Any Islanders playing with the new sub-500KHz allotments - either purely receiving, or also transceiving?
Gear? Antennas used?
Any Islanders playing with the new sub-500KHz allotments - either purely receiving, or also transceiving?
Gear? Antennas used?
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Just receiving here.
I've decoded some digital. Hasn't really lit a fire under my behind. But my radio is capable of transmitting at those frequencies.
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So there I was, totally naked. With only a rubber hose and a stuffed animal...
Old Rycom voltmeter and a 460' wire.
What freqs?
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
472 and 136-139KHz, I think?
I have a couple Mackay Marine 303x-series receivers and some lab-grade audio processing plugins for my Tektronix TM units. Thinking about throwing together something that's capable of monitoring the activity and effectively eliminating QRN/digging the weak signals out.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
I have the "authorization" but that is as far as its gone.
Like that post was...
Moving on, my posts are not helpful
My FT 2000-D goes to 30 KHz and the homebrew active probe antenna does well there.
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
Ah, I'll have to find something else to cover 472 kHz. The 2174A covers .3 kHz to 400 kHz.
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
The monitoring sites WSPRnet.org/drupal/node and pskreporter.info/pskmap.html should show anyone on 136khz and 472khz if you select those bands, they may be listed as LF and MF. The latter site doesn't seem to be working properly though, even though it should give results for several formats, and WSPR only shows users with that system.
There are some budget-priced SDR receivers, I have an SDRplay but my favourite is the Kenwood R5000. I think the more wire the better for an antenna but there are quite a few compact whips and ferrite-base antennas in favour.