Yep late on updating the websites. My first broken bone in my life, greater tuberosity fracture of the left humerus. Been in an air splint since November 11th… kinda looks like a rotator cuff injury. You don’t think about things you cannot do until you cant… like tying a shoe, tucking in your shirt and the list goes on.
Oh well… i’ll find out if I’m going to have surgery on the 28th of January.
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
Added RS746.ZIP to the Documents & Downloads section – Allows you to control and edit memories of the IC-746/Pro. Was sold years ago by Icom but abandoned.
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
Just added the Kantronics Kam Manual to the Documents & Files.
-Doug
KD4MOJ
From the APRSSIG TAPR mailing list:
The next beta build of YAAC (Yet Another APRS Client) is available, with the following new features:
1. correct and user-seletable units for displaying weather station barometric pressure.
2. bookmarking selecting pan/zoom settings of the map for quick re-use later.
3. Winlink e-mail message composer to sending e-mails via the APRSlink gateway.
4. assorted minor GUI and online help clean-ups.
5. improved performance of topographic map backgrounds.
YAAC can be downloaded in both binary and source-code forms from http://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html or http://sourceforge.net/projects/yetanotheraprsc
Enjoy!
Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO
On another note, I do plan on the instruction video of this fine new client. The map install is quite different that any other APRS client out there. I the started a video on the previous version but had a hard drive crash. Of course I hadn’t updated my image in two months so that was lost. Stay Tuned!
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
Ok folks, I just wrote up the instructions for the Prolific CAT Cable driver instructions. Instead of putting the instructions in a post, I decided to write them up in a PDF. You can find the documentation and files by clicking on the Documentation Menu item above (top right).
Let me know what you think!
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
Catchy name and a nice program to boot! Written in JAVA. I plan on doing a video write-up here in a few days. It’s still in Alpha stage but I haven’t run across any bugs yet. You can check it out here.
Check back later for screenshots and a write-up.
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
The KD4MOJ-5 APRS digi has been relocated from Quincy to Greensboro. The Quincy tower was removed for a housing development and the Mojo-5 has been off the air for some time now. The new digi location is on a Sprint tower @ 225 ft along I-10 courtesy of K4GFD.
You can click this link to see the new location.
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
Ok… after the 2012 Field Day, I got my digital edge back on. After taking a 6 month break and operating the digital station at FD, I decided to fire up the digital home station. Most of my digital operations previously has been Hellschreiber (FeldHell) which is a really fun mode. Mainly because it’s different from any other mode. Instead of seeing text on the screen such as RTTY or PSK31, FH is “painted” on the screen almost looking like a horizontal fax document. Check out the FeldHell Club for more info
My new love is JT65-HF by Joe Large, W6CQZ. A good resource with documentation and software links for this mode is IZ4CZL’s site. This is not a QSO mode but a structured mode. Each transmission last about 48 seconds, followed by 12 seconds allowed for decoding. A typical QSO with the structured exchanges last 7 minutes. An accurate clock is a must (actually required) since you have to be able to decode within the alloted time and then reply at the top of the next minute. A drift in the PC clock greater than 2 seconds will render the QSO useless. I’ve had good luck with Dimension4 NTP software.
I usually hang out on 30 Meters (10.138) or 17 meters (18.102). When conditions are permitting, you will find those two frequencies really active. Big solar flair yesterday caused most of the HF bands to die!
(Courtesy of US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5m.html )
My primary digital station is an ICOM 756 Pro III and a SignaLink USB sound card interface. It’s a little pricey but in this case, you get what you pay for. Customer Service is A+! as well. Currently running a random wire dipole fed up 65 feet on the tower with an ICOM AH-4 remote tuner. That puppy works like a charm… a little pricey as well but worth it.
Enough updating for now… fire up JT65-HF and meet me on the bands!
…DOUG
KD4MOJ
Just posted a pdf on how to program the M710 through the radio menus. I’m also including a link to the ICOM programming utility called EX1726. There are better programs to use like Howards, N3ZH, Ham Radio Integrator (HRI) program. Visit the Yahoo group to learn more.
-Doug, KD4MOJ