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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:02:45 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>HF Vertical</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, I finally finished getting my Shakespeare AT-1011 military vertical and SGC SG-230 coupler installed. I had to reinforce the patio roof as it wasn't screwed together very well. I 'doubled up' the 2x2 stringers running across with some clear pine 1x2's, and added angle brackets to everything. Then I found some plastic storage boxes that fit both the SG-230 coupler, and the Balun Designs 1:1 Isolation Balun (really an "Un-Un"). I used two plastic cutting boards inside the SGC box to mount the coupler to, and to act as a 'back up' plate because the plastic box is kind of thin-walled. I made a ground buss for the 10 gauge radials from a piece of scrap aluminum stock I had, and some 1/4-20 nuts and bolts. Hit a snag because I'd bought this coupler years ago and threw it on the shelf without ever testing it. Well, after I had everything installed, it wouldn't tune! Turns out the wire from the circuit board to the ceramic output terminal inside the plastic box had come loose, along with the input coax where it tightens down into the terminal strip. The PL-259 on the input coax need replacing, too, as it had the wrong adapter for the RG-58 coax, and it was very poorly soldered. Pulled the SG-230 back out, opened it up, tightened all the connections, and now it works like gangbusters. It's a 24' vertical (I left two 4' sections out), with four 34' elevated radials. It loads up with a VSWR of 1.2:1 or less on all bands between 160 and 10, even though it's waay too short to be a good radiator on 160.
Oh, and I also had to swap out the Astron SS-30 I was using to power my FlexRadio 5000. It generated S9 switching noise when it was on, and since the ambient at my new QTH is S2 or less, it totally wiped out the bands. I went back to my trusty old VS-35M, a linear supply.
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One man's Magic is another man's Engineering.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-25 00:05:26</pubDate>
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<title>ARRL Phone Sweepstakes This Weekend</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm going to *try* and have my HF antenna back up at my new QTH. The Phone Sweepstakes is always a good time to grab more states if you need them for WAS, and probably some decent DX, too.
Rules for the 2009 SS are here:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/novss.html
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One man's Magic is another man's Engineering.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-17 13:36:51</pubDate>
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<title>FRS Task Assignment Listing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have been asked by a local organization to do some emergency planning for a small community response group.

As part of that, I have developed the attached document listing the channels and the assignments for FRS radios.

The rational is that each task is assigned a channel to work on with the low power channels being assigned to small teams and the high power being assigned to command and control tasks.

The local area is small approximately 2 miles in diameter at most with some fortuitous elevation changes that can be used to great advantage.

As to the use of the 'code', I am still considering this and have no firm opinion one way or the other.

By the way, the command locations have dedicated scanners that scan all of these channels. Public Safety is scanned on another scanner(S).

Comments? Suggestions?
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. 
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<pubDate>2009-11-20 18:03:14</pubDate>
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<title>Unknown RTTY</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can anyone get this to decode?  I found this RTTY at 173.395MHz, and I can't get HRD/DM780 to decode any of it.  JAWS is acting up when I try to change baud rates, and since I don't know what the rate is anyway, I can't figure it out.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-08 04:37:00</pubDate>
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<title>Control scanner over IP/Network</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23355995</link>
<description><![CDATA[Does anyone know any good (Preferably free) programs that can remotely control a scanner VIA TCP/IP, and better, be able to stream the audio from that scanner over the connection. 

Basically I want to put a scanner on a mountain top where it will have a massive range, and pipe the control and audio feeds back to a computer which I will have a microwave link to the mountain top to pass my Ethernet link. 

Anyone know of any scanners (Preferably ones that can do trunking/digital/yes-I-am-greedy-and-want-it-all) that nativly have networking integrated with them, and any recommended or stock programs that can be used to operate them. 
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Justin - DSLR resident grouch and Mr Negativity
TSI Fanboy - "Dontchya wish your 'net was hot like mine! Ohhh Dontchya!"
Have a nice day!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-17 19:08:21</pubDate>
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