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Re: COMMS trailer work day on 6/1/24 9am
Looking forward to checking out the comms trailer Saturday morning.
Will it be inside or out of the shed?
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Mike N0QBH
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1st Annual Minnesota Parks On The Air 6/8/2024
You need to mark June 8, 2024 on your calendar because *it's the first annual Minnesota Parks On The Air Day* ! The objective of the day is to activate as many Minnesota Parks On The Air (POTA)
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Re: The Frugal Ham and solar
Operating temperature and LiFePO4 batteries.
This is a good place to remind potential LiFePO4 users of the battery's chemistry limitations.
LiFePO4 batteries cannot be charged when the battery is
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Re: Update on LOTW!
Good to know. I guess I'll change my passwords again.
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Update on LOTW!
Hey Everyone,
Just found this out tonight….
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arrl-cyberattack-takes-logbook-of-the-world-offline/
American Radio Relay League cyberattack takes
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ARRL LOTW ISSUES
Hello Everyone,
During the W?CRC Club Picnic… I was having issues logging into LOTW. I
tried again today to log in there, but I’m still unsuccessful in doing so.
If you’re doing FT8 or having
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The biggest lesson I learned over the past year with one 400W system was to move away from using lead acid deep cycle batteries for this application.
I had 2 - 90 Ah 12v lead acids in parallel and my
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Some "after" pictures of my set up.
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Mike N0QBH
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Re: The Frugal Ham and solar
Mike, I’m very impressed with your solar set-up! ?On our Alaska farm, being totally off-grid, we installed solar back in about 2004. Ours is a 48 volt system with 16 130 watt solar panels connected
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One of my larger projects has been to convert my QTH ham radio station to run on solar power.
My station's layout has the HF is on one end of my house and the VHF/UHF the other.
I use two identical 12
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Re: COMMS trailer work day on 6/1/24 9am
Thanks Ace, I didn't know that.
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Re: COMMS trailer work day on 6/1/24 9am
I have a tone tracer that I can bring.? It is an inexpensive one, but I have found it helpful a number of times.? I will also bring my nano VNA.? That is my Saturday off, so I will be there.
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N0FOP Steve
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Re: COMMS trailer work day on 6/1/24 9am
Sorry, but the decals have to stay on. ?You can look at adding, but the decals have to stay. ?Especially the Willmar Fire decal. ? The trailer is on loan (long term) from WFD and Emergency
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N0QBH Mike B, I have the tools for doing a couple of the repairs on the outside of the trailer and a couple of good used batteries to replace the ones that are on the front of the trailer. The
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I could on the 31st but not the 1st.
[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: COMMS trailer work day on 6/1/24 9am
What do we have available for cable tracing tools besides a VOM?
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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COMMS trailer work day on 6/1/24 9am
On Saturday, June 1st at 9 am to 11:30 am, I'd like to get a few people to help look over the communications trailer.? It will be light duty involvement like chasing antenna coax and power supply
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Re: VARA-FM and Digirig hint - receive audio level won't settle
Something else I have experience happened when I moved the Digirig to another USB port on my laptop computer running Win 11.
When I restarted VARA FM the VU meter audio level appeared to be connecting
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Fun and useful stuff to do with Winlink
Ben W0AYE was showing me some interesting information gathering you can do with Winlink's catalog request feature.
When you click on the icon below my arrow Winlink opens up it's catalog.
Here's what
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: Meshtastic overview
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Device Config Values ? (
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