With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
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Articles on amateur radio, array solution and K9ZW operation.
K9ZW Steve is an amateur extra first licensed in 1989 as KB9GPN.
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
16h ago
Just finished a multi-day troubleshooting, repair and clean up following a simple loose power connector. May 14th operating remote my station went down. Remotely rebooted the radio, and it went down over an over. Ran okay on Receive, but croaked on transmit. And my remote client software was acting weird. Things being what they were ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1d ago
The ARRL Logbook of the World has been kaput for a week as I type. The system, plus the learning center at the ARRL, sort of went “poof” disappearing in total. About two years ago LoTW was down but the auxiliary servers continued to accept and queued submissions. Not so this time. This time the ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1d ago
Had been invited to a French car meet-up in Southern Wisconsin. Really more focused on Citroen cars. I couldn’t take the very new to me CX Prestige, as its paperwork & plates haven’t been issued. So I had intended to drive my CX Pallas Automatic, as it is a pretty plush ride, nicely air conditioned ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
6d ago
The new Flex-8400/8600 Radios parallels the Flex-6400/6600 (and M versions) in an updated architecture. The plain Flex-8400 (single SCU) and Flex-8600 (dual SCU) (SCU is Spectrum Capture Unit) look like the Flex-6400 and Flex-6600. M models have the look of the Maestro-C face on the same basic overall shape. The connector in-outs are similar with ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1w ago
This week is the usual pre-Hamvention guessing game. Those not in the know guess at what will be announced and those who are in the know hide lest they spill the beans earlier than marketing’s official release moment. This 2024 cycle of suspense has all of us closely watching FlexRadio, Icom and Yaesu for product ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1w ago
Working FT8 from my Washington Island station, a Flex-6700 to a ZeroFive flagpole vertical via a TGXL tuner and idling PGXL amp. Listening to Pandora via a Sonos Connect:AMP to a pair of random speakers cable-tied to the rafters. The Sonos kit is apparently one of the ones that only works with the older Sonos ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1w ago
Two hams sent me pictures of the auroras from the solar storm. Both photos were taken Sunday evening May 12th (2024) during the period where several successive CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) were enhancing the opportunity for a big light show of Northern Lights. First picture was taken between 30,000 and 40,000 feet from a East ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1w ago
Like many hams I keep semi-dormant accounts using my callsign at various social media. I seldom actually use these auxiliary accounts, mostly holding them to minimize traffic that by use of my callsign looks like I was the source. So interestingly this morning as I did my first clearing of emails, I found a message ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
1w ago
Up on Washington Island. Great super smooth ride across on the newest of the ferries. Had trouble getting to sleep as the solar storm’s Aurora was quite bright. Alison’s Citroen 2CV6 ended up with a broken front grill over the winter. Thought something hit it, but investigating glued repairs found the plastic grill had simply ..read more
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings
2w ago
Today the boom manlift was delivered. And of course it promptly started raining. In past when rental lifts were delivered my local weather went bad at delivery as well. Project work will start soon. But not in the rain! 73 Steve K9ZW ..read more