Today has been a very long day. In 94+ degree heat we managed to get four of our antennas for Field Day up. A 160 Windom, an 80 Windom, a 40 M dipole and a fan dipole.
Tomorrow we will work on getting our 3 element beam up, a 40 M vertical and two 6M beams [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 26, 2009
Field Day 2009
June 25, 2009
IBCNU APRS iPhone App has updated.
The IBCNU APRS iPhone app has finally been released by the Appstore. After field day weekend I hope to sit down and check out the new gui interface and features and finally put out that review I have been promising.
Right now the new update isn’t connecting to the APRS servers. Got to figure out what’s [...]
June 25, 2009
Field Day
Will be operating Field Day with Chesapeake Amateur Radio (W4CAR.ORG) at Deep Creek Locks Park. Hope to meet some of you folks on the air!
I will be twittering during field day under @W4CAR. I will also be checking out @KG4ZXK on there from time to time. I hope to get a lot of radio time [...]
June 21, 2009
IRLP 4865 Down…
Due to power surge the IRLP node is down until further notice. I have to figure out what is bad on the computer and replace those items.
June 15, 2009
Way to go Steve Jobs!
For people that do not own an iPhone you have to use iTunes to sync music, etc to your phone. The one thing that always ticked me off is you cannot make a ring tone from a CD that you own that you have loaded into iTunes to play on your phone. So I never [...]
June 11, 2009
Testing the Iphone APRS App, IBCNU
Well… It appears that Apple’s App store has not posted the newest update to this software for downloading as of this morning.
So as soon as Apple does and I’m able to play with the software I will post a review. If you go to iTunes you will see new screen shots for the update but [...]
June 7, 2009
IRLP Node #4865 – Frequency Change
Node used to be on 145.600 MHz and has been relocated to 146.460 simplex. The band plan lists 145.600 for experimental communications which the node was in the beginning. Felt it was better to follow the intent of the band plan and move it to the new frequency.
Hopefully it will not be too long before [...]
