Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-26 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
Look at Backblaze for secure off-site backup - http://www.backblaze.com This allows you to create an encryption phrase that only you know (they do not know or store it) so what goes over the web and into their servers is encrypted and secure. 73 de David, M0XDF (43 yrs in IT, 18 working for a

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-24 Thread Richard Fjeld
information about me. That woke me up. Dick, n0ce - Original Message - From: Jeff Herr To: d...@w3fpr.com ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation you are doing it every day. Verisign, the banks

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-24 Thread Hop - AC8NS
- Original Message - From: Jon Kåre Hellan hel...@acm.org To: Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 3:20 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation But of you do use the cloud, the NSA keeps a backup for you. Very useful. Jon

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-23 Thread Jon Kåre Hellan
But of you do use the cloud, the NSA keeps a backup for you. Very useful. Jon LA4RT Den 23. juni 2013 kl. 05:47 skrev Phil Kane k2...@kanafi.org: On 6/22/2013 9:28 AM, Doug Person wrote: Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot of the user interface rendering

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-22 Thread Doug Person
Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot of the user interface rendering onto the client. Not at all like dumb terminals. The Cloud is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe did. And we are only scratching the surface. Better to think of cloud

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-22 Thread Phil Kane
On 6/22/2013 9:28 AM, Doug Person wrote: Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot of the user interface rendering onto the client. Not at all like dumb terminals. The Cloud is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe did. And we are only scratching the

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-22 Thread Don Wilhelm
Phil, IMHO, that is a wise decision. While the cloud is supposed to be secure, I have my doubts. The only thing I would consider committing to the cloud would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now, my RAID file server serves that purpose quite nicely, although it does not

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-22 Thread Jeff Herr
@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Phil, IMHO, that is a wise decision. While the cloud is supposed to be secure, I have my doubts. The only thing I would consider committing to the cloud would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now, my RAID file server

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Richard Fjeld
PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread mzilmer
-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard Fjeld Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 7:35 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Larry Ewan
I just made a round-trip from Florida to Montana in the past two weeks, scanning the 2M and 70CM simplex channels and repeaters along the way. In 6 days on the road I heard exactly one conversation. And it was on 146.520 between two 18 wheeler hams on I-90 in South Dakota. Larry N9JY On

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Milt -- N5IA
in the southwest US. Also see http://nm5ml.com/ for total New Mexico coverage. Good luck in your travels. de Milt, N5IA -Original Message- From: Larry Ewan Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:01 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation I just made

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Fred Smith
...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard Fjeld Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:35 AM To: Ron D'Eau Claire; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound. Seriously though, repeater activity is almost

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Richard Fjeld
...@magellangps.com To: rpfj...@embarqmail.com ; r...@cobi.biz ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:58 AM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation Aren't many repeaters collocated with other commercial equipment on those giant (1500') broadcast towers we see all over

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Tony Estep
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Richard Fjeld rpfj...@embarqmail.comwrote: repeater activity is almost dead... == There are about 30 repeaters audible from my QTH, some on 2M and some on 440. My 2M/440 radio is turned on and scanning them much of the time. Some days I hear no

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Jim Lowman
I think that's true in many places, Dick. Ten years ago, there were some repeaters here in the greater LA area that were hopping 24/7. Now, with many of them...silence. I have no idea what caused the change. 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 6/21/2013 7:35 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Here in the plains

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Milt -- N5IA
Cellular telephones and Twitter accounts. = -Original Message- From: Jim Lowman Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:05 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation I think that's true in many places, Dick. Ten

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Fred Jensen
Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which involved me in a lot of the former]. I read one paper, from Japan I think, about

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Phil Kane
On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: And computing in a cloud really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud. Computing in a cloud is nothing more than an updated version of mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s. Now where did I put that

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Phil Kane
On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which involved me in a lot of the former]. I

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-21 Thread Walter Underwood
On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Phil Kane wrote: Computing in a cloud is nothing more than an updated version of mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s. Now where did I put that VT-100 ?? G Not even close. I've done both and they are categorically different. Mainframes were single

[Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-20 Thread Harlan
I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams. Harlan NC3C Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-20 Thread kevinr
Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal for SSB and CW. Kevin. KD5ONS On 6/20/2013 5:46 PM, Harlan wrote: I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams. Harlan NC3C Sent from my

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-20 Thread Michael Eberle
I keep my 13 element 2m beam horizontal for SSB work. I have some kind of pulsating interference from an unknown source in the FM portion of the band for it to be of much use. Mike KI0HA On 6/20/2013 7:46 PM, Harlan wrote: I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Flowers
I have mine horizontally oriented for SSB and CW. It's an old 10-element beam and seems to do OK for FM repeater use as well. -- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - We do DX! On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:04 PM, kevinr kev...@coho.net wrote: Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal

Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

2013-06-20 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high gain antenna to reach it? Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in line-of-sight from the rig. The Yagi's and other