Moved to a new place and deployed my worst wire antenna yet and casually pulled off multiple QSOs with European Russia. Antenna tuners are magic.
Moved to a new place and deployed my worst wire antenna yet and casually pulled off multiple QSOs with European Russia. Antenna tuners are magic.
part of my issue may be that I am transmitting directly into a wet tree
And then just randomly Australia
Can't hear fuck all out there, usually Japan is chatty with my setup. Warrants further investigation tomorrow.
Time to get the flashlight and investigate
That or my ground got fucked up, also possible
Maybe a bit of both
hmmm, I think I may be transmitting directly into the ground lol
Finally got some rudimentary content up on n7aj.radio, planning on getting the antenna back up tomorrow and doing some FT8
Rig posting on main
A Kenwood TS-850s amateur radio transceiver topped by a MFJ Versa Tuner II
An FTdx10 amateur radio transceiver
Then moved on to a second hand TS-850s I got second hand from my school club and upgraded to a Yaseu FTdx10 early last year as a present to myself for a new job
I briefly tried to do digital modes with a Kenwood TS-120s and a hand made audio + PTT adapter until I realized the thing would slowly drift frequencies once it got warmed up and my waterfall was at a like 60 degree angle
This is now my primary Radio based social media presence, the twitter account just points here now
Hello world!