We had our annual show and tell meeting at 11:30 AM PST on 11/30/2023 in A3/1607A and on Teams. We had several presentations from members showing what they did in HAM radio over the past year.
Link to Meeting Recording
Here is the Link. Note: it will only work inside the Aerospace Network.
We had our first HF net of the year today, Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time Participants were:
Kirk Crawford, KK6KC in D8 Shack, El Segundo CA
Jeff Wong, W0NGJ in Crossville TN
Doug McNulty, KM4GC in Leesburg VA
Bob Lanahan, KK6WYW using a web SDR located in Georgia
Phone QSO
We had good two way voice communications among all stations (Bob’s SDR is only RX) on 20 meters (14.315 MHz).
Jeff’s recording of the QSOBob’s recording of the QSOHere are the three operators on the teams callHere is what Bob’s web SDR looked like during the QSO.
JS8 Call
We switched to JS8 Call which only Doug and Kirk had working and that worked just fine. Even in Turbo Mode!
Here is a screen of JS8 Call (Kirk’s Computer) The red backed text is people contacting Kirk. You can see the waterfall at the bottom with the communication around 1400 hz.JS8 Call uses a single frequency in each bandThis is turbo mode. It uses more bandwidth ( the section around 1400 is wider) but you can send fasterHere are the bandwidths and speeds of the various modes.
It was a successful HF Net. See you next month. This year our goal is to get WinLink working over HF and add that to our HF Net.