IU2THY / PH1NB

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Federalist European🇪🇺. Confused herder of particles and waves, DC to daylight and beyond. Collector of hobbies. Servant of 3 cats and a Jack Russell. Highly untalented (Astro) photographer Questionable DIY’er. In the middle of a BSc in audio engineering.
ShackIcom 7300 on a 40m long HyEndFed sloping in the garden. Icom 9700 with 2m/70cm WIMO X-quad Yagi’s on a Yaesu G-5500 rotator. SAT tracker. Adalm Pluto +20W amp on a 1,2m QO-100 dish. Too many dev boards with SMA connectors. QMX. Considering an 1.2GHz yagi
StudioReasonably well treated room by HOFA. Neumann monitors/sub, RME interface. Logic on a Mac Studio, Reaper on Debian Trixie. M-audio hammer 88 pro midi controller, few Arturia smaller ones. Too many plugins, Fabfilter, Arturia, UA, HOFA, NA. everything ITB.
ScopesCelestron 200mm starsense dobsonian. Celestron Nexstar 8SE SCT on a wedge with autoguider. Baader Astro amici prism, Pentax XW eyepieces. HBG3 for WiFi, GNSS, focusser, dew heater controller.
HomeGrid JN45hq.
IU2THY / PH1NBFeb 7
Yessss! Rotator and 2m/70cm WIMO X-Quad yagi’s up and running. Receiving the 500mW cappana margarita IQ2MI/B beacon on 144,415MHz roughly 60km away at S9+14 / -77 dBm. This with 1 dB signal loss in the 25m coax and antennas configured for RHS circular polarisation. Happy camper.
IU2THY / PH1NBJan 6
New Year’s resolution, picking up CW where I left off in 1999 when I passed a pilot Radio Telephony CW exam so basically starting from scratch. Please have mercy.
IU2THY / PH1NBDec 30
Small rant, please ignore. Ok, so far my #Yaesu #g5500 and I have not become friends. I ordered the the original cables with 6 pin Molex connectors on the back, but the controller only has screw terminals. hmm. I cut off the molex connectors and crimp fork connectors on the individual wires. Nope, the screw terminals now short circuit. Also with some electricians tape applied as the terminals have sharp edges. So ok, I cut off the fork connectors, just tin the individual wires. Reliability zero.
IU2THY / PH1NBDec 20
Still waiting for the icom 9700 and WIMO X-Quads to arrive, but already received this little doodat. It’s controlling both the 9700 and the 5500. Tracking, Doppler shift, logging, the works. Things to nitpick, sure. Barrel or USB-C connector for power woud have been nice instead of micro USB. And no power adapter included. But overall absolutely *brilliant* in what it does.
IU2THY / PH1NBDec 20
Yaesu G-5500 rotator arrived! Is there a generally accepted toque value when assembling mechanical parts like these?
IU2THY / PH1NBJan 24, 2025

What a story, morse code from a transmitter located 50km away from the studio made it onto the recording of tubular bells.

https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/

Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells | MadPsy's Place