TS-830S line

Looks pretty good..

Testing...

More than 110Watts on 80M..

Get about 90Watts on 10Meter on the AT-230 meter.

Tuner not calibrated..

QRV tomorrow.. Merry Xmas!

New Trap for W3DZZ..

Per Design.. should be good.. 

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Adjusting.. First look:

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More adjusting and securing the inductor...

Update - New Silver Mica's for the capacitors.

Got just fine!

3.7MHz

7MHz

Troubleshooting my 20-40 meter trap antenna..

I have borrowed a image from ON7EQ - Holiday trap antenna..

http://www.qsl.net/on7eq/projects/holidayant.htm


I'm using a 100pF capacitor and a inductor at about 1.02uH

At 14.061MHz the SWR is 10.62

Inductor 1 is 1.016uH and the other is 1.021uH

It resonates arount 8.1MHz but not at all around 14MHz..
Strange..
Is it the wire, or is it the inductor...

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I have adjusted the inductor..

We'll see what the difference it's going to make.

exciting... :-)

This is with 0.22mm² wire

1.94SWR at 8.251MHz and 2.61SWR at 26.451MHz

There is also a dip with 6.7SWR at 14.201MHz

This is with military grade wire
1.45SWR at 7.001MHz and 2.69SWR at 23.201MHz
Dips also with 6.99SWR at 13.401MHz

TBContinued.. 

I found this... good shit:

Continued...

I replaced the 100pF capacitors with premium grade silver mica capacitors.

I also took one turn of the Inductor. Ended up with 12T and 100pF.

That was it!

Works!

Building the antenna now... 

DIY Solar panels..

Making 4 x Solar Cell - 1.12IMax/0.5V

To keep them in place while soldering..

So, about right regarding spec.

Done laminating.. 

Me want...

Rather later than soon...  

User manual here.. 

Antenna is up - W3DZZ +5

Also made me a 8 x 8 inch choke for the W3DZZ antenna.

This years Christmas present - I'll pick it up in December..

TS-830s Line.
This is going to be nice -
Looking forward to it!

Monitor also..

What did the 1st floor hide.......

Yes,
It's working great also!

Frequency counter needed.

I believe it's going to be a ChinaCounter... should do the work.

Already invested... 

Works great!

DV4Mini USB..

So, I'm up and running with DV4Mini anc DV4Mini Control Center v1.61

I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi 2.
Working OK, but it seems like the Pre-build image for this is not surviving a Network outage.
If the WLAN is rebooted, the Pi 2 is available after the boot but DMR+ is not working anymore.

A few tips to configure Pi 2...

This is a automated script to configure x11vnc with access to Console :0 of the Pi:

wget http://goo.gl/MbfUEp -O isx11.sh

sudo bash isx11.sh

To change the resolution from VGA:

Configure resolution in /boot/config.txt

# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output

hdmi_force_hotplug=1

# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)

hdmi_group=2

hdmi_mode=16

This will set 1080p

Also, if you want to make sure to startup in correct mode after reboot, the DV4Mini config file is here:

DV4Mini config file on Raspberry:

/root/.config/dv4mini/dv4mini/1.0.0.0

My DMR radios are TYT DM-380 and a Hytera PD-365.

Both radios works perfect with DV4Mini USB.

Playing..DIY Solar panels...

Up - testing..

Testing new setup.

LA8VHF received OK. Not bad for a 13el.

Listening for scatter..

So, just my 15meter pole for the W3DZZ is missing now...

New antenna configuration for the Winter......

I have just tuned up my new Cushcraft A13B2 for 2-meter use..

It came in pretty well..

Replacing... 4 x 8el InnovAntennas OWL-G/T.. 

The OWL's are not bad antennas, but my noise level is too high to work any EME here.

So, a "good enough" 2meter-beam is what i need.

Fox-1a Launch

Waiting for Launch - Atlas V from Vandenberg AFB CA

Hopefully Fox-1a will arrive safely into orbit.

Fox-1A Operation Frequencies include:

Beacon     145.980 MHz

Uplink      435.180 MHz FM

Downlink 145.980 MHz FM

Safe travel !!

Joining AMSAT..