Notices by Diane Bruce VA3DB (va3db@mastodon.radio)

@on5zo @VE7WYC Well, we won't force poutine down your throat.

Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) have announced another online amateur radio course. Those in Canada who would like to sign up should start by having a look at https://www.rac.ca/amateur-radio-courses/

If you sign up because of this post let Dave Goodwin know (I knew him in university!) that you saw the post from Mastodon!

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@VE7WYC @on5zo Maybe we will just have to go down and burn their White House again.

@on5zo @VE7WYC eh?

@n8dmt @jmorris I could have replaced the front panel with a piece of heavy plastic but oh well!

It isn’t pretty and I have a lot of filing to do. I chain drilled enough that I could line up my dremel tool and finish up the hole. Amazing how hot the metal gets with a grinding wheel.
(Edit) forgot to add the blasted photo!

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I can’t stress enough how important you’ll find those labels in your project! This is the interconnect from Yaesu control box to K3NG controller.

P.S. I also buzzed the connections. Found and fixed a short between pins too :-(

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Ok I now have a reasonable display. The schematics for the Arduino rotator control show pin 15 and 16 NC which I did wonder about. That’s the backlight. ;)

RTSL Found a couple of MEMORY saving defines. I don’t really care about anything but the Yaesu commands so it all fits.

Now it just seems to hard swing the azimuth full scale to the right. No shorts that I can see. I guess I’ll do more debugging after lunch.

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I don't slave over a hot stove but I do slave over a hot soldering iron.

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Ok the K3NG rotator controller seems to work perfectly now. From what I saw it looked like I forgot to update the az starting position \J0 and \Q took care of that. All good. Now to button up the box then set up the software to drive it. ;)

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Ok. Who else remembers in Canada for the ticket, drawing a schematic of a superhet receiver and a schematic of a transmitter then having to explain how it worked to an inspector? Oh and that 10wpm cw test? It was a terrifying experience at the time tbqh.

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@jmorris Shaw (now Rogers) Ku or XKu satellite. Small outage now resolved. Not surprising.

*shakes fist at that white faraday shield in the sky!

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@jmorris @VE2UWY @zazzoo I was thinking of UHF actually. It's a problem for us satellite operators and you can hear it in a car moving. Every done the SSB mode listening to a repeater and hearing the pitch change? It's wild ;) So I figure there is a limited range for meteor scatter as well?

@jmorris @zazzoo I have a sat station, (I helped port the original wsjtx !) and have been meaning to get into this for years... You know those roundtoits?

@jmorris @zazzoo I used to do 6m aurora on a long wire. For aurora a beam makes no real difference too! So I have a 6m beam now. I have no excuse. Bad ham. I'm a lid. ;)

@zazzoo @VE2UWY And we haven't even mentioned moon bounce or the amateur radio built satellites or or or...

@zazzoo It's not a face of the hobby I have played with yet! (There is so much stuff to play with in this hobby) Basically meteor comes in started burning up and leaves an ionized trail that radio waves will bounce off of. The duration can be very short but it's long enough with the right computer program and equipment. (Yes we are in the 21st century now, no refrigerator sized stuff in my shack!)

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@VE2UWY @zazzoo Yes! The U.S. military used to do this as well. (Not sure they still do)
The doppler must be wicked. I have done aurora (for the non ham, bouncing signals off of the aurora. same deal ionized gases)
the doppler on aurora is very bad making voice more difficult to do.

I just read on the QRP-L that kits and parts will not be closing after all! https://kitsandparts.com/

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