other stations and usually i try to split each group up giving them all certain tasks to do with a 30 minuet time span encouraging each group to compete against the other. This usually results in hundreds of Radio Amateur and broadcast stations been logged and found on the many bands using the rigs and receivers in the facility during the day. Its usually a good fun day for all.
that's it for now and hopefully ill be more active on the bands in the up and coming days. So if you hear me give me a shout or just say hello.
73 all the best Simon. |
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