Sorry I hit send by mistake before I was finished my last email. Some takeaways for me: -If I decide to buy another vehicle that I plan to rove from I expect I will look inquire about various vehicle
Re the life of SLI batteries for vehicles. I used to believe that if I changed my batteries every five years I would be almost guaranteed of not having any battery issues. Often when replacing batter
Re Subaru's... If anyone owns a Subaru Forester and has measured the charging and float voltages with the engine running I wouldn't mind chatting off list.. I'm glad to hear lots of Subaru owners use
Nice post. I'll just add that if I was starting with a "clean sheet of paper" I'd take a long look at using LiFePO4 batteries as opposed to sealed lead acid batteries in the cab of my truck. In my ex
I would generally agree with using JT65 (sub mode C) on 1296. That has worked ok for me in the past for long haul terrestrial use on 1296. That being said I'd probably be inclined to practice sending
In my experience in South West VE7 Land and the PNW during contests SSB / CW activity on 144 MHz generally seems to go up from 144.200 in 10 KHz steps. I realize in an area where significant SSB/CW a
It is interesting to me that the new JT modes seem to be emphasizing speed. From my perspective I view the digital modes as a means of completing qso's that can't be done with traditional analog mode
I'm thinking receiver AGC (if it is used) and or the dynamic range of typical "sound cards" may lead to very weak signals not being decoded if there are very strong signals present at the same time
I am glad someone else agrees with me about the potential effects of AGC in this context (: 73 Mark S VE7AFZ mark@alignedsolutions.com 604 762 4099 _______________________________________________ VHF
I'm still un decided about the digital mode issue for VHF and up contesting. I like the process gain that the digital modes can provide for making contacts under difficult conditions and or exploitin
Well they may not be "magic" but in my experience digital modes at times do seem to enable qso's that would be difficult or perhaps even impossible with traditional analog modes. For example I recall
There have been some nice exchanges of ideas so far in this thread. The irony for me about the move to FT8 is that in practice I seem to struggle more to make FT8 contacts on 50 MHz from remote place
Hi: I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts about the relative merits of using mix 31 or mix 43 ferrite snap on cores for pro active use on interconnection cables at 50 MHz. Over the years I have used
Thanks that is helpful. My use case is more along the lines of pro actively putting ferrite cores on USB, audio and other similar cables that are used in a typical portable 50 MHz station but I suspe
After reflecting a bit on a recent back country grid activation in an area known for Grizzly bears I do see some more merit in modes that don't require a lot of operator involvement. Initially during
Hi: I'm curious does anyone have any recent experience with 70 cm antennas with a boom length of 6 feet or less that are centre mounted ? I'm looking for something light for backpacking that can be s
Over the last five years or so that I have been moderately seriously engaging in VHF and up contesting I have yet to decide on a single approach to "running the bands" or not. I usually don't "run th
Some radios may also require an additional step to mute and un mute the microphone when switching between data modes and ssb. Not a huge issue but one more thing to worry about and it can be easy to
Interesting.. Back when I was more interested in WSJT I briefly ran two laptops in my rover (for 50 and 144 MHz.) It didn't occur to me to try and run both bands on a single computer. I will revisit
Or perhaps be able to work a station twice on one band using any two separate modes (ie. Digital, Phone or CW) That way operators who didn't want to run digital could run Phone and CW and still be ab