Entries Tagged as ‘Equipment’

June 26, 2009

Field Day 2009

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 [...]

May 20, 2009

IRLP 4865 back.

It appears my antenna issue must be water getting into the coax line. I hope to get access to an antenna soon. Only solution is when bad weather approaches the node will go into off-line mode. So if you try to connect into 4865 and it says offline, I’m either asleep for the evening or [...]

April 5, 2009

My serial/USB adapter saga…

Seems like all I do is have saga’s here isn’t it?
I operate a Kenwood TS-850S transceiver with auto tuner and the one thing I’ve been wanting to do was have computer control of my radio and to have that data updated automatically into my logs.
I use N3FJP’s ACLOG and all his contest software.  [...]