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

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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@jmorris I had a QEX subscription years ago but let it lapse due to it being paper only. I don't have room for magazines. I see now it *is* available digital only.

A recent article in QEX makes me want to either join ARRL or subscribe to QEX. I let my subscription to QEX lapse a few years ago because I prefer digital copies (PDF)

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