November 25.2009 October 14, 2009 May 29, 2009 May 14, 2009 March 7, 2009 July 23, 2008 July 8, 2008 June 13, 2008 May 14, 2008 May 2, 2008 April 26, 2008 April 24, 2008 April 19, 2008 | The Great River DX page is up and running. Stop by and check it out. www.greatriverdx.com It has been way too long since I have updated this. The Illinois QSO Party is this weeknd, October 18 from 1700 UTC until 0100 UTC October 19 (that's 12 noon until 8:00 PM CDST). More information can be found at www.w9awe.org/ILQP2009.htm I will be operating with my son-in-law, AB9QW, at the corner of Adams, Hancock and Schyler counties. I hope to hear you then. 6 meters has been showing signs of life, the June VHF contest is fast approaching (look for me on from EM40ms again this year), Field Day is just a couple of weeks after the June VHF contest. The local club, W9AWE, will again be on from Quincy, most likely running class 3A. Please get on fot bothe events if you can. I have started looking at EchoLink, first to see if it would be usable to connect our local repeater to the NWS in St. Loiuis and then as a method to link repeaters together. It was pretty straightforward to install and setup and I have been playing with it on a simplex frequency on 2 meters. I am not happy with the amount of delay in the audio when using EchlLink, but it is not a show stopper. The flexibilty of using EchoLink makes it very appealing. I have not been updating this site very often but I did get around to adding a few new pictures and started my projects page. The DX Spider node is running and I am partnered with several other nodes. So far, no major problems. I finally got a DX Spider node running at home and even was able to connect to another node, N8NM, to share spots with. This is a replacement for the old W9AWE node that has served faithfully for many years. The old DX Cluster software did not support telnet connections, only RF and very few of the locals want to use packet for DX spotting anymore, although we do still have a few that connect via packet. If you are interested in checking it out, connect to NG9R-1 on 144.910 or ng9r.homeip.net port 7300 via telnet. 6 meters is hopping, but why does most of the action miss me? I see alomost everyone all around me getting into Europe and Japan on 6, but no liuck here. I even managed to catch TO5E on 6 SSB and guess what? I'm not in teh log!! ARRGGGHHHH!!! Is anyone active on 6 meters in South Dakota? Final preparations for the ARRL June VHF event, look for me from EM49 6 through 432. FInally, 6 meters was open for a bit, at least long enough to get a couple of puerto Rican stations in the log. First time in a long while here. added pictures from the Great River DX group meeting on April 28. Finally back in the shack, bands still not great, but some activity for the Florida QSO Party. Worked in volume pot on TR-751A, what a pain. I did find one company that claims they still have a replacement available. Nothing exciting, bands are quiet, working on web page today, listening for activity on 6 meters. |
