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>>2795384
that's true
not gonna lie though a little apprehensive about drilling a hole in the case for an sma connector

I got a job two months ago working for a subsidiary of Motorola. We install and maintain radios across a Midwestern state for municipalities, counties, and some corporations. I've been to some tower sites, dispatch centers, etc. Mostly I've been installing mobiles in police vehicles and shit like that.

What cool stuff should I look into related to the job? I have a technician license and a couple of baofengs but they are pretty much unused. I know more about programming the radios and installing them than I do about operating them.

Are log periodics the best options for multi-band antennas? Gain similar to a 3-4 element monoband yagi, on every band, with <1.3 swr and no tuner needed. What's not to love?

I bought a portable vertical antenna bc I want to get into POTA. Set it up this morning and had the SWR at 1.07 on 40m. A light drizzle moved in and SWR shot up to well over 5:1. SWR changes are normal when the elements of an antenna are wet, but I've never seen a swing with such a drastic swing before.

>>2795460
So what, you're playing with a tech license and some walkie talkies? They're basically a jailbroken bubble pack frs radio that happens to transceive out of band. There's nothing job related there. Just focus on installing radios I guess.

>>2795476
If that's in your price range, go for it.

>>2795476
>What's not to love?
not a resonant antenna, weight, wind load
certainly pricey
depends on what you want to cover ?
20-17-15-12 3-4 elements yagi seems reasonable compared to that, you can complete with a 10-6m 5-6 elements ?
yagis for 40 are huge and you need to put them really high, but if you can.. Or get those yagis with variable element length, can't remember the name, they are fucking expensive of course.

>>2795478
Check the feedline, connections and antenna for water ingress. What are you using for a ground plane?

>>2795478
you might have a short somewhere because of the rain, can you try to increase the insulation between the radiative element and the rest ? Maybe put some tape, epoxy to make it weather proof ?

>>2795482
>not a resonant antenna
Nta but log periodics are indeed resonant antennas. The elements used are resonant for their intended bands and optimized for amateur frequencies. Take one far enough out of band and you'll see swrs start to spike.

>>2795482
>Or get those yagis with variable element length, can't remember the name
They're just multi band yagis or beams. Unless you mean a steppir that has motor control to move the elements. They're extremely expensive and require steppir software to use. They're also not self-serviceable.

>>2795492
>steppir
thank you, it was that

>>2795476
If you have the tower that will support the weight and heft of the antenna, I say go for it. There are "better" options in the sense that there's higher gain options. A 4 band cubcal quad with full length elements will have significantly more gain, for example. It's also a 3d antenna and has a significantly bigger footprint and windload though. A smaller, lighter, cheaper option is a hexbeam, but they have much less gain and f/b rejection. Keep in mind, a log driven antenna like your pic needs height. It's like a big dog in an apartment. It needs a big yard to roam, so plan on 45-60ft of height to get the most out of that antenna.

>>2795495
>4 band cubcal quad
Sorry, 5 band 4 element (per band).

Is there any point to an Icom R8600 if I also want a 7300 and 9700?

>>2795604
A very expensive way to work spilts when contesting.

>>2795614
I guess I should have explained a little more, I'd like to receive as many bands as I can, not just the amatuer services. I also want something that's a little more oriented toward receiving than my SDS200

>>2795416
skill issue if you have a problem with their products. everything I've ever bought from MFJ has been top tier, the only people who hate MFJ are retarded fud boomers

>>2795414
you need a ground wire for a random wire though don't you?

>>2795479
Your response is unnecessarily abrasive. The suggestions I was looking for did not have to relate to the radios I purchased. I'm just asking if there is anything within the hobby that might come up on my job that I can look into or research. I am trying to find something interesting that connects to my work.

>>2795415
>>2795421
>>2795636
>>2795680
>I posted it again for the hundredth time
>I'm so smart and awesome

>>2795394
How do you deal with whack jobs such as this guy?

https://youtu.be/kgniXHhBHfA?si=wuj<wbr>tZod7gA95a3mn

>>2795717
>268 views
continue to ignore a literally who

>>2795717
He keeps saying ground the antenna. Most antennas should NOT be grounded, unless utilizing ground radials. Balanced antennas aren't grounded nor are elevated verticals. The masts should be to prevent static. Your radio is grounded, but don't rely exclusively on your outlet for ground.

>>2795689
>I'm just asking if there is anything within the hobby that might come up on my job that I can look into or research
Idk, you're the Motorola installation tech and you're also a licensed ham radio operator. Did they not cover this in your test? You don't know what the hobby is about? Anything radio, there's your answer.

>>2795668
No. And as far as a counterpoise, the coax shielding acts as the counterpoise.

>>2795394
I have a truck with tie down brackets I'm not using.
I like the clean look of these brackets - would it be crazy to get 2 - one for VHF and another for HF? seems like a logical design, but I can only find one manufacturer.

>>2795818
Easier and better to use your whole roof as a counterpoise.

>>2795825
we're back to sticking a 4 foot hf antenna on the roof of a truck cab?
It's an aluminum body and I don't want to do anything permanent.

>>2795826
Ah, yeah that's why I mag mount. Parking garages just knock them over safely because of the mag mount, but it's strong enough for 110mph winds which is as fast as I'll ever drive my truck. You really do want a counterpoise for a vertical and the big metal body works wonders. Usually.

>>2795717
what is blud yappin about
only in ohio...

>>2795733
me personally, i wire a lightning arrestor inline with the coax directly to my cock and balls, so if lightning hits the antenna my ejaculate prevents any arc transmission

i call it a lightning rod

>>2795916
That is impressive.

Up until the 2000's a lot of embassies around the world sported log periodics on their rooftops.

>>2795476
I've talked to a couple of HF LPDA owners over the years and they bought one so that they only have one antenna on the mast. Sort of a "buy one, now it's done" thing. The trade-off is mild gain when compared to monoband yagis with the same number of elements.

Personally, I like the looks of them.

>>2795944
>The trade-off is mild gain when compared to monoband yagis with the same number of elements.
Logs also have some of the most extreme examples of F/B rejection. He posted an optibeam, so I'll run a comparison with a similarly sized one.

OB11-5 / 45kg:
Bands 20 / 17 / 15 / 12 / 10
Gain (dBd) * 5,3 / 5,5 / 5,6 / 5,6 / 6,7
Gain (dBi) ** 12,7 / 13,0 / 13,2 / 13,4 / 14,5
F/B (dB) 22 / 22 / 20 / 19 / 19

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OBDYA12-5 (image he posted) / 55kg
Bands 20 / 17 / 15 / 12 / 10
Gain (dBd) * 5,08 / 5,05 / 5,25 / 5,25 / 5,41
Gain (dBi) ** 12,1 / 12,5 / 12,6 / 12,7 / 12,9
F/B (dB) 26 / 27 / 35 / 27 / 29

So less gain but more F/B.

That's with a band optimized log. With a true log periodic like the OBLY16-5 we see this. / 80kg
Bands 20 / 17 / 15 / 12 / 10
Gain (dBd) * 5,4 / 5,4 / 5,4 / 5,4 / 5,7
Gain (dBi) ** 12,8 / 13,0 / 13,1 / 13,2 / 13,5
F/B (dB) 35 / 35 / 38 / 33 / 35

So, logs for good gain and amazing F/B, "mixed" yagis for better gain, less weight, and less F/B.

>>2795700
I agree, we could use something new.
Should I bust the balls of those doing POTA or bust the balls of those busting the balls of people doing POTA?

>>2795953
I'd argue logs look so much cleaner than this mess, so you have to decide if F/B or gain matters more. Especially since logs weigh more. An OB16-5 is even better and has less weight than the log posted above, as it's 75kg.
Bands 20 / 17 / 15 / 12 / 10
Gain (dBd) * 7,1 / 7,2 / 7,3 / 7,0 / 7,7
Gain (dBi) ** 14,5 / 14,7 / 14,9 / 14,8 / 15,5
F/B (dB) 18 / 20 / 22 / 24 / 20

In this case I'd almost prefer this yagi. Assuming price isn't of issue.

What's up with Japan flooding ebay with tons of cheap IC-706s?

>>2795956
>price isn't of issue
What would you recommend for under $800? Coax, antenna, and tower assembly included.

>>2795996
Site prep for a tower is going to easily be over $1k.
>under $800 Coax, antenna, and tower assembly included.

>>2795996
Don't bother with a beam at all. Sure, you can make a hexbeam relatively simply with trial and error for under $400, and it'll be the same as any commercial variation. That said, ~50ft of RG8X, a rotor, and a homebrew mast would start pushing you well over $800. I'd suggest a multi band vertical or making/buying a fan dipole. A good 3-6 band fan dipole will be a sufficient antenna for almost anyone. You can easily make 3 30ft pushup masts, then put one fan dipole N/S and the other E/W, using the same center mast for both ends. Don't run them in series, just use 2 feedlines to the radio or a switch. That avoids the need for a rotor, and you can horizontally polarize both fan dipoles.

This guy did the same thing using a cage fan and traditional fan dipole. The beautiful thing is that the elements shouldn't interact much, so you can actually go 160-6m with the same dipole and feedline. In theory.

>>2796002
You don't need site prep. You dig a hole 5x5ft, place your tower in, level the tower, and fill with bags of cement and a garden hose while tying the tower down or attaching it to a house, wall, etc. Make sure it's level before leaving it. I used to work for a tower install company and this is literally what we'd do, if you have the blueprint for your home or have an available copy you should know where water lines, septic/sewage, gas, etc run. If not, a survey only costs an additional $50 for us to call 811 and mark utiliy lines (a free service in the state). We actually used quikrete because most of the time we couldn't fit a cement truck on site. We did have a pickup with a 50 gallon water tank, however, as well as hundreds of feet of hose hookups.

>>2796011
not him, but that's awesome.
I'd love to get a few acres and setup an antenna farm.
I was hoping with a ghetto harbor freight concrete mixer I could pull it off myself.
just gotta get land and maybe used towers.

>>2796002
Another asshole who has no idea what he's talking about, cute.

Is there anything wrong with getting one of these mounts and sticking a 10ft pole in it on the roof and running a bolt through? Will it hold a 2 element 10m yagi?

>>2795949
It's not that.
Him and this guy seem to think that having a ground wire going from the chasis of your transceiver to a ground rod outside your shack is a violation of the NEC.

Even if that rod is bonded to the house's main ground rod at the meter.

>>2796011
>Just dig a hole, throw the tower in the bottom with some quickcrete and fill it with water
>Don't worry about settling, just tie it to your house
>Also fuck lightning/ground protection it's already in the ground right?
Concrete costs money
Digging costs money
Clearing land costs money
Water costs money
Guy lines + anchor points (more holes and concrete) cost money
Mounting plates and hardware cost money
The permit (or fine you are assessed later because of your freedoms don't need permissions) cost money
After the base is done,do you plan on waving a magic wand to assemble the tower and put the antenna up? I mean you're going for a beam/yagi, so you can just climb the tower with one hand and haul it up with the other. I guess you can use the magic wand to materialize the rotator, bearings, power cables, and the free coax too. I'm sure you'll be doing this over one weekend with the help of someone you paid with 2 cases of piss water.

>>2796206
Why would you call yourself cute, big boy?

>>2796337
>Concrete costs money
$6/90lb bag, probably the least expensive construction material in the world
>digging costs money
A 5x5 hole is shovel work. Ask me how I know.
>clearing land
This really depends on the land. Open desert/dirt? No. Lots of trees/shrubs? Maybe. It's too major of a variable.
>water costs money
Least expensive utility. Filling a 5x5 hole is less than running a pool for a day or two.
>guy wires/anchor points
Most of what we did was free standing towers under 50ft for residential. Beyond 50ft yes you need guy wires. For some 30-40ft setups like a rohn 45 or heavier gauge tower, I suggest guy wires. Costs vary, but another 400lbs of concrete per anchor is under $30, the anchors themselves are like $10 each, and then the guy wires themselves depend on what you decide to use. 660ft of non-resonant Kevlar or Nylon braid with 6,000lb breaking strength was like $150 at the time. More than enough for what you'd need. Way more.
>Mounting plates and hardware cost money
We suggest digging the tower in as opposed to mounting to a mounting plate UNLESS you plan on a tilt over. As for rotors and antenna mounting hardware not included with the antenna for some reason, yes they cost money. In my experience antenna/tower mast mounting hardware can be purchased for $15 at your local hardware store. A rotor will always cost money, which is why I suggested an option to avoid it entirely.
>permit
Our city does not permit amateur radio tower installations. Ymmv. I suggest looking into what costs are, you may not need one under a certain height. You are still required to follow FCC guidelines on tower and antenna installation, and local code for grounding.
>last part about assembly
With a dig-in installation you should be able to climb the tower. Otherwise you're looking at a crane or bucket rental. These usually cost ~$100/day for a wheeled boom lift or bucket. A crane varies from $180-300.

>>2796337
Continued, yes I have climbed towers during assembly. You may or may not need a bucket or boom lift after the first 10ft. It depends on the weight and size of the tower sections. Rohn 25g weighs 30lbs per 10ft, so 2 people with gear can and will climb the tower with individual sections to install them up to 30ft. Beyond that, you need a bucket or crane. I'd often climb the tower while the crane operator gets the section close enough to guide it in and bolt it down, even at 100ft. Someone needs to guide that fucker in and start running bolts. At 30 or 40ft, just climb it. I've free climbed them doing it plenty of times too.

As for labor costs, for some hams I'd do it for free, since they had helped me with my installation in the past. For company work most of our money was made on commercial jobs. On residential amateur radio jobs we'd only get like $150/day each for 3 people. My point though is that you don't need a professional crew to do it, I've erected a few 30ft towers and dozens of masts solo.

>>2795700
>I posted it again for the hundredth time
we will never stop as long as this thread is continued.

>>2796336
At first I thought he was trolling and would make the distinction between bonding and grounding, but he was dead serious.
I've spent some time exploring antenna grounding and adding grounding rods and how many and where I broke was tying grounding rods to grounding rods.
There's no magic added by tying together the grounding rod from my house to the grounding rod to my shed. And to my antenna - because by that logic my house's grounding rod must be grounding to all my neighbors' otherwise the entire infrastructure will be destroyed.

Are there any mobile radios that are particularly/slightly more weather and moisture resistant than others for outdoor base camp use

>>2796415
You won't like my suggestion. Tait radios. Anything else is dogshit and asking for trouble. Also, good luck getting your hands on them.

>>2796424
what was the point of purposely suggesting something you think I can't get

are you trying to be elitist or a faggot or what? what was the point

>>2796428
I'm definitely being an elitist faggot. Honestly, I couldn't afford to get another one. I sold my hand held years ago. However, that is the correct radio for the job. Great radios, great features, stupid pricey.

>>2796430
dude go be a faggot somewhere else if you have nothing to offer

>>2796415
I'll give you some advice. When you take a motorola in for service as a construction crewman, that sucker is abused and CAKED in dust, dirt, concrete dust, and is exposed to moisture all the time. Unscrew the thing, take it outside and hit it with the garden hose. Then wipe it down and hit it with the hose again. Take it inside and put it on a glass or ceramic baking pan and throw it in the oven at ~200 degrees for a few hours. As long as the radio isn't on and the battery is disconnected, there's nothing to melt or get damaged at 200 degrees. In fact, the plastic they use for the mobo and shell is baked significantly hotter when cured to begin with. Knowing this, I no longer worry about super hardcore outdoor radios. The same applies to any HT. That said, an 8-10w HT (they do make them) with a massive battery will serve you just as well as most mobiles when connected to an external antenna. Worst case scenario just keep the thing in a ziplock bag.

>>2796434
Get a tait. Actually I do have something to offer. See this anons comment:
>>2796436
A twenty five year old motorola would be a good investment too. When they say they don't make em' like they used to. Motorola fights in to that. They used to be great before they outsourced all the engineers to india.
Instead of water I would recommend isopropyl alcohol from the pharmacy. More controlled.

>>2796322
When your rotator weighs more than your antenna, it's time to rething your antenna choices

>>2796322
>Will it hold a 2 element 10m yagi?
Mine holds a 25ft high 6-20m hexbeam with a medium duty rotor on top. If you have any doubts just throw another cement block on. Make sure the roof is supported too.

Does anyone have a HF/VHF/UHF mobile radio recommendation? I'm considering a few
>IC-7100
Seems gimmicky
>IC-706
Serious contender
>FT-100
Seems like an overlooked good contender.
>IC-705
I'm not gay
>Yaesu FT-991A
No detachable screen

>>2796533
>gimmicky
How so? I have it, though I would use it more as a base station than mobile. Sure, it has it's cons like no internal tuner and no waterfall (and it's main unit is huge making issues for hiding it), but it's a decent rig.

>>2796533
People who have a 7100 seem to love it, weird head arrangement and all. The only other one worth looking at is the Yaesu 857D.

The 891 is a super mobile radio but it's HF only

>/ham/
>never any pictures of their rigs

>>2796614
>FT-891
I have one as a backup. I considered added that to my car, but also want VHF/UHF for for safety reasons (not as a larping homosexual; if I forget my phone or it's dead and my car breaks down or ______, it'd be invaluable to hit a repeater and ask they make a phone call on my behalf).
I considered juggling 2 radios and splurging on a new VHF/UHF radio, but at that point I may as well spend a few hundred more and get one that does both. Especially when IC-706s are in the $400 range
>>2796636
Thank you. I confuse the FT-857D with the QRP FT-817
>>2796603
I have a IC-7300. The IC-7000 seems almost like a prior generation of that. Color screen, same button layout, etc, with the bonus of a removable screen.
For whatever reason, in-between those two models is the 7100 which looks like a big step back. Black and white, an odd, angled screen, and the buttons look as if it were made in China. To their credit they introduced the touch screen. I suppose I mean gimmickly in that I can see this is how it went at the ICOM business meeting
>we need something new
>anything!
>fine ... let's just make a bigger, angled headset and marketing can do the rest
I'm kidding/speculating, but I can see how that's how the IC-705 was born
>we marketed the IC-7100 and have some feedback.
>people like the head unit, but could we do away with the shoebox sized thing it's attached to? We don't think that's needed and it's a point of confusion.

>>2796640
>OPSEC
So you are a larper then?

>>2796639
Subscribe to my Youtube channel and you can see videos of me making ham radio contacts. It's better than porn.

>>2796639
2 people here have actual rigs, the rest use baomemes and rtl-sdrs with the mini rabbit ears as their primary antenna (indoors of course) expecting to dx on 80m

>>2796639
CQ 70CM CQ 70CM CQ DE LU9AAA
Which is yours by the way?
>>2796680
>the rest use baomemes
Never let your friends vote s*cialist. Fortunately my shithole is crawling out of its shithole and I may be able to build some decent kit before the cycle is over.

>>2796639
I've posted my rig, antennas, etc numerous times. The other anon is right though, it's mostly baomemes and rtlsdrs. That's why an MSPaint of someone using a vertical random length end-fed to dx is circulating here, they've never tried better antennas. That's also why people are afraid to erect their own towers or masts.

>>2796639
still remodeling my radio/computer room so doing some bed radio

>>2796732
have a heil headset for it
was just doing receive since I don't have an hf transmit antenna up yet

>>2796733
Oh, what antenna are you using then?

Ya'll are nerds, I don't need a license to use my baofeng.

>>2796744
>nobody hears you
>nobody cares
As long as you stay off HF I literally could not give a single shit about you kerchunking repeaters all day.

goofy ahh ham operators be like
>>nobody hears you
>>nobody cares
>As long as you stay off HF I literally could not give a single shit about you kerchunking repeaters all day.

>>2796738
right now just a discone, which is surprisingly good at picking up 40m, getting ready to setup a wire transmit antenna, I would setup a beverage but my property is long and thin so it would probably be too close to the transmit antenna

>>2796842
>discone
It works well if outdoors, but I've had discones before, a true blur resonant wire high up in the air will make it look and sound like shit. That said, they're neat antennas and work fine for shortwave stations.

What kind of transmitting antenna do you use? A beverage shouldn't interact if properly staggered.

>>2796854
it's gonna be a long EFHW
I live on an acre but it's long behind the house so the wire is gonna be strung from a pole right behind the house over to a tree, wire will be running towards the north. If I did a beverage also going north I feel like it would be too close to it but idk. Could always do an east west beverage just to see what I can hear.

>>2796892
>I feel like it would be too close to it but idk
If it's >20ft away and 5 feet higher or lower, it shouldn't have any interaction at all. I'd also argue for a dipole of some sort, even a fan dipole.

Six meters is on fire right now into South America

>>2795394
Do internet hate speech laws extend to HAM? Can you be banned from air?

Im doing practice test for my HAM test. I get circuits and then a question about it. Is there a program I can make the circuit in, or a way to get the answer out of chatgpt? I can't see if I've answered right after I submit my practice test.

>>2797200
ChatGpt is absolutely terrible for ham questions. It's almost like it's intentionally giving wrong answers now.

https://falstad.com/circuit/

>>2797202
Sweden, so HAREC
>>2797205
It handles the easy shit really well, and I mainly use it to see if it agrees with what I've come to.

>>2797206
It doesn't even handle making a halfwave dipole.

>>2797206
>Sweden
Sorry, bud. I can't help other than save you a lot of replies of
>It's an open book test. Just memorize the answers
>What do you mean you aren't in the USA?

>>2797216
Not open book. But the practice test questions online are the same as the ones in the real test it's just a massive pool of questions, where some are outside the scope of the open source book they recommend for studying.

>>2795476
Look up Tennadyne. They make some less expensive logs, though I think their gain numbers are rather generous.

Has anyone here done a DXPedition or - call me crazy - a remote DXPedition?
I've been hit by the bug to do so. I have an Extra ticket and can talk my wife into it if the QSLs cover a healthy chunk of the costs.
We both take a week of vacation. She chills on the beach or sightsees and I play radio.
Win win.
On a crazier level, it looks like you can rent a ham shack in Palau.

>>2797206
>Sweden,
Wow I thought everyone itt was in the US. Midwest specifically. That's where most HAMs are per capita. (Can't prove this).

>>2797205
This so much. It even admitted to me that its database is out of date when I asked it a question on a different matter.

>>2797216
If they didn't do this, we would have gotten our frequencies taken away a long time ago. It's the same with the no-code.

>>2797218
So similar to here in the US then? That helps out. Is there an app that will help out with it like here in the US? There's a bunch of them here that are so useful, and they do tell you if you got a question wrong.

>>2797262
No, I'm on the east coast US.

>>2797256
Quite a few of my DXCC credits are for working "holiday style" DXpeditions. The best ones are the ones where the operators know how to work split competently. The ones where it's simplex and everyone is screaming over everyone else are a drag.

If you aren't a practised portable operator, do some SOTA or POTA first. Work out what you need to take and what you don't. Handling high QSO rates per hour is a learned skill too.

You can take a laptop and just leave it working FT8 while you relax on the beach for some extra lolz.

I'm converting my batteries, power supplies and radios to Anderson PowerPoles this weekend. I need to make a few pigtails. What is the preferred method, using separate wires or zip-wire?

>>2797402
>using separate wires or zip-wire?
whatever you can find, both are ok, twin wire will be less messy

>>2797402
I have a leads that are just single wires bonded together in glue lined heat shrink every foot or so. Easy way to make high current leads, bond 3-4 single wires per pole together in parallel, heat shrink them. That way you can use whatever wire you have in the junk box and not spend big on heavy gauge twin line.

>>2796692
>That's why an MSPaint of someone using a vertical random length end-fed to dx is circulating here, they've never tried better antennas.
I just like my simplicity and not having to waste a lot of money to make the antenna jews more money when I make DX contacts just fine with my wire up a tree.

>>2797438
You know you could make a resonant antenna without paying antenna jews? Oh, of course not you're not a real ham. You think a contact to Canada or Cuba is a dx contact.

>>2797486
You know you can stop seething over someone not doing the things you want them to do? Oh, of course, you have autism. You think anyone who doesn't do what you do is not a real ham.

Tried to make this circuit in falstad but failed. My brain doesn't really comprehend what the two wires on the bottom go.<br>Left side is just straight from wikipedia.

anyone know what program they use to do this?<br>It's some group that likes to mess with the russian buzzer stations

>>2797512
I have a program that'll do this, but they'd have to run some serious power for it to be this pronounced. I use Easypal. That said, you'd need great conditions and a very strong signal to do something like this, to this level of clarity, so they may be using commercial broadcasting equipment.

>>2797527
the youtube channel I'm watching them on also adjusts his waterfall to make them look as good as possible with the prerecorded audio he's working with
but it' some russian shitposter messing with the russian mil
originally they didn't even really respond but now if they start playing music or rolling sstv on the freq the gov station just goes key down on the noise

>>2797529
Ah yeah, for recorded audio it's definitely easier to do. If you were to log into a US based SDR I could produce this on the waterfall, but it'd be harder to make out for sure.

>>2797205
I imagine they've nerfed it to avoid liability suits. People have used it to do homework, write reviews, and some idiot even used it in legal proceedings and got his ass handed to him.

>>2797554
They're nerfing it constantly, but still aiming to improve it so more people use it. It's very retarded.

Still I could ask it in Swedish how many coils I needed in my secondary loop in a transformer to get the right voltage and it did it correctly and showed work.

>>2797562
Here I ask about the dipole and asking it to help you make a high power dummy load for a specific wattage will give more obviously terrible answers.

How many folks do this to their 12vdc input? Effective?

>>2797566
It told me to use 2 pieces of 10.36meter. Unsure if this is good for 7Mhz since I literally know nothing.

It's all magic number math to sound smart anyway

>>2797571
I mean, it's right to tell you to go longer than you'd expect so you can tune down.

>>2797571
Are you sure that it said each side is 10.36meters? (correct)
In english it will always say each side of the dipole is 20meters or a similar logical fault (incorrect).

>>2797573
In the image under "Material" "Two lengths of conductor (copper wire, coax or similar) with an approximate length of 10.36 meter each.

I wonder if there is an overabundance of Swedish radio material online compared to general English stuff vs English radio stuff

>>2797570
Don't think that was done correctly.

done a bunch of studying and my two practice tests so far for general are good. 83% the first time and 91% the second time a few hours later.<br>Gotta really pound it in there since I'm gonna be taking the test on a Saturday after being up 16 hours. Needs to be second nature.

>>2797814
Be sure to take regular breaks. You can tire yourself out to the point where you get worse.

>>2797820
it's Saturday the 18th so I have some time
Just sucks I work weekend nightshift
So I'll go to work Friday night at 5pm, work 12, get off at 5am Saturday then stay up till the 9am test. Then go back to work that night.

>>2797824
Fellow midnight shift bro! Hope you do well on the test!

>>2797826
Thanks
been doing it 8 years now
on the plus side on my days off I'm up at the good propagation times for 40m, already been listening to it at night

was expecting a few more winds in this "2kw" 350w digital transformer for an EFHW 75-10m<br>lots of ferrite in there though

>>2797571
Don't trust that bullshit. ChatGPT is just a poor, re-written google search that hasn't been updated since January 2022.

>>2797827
I did that for the longest time on 80m and talking to some of the boomers in the region.

>>2797849
The primary winding (the two twisted wire) should be at one end of the secondary winding, not in the middle. Who made it?

Also note use of typical cheap shit cap in a high wattage transformer.

>>2797890
myantennas.com
Supposedly designed by a former cushcraft engineer
https://myantennas.com/wp/about-me/<wbr>
guess we'll see how it performs once I have it strung up
here's a shot of the cap
says 121J 3kv TDK

>>2797890
It doesn't matter where on the secondary the primary winding sits. People who make ununs usually wind the primary over the earthy end of the secondary, but it's not at all essential. The actual winding itself looks OK for the standard of something made commercially. I am glad MFJ have gone bust and they will not be inflicting their shit ununs on the world any more.

>>2797895
The cap is OK. The selection for a cap in that application is not just voltage, it is loss at the higher end of the spectrum. So 3kV is fine but it will depend on the materials in the capacitor how good it is at the top end.

>>2797916
The primary is at the ground side electrically but the secondary is split. Dumber than a box of rocks and should be rewoumd Those cheap TDK caps are shit ESR performers at HF

Get ready for 6/2m skip this evening boys! Severe geomagnetic storms to start as early as 5pm Pacific.

>>2797973
>>2797975
https://www.spaceweather.gov/commun<wbr>ities/space-weather-enthusiasts-das<wbr>hboard
magnetometer already going berserk

>>2797975
>>2797976
yay for 6 meters? I can never keep K and A and the others straight

>>2797940
maybe that's where the boomer secret sauce is
since they claim 75-10m no tuner required
https://myantennas.com/wp/product/e<wbr>fhw-7510-2k-plus/

>>2798032
French fag here, saw some very faint aurora, that was nice, i guess radio conditions will be strange but maybe good for some bands ?

I was promised solar activity. WHERE IS IT?!
Everyone on Infowars today was going full blown Y2K over a few sunspots
>The Carrington Event melted all the electrical wires!
>Sun spots make people go crazy!
>If it doesn't happen ... the govt will use it as a false flag to do something and blame the sun!

>>2798076
I also heard lu1wfu on 6m today. It's coming, give it another hour or two.

>>2798121
I've been watching on ft8. There was a small window where I saw some South America and someone made a contact from Central America to Australia.
Otherwise it's all this very wideband, undecodable noise.

>>2798122
What antenna are you using? 6m requires a pretty substantial beam. A thousand people were getting into SA.

If I try to use my SDR or shortwave radio during this, is there a chance I could damage it?

I understand a bit about how solar storms affect HF transmissions, but this is the most serious storm that's happened since I've gotten into radio.

Is there anything you recommend doing to take advantage of this event? Anything fun I might regret not doing later?

>>2798139
tfw left my SDR hooked up when I left the house for the night

>>2798139
>>2798146
A power surge might damage electronics. That's about it.

>>2798127
I'm the moxon goof. Been working 6 meters pretty hard the past week or two.
Either it's the conditions or I made a big goof I haven't found

>>2798156
switched antennas and same woes

>>2797490
It's a circuit. Think of U1 as a voltage source with the positive on top and the negative on the bottom, and U2 as a load modeled by a resistor.
Current flows from U1_top to the top-middle intersection to U2_top to U2_bottom back to U1_bottom. But there's also the flow from U1_top to top-middle intersection to bottom-middle intersection back to U1_bottom.

Would putting ferrite chokes on the coax cable running from the MLA 30+ to the power supply improve or degrade signal quality?

Should I only put ferrite on stuff like power supplies or thinks drawing a current?

>>2798139
Came here to ask the same question.
I've got an RTL-SDR and was thinking about plugging it in to monitor activity locally (I'm trans btw, not sure if that's relevant or not).
I'm assuming the CMEs would shit out noise on all spectrums, so it wouldn't really matter what frequency I tuned into?
Also, would like to start discussion about EMF-protecting radio equipment. Would lining a box with alfoil actually work?

>>2798174
>from the MLA 30+ to the power supply
From the antenna to the radio you mean? Or the radio to the power supply? You don't have your antenna connected straight to a power supply. Either way, ferrite beads don't do much on receive even in noisy environments. Better coax usually does what you're looking for. You could ground the radio and antenna which should bring noise down for low bands.

>>2798174
>>2798219
Sorry, ground the radio and power supply*. Do NOT ground the antenna.

>>2798139
>If I try to use my SDR or shortwave radio during this, is there a chance I could damage it?
Not at all.

>Is there anything you recommend doing to take advantage of this event? Anything fun I might regret not doing later?
You'll hear a lot of 'Dawn Chorus' emissions on ELF. Check out the VLF region for enhanced propagation.

Point a 6m yagi at the aurora and listen to the watery sounding CW signals. It gets weird. SSB might be too distorted to understand but worth a try. Swing the beam at different parts of the auroral curtain, some weird reflections can be had. One time with the beam pointed true north, we could hear stations to the south of us. Then minutes later we're getting sigs from Denmark for just a minute or so (over the pole). Then we're hearing JA's for a few brief moments.

West coast Canada reporting. Right now (06:30 UTC) looking NW. HF is unusable.

>>2798233
>>2798259
>>2798261
Beautiful. I wish I didn't sleep all night

HF is looking pretty barren
All I can see is FT8 & CW down on 40m
little hints of LSB on the net frequencies but nothing intelligible

>>2798320
Yea,I'm not even seeing anything in the broadcast bands.Pretty crazy,I've never seen conditions this bad.

>>2798320
7205 got some weird QRM OR QRB noises going on

>>2798373
POTA in Florida. Trying to fight through the noise, but he gave up.

I didn't hear anything unusual on MW last night but SW seemed almost completely dead

I will try again today and tonight. Also it was cloudy where I was, so the towns adjacent to me enjoyed the Aurora while I didn't, which I'm extremely salty about.

Anyone have a speaker recommendation for a mobile setup?<br>Never thought it was applicable, but I put the base in a lockbox in the back and that's where the speaker is. At max volume it sounds like a crying baby with a pillow over their face

>>2798535
I used a commercial Motorola mobile mount speaker for years. But I did see one guy who used one of those little FM transmitters used to pipe music from an mp3 source into their car stereo system.

>>2796337
WTF. A lot of people with land and a tractor probably have most of the supplies to do this type of shit by themselves

>>2796347
On what fucking planet are boom lift and crane rentals that cheap

>>2798961
That's what home depot charges for 4hr rentals.

>>2798961
using a crane seems pretty dumb considering the heights most towns allow
I can only get up to 30ft without a special permit that requires me to prove it's technically necessary for successful amateur communication. 30ft is easily done with a gin pole

>>2799120
better to die a boomer than live a zoomer

So what's the deal with the spanish guys on 7.130? (and the rest of the AE part of the 40m band)
Cause I can hear them all day everyday with even the shittiest antennas
I know some people talk about the fishermen on 40m but I am absolutely no where near the ocean

I'm fascinated by radio, it's crazy to me that I can have an antenna up and hear all kinds being transmitted. What do you people do usually? Talk to random people? Or just curious about what's being transmitted at the moment?
Is there a lot of "crackers" in this hobby? I mean people who jailbreak radios and try to listen to LE frequencies and shit like that I'd enjoy that desu i know I sound like a fed now.

Me and my buddy have a baofeng walkie talkie that we take to the desert for camping but I want to do more than that, just want to learn more about the hobby before I spend too much.

>>2799142
most radios don't have limits on what they will receive other than technical ones
SDRs can receive huge bandwidths
You can try to listen to LE but they generally use encrypted trunk systems these days
people have been listening to police frequencies as long as police have had radios
Now transmittitting out of legal bands is a whole nother thing, and has always been fairly easy to do. Boomers just needed different crystals or a VFO that went to those frequenices. Most modern ham radios to this day usually just require a simple hardware mod to generally remove a resistor to allow them to transmit outside of the USA amateur bands.
This is generally referred to in the US as WARC modding a radio. Also people that modded HF radios for 11m(CB), people using illegally high power amps.

>>2799145
>transmitting out of legal bands is a whole nother thing,
yeah I'm sure I'll get caught in a second if I did that

forgot about encryption, that takes a lot of the fun out of it man

I am in Saudi Arabia and every radio device has to be registered on a database, is there like call sign based on the serial number or something?
actually how is the surveillance on radio in most countries? It might be fun to make a vulgar, not PC radio program out of my car I'm sure the government won't bother listening

>>2799142
Most of the info you are asking for is in the OP text.

>>2799151
>actually how is the surveillance on radio in most countries?
It is monitored 24/7, and also by satellites - again the FAQ gives you details.
>It might be fun to make a vulgar, not PC radio program out of my car I'm sure the government won't bother listening
The Wullenwebers triangulated any HF emitter in a fraction of a second. Today, 40 years later, the tech is even better, faster and more precise.

>>2799120
I wish I was born 200 years ago. This timeline is so miserable.

I was wondering if anyone else is like this:

I have my tech license and have had it over a year. Programmed old police VHF radios, chimed into local nets, made contacts on 10m, and other activities to keep the knowledge flowing.

I am studying and will likely pass my General this week before Hamvention, but realize that I still have a bit of trouble fully understanding some of the concepts on even the Tech. test.

Mainly in how certain antennas work, the electrical theories that go into radios and different setups in general and the math behind them.

Is it normal to be at this stage where I will pass my General but not fully grasp everything, and if so then I assume I will learn it through trial, error and actual use in the field when transmitting.

Thank you in advance.

>>2799239
didn't read; learn how to write

>>2799239
What are you doing? Just memorizing the question pool?

>>2799239
>Mainly in how certain antennas work, the electrical theories that go into radios and different setups in general and the math behind them.
Time to dive head first into Maxwells equations. you will quickly find that many things are not intuitive.

>>2799239
>I still have a bit of trouble fully understanding some of the concepts on even the Tech
Don't worry about it. I was in the same boat and thought it was me. It's not. A lot of the info in the tests is outdated. It's just like college in that you get a diploma and most of what you learn isn't applicable or in use.
It'd be more helpful if you mentioned what you're interested in or why you got into ham or why you're going for the General.
Knowing the test isn't knowing ham radio.

>>2799241
Sorry, just threw up. Haha

>>2799262
Yes and no. I do know a lot of the equations from physics class and also basic electronics projects that I have done. I have Gordon Wests book and have been doing the HamStudy study sessions and tests.
So if I don't understand a concept I look at the explanations or go deeper into the GW book.

>>2799263
While I do know them, I do not know them 100% by heart and will keep a copy on hand and memorize.

>>2799265
>Don't worry about it. I was in the same boat and thought it was me. It's not. A lot of the info in the tests is outdated. It's just like college in that you get a diploma and most of what you learn isn't applicable or in use.
Glad its not just me.
I got into it originally because of going to the Dayton Hamvention as a kid and wanted to actually learn it as an adult. I want to go for General to understand radio concepts better, what works what does not, and be a better teacher for others in the same boat. Even with my limited knowledge, because I have a tech and am somewhat active in radio, a lot of people that I know that homestead ask me about radio stuff and try to ask for advice on where/how/why to get started.

>>2799272
>what works what does not
That sounds like a 'hands on' type learning which I found after I got the tests behind me. Just pass and set your sights to the hands on activities of your choosing.
The electronics and theories are nice, but few people in the hobby are working on their radios anymore - let alone making one from scratch or replacing all the capacitors.
Back to your original point. If you pass and want to build a radio then find a tutorial and get your hands dirty finding what works and what does not

Interesting fan pattern I'm seeing on 6m

>>2799272
>While I do know them, I do not know them 100% by heart and will keep a copy on hand and memorize.
Memorizing is far from sufficient if you wish to understand this:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki<wbr>/Study_Methods

>>2799286
>If you don't know why the approximate forward threshold voltage of a germanium diode 0.3v, you can never play radio. NEVER!

>>2799286
I build and sell antennas now, with really good reviews, and I just memorized the test for my general. I ended up learning most of the subject matter after getting licensed.

Anyone hook a ham radio to a motorcycle?

>>2799317
>>2799272
This is what I did. I was encouraged to do it by "Elmers" and VEs. When I sat for my technician exam they said go home and memorize the question pool and answers and come back. I got my extra ticket 2 weeks later. That was 16 years ago.

Their logic was to get you on the air now and then learn by doing hands on. I agree with this model.

>>2799322
The closest I've considered is putting a metal plate in my top box, drilling a hole and running the antenna through the top and hooking a hand mic to my jacket or to the box with a reach-back. Then running headphones via Bluetooth and a small adapter into the helmet. It just wasn't good though, I wanted a larger ground plane even for vhf/uhf, and the antenna would be very high. It'd also run off a handheld ultimately anyway, because loading up my only storage compartment with radio shit is kind of stupid.

For HF operations I'm sure it's doable and reasonable to mount a 10m antenna to a big enough bike with radio hardwired to the battery. If you need your bike for commuting and running to the store though it's not really worth it.

>>2799265
I wouldn't say it's outdated but it's definitely a little overboard. Gatekeeping for the sake of gatekeeping. Not that guy but I'm also studying for my general and it's only the more technical antenna questions I tend to fail at.

Anyone here in the UK take part in the 145 Alive event on Saturday?

>>2799239
I'm exactly the same. I got my general earlier this year when I had the tech for years. The ham radio guy in our community just had me memorize the questions and answers before he'd help me learn. He subscribes to the "the license is the license to learn" philosophy. I learn so much better actually doing instead of book learning.

Also, so far, I've barely applied even 5% of the concepts presented in the General.

I can say 40m is far from dead<br>threw up my EFHW at a very low height just to do some receiving (about 6 ft off the ground) and I'm picking up tons of code and SSB, was listening to 20m during the daylight hours and it was pretty busy too

>>2799424
and the cw portion is nothing compared to right now
wall to wall beeps and boops down there

>>2799424
They just had a 70+ person OMISS net, 40m is fine.

I'm getting tired of this meshtastic shit that keeps going around on youtube as if it's the miracle cure-all for all comms.

>>2799513
Keep in mind everyone on /diy/ thinks ham radio starts and stops at their baofang, without ever needing to explore HF. Of course an unlicensed repeater is going to look good to normies.

>>2799151
>actually how is the surveillance on radio in most countries?
lol I experiment between 400 and 500MHz on a daily basis up to 25W and nothing's ever happened. I really dont give a shit about getting busted.

>>2799513

If you're from /k/ the unironic answer to comms is analog security methods and old-school encryption because any kind of strange encoded signal floating around a battlespace will immediately become a priority for intelligence collection

Baofengs are unironically a huge equalizer.

>>2799640
Anything you use will be found anyway. If there's military equipment and boots on the ground, they (being the US military) can track your vhf signal source within, quite literally, second. And no, I don't mean like old FCC fox hunts either. Back when I worked on Nellis someone tried (and severely failed) to jam ATC comms (which are analog) with F16s in the air. Within 2 hours they allegedly had feds at their door. This was all over the base, I'm surprised it didn't make the news, even the pilots talked about it. I guess they didn't want to give anyone else any ideas.

>>2799675
>within, quite literally, seconds*
Plural seconds. Under a minute for sure.

>>2799675
>Back when I worked on Nellis someone tried (and severely failed) to jam ATC comms (which are analog) with F16s in the air
idk about military planes but I heard passanger jets have direction finders to prevent spoofing
but yea, makes sense they will locate you quickly on a band that's used for something as important as ATC
if you wanna stay under the radar you have to use crowded license free bands like ism or pmr and blend in with the crowd

>>2799540
Which is dumb. HF communication is extremely useful.

>>2799640
I'm not from /k/: i just don't really care about encryption. If I need security, I'd rather go through with obfuscation, which we don't need. The only reason why we use DMR is so we privately talk to others on the DMR repeater which is extremely rare anyway. Otherwise, if it's just everyone in the community, we just use the GMRS repeater.

Meshtastic looks more like a meme than anything else. I don't want to have another standalone unit or have it tethered to my cellphone and it's app. I have a DMR radio that does text if I need to text anything outside of cellphone like that cell outage a few months ago.

goddam my local clubs 2m net is depressing<br>12 check ins and only like 4 of them did any roundtable discussion, started at 7 and ended at 7:30

>>2799812
That's the norm of 2m and 70cm nets.

>>2799814
was so terrible I didn't even bother checking in
wouldn't want to mess up the good old boys and their emergency larp

>>2799817
It doesn't hurt to check in to get a signal report and practice if that is going to be your thing. But yeah, that's how most nets are on repeaters.

>>2799821
eh, I was going to, will see I someone pops up on the repeater later
taking the general in a few days and I'll be on HF

>>2799822
speak of the devil just had my first vhf contact right after I typed that
some guy testing his radio

>>2799822
Nets on hf a very similar, but it's more interesting. An example is you may need to be a relay for another station checking in. You build our skills a lot better on them. Good luck on your general!

>>2799823
Congrats on your first contact! There's plenty more to come.

>>2799825
they actually had a relay during the VHF net
guy was still on simplex and couldn't open the repeater but one of the closer guys to him heard him. He figured it out by the end of the net. I haven't failed a practice test for the general yet so I think I'm gravy. My lowest is 83%
>>2799826
Thanks

its called radio directing finding networking and it can triangulate your transmission automatically within nanoseconds, record the transmission and the location it originated from
RDFN/RDF is an essential part of any government's security in the modern age and all of them have this capability and have had it for many years unless they're still a third world shithole
there are even rdfn satellites and hardware for it mounted to shitty TV repeaters in the sticks
the military hardware for this is a backpack for live finding of hardware in the field, and theres a ton of vendors selling it for cars which works in conjunction with systems deployed on repeaters and cellphone towers
this is public knowledge and generally anyone you see in threads like these mentioning particular frequencies for you to transmit on illegally are employees in the agencies which monitor for jamming or unauthorized transmissions trying to get a bonus to their paycheck for finding you and you've been so kind to use their frequency they've told you to use to do this for them
just use a encrypted radio already you fucking retard its legal and you don't have to register on some public doxxing hub just to talk to your femboy friend across town

>>2799900
So we need a firmware for the qansheng something that does frequency hopping plus encryption

https://youtu.be/-UEsijMddyE
https://youtu.be/jMd02w4v9rY
https://youtu.be/H8UXhyHgpm0
https://youtu.be/zxlDVubnbwM
https://youtu.be/QIGAOLJh-XE
cop cars also have a rdfn in them, vehicle tracking lojack and the backdoors in intel, amd, and arm cpus

>>2799917
>TCI Blackbird NextGen HF Detection, Intercept and Direction Finding
everything between 2 and 30 Mhz, fuck

>>2799911
Did you really believe that frequency hopping (even with spread spectrum) is enough to evade RDF in the year 2024??

>>2799727
>idk about military planes but I heard passanger jets have direction finders to prevent spoofing
Not sure what this means. DF is used to find teh bearing to known radio beacons as a way of navigation, an alternative to using GPS. I have never heard they use DF to locater jammers.
And it would be easier to place the GPS antenna at the top of the aircraft so that emitters on the ground cannot reach the antenna.

https://www.tcibr.com/wp-content/up<wbr>loads/2022/11/TCI-850.pdf
>the suv with a rooftop luggage concealment of the antenna
lmao

any dummies guide to identifying digital and analog modes?<br>I've been looking at signal wiki but some of the modes I see pop up on the HF bands I have no idea what they are.

>>2799964
although I just IDed one I heard last night
it was Contestia
for some reason it started at the bottom of the 40m band, transmitted, and kept doing that until the end of the band. It avoided any occupied frequencies and the FT8 containment zone.

>>2799965
although it could have been Olivia since listening to the samples I can't tell the difference between them

>>2799900
the governt can definitely locate you quicky but I know from experience that they wont waste their time on a random faggots talking on an illegal frequency unless he manages to jam their communications
I know of only one person who got vanned and he was drunk and yelling SOS on marine frequencies

>>2799964
Go big:
https://i56578-swl.blogspot.com/

>>2800094
>green and red
>Palestine colors
>very ugly, unidentifiable mystery meat
I've found a disproportionate number of jewish hams. It'd be a hoot to spin this as a the ARRL is subtly anti semetic

>>2800094
I have never seen a black ham in my life but I'm not in the US. I've been at the big ham fest in Friedrichshafen and it was all middle-aged and elderly white men. Not that I would mind having black men among us.

>>2800162
>Not that I would mind having black men among us.
OH8STN is on youtube. He's decent, but pic related.

>>2800162
What about gay hams? Heard any of those?
You know those rules where they carve out parts of the spectrum for specific for specific things (e.g. no FSK), well they’d probably want to make some of those guidelines like for pitchers and catchers since they’ll be using radios to find each other like fireflies in the night.
There should also be some trans-only bandwidth allocated. They should take AM radio off-line (after which they will crank up cell data plan rates, spotify rates and make everything pay only with ten times the ads, and make you pay a federal emergency alert fee) and assign it all to the trans community.

>>2800162
There are tens of millions of blacks in the US, there are bound to be some, even if they aren't super visible. There are quite a few high school students who get their tech licenses because it's part of a school program, several of those are visible minorities in the photos, even if they don't pursue it as a hobby outside of the classroom they still count

>>2799353
I didn't do this one but I've done them previously. I hear the one last weekend was a clusterfuck because of tropo

Sup guys. For an uni assignment my group is doing a tracked command post for our army (Spanish Army). I've found some antennas, transceivers and powers generators for our vehicle, but would like to know what would you guys use. The frequency band is from 30 MHz to 3GHz cause that's the frequency range of our army's radios. So far we've been using L3Harris, Codan and Sentry for transceivers and TRIVAL ANTENE and HASCALL-DENKE for antennas. Any antennas (both directional and omnidirectional) and transceivers would be appreciated. Preferably with access to good documentation.

>>2800184
>If you ever transmit on X.690, you're officially gay
Nothing personal, homo
>>2799979
Still down
>>2800335
>tracked command post
Want to elaborate? Is it a circle jerk thought experiment? If not, are you just receiving? If not, how do you plan on being authorized to transmit on military frequencies? Encryption?

>>2800335
You can find these antennas on modern military vehicles

>>2800335
the double radiating element is for bandwidth

>>2800335
for example :
https://www.tserecon.com/products/v<wbr>ehicle-hf-loop-antenna

>>2800335
There are alot of variables missing here. LOS point to point communications or a network? Terrain? You sending data? Voice only? Frequency Hopping?

Military units have S2 Commo Officers that coordinate frequently management with both higher and subordinate units.

looking at an interface for setting up digital modes on my FT-1000MP
so far I've looked at the rigblaster advantage and the Signalink USB
I'm already setup for CAT control over a usb to serial adapter so I don't really need that feature of the rigblaster but it would help consolidate. Only problem is the rigblasters are backordered until late this year
I also saw the Microham microkeyer 3 but that's a little over the top
just the prebuilt db37 cable for the radio connection is over $100

>>2800407
>FT-1000MP
Check out XGG Comms. I have one of their units for the 891

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>>2800415
Been down 2 days. Better that it goes down now than right after a major contest when everyone is uploading fuckloads of QSOs.

LOTW is maintained on an Commodore 64 I think

>>2800420
It must be a respectably sized database ... which bluntly is their main purpose for existing. If it wasn't backed up ... lmao

>>2800422
Maybe the solar flares over the weekend took it out

Can someone turn on 6 meters for the US? Thx.

>>2800414
>>2800417
thanks I'll check them out

>>2800365
>Want to elaborate?
Our army is replacing the M113 with VAC (Vehículo de Apoyo sobre Cadenas (Tracked support vehicle)). VAC hull is just the modernized hull of our IFV the Pizarro and a cousin of the hull of the new US Army light tank/assault gun M10 Booker. We say the program and decided to do our own command post version for the assignment. Piprel is mortar carrier version.
>Is it a circle jerk thought experiment?
Yeah, it's an uni assignment. Calculating uplinks, downlinks, attenuation loss, maximum transmission distance, etc.
>If not, are you just receiving?
Both, receiving and transmitting
>Encryption?
We are on our second year so we haven't worked with encryption yet but it would be nice for the project if the equipment could support it.
>>2800379
Omnidirectional broadcast for voice and data communication with soldiers and directional broadcast for between command posts to avoid detection. No LOS required. The terrain we use are both open fields and a mid sized city since our work project includes an urban deployment.
>Military units have S2 Commo Officers that coordinate frequently management with both higher and subordinate units
Do you have more about this? I've been working with this:
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_<wbr>pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN17840_TC%206-0<wbr>2.1%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf
>Frequency Hopping?
We plan to do sectorization

>>2800471
>it's an uni assignment
What's the class and this is strictly paper pushing, right? Thought experiment? No 'lab' where you try to do any physical testing?
Not being a dick - just a big difference between talking about transmitting on unauthorized frequencies and making an effort to do so

>>2800492
>What's the class and this is strictly paper pushing, right?
The subject is Telecommunication Systems and Services. Yes, a thought experiment would be a way to convey it.
>No 'lab' where you try to do any physical testing?
Correct
>Not being a dick
Dw dw

>>2800471
I'd read FM 11-55 Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE). It'll give you a good idea of system architecture.

so when upgrading from tech to general the FCC doesn't charge the $35 unless you're changing call signs right?

>>2800426
I'm in Europe, with 2 6M radios but no antenna. sadface.jpg

>>2800586
I know how a gypsy would resolve this problem

>>2800426
I got a 1,000 mile ssb contact on 6m today around 5pm pacific. Working fine.

>>2800407
I have a Rigblaster Advantage for my FT-847 because the radio doesn't do true FSK, only AFSK and it has a funky/faulty CAT system which complicates using data modes. The Rigblaster line came highly recommended for this radio because it simplified the cabling issues and is a quality unit. I lucked out when, after a couple of weeks researching and deciding I wanted the RB Advantage, 4 days later a guy 1 town over put his up for sale. Near mint, original box, docs, etc for $125 CAD. Even better, it came with the Yaesu cabling I needed.

Only used it a few times on RTTY, of all places on 440 MHz FM.

>>2800705
very nice
I pulled the trigger on the digirig mobile and for the price I don't think I'll go too wrong.
$96 for the digirig, cables, and shipping

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>>2800733
>We are in the process of responding to a serious incident involving access to our network and headquarters-based systems. Several services, such as Logbook of The World® and the ARRL Learning Center, are affected. Please know that restoring access is our highest priority, and we are expeditiously working with outside industry experts to address the issue. We appreciate your patience.
>we are expeditiously working with outside industry experts to address the issue
>responding to a serious incident involving access to our network and headquarters-based systems

>>2800737
>ARRL was hacked
can only imagine what a walk in the park that was for them

>>2800737
>oh God! Not the ARRL Learning Center! Think of the children! Dave Casler's comments and magazine articles from the 1970's aren't accessible on ARRL.org. Now I can only find the same thing on YouTube and Internet Archive

>>2800586
>>2800659
It opened up later in the afternoon for me. Fiji (7,500 miles) and New Caledonia came through around 6pm. I was fussing here around noon.

How many of you window lickers are at Hamvention this weekend?

I have to write a stupid letter for work. Would someone peer it for me?

>>2800827
Day 3 is in the books.
RIP ARRL.

Hey, /ham/, it's been a minute.
Does anyone have a mobile install? I have a surplus FT-8900 and a surplus FT-891.
I don't drive too much, but it'd be nice to have a radio to tag along. HF on long trips and VHF for local stuff.
The 891 would require running another cable for the microphone headset.
That shouldn't warrant buying one radio that does both, but the idea of juggling 2 headsets and 2 bodies and a tuner makes me start leaning to something like an ic-706 or ft-100d or ic-7000 - all of which are 'well aged'

>>2800919
Do an 891 and supplement with a baofeng hooked up to an external antenna. Take it out when you don't need it.

>>2800890
Paper and pencils exist, fagboy.

>>2800937
I usually upload to qrz first anyway.

>>2800944
l was listening to a ragchew the other day where boomers were flexing their fancy qrz pages
they actually pay graphics designers to make big text filled images for their profiles.
It's like Myspace over there

>>2800184
>There should also be some trans-only bandwidth allocated.
I've tried proposing this to our Government's communication authority.
The problem is that they weren't willing to allocate the several bandwidths (one for each color of the LGBTi flag) that I requested.
It might surprise most here but, even in 2024, systemic bigotry still exists.

>>2801050
flood the airwaves with femboy cum and monster energy y

>>2795818
>I have a truck with tie down brackets I'm not using.

Average 'murican truck user.

>>2799927
some moron decided to broadcast fake signals from the ground that would cause aircraft to crash and made a blackhat conference talk about it
basically he made 4 fake aircraft guide the real aircraft into the ground through adsb anti collision
so what anon meant is they now have to verify the signal came from the air and not the ground

so why are digital voice modes on vhf/uhf tolerated?
shit doesn't seem very open source to me
dumb manufacturer lock in bs the boomers have bought line and sinker, half the repeaters in my area are fusion and the analog ones are dead as a doornail

>>2800827
Still down.
Get your field day merch!!

>>2801180
I'm getting closer. I hope you all send the final version to Rick today or Monday. I'll pay for your stamp.

Passed the the HAM exam!<br>I wanna thank chatGPT and their new 4o model which lets you upload images of circuits and it can tell you what it does.

>>2801209
you too? Just passed my general today
boomers must all do the tests on the same days
I didn't even get any of the circuit diagram questions

>>2801212
Congrats! Here in Sweden the local clubs either have planned test days. Or you contact the club and ask when one of authorized test givers are willing to schedule a test for you.

>>2801198
Does anyone else remember a simpler time when the ARRL stuck to mailing us furry stories?

>>2801219
November was a simpler time. Back when we had QST and a LoTW database.
Who knew how well we had it back then?

who had 'data breach' on their 2024 ARRL bingo card?

>>2801219
The ARRL has gone insane. I heard it was bad working there, but he's a madman.

>>2801219
After this incident they're going to turn to a monthly subscription fee for the LoTW service.

>>2801219
I can't fit another word on the paper

wonder how long it will take my upgrade to appear<br>when I walked in the testing area one of the VEs was explaining to the others some stuff and mailing got brought up so I'm not hopeful it's gonna be the fast way.

>>2801399
It'll most likely be later, but you can add a suffix with your callsign and operate in the extra bands in the mean time e.g. W1CUM/G or N1GR/AE

>>2801400
I did read that
seems a pain on voice though, since the little signed slip they gave me after I passed the test says you're supposed to say temporarily AG which is a mouthful compared to CW where it's just /AG

>>2801441
It maybe, but it's only for a short period. The best thing is you have your privileges now and others will notice and congratulate you on it when you are on the air.

>>2801443
true, been jonesing to get on 40m, had been trying to get out on the tech voice part of 10m but I always miss any openings.

>>2801446
I should really learn CW
that'll be my next goal I suppose

>>2801446
The good thing about 40m is that even during the day, you can sometimes talk locally. Some of our regional nets take place during the day and I can still get out and check in. It's just harder. At night when it truly opens up, it is so much better. Also, if you make a simple dipole for it, it's not excessively insane length like with 160m and 80m.

>>2801447
CW is something I really need to sit down and learn. I never bothered since I always focused on digital modes, with only using voice to check into nets. I'd do it just for the skill of being able to listen in and maybe pass some traffic if I ever need to.

>>2801450
I work nightshift so even my days off I'm up all night. I've been listening to some nets. Cowboy net and the HHH net are ones I can remember. Also damn 40m has a lot of Spanish on it.

>>2801455
Are you the other midnight shift bro I was talking to not too long ago? There are some good nets too on 80m. I used to check into the Early Bird Net here on the east coast where I'm at. After a few months of only being able to bring my radio into work, I just got tired of and I don't really want to remote in.

What is your current antenna configuration? That may have a factor in how you are receiving. Mine is just a sloped random wire which does receive a bit from Spain and sometimes I hear French, but it's not that great as random wires tend not to be the best antennas and I really just want to focus on regional stuff for emcomm purposes. I'm able to reach voice on 20m with it, but it's extremely hard for them to copy me even with 100 watts. If you want to DX, I don't recommend random wires like >>2795414. It works, but it's horrible.

Anyways, I got work so I got to get going. Have a good night, midnight shift bro!

>>2801455
>damn 40m has a lot of Spanish on it.
kill them.
Kill them all.
Won't be long before that's the main language.
Please make it stop.

>>2801456
probably, been around the last couple threads
guy with a ft1000mp
at the moment it's an EFHW 75-10m like 10ft off the ground since I was just receiving
Gonna get it up about 20-30ft in the next couple weeks. I have heard this one Australian guy but I could hear him on a discone antenna.
The guy I bought the radio from had made it over to Russia before with just an EFHW 20ft over his driveway

>>2801458
Just keep tuning up on top of them

>>2801458
some are pirates but some seem to have call signs, not really sure, I can't really tell the difference
they seem to hang around the AE section of 40m and the high end of 40m just below the AMers

what's our designated 4chan calling frequency?

What are we at? Day 5?<br>Were there any Dayton ARRL events they had to cancel?

>>2801621
>I bought a kink book at hamfest

I will staying for some time in my family property which doesnt have internet, but a phone connection via a 4g log antenna. They dont want to put internet in, so i was thinking if i could just split the antenna terminal in two, so both the current phone system and my 4g router can use it. Does this makes sense? i am worried about possible destructive interference, and i am unsure if this two way communication can be done that way
so is a cavity splitter what i should be looking for? like this https://aliexpress.com/item/1005002<wbr>013374770.html
i have never dealt with two ways rf comunications, i just listen in summer to the emergency services to know where are the fires

>>2801461
I do when they're nearby. They're so obnoxious. Even on the radio. They act like a melatonin encrusted cb-ers.

>>2801650
I had 20mb/1mb on an old copper phone line. Far from ideal in America for AT&T.
I basically did what you want to do. 5G Verizon which is just a 3G/4G/5G wireless router. 300mb.
The wireless blows, but all my devices are hardwired.

just made my first hf contact
honestly surprised since my antenna is just an EFHW with the transformer at about 19ft and the end of the antenna roped off to the luggage rack of a suv so maybe 7 ft with the droop
was only about two states away but he came in good and was the nicest
temporarily AG seems to be the ticket

>>2801913
Now you see that it is not as complicated as those tests and sad hams make this out to be. Enjoy the hobby! Sure, you can get better results with all the other fancy antennas, but for now and making basic contacts while getting experience, this is all fine. I'm glad you are enjoying the benefits of being a new general class ham!

>>2801916
I didn't find the test that hard but I already work in a technical field, I'm an industrial automation tech.
Just amazed that my ghetto antenna setup works
down towards the end I can barely walk under it
can't imagine how much rf I'm dumping down into the ground
I also ran into a I'm guessing PNW 80m net but it sounded like my local vhf net where they check in and say whether their on emergency or commerical power. Didn't hear what organization or club they were so I let them be.

>>2801922
It is amazing, isn't it? It's why I tend to stick to my set-up: it's just so simplistic. Sure, it's nowhere near the best, but damn, is it effective for what I do.

lol I keep forgetting to give signal reports
had to look up what the numbers mean
that's what they should put on the test

also what's good logging software to use?<br>I'm not chasing awards or anything right now just need something

>>2802037
There's lots of options, a lot of them open source. I started out not logging, just wanted to learn and look people up. I'm probably retarded for doing this but I use a slightly modified version of https://blog.radioartisan.com/fcc-c<wbr>allsign-database-script/ which works offline and is dead simple just to check callsigns and locations. Using this I made a shell script where I type the callsign, hit enter, then 2 numbers for the RST (well, just RS), enter again and I'm ready for another call sign. If I push 'n' instead of a RS number I can take a note(if I miss the sign and no name pops up I note the ? where I think I missed it. Or if there's something interesting), hit enter, then RS number to finish. This is dumped into a CSV with a timestamp and displayed. If there's a dupe sign it brings up the timestamp and notes from last time.
Again, there's probably a better way if you're trying to be official and upload signed QSO files.
I just like journaling my local ham nets, and what each ham is up to / talks about so if I talk to them again months later I'll remember to ask about their new antenna or whatever.

>>2802037
>what's good logging software to use?
Not LoTW.
Bahahaha

>finally get a chance to make some early morning contacts
>find out LotW is down
Glad I keep paper logs and only upload to QRZ.

>>2802085
According to
>>2799979
Today, Monday, is day 6
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>>2801242
>>2801873
it was as hack.
A hack that took the LoTW offline during the Dayton Hamfest.
Interesting times. Most here seem to be quietly crying and shaking in the corner.
I find it funny.

>>2802095
the russians are after our radios

>>2802095
I find it funny since people apparently don't think of back-ups.

>>2802109
The ARRL needs 16 million dollars in donations before they can release the backups.

>>2802109
>>2802105
The Prez is a bit out of touch

Does anyone recommend a software controller other than N1MM?
I have an IC-7300 and ran N1MM, but had a pc crash and having trouble re-installing it.
I didn't use their logging or contest settings or rotor control. Just wanted a clickable waterfall with a telenet connection that displays callsigns.
Is there something nicer out there?

>>2802198
I just tried installing DXLabs and feel violated.
Guess I'll troubleshoot the N1MM error. A popup comes up as if the radio isn't connected - however I can change frequencies on the radio through N1MM.
The waterfall isnt' working. I suspect there's a small setting that needs editing. Are you suggesting it could be lacking the flrig software?

>>2802202
>however I can change frequencies on the radio through N1MM.
flrig is especially made for that, fldigi is the digital modes interface so it doesn't seem so

>>2802203
Hmm. Popup went away. The only issue remaining is the waterfall doesn't display anything other than the correct frequency in the corner.
I can do a little more googling. I forgot how much of a pain ham tech is.

>>2802215
do you receive correctly ? By "waterfall" you mean the audio received on the sound card (maybe virtual) or a ducplicate of the waterfall of the IC-7300 itself ?

>>2796676
guarantee you aren't important enough, retard
cease your delusion

wow the pictures on the website don't do justice on how small a digirig mobile is<br>literally the palm of your hand

truly I have arrived
there is no greater mode
I will tell my children stories of all the great contacts I made on FT8

What is the ThinkPad X220/Casio F-91W of HF transcievers?

>>2802217
I can't figure where to select the audio, but regardless I would have imagined a more engaged waterfall ... with anything. Frequency, telnet spots ... I'm sure it's a small setting somewhere I'll eventually find then forget about again until I have to switch computers

was wondering why my ft8 display went crazy<br>it's the guy from New Caledonia

>>2802388
I utilize both local repeaters along with FM simplex, and HF.

>>2802296
what's the W520 of transceivers?

>>2802420
I would use my repeaters but the analog ones are all dead and I refuse to buy into digital voice BS

>>2802430
They are not dead here. I can always throw out my callsign and get a response. But then again, that repeater is a multi state interlinked repeater system.

>>2802267
Yeah it's crazy how little it is, but it works great. Doesn't take up a lot of room.

>>2802441
it does work great
was just surprised since I never looked at pictures of it on a desk
seems silly next to a giant transceiver

>>2802462
27.555MHz
6.6MHz
Useful frequencies

>>2802388
>Heil mic
>Rack of audio EQ bullshit
What a complete faggot

>>2802484
he is in california
when I talked to him he was very straight laced but didn't correct me as a new hf ham other than to say I should turn down my processor
he answered my CQ which was something I guess

>>2802462
Always MARS mod. Not having it by default should be a crime.

there really is everything on the bands<br>didn't know there was bible study nets

>>2802537
to be accurate now he needs a computer monitor running wsjt-x and just staring at the colors waiting for dx

>>2802486
>he is in california
What a complete faggot

>>2802551
he's definitely puffed some peters in his day
specially with that turtleneck

>>2802388
Dude should spend some if that money on house paint and tree trimming. Place looks like a dump.

Here's a tiny bit of an update -
W1AW 9 am EDT code practice is not running today, Tuesday 5/21.
It runs the code practice on a pc. Why not unplug from the hq network and run standalone? Because......
"When all else fails, ham radio is there."
Right? QSL?

>>2802609
>QSL?
Why not unplug yourself?

>>2802660
One of the things that concerns me is that ARRL has issued just two notices on this disruption, the last of which was on May 17. At the end of the notices, it says, "This story will be updated with new developments." Are there no new developments after all this time? Another status report is long overdue. In the big corporate world environment, this lack of comment or update would never happen. Even a simple explanation about where they are at with the disruption would be appreciated by LoTW users. Not good enough!

>>2802663
>extremely low effort trolling
Why do you continue to go on with this fake outrage?

>>2802593
I was surprised he just has some verticals
was expecting 50ft of tower

>>2802674
This isn't really a "relax it will be fine" scenario. I am involved in cybersecurity and have been for a long time, and I can tell you that insurance is the last resort and can only protect against financial losses and can't recover lost data. Most companies actually do want to prevent cyberattacks. So much so that security has been shifting "leftward" where security is now earlier in the software development process instead of being an afterthought. My work now has shifted from testing applications already deployed to reviewing application designs before even one line of code is written.
And I can also tell you for a fact that ARRL's turmoil, stemming from its CEO and his decisions to drive away key staff is directly responsible for this. Two IT directors in a few years, and ignoring all of the good advice that was given to him. The first step to fixing this is to hire competent leadership at the top.
>t.I'm just copying from the ARRL panic thread in the QRZ forums

>>2802674
I also don't trust what they're saying is correct. The CEO and Board has lied in the past about other things to save face. LoTW takes your credit card when you apply for an award. That doesn't go through a third party like Stripe or PayPal. It is manually processed by the DXCC desk. So somewhere in between the credit card data passes through.

>>2802674
Perhaps it's time for a change.
Sometimes you can't fix it.. and you need to start over.
The "shadow board" was enough for me.

>>2802674
From the announcement:
> Our member database only contains publicly available information like name, address, and call sign
It's concerning to me that the person(s) writing this don't seem to realize that the ARRL names and addresses on file need not match any public data source.

>>2802692
>don't seem to realize
At this stage, attorneys have been brought in to vet and fine tune all official communications. This is damage control on stereoids.

>>2802702
Whatever is going on is big and it's being managed poorly at every step. It's hilarious they're selling Field Day merch.
> Field Day combines public service, emergency preparedness, community outreach, and technical skills all in a single event.
LoTW has been unaccusable for a full week now.
W1AW transmissions also stopped.
The 'library' is nuked (ehh, good riddance)
I read one QRZ post where someone saying that new ham licenses can't be processed for some reason (guess they pass through ARRL before FCC)
>>2802704
$5 says an intern deleted everything or knocked over the server.

>Support Associate, Logbook of The World (LoTW)
>The primary functions of this role are to assist with support for Logbook of the World users
(LoTW), process certificate requests and answer questions about LoTW features and services.

>>2802711
>It's hilarious they're selling Field Day merch.
Plot twist: this is how they are going to pay for the attorneys.

>>2802726
A W1AW guest op is saying all of the PCs are turned off and the amps and CW require N1MM to use, so he was barefoot on SSB.
I can't help but wonder if it's a publicity stunt
>IT says we have to turn off every computer
>OMG! Virus? Hack?!
>Naw, we just want to troll hams. We'll turn them all back on in a few weeks and say everything was restored but we need to adopt a subscription service for this never to happen again

>>2802598
>not wanting to normally transmit everywhere like on ham bands, CB, MURS, and GMRS
That is not larping: it's being efficient without needing many different radios just for each service. My IC-7100 is MARS modded and can do all the bands now so I got an overall great base station.

>>2802388
Now ther's a guy who likes Yaesu.

>>2802852
pretty much everybody does
haven't ran into a Kenwood boomer yet and even ICOM fags respect the Yaesu

>>2802866
>Kenwood boomer
The club I used to attend were Kenwood boomers. I didn't care for them. >>2802852
Icom and Yaesus are all excellent radios.

>>2802711
the library is nuked?
good thing I have a pretty much up to date copy of the radio amateurs handbook

>>2802869
Yeasu has launched a few nice tranceivers the last few years sich as FTDX 10 and 710. Kenwood has to huge beasts (890 and 990) that at least on paper look good.
And now that both Airspy and SdrPlay have launched new models, we can hope we are now in a new golden age of modern rigs.

>>2802908
I've got an SDRplay RSP1B which I'm pairing with my FT1000MP
already ran CAT & audio control from a digirig so I can live in the new and old world.
Can waterfall with the SDR but still have a big heavy filter loaded superhet radio which makes me sound not autistic on the air

>>2802897
I keep a lot of digital copies and printed off the ones I really need to keep on hand like their antenna book. Even then, I tend to write my own guides and observations and print them off.

>>2802919
>Can waterfall with the SDR but still have a big heavy filter loaded superhet radio which makes me sound not autistic on the air
I really tried but I just couldn't parse that. Try again, please?

>>2802908
>Kenwood has to huge beasts (890 and 990)
Is the era of the flagship transceivers over? FTDX-9000D also belong on this list of aircraft carrier sized rigs.

I'm not sure who needs to hear this ... but LoTW is down.

>>2802966
>LoTW
Sorry, I didn't hear you! I'm too busy rustling through my paper logs.

>>2802967
>>2802969
>>2802971
Here's the real crime they're covering up

>>2802987
Are you done? I didn't hear your Roger beep.

>>2802987
Did Elecraft sponsor that T-shirt?

>>2802988
I've outlasted W1AW
I've outlasted the LoTW
I've outlasted the ARRL Learning Center
I'm kinda a big deal.

>>2802962
>aircraft carrier sized rigs
youngins don't know nothin about big radios

so what's the deal with all the emcomm shit?<br>I get the ARRL pushes it to give legitimacy to the hobby but damn it's overbearing. Especially on VHF/UHF with clubs

>>2802999
why can't americans enjoy a hobby as it is ? Bunch of larpers...

How is it possible you have a 100+ ARRL staff @ over 7 million dollars annual payroll and no ARRL generated FD activity or ARRL National convention, swap meet, BBQ cook off that is held @ world class convention space, just 5.2 miles up the road from HQ. Hell the world class convention facilities are closer to HQ then the ARRL,,,,,,, no, that other radio museum in the Capitol district is in mileage to Ground 0, the true place of least resistance. I wonder if a VTVM Ohm meter works @ HQ anymore?

>>2803026
The entire US EMCOMM infrastructure is now at risk. ARES is probably at a standstill. Has ARES been activated? This looks like a very serious communications blackout in Newington with W1AW off the air. Where's ARES "when all else has failed"? Have they been sabotaged?!

At this point I'm not sure if it matters with regards to their legal exposure; that's one of those things you do ASAP after finding out that you were attacked and how. This has been a PR nightmare.
If you log in, this is what the membership page looks like (my information blotted), and there is Birth Date, Credit Card, and purchase history information:
This would appear to contradict the ARRL news blurb.

>>2803034
Many years ago I worked at a place where many IT services were outsourced to a large provider. In the contract was an obligation to take backups. Which they did. Then something went horribly wrong and the data had to be restored. "Oh, we have to be able to restore data to? Ah, but that's not in the contract. You just asked for backups. Look. Here. It's in paragraph xxxxx, section xxxxx, subsection xxxxx)".

Cue some red faces among the management who thought that they had got a really cheap deal.

Let's hope that the ARRL aren't in that situation.

>>2803040
The is the main reason I only use paper checks. Secondarily, I refuse to use paypal and the derivatives due to the fee structure.
If you use your card on the computer, you should be prepared for such accidents to occur.

>>2802999
It has been critical for the past week.
With the ARRL dead, ARES is the sole reason the earth is still spinning

>>2802988
>Roger beep
Ok, now it's out of my system.

>>2802999
Get off repeaters and onto shortwave. It still exists there with nets, but you can turn the dial.

There might be some EU - NA openings on 6m today

>>2802704
SAAAAR! SAAAAAR! I YOLD YOU! DO NOT REDEEEEEEM!

So this thread is just bots now? Is the rest of /diy/ infected too, or did some unlicensed freedums autist decide ruin the /ham/ general?

>>2803062
It's just me reposting a few outraged boomers on QRZ
As an example
>>2803038
I don't really know why other than this is a remarkable event and I want to share it with someone.
The ARRL, who has a weekend long field day event next month to preach about emergency communications preparedness, has FAILED to communicate. The LoTW has been down for a week and they've only communicated 'we called in the pros. Hold on'.
That's a failure.
W1AW isn't transmitting their regular messages nor can they use CW or amps.
That's a failure.
The LoTW was the ARRL. It was their revenue. It was their award system. WIthout LoTW and their awards, the ARRL IS DEAD
But nobody seems to care. This is historic

>>2803062
Award hunting is a huge part of ham radio and it's one of the few things that keeps the hobby alive.
80 meter rag chewers and repeater surfers aren't the ones supporting this hobby nor are the larping ecomm fags.
If the LOTW is dead, the ARRL is dead, and ham radio will be dead.
I do contests for the awards. I do FaT-8 for the awards. If I had a decade of progress undone, I'm done.

>>2803062
The goal is to panic the boomers who have invested 4 decades and are 2 grids away from a Fred Fish award into going off the deep end and pulling a killdozer. June 4 is the 20th anniversary after all.
It took me a lot of work to put this plan into place. Almost as much work as it took Marvin. There are 12 days left. Don't fuck it up for me.

>>2803062
Maybe the CT state attorney general or the FBI can explain it!

>>2803062
As a software engineer just getting into amateur radio, seeing some of these sites and the software applications that are talked about ubiquitously around here make me shudder. Everything is from 30 years ago and frankly is a miracle most things work as good as they do. Hell, eQSL stores your password in plaintext in a DB and will email it to you if you forget. LoTW isn’t much better, when you finally get signed up they send you a six letter passcode, there’s not a lot of entropy there. Of course I changed mine but how many people sign up and keep the six letter password they were assigned? Yikes..

>>2803062
people are concerned because they've spent decades logging contacts with the ARRL awards program and are concerned that decades worth of work may be lost.

I personally qualify for several dozen ARRL awards that I've never applied for simply because of the cost but did intend on applying for a few of them.

There are people who were working towards five and eight band DXCC on multiple modes and the chances that everyone would upload all their logs again should it be lost is somewhat small.

what's really concerning are all the dxexpeditions...

award hunting is a huge part of ham radio and it's one of the few things that keeps the hobby alive, 80 meter rag chewers and repeater surfers aren't the ones supporting this hobby or the manufacturers who support it, that would be the contesters and award chasers and it's These groups who are concerned.

logbook of the world is not a traditional log book It's the official QSL confirmation service for the ARRL awards program, the only other option are legacy paper QSL cards which very few people nowadays participate in, primarily because of the huge expense.

If I had to send out a paper QSL and a self-addressed stamped envelope for every contact I made over the last 50 years I figure it would cost me well over $100,000.

So yeah I'm really concerned, have my fingers crossed that the ARRL actually has logbook of the world backed up, If not then that will be the end of their awards program.

>>2803062
Think about dxpeditions and the sk.
Bots? Show some respect

>>2803066
We all know where reddit is. Stop reposting reddit shit.

>>2801625
If you went to Hamvention, I hope you went to the ARRL area, found CEO David Minster, and asked for an update on the directives regarding LotW that he was given by the ARRL Board of Directors at theirJanuary 2023meeting (see minute 20 on page 8https://www.arrl.org/files/file/OD<wbr>V/Board Meeting Jan 2023/ARRL 2023 Annual Board of Directors Meeting Minutes Final - UPDATE 02-15.pdf).

Also, hows the search for a new IT Director and new Operations Director going?

>>2803097
Logbook of the world is currently down. Have you heard the news?

>>2803098
>1.6 billion QSO Reports in the system;
>WHEREAS, the applications software and architecture is more than two decades old, created at
>the time of Windows 98;
>WHEREAS, the architecture and software currently supporting LoTW was not designed for this
workload and will never realistically be able to keep up with the evolving demands of its users by
trying to modify or maintain the existing system;
>WHEREAS, LoTW is not suited to new forms of real-time Radiosport – and this deters younger
users from using it by its antiquated complexity.
> resilient Cloud environment

>>2803062
Do you not understand the historical context of the last week?

>>2802711
I thought one of the big selling points of radio is no outside infrastructure, 3rd party computers or internet needed. It’s kind of disheartening to hear that ARRL crippled their on air radio operation by relying on computers.
I really don’t want to pile on the ARRL right now, but I am very shocked that so many of their radios were tied into computers or outside infrastructure. That seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
I’m a nobody, but I even I figured this out. I pretty much never have a computer anywhere near my radio. This is how I roll. A pen, pad of paper, a straight key and a battery powered radio. No network, computer issues or infrastructure failures yet. :D

>>2803096
>I am keeping an extra close eye on my Credit Card reports and banking info.
Good advice. I transferred all my spare cash to a savings accound

>>2803098
>comprised
>of
This is a clear indicator that when all is said and done, too much will have been said and nothing was done.

>>2801298
I'm shocked the ARRL hasn't sent an email yet.

>>2803096
>My gut says that the League is not telling us the whole story on this
No shit
>I heard from a well know source that they asked a league official at the Xenia (Dayton) Ham Radio Convention yesterday about
LOTW being down, the reply was “I can not elaborate beyond, It is Not good, in fact it is bad really bad”.
That's beyond hearsay, but believable.

>>2803150
>>2803151
>>2803152
>>2803153
Guys - LOTW and the Learning Center run in a commercial cloud center. This appears to be a serious ransome attack. There are criminal enterprises who do this everyday to hospitals, businesses of all sizes, towns and others and demand a very large payment to restore. Usually in the 6 to 7 figure range. Many firms have insurance for this but it is very expensive as u can imagine. Most times the ransom is paid which the Feds don’t like as it lets this continue but often there is no other way. It’s what it it. Thanks the Russians for most of it.

>>2803155
This has been said hundreds of times and I'll repeat it: Wrong! FT8 brought back interest in hamradio at a time when interest in the hobby was low and lack of propagation made it unappealing. From around 100 dxcc when the FT8 craze started, I now have 305 dxcc entities worked, 298 of which are in FT8. But, the point most of you haters miss is that working a rare dxcc in FT8 spurs one to also work them in SSB/CW, which is why since the dawn of FT8 I have also ammased 258 dxcc in SSB and 278 dxcc in CW.
Hmmmm. LOTW goes kaput about the same time MFJ calls it quits. I wonder.....

hopefully lotw spam isn't in the new thread

>>2803167
Just have the ARRL fix their shit

>>2803167
Only 7 posts left for this thread :(
>All computers at HQ are offline.
>Staff aren’t allowed to use them.
All computers at HQ are offline.
Staff aren’t allowed to use them.
>All computers at HQ are offline.
>Staff aren’t allowed to use them.

I never saw 6 meters open up this afternoon

And the ARRL has posted an update:

Updated 5/22/2024
>We are continuing to address a serious incident involving access to our network and systems. Several services, such as Logbook of The World® and the ARRL Learning Center, are affected.
>We have heard from many LoTW® users, asking about the status of the service and its data. This is not an LoTW server issue, and LoTW data is secure.
>Our editorial and production team is preparing the July issue of QST magazine, which is still going to press. It may be delivered a few days late to members who receive print subscriptions.
>We appreciate your continued patience as our staff and others work tirelessly to restore affected systems.

>>2795394
You can have a thread count over 500?

>>2803190
>>2803191
>This is not an LoTW server issue, and LoTW data is secure.

>>2802998
>youngins don't know nothin about big radios
Tragic, really.

>>2803200
We hammered past 505.

>>2803213
And the ARRL didn't lose the LoTW data!
It was a beautiful afternoon. Next thread will be back to normal

>>2803213
Another aircraft carrier

>>2803217
Strangely, we are back to 495, what happened?

>>2803231
>what happened?
Volunteer Monitors did their job

>>2803190
>our servers are important, but printing paper issues for the boomers who cba to print off the digital versions is much more important

>>2803213
The R-390/URR project was started in 1949, and they updated the radio to R-390A. Why wasn't the radio updated even further? The architecture was great and the performance is still impressive to this day, but replacing the valves with FETs and the complex gear trains with stepper motors would have both improved and simplified things.

>>2803213
can't believe we let the euros take away our cycles

LOTW (NOT) BACK UP >>2803398
LARD LARP CONTINUES >>2803398
SWITCH TO QSY CHANNEL 19 >>2803398