| PowerSDR for Flex Radio or HPSDR - 3 new custom skins
SmartSDR 1 | 
SmartSDR 2 | 
SINCGARS Military |
»www.w1aex.com/psdr/psdr.html
As always, they are free. Installation instructions are at the site along with instructions for making your own custom skins. Help yourself to anything there!
73,
Rob W1AEX
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 drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
kudos:3 | Thanks, Rob!
I'm still putting my shack back together, but I bookmarked your site, and I'll try them later in the week.
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| Hope you get your station back together without incident Jim! Whenever I tear into mine it's always an adventure as the "hidden" wiring behind the operating bench looks like the NYC sewer system. Help yourself to anything you see there. Are you resisting the urge to move to the 6000 hardware platform? I have worked several guys who are running the 6500 and one who has the 6700. The software is very limited at this point but they really seem to like what they see so far. I plan to stick with my 5000 until it begins to bore me, which doesn't seem likely for quite awhile!
73,
Rob W1AEX
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drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
kudos:3 Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
| HAH!
Mine was getting to that point, so I thought I'd clean it up.
My stepson and his girlfriend moved out two months ago, so the room we "shared" became all mine.
After his weight bench and weights were moved out, and most of her clothes and "stuff", I had a nice 10' x 10' room to myself.
Pulled everything out, cleaned the carpet but didn't paint, got some more desktops and cabinet units from Ikea, and I'm sloooowly getting everything back together.
Later this year I'll be putting up a 30' tower and either a modified Cushcraft MA-5B, or a HexBeam.
I'll be keeping my 5000 for the foreseeable future. I'm planning on getting a new high-end radio, but I want one with knobs and buttons, that won't slide around when I plug my headphones into it!
Looking at the Yaesu FTdx-5000MP, or the new Kenwood TS-990.
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Traffie Hex Beam |
Rob W1AEX
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drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
kudos:3 Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| Looks great!
A buddy of mine has a Traffie and just loves it.
I already have the MA5B 'mini beam' sitting in a box in the garage. It was one of the last "Genuine Cushcraft" ones before MFJ bought them. It has a feed arrangement that uses a single coax, which results in a narrow bandwidth on 12 and 17 meters. It's basically a 2 element beam for 10/15/20 with a dipole for 12/17, feed by a single coax through some kind of network.
A guy on eHam got rid of the network box, and fed his with two separate cables, and the reduced bandwidth on 12 and 17 was now full-band! If I put the MA5B up I'll feed it that way.
Otherwise I'll go with one of the K4KIO hex beams, on a Universal aluminum tower. I have a Yaesu G-800DXA rotor that I used for my 2M/70cm antennas at my apartment, and I'll use that.
For 40 meters I have what I'm using now, a Shakespeare AT-1011 military vertical mounted on my patio roof with elevated radials and an SGC 230 tuner mounted at the feed point.
I took 2 of the 4' sections out of it so it's closer to 5/8 wave on 10 Meters, and I'll put them back in so it's a full quarter wave on 40.
It works pretty well on all bands now, but there's NOTHING like having a couple of elements up a half wavelength or more!
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