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07 : Blog
12 Post(s) for July 2023
| Thu 27 July 2023 | 27/07/23 09:00 BST | radio, k2 | |
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| 2023 Radio Update | 12/07/23 09:00 BST | radio | |
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Thu 27/03/25 : A 60m SSB QSO
I'm making an effort to pick up the mic and have SSB contacts and I've had my first one of the year on 60m.
Listening on 5320kHz I heard a weakish CQ call from M0JMV and replied a few times, but no joy… then I was called by G4MQL, with a 59 signal report (both ways).
It still feels a little alien speaking rather than typing or sending dots and dashes but it somehow transports me back to when I first got interested in radio back in the 1980s and got my callsign. Why have I largely ignored 'phone modes in the last 20 years?
I will have more SSB contacts. I have even put my morse keys and bugs away for a while and am waiting for delivery of a new HF radio, FT-891, bought with the express intention to use it purely for SSB.
I've been using the 60m band since we first got access via a Notice of Variation, but 90% of this has been in digimodes (mostly Olivia) with some CW and a little SSB.
But…. I'm also interested in the use of 60m for “normal” phone QSOs - I listen a LOT to 60m SSB operation, be it amateur or commercial/aeronuatical (and in the past to the Cadets, where have they all gone??) I now want to get more involved in things instead of listening/watching from the sidelines.
Onwards and upwards.
Sun 09/03/25 : A New Blogging platform?
I've recently (yesterday, Saturday 8th March) set up a blogging platform on my Virtual Private Server.
Sun 09/03/25 : Tweaking The Blog Setup
I've added a config value for the blog plugin
dateprefix ⇒ %Y:
This should make a sub-namespace of (e.g.) public:blog:2025 and each year's blog entries will be together in one year's sub-namspace.
Thu 08/08/24 : Zettelkasten
I'm getting interested in the Zettelkasten concept again…. after looking at it last year.
Thu 01/08/24 : DM41X
Calculators
I've had the DM41X homage/clone of the HP41CX for a few years now, and after an initial period where I learned some of its features and explored a some plugin modules I found it a little cumbersome with the frequent need to explicitly spell out XEQALPHAFACTALPHA the function required. In the HP41 the keys can be remapped using the USER keyboard assignment, but there are only so many unused keys to play with.