thanks. om. your rts is 5/9. hi .de pete gw7/mw0
Hi Pete,
Mni tnx fer nice rprt ur 5nn hr cuagn soon.
Or something like that, -despite my G0, I've never had a CW QSO.
Best 73,
Dave G0ELJ
thanks. om. your rts is 5/9. hi .de pete gw7/mw0
thanks for 5 om you are 5 also take care .73 de peteHi Pete,
Mni tnx fer nice rprt ur 5nn hr cuagn soon.
Or something like that, -despite my G0, I've never had a CW QSO.
Best 73,
Dave G0ELJ
There are m,any like that, Dave, with their free conversations to a full licence.
Maurice
best of luck daveHi Maurice,
In my case I seem to have a mental block at about 15wpm, and I am at the
moment having a final go at improving with the very able assistance of the
radio community here in Norfolk. Fingers crossed!
Kind regards
Dave
Hi Maurice,
In my case I seem to have a mental block at about 15wpm, and I am at the
moment having a final go at improving with the very able assistance of the
radio community here in Norfolk. Fingers crossed!
Kind regards
Dave
i have loads of fun with a BaoFeng BF-F8 a very usefull handy.73I learned morse aged 11 when I moved in with my step father G5IW (now silent key) and he said the best way to learn is to listen, turn your radio on, leave morse on in the background and do something else, read a book or something. One day you'll be sitting there listening and "a switch will flick in your brain" and all of a sudden you understand the code...thats exactly what happened with me; it really is a case of putting in the hours of letting your brain associate the sounds with words/letters. The hardest part for me was learning the 'text speak' hams use.
I had a break from ham radio lasting forty years between age 20 and 60 when I retired and took up the hobby again. It took a while to get my speed back up to scratch. These days I'm a happy CW QRPer and get a kick out of DX on a few Watts.
Setup shop/shack in the garden shed back in May, running a little Chinese SDR rig (Xiegu G90) through a G5RV and X-80 vertical and its great fun. When the loft conversion is finally finished the loft will be my shack and I'll rig up with something like an ic-7300 which seems a firm favourite with hams these days and the G90 will be my mobile rig...its the best £400 I've spent in years, superb value for money.
Keep listening, keep safe and 73.
i have loads of fun with a BaoFeng BF-F8 a very usefull handy.73
and her 2m has had it. i use 70cms. and hf. uhf 446. i have a marine license as well.. my 570dge has done me well, i bought a blackbox yaesu 897,that is good. the kenwood 2000 was poo so i sent it back,it was deafer than i am lol. 73 de peteI've got a the earlier one U5RV IIRC and that works well, lets me into a couple of repeaters but to be honest 2m is dead round here.
On the Xiegu G90 I've been playing with CAT control/FT8 digital and thats a bit of fun. My shed has served me well, started off running off a battery but put power in there for the rig and a heater but I am looking forward to the loft being finished. It would have been done by now but covid etc coming along put a stop on the works so I'm looking at end of March/April now. Its a good hobby, cheaper than golf
not many aircraft. you should be here its the training area for the RAF. ... now most services are digital.apart from CoastGuard. my programing leads are usb,i got them off fleabay.... usb to serial etc. god luck phil.These posts about radios led me to find and set up my scanner. It's batteries had gone flat and programmed frequencies were lost so new batteries inserted and re-learning needed. Using it combined with FlightSimX and Flightrader24 on my computer can easily waste two hours of my day!
I'm looking at programming it from my computer but Win10 doesn't use legacy serial ports so will have to find a 'workaround'. Another slight problem is there are not many aircraft flying in the current conditions. I can however hear my wireless thermostat sending info to my CH boiler on 868Mhz ...
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phil. they sure make a racket. with the texan. i have not used my scanner for years. my HF radios rec most. i do like navtex.Hi Pete,
I've installed the Scan125 Control Program in my laptop and it is working and operates all features on the scanner. Win10 uses the USB ports when the scanner is connected and the Com port error solves itself. I can see a lot of Hawk trainers presently flying around off N.Wales on FR24. I can receive from a/c using Brize. I think I am going to 'waste' more than two hours playing with this lot ....
Phil