Devin (N9DRB)

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First licensed in 2006 and living in Wisconsin. Interested in DIY electronics. A wannabe engineer. #LoRa #Arduino #RaspberryPi #QRP
Sitehttps://www.n9drb.com
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In the spirit of dolphin.town, who's going to start the Mastodon instance where only posts in #MorseCode are allowed?
Thought I could use my #NanoVNA to dial in my manual HF tuner but it doesn't really work. Maybe too low of power? Using the SWR sweep on the #G90 works well though.
Anybody ever seen their radio ( #G90 in my case) begin transmitting late in the FT8 cycle? The TX on the radio doesn't initiate until 7 or 8 in the 15 second count.
Hmm, I think the hand mic for my IC-735 may have stopped working. It will key-up the radio, but I don’t think any audio is getting transmitted. Anybody know how I can test it?

I really like the look of this 9:1 UnUn. Might have to make one like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/ymf0ze/compact_91_balun_27_turns_primary_9_turns/

compact 9:1 balun. 27 turns primary, 9 turns secondary. 16awg on FT240-43

Posted in r/amateurradio by u/KL5L • 4 points and 6 comments

reddit

Hey look! @dlarc has 270 issues of Badger State Smoke Signals. An old amateur radio periodical from WI.

https://archive.org/details/badgerstatesmokesignals

Badger State Smoke Signals : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

Spouse: What are you doing today?
Me: Who me? Oh, nothing.

I believe they have many historical records floating around in boxes somewhere down in Madison. One thing I found on their site was from 1999 when then WI governor Tommy Thompson addressed radio operators with the assistance of club members.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050311224328/http://w9yt.engr.wisc.edu/html/gov.html

Governor on 40 Meters

I first got involved in radio in 2006 because of the radio club at the university I was attending at the time, W9YT.

Seeing @dlarc here on .radio reminded me about some of the cool history of that club. They were originally licensed in 1930.

License: https://web.archive.org/web/20070822210220/http://w9yt.engr.wisc.edu/images/license.gif

Wayback Machine

Koch method to learn Morse

EPx