On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Ed Stallman <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 09:02 PM 6/26/2010, Tim Ellison wrote: > > Ain't that a blast? Now think of all the thank you notes (QSL cards) you > have to write. > > > -Tim > > Brian , Thanks for the 6m contact and new 6m DX # 102.. Yes Brian my QSL > card will be in Mondays Mail , with SASE of corse > Rig Flex 5000A > Amp HB GS35A > ANT HB 10 el 51ft boom > I guess it is safe to say, "yours is bigger than mine." :-) Oh lord, I was *totally* unprepared. I was trying to hold the mic with my left hand and enter the data into the log (fldig -- ssb mode) with my right hand as it was getting dark. With just a computer screen for light you can't see to do much. :-) The biggest problem I had was trying to copy people who were a couple hundred Hz high. Oh MAN did I want a RIT knob so bad I could taste it. Using the trackpad on the Mac to make fine changes with the PSDR screen half-obscured by fldigi just, uh, sucks. Today I will probably hook up my mini mouse and then see if I can bind the mouse wheel to the RIT control. (Tim?) Anyway, it was still fun and certainly a learning experience. Who'd a thought that a rectangular 10M piece of wire tuned with an autotuner would have worked so well. I must admit, I was certainly happy to work those stations that were armchair copy. I suspect you were one but for some reason it all seems to run together. :-) Now I have to QSL. I was never able to set up LoTW for J79BPL, probably because they don't have any sort of on-line registry that the ARRL can lookup. (There just aren't that many J7 hams I have discovered.) I suppose the simplest thing would be to send real QSL cards ... if I had any. Maybe that will be a project while here. Does anyone care if the mail actually comes from the country in question? (Yeah, I could use some help here. Computers and computer networks? No problem. DX? Uh, not so much.) Just an observation, but when running WSPR from here using my funky loop I have probably 3-4 times as many spots as I do from my home station, and that is on any band. It may be time to try some different antennas at home. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.931.492.6776 (+1.931.4.WB6RQN) _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
