SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The Story of Space X” and “Tour of the Constellation Scutum”
Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL
Month: July 2016
Favorite Brand Radio Results
An unscientific poll was conducted and ran for about a week here on the W5FC.ORG site and it was asking about your favorite brand of Amateur radio – above are the results. Thanks for polling with us if you participated.
Lecture and Lab: the Tuner Works!
The End-Fed Half-Wave tuner we built at yesterday’s lecture and lab really does work! I disconnected the tuner from my base rig and cut some wires to the “30 meter” length printed on the PCB. The half-wave wire was tied to an old railroad spike that I threw up into a pecan tree. The counterpoise is sort of lying on the back deck.
Skynet “Soviet Space (Part 3)” & Tour Constellation Sagittarius 9PM CT Saturday
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Soviet Space (Part 3)” and “Tour of the Constellation Sagittarius”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie at 10:30: Night of the Comet
W5FC 146.880 Maintenance Completed
Bernie (K5BP) and David (KG5EIU) completed some maintenance on the W5FC 146.880 repeater stack including the voter and SCOM controller. New updated SCOM controller code was loaded with some tweeks and some “fancy” test equimpent was used to fine-tune the voter and adjust some signal potentiometers. Keep us posted on any performance issues or drop us a note here.
W5FC D-STAR Internet Connected!
Good News!! After a long wait the W5FC D-STAR repeater stack was successfully reconnected to the Internet today July 17, 2016. We ran into some issues with the VHF repeater and while that repeater will link and unlink the RF output power is very weak – further troubleshooting will be required at a later time but the UHF and 1.2GHz repeaters should be just fine – please let us know if you have any issues or questions just drop us a note here.
JT-65: Big Contacts, Small Station, Tiny Antenna
JT-65 is a digital mode designed for weak-signal work.
Skynet Tonight! Total Eclipse of 2017 & Constellation Cygnus the Swan 9PM CT
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017” and “Tour of the Constellation Cynus the Swan”
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