🆎This isn’t normal for November.
OverSoft@bloor Indeed
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It’s the 12th of November and I’m outside DIYing in my T-shirt. Something is seriously wrong.
wgoodf-@bloor Was nearly 16c here. I wished i had planned to go portable.
A lovely spring day.
A lovely spring day.
M0KHR HakanThere are so many problems with my radios... The old C5800 won't even transmit at 1W now - even against a dummy load, simply goes into rapid reset cycle.
Reception isn't bad though.
gregoriosw@M0KHR thanks to M0BPQ I back on air. I think the last year finished off the wx sat rx, aluminium pole with bit of wire tacked to it vertical, and the 6/2/70 collinear. Radios thus far mostly behaving. Once it gets colder I think I'll have the KW201 RX on and negate the need for the heater!
I think I need to measure the voltage at the radio. The supply is at 13.8V, FT-847 is happy with it, but if the cabling / interface is bad...
It's a 30+y old radio and it will eventually die - and it had a hard life with me for the last 15 years or so, but it's one of my all-mode things I was planning to install in my car.
C5800's problem is def the power losses on the cable. Replaced it with a different cable and it TX's at 1W and 10W w/o a problem.
The radio has a 'feature', if you click the mic button twice it sends a tone for the repeater, even if it's on a simplex setup.
I cannot disable this.
The manual doesn't mention any way. I am even considering doing surgery since I will never use this on a repeater.
Of course, it being a 30+ year old radio, the switch on the mic is unreliable, and whatever I do, about 90% of the time it triggers the tone...
Now testing SSB capabilities near144.300 by hollering some CQs...
Signal isn't extremely stable but sounds OK.
MuMu
Mopman 
@bloor Still not put the heating on :/
@bloor pretty unnatural I agree. Seem to recall junior school 85-87 when we had shorts used to be perishing in November. Now there is a light breeze and this glowing orb in the sky. You'd think that something was going on with the climate...
ninkosan@bloor also couldn’t believe it when I went out for a walk earlier. If it stays mild it might we don’t get blackouts this winter though I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯