Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital OPS: QRP Battery Portable

2010-05-01 Thread Tony
Andy, Nice laptop - wish I had one of those! The mini Acer runs ok with DM780 and Multipsk, but the eyes do get a tired of looking at the tiny fonts. The battery lasts a long time though so that's a plus. Speaking of batteries, I can usually get 2 hours of air time out of the FT-897D and

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital OPS: QRP Battery Portable

2010-05-01 Thread Andy obrien
Nice video Tony, amazing little antenna! On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Tony d...@optonline.net wrote: A The PY1AHD Alexloop continues to amaze me; working Europeans QRP with a hand-held loop that's only 3 feet in diameter is something only a ham would appreciate. It turned out to be a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Digital OPS: QRP Battery Portable

2010-05-01 Thread Tony
On 5/1/2010 6:19 AM, Andy obrien wrote: Nice video Tony, amazing little antenna! Thanks Andy... I was wondering if you had a particular portable rig in mind? I could be wrong, but it seems there are only 3 battery powered HF rigs on the market today; the Icom 703, Yaesu 817 and the Yaesu

[digitalradio] Re: Digital OPS: QRP Battery Portable

2010-04-30 Thread obrienaj
Interesting Tony. I just got my ham software installed on my company laptop (takes the IT folks a while). I have Multipsk, Fldigi, HRD/DM780, Microkeyer device router, SpectraVue and SDR-Radio Console all working nicely . It's a fairly big laptop rather than a mini-netbook, 17 inch screen