Why not; the British have Churches and Chapels on the Air, https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2015/06/05/churches-chapels-air-2/
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From: Doug WSent: Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:25 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [BITX20] uBITX v6 Microphone #microphone #ubitxv6-help ? On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 07:14 AM, Don, ND6T wrote: Here is a link to some of what I have done:
Don's work and drawings always impress me.? If he were to publish a coffee table book with all of his drawings I would buy it in a heartbeat!
I went more chainsaw than scalpel...
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 07:14 AM, Don, ND6T wrote:
Here is a link to some of what I have done:
Don's work and drawings always impress me.? If he were to publish a coffee table book with all of his drawings I would buy it in a heartbeat! I went more chainsaw than scalpel...  ? --
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Re: [QRPLabs] Lakes On The Air?
PAINTSVILLE (KY) HAS A PARK AND PICK-NICK AREA BESIDE IT. (KY has many state parks beside lakes)
?I have forwarded the original message to the (Paintsville) club president as a good idea. To connect it to our hobby, it would be another good idea (I believe) to make it like a contest or, at least, to issue a special QSL card for those who operate QRP/solar/battery power.
Bob KK5R
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 09:44:09 AM EST, Jack, W8TEE via groups.io <jjpurdum@...> wrote:
Hi Jim:
I would love it if you'd start the ball rolling. I would not want to "force" the rule of actually being on the water, as that might force some people who want to participate into buying some (unsafe) inflatable watercraft. Rather, I would like to see some measure "from the water's edge" being used as the criteria. Most of the others rules could be adopted from other OTA's.
When the T41 project ends, I can do some programming although I haven't done much web programming since a lot of it is done in Java, and I'm not a fan. (Java is C with training wheels.)
I think the first order of business is to register a web site and draw up a set of "rules" for an activation. Keep me posted on your plans.
Jack, W8TEE
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 01:15:32 AM EST, Jim Manley <jim.manley.mscs@...> wrote:
Hi Jack, et al,
My resend attempts have all failed and I now realize that it¡¯s the Groups.io e-mail reply formatter that¡¯s screwing me, not (just?) GMail.? However, what do I expect for ¡°free¡± (not counting the buck-two-eighty value of my personal information!)?
The software developers at those places each get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but given the lack of visible changes, let alone improvements, in their services for upwards of a decade-plus, I have to ask what, exactly, they¡¯re being paid to do?
Anywaaay, Lakes(/Waterways?) On The Air suggests to me being _on_ a lake/waterway, along with the public interface being paramount in POTA and SOTA.? However, most boaters aren¡¯t usually very interested in other boats being in proximity, especially if they¡¯re near their favorite secret fishing spots.? Another problematic situation is when someone is into waterskiing at the time, and maxed-out boat racing would be a real challenge!
I suppose the 19th-hole equivalent in boating is around boat docks/ramps, at least for those who haven¡¯t yet made too big a dent in the contents of their coolers.? A fortunate coincidence is that the largest fishing poles are often used to deploy portable antennas in remote environments, especially for SOTA, where practitioners are often thousands of feet in elevation above treelines.? I can see a L/WOTA participant deployed on a craft that would put a Soviet/Russian signals intercept ¡°trawler¡± to shame!
Being the salty nautical dude that I am with well over half a century of boating and shipboard deployments all over the planet, long and deep experience developing and operating large data collection and processing systems (you may have heard of someplace nicknamed No Such Agency), and lots of experience in data sources for terrain and waterways mapping, charting, and geodesy (which covers natural and human-made lakes, rivers, canals, etc.), I¡¯ll volunteer to kick off the L/WOTA community infrastructure.? I¡¯ll talk to fellow POTA and SOTA organization folks for shortcuts and other pointers to help achieve rapid success.
Is that enough penance for my cute reply to your original question, Jack?
Jim ?KJ7JHE
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 11:07 AM, Doug W wrote:
At the risk of sounding overly pedantic, do you mean operating on a lake or from the shore?
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:30 AM, Jack, W8TEE wrote:
you must operate 50' or less from the water's edge
At the risk of sounding overly pedantic, do you mean operating on a lake or from the shore? ? --
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Re: [QRPLabs] Lakes On The Air?
Hi Jim:
I would love it if you'd start the ball rolling. I would not want to "force" the rule of actually being on the water, as that might force some people who want to participate into buying some (unsafe) inflatable watercraft. Rather, I would like to see some measure "from the water's edge" being used as the criteria. Most of the others rules could be adopted from other OTA's.
When the T41 project ends, I can do some programming although I haven't done much web programming since a lot of it is done in Java, and I'm not a fan. (Java is C with training wheels.)
I think the first order of business is to register a web site and draw up a set of "rules" for an activation. Keep me posted on your plans.
Jack, W8TEE
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 01:15:32 AM EST, Jim Manley <jim.manley.mscs@...> wrote:
Hi Jack, et al,
My resend attempts have all failed and I now realize that it¡¯s the Groups.io e-mail reply formatter that¡¯s screwing me, not (just?) GMail.? However, what do I expect for ¡°free¡± (not counting the buck-two-eighty value of my personal information!)?
The software developers at those places each get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but given the lack of visible changes, let alone improvements, in their services for upwards of a decade-plus, I have to ask what, exactly, they¡¯re being paid to do?
Anywaaay, Lakes(/Waterways?) On The Air suggests to me being _on_ a lake/waterway, along with the public interface being paramount in POTA and SOTA.? However, most boaters aren¡¯t usually very interested in other boats being in proximity, especially if they¡¯re near their favorite secret fishing spots.? Another problematic situation is when someone is into waterskiing at the time, and maxed-out boat racing would be a real challenge!
I suppose the 19th-hole equivalent in boating is around boat docks/ramps, at least for those who haven¡¯t yet made too big a dent in the contents of their coolers.? A fortunate coincidence is that the largest fishing poles are often used to deploy portable antennas in remote environments, especially for SOTA, where practitioners are often thousands of feet in elevation above treelines.? I can see a L/WOTA participant deployed on a craft that would put a Soviet/Russian signals intercept ¡°trawler¡± to shame!
Being the salty nautical dude that I am with well over half a century of boating and shipboard deployments all over the planet, long and deep experience developing and operating large data collection and processing systems (you may have heard of someplace nicknamed No Such Agency), and lots of experience in data sources for terrain and waterways mapping, charting, and geodesy (which covers natural and human-made lakes, rivers, canals, etc.), I¡¯ll volunteer to kick off the L/WOTA community infrastructure.? I¡¯ll talk to fellow POTA and SOTA organization folks for shortcuts and other pointers to help achieve rapid success.
Is that enough penance for my cute reply to your original question, Jack?
Jim ?KJ7JHE
-- Jack, W8TEE
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The Worked All Lakes award seems a tad daunting...
Jack, W8TEE
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 08:04:09 AM EST, Dennis Zabawa <denniszabawa@...> wrote:
How Many Lakes Are There in the United States? According to the National Lakes Assessment, there are?111,819 lakes?in the United States. Of that number, more than half (58,700) are natural lakes.
-- Jack, W8TEE
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Aaron,
Here is a link to some of what I have done:
Even a carbon microphone will work (but it will sound like a carbon microphone ;-) )! A little experimentation will pay off.
Get healthy again soon.
72, Don
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- How Many Lakes Are There in the United States? According to the National Lakes Assessment, there are?111,819 lakes?in the United States. Of that number, more than half (58,700) are natural lakes.
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True, but there are a bunch more that are not. Besides, getting a "two-fer" wouldn't be a bad thing.
Jack, W8TEE
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 02:57:39 PM EST, ajparent1/kb1gmx <kb1gmx@...> wrote:
Biggest part of lakes is often they are parks or part of state or federal lands. There woold be redundacy there.?
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Please use the forum, offline and private will go to bit bucket.
-- Jack, W8TEE
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Biggest part of lakes is often they are parks or part of state or federal lands. There woold be redundacy there.?
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Please use the forum, offline and private will go to bit bucket.
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It would be a considerable task (e.g., making a web site, creating a database, admin of everything, etc.) but I think it might be a worthwhile and fun endeavor for someone who has those talents and a lot of time.
Jack, W8TEE
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 01:23:21 PM EST, Steve <stevep2p@...> wrote:
I could see that.? Extra points from activating from a vessel underway.? Extra points when wind over 15 kts.? Wizard Island on Crater Lake would be some kind of weird multiplier I'd think: IOTA, SOTA, POTA, LOTA?.? Aloha, Steve WH6ST
All:
On my web site I asked the question: "Does a group for Lakes On The Air (LOTA) exist?" I got some cute answers, but none that answered what was meant to be a serious question. If it does not exist, I wonder why. With all of the "...OTA's" out these, why not? There would have to be some rules (e.g., the lake must be 100 acres or more, you must operate 50' or less from the water's edge, etc.), but it seems doable. The lake's ID might be its maiden head coordinates. It could be another way to get some hams active again and maybe even draw some new ones in. (If you do a POTA, take a small sign the says something like: "Ham radio in action!". People are interested.)
Jack, W8TEE
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I could see that.? Extra points from activating from a vessel underway.? Extra points when wind over 15 kts.? Wizard Island on Crater Lake would be some kind of weird multiplier I'd think: IOTA, SOTA, POTA, LOTA?.? Aloha, Steve WH6ST
All:
On my web site I asked the question: "Does a group for Lakes On The Air (LOTA) exist?" I got some cute answers, but none that answered what was meant to be a serious question. If it does not exist, I wonder why. With all of the "...OTA's" out these, why not? There would have to be some rules (e.g., the lake must be 100 acres or more, you must operate 50' or less from the water's edge, etc.), but it seems doable. The lake's ID might be its maiden head coordinates. It could be another way to get some hams active again and maybe even draw some new ones in. (If you do a POTA, take a small sign the says something like: "Ham radio in action!". People are interested.)
Jack, W8TEE
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Jack, W8TEE
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All:
On my web site I asked the question: "Does a group for Lakes On The Air (LOTA) exist?" I got some cute answers, but none that answered what was meant to be a serious question. If it does not exist, I wonder why. With all of the "...OTA's" out these, why not? There would have to be some rules (e.g., the lake must be 100 acres or more, you must operate 50' or less from the water's edge, etc.), but it seems doable. The lake's ID might be its maiden head coordinates. It could be another way to get some hams active again and maybe even draw some new ones in. (If you do a POTA, take a small sign the says something like: "Ham radio in action!". People are interested.)
Jack, W8TEE
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Re: Broken Nextion display
Which display are you looking for? I have a couple Nextions that I'm not using.
Where are you located?
73....???? Mark???? AA7TA
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I broke my Nextion display. I need a replacement and before I try and find one that may be compatible perhaps someone in the group might have one for sale.
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Re: sBitx #sBitx PA MOD Plan
#sBitx
Scott, I answer to both. I don't have a surname.? The bias for the PA is the same, however there is no drive adjustment. It should be turned down to zero.? It might even be better to snip off the IRF510s. - f
Thanks.? That¡¯s what I thought but I appreciate the conformation.
Two quick questions:
In the instructions, the bias adjustment seems to be the same as the original adjustment.? Is that performed with a dummy load?
I¡¯ve been using Ashhar for some time now as your given name but I may have that wrong since you sign off these messages as -f.? Have I been using your surname as your given name??
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Re: sBitx #sBitx PA MOD Plan
#sBitx
Thanks. ?That¡¯s what I thought but I appreciate the conformation.
Two quick questions:
In the instructions, the bias adjustment seems to be the same as the original adjustment. ?Is that performed with a dummy load?
I¡¯ve been using Ashhar for some time now as your given name but I may have that wrong since you sign off these messages as -f. ?Have I been using your surname as your given name??
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Re: sBitx #sBitx PA MOD Plan
#sBitx
Scott, There are no special toes to be protected. The sbitx is a community effort, so feel free to take up any initiative you find interesting. I must reiterate, sbitx is a free design released under GPL. Anyone is free to launch any enterprise as long as the terms of the license are met. - f
?Hi Gerry,
From what I¡¯ve seen, this appears to be a fairly straightforward upgrade.? I would be happy to help but I¡¯d like to see the upgrade first before I commit. ? ?
If the work is what I think it will be (after doing one upgrade and gaining experience), it looks like about an hour¡¯s worth of work.? That said, I don¡¯t want to step on HF Signal¡¯s business and I don¡¯t want to invite an endless amount of work with this message but I do have better than basic skills (as many others on this group must) and I would be willing to help out a fellow HAM or two as this upgrade becomes available.
Let¡¯s talk again after the upgrade becomes available.
Cheers, Scott?
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Bob Lunsford
Don, ND6T
Steve
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