cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/4500180 > Hello, > I saw this community has zero posts and I thought, this should be a good start. Sharing with fellow CW lovers out there. > > I started my HF journey last year in August. My first (failed) attempt at CW QSO in Nov > 23. Then, I gave up. Restarted CW in March this year. Around that time, I gave up FT8 and also SSB. > Still work SSB but not FT*. > So, yeah, I am proud of myself to have achieved this. > Some folks said, oh big deal, one can achieve this over a contest weekend. Maybe they can - for me it was significant work. > Next goal SKCC 100. :-) > 73 > de VU2TUM
Hello, I saw this community has zero posts and I thought, this should be a good start. Sharing with fellow CW lovers out there. I started my HF journey last year in August. My first (failed) attempt at CW QSO in Nov 23. Then, I gave up. Restarted CW in March this year. Around that time, I gave up FT8 and also SSB. Still work SSB but not FT*. So, yeah, I am proud of myself to have achieved this. Some folks said, oh big deal, one can achieve this over a contest weekend. Maybe they can - for me it was significant work. Next goal SKCC 100. :-) 73 de VU2TUM
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TIL - there is something called Gopher and Gemini. Looks interesting, will read more on it.
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Step 1. Get your own domain. I bought from porkbun. This was a difficult choice for me, having heard /read cases of domain hijacking by unethical domain sellers. Porkbun had decent reviews. Step2. Follow instructions on protonmail custom domains. Wait for all the greyed out tags to turn green. I was impatient and my domain was marked as spam by Spamhaus. Had to open ticket with them to get off their list step3: enjoy!
additional steps. I moved my dns provider to cloudflare if you wish to go that route.
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same here. Proton with own domain!
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“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.
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Unless I am travelling, I usually wear (wash & repeat) 4 shirts, two shorts and one pair of jeans. For travelling, I have extra clothes as its not always possible to do laundry when you are hopping cities every one or two days.
The transponder of MESAT-1 amateur radio satellite has been turned On for the weekend. Many are reporting strong downlink signals. I tested during a 29 deg pass over my QTH as well and I was amazed at the strong downlink of my CW CQ call. Transponder uplink: 145.910-145.940 MHz Transponder downlink: 435.810-435.840 MHz I set my uplink on 145.925 MHz and started calling CQ, scanned the downlink band to find my signal. I used two radios, FT991A for uplink and Icom 705 for downlink. Hope this helps!
New Yaesu radio announced. What do we think about it? To me, it looks like the Yaesu version of Icom IC705.
ARSI VU-DX CONTEST Dates: 28 – 29 Sep 2024 Duration: 28-Sep 12:00 UTC to 29-Sep 12:00 UTC Geographic Focus: India Participation: Worldwide Mode: SSB, CW, Mixed Bands: 40, 20, 15, 10 M
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A very well written post. I got my license and for over a decade was inactive. Some, not so good folks ridiculed me for wasting a license whereas there were others who helped me by loaning a radio, setting up an antenna at my QTH. Still, life happened and I couldn’t sustain. It was only last year when I started again. There was a lot of hesitation and I was indeed was afriad of making mistakes. I froze up during my first CW contact. I had decided to enjoy the hobby and that’s what I did. Getting on the air is key. Even with compromised setups, stuff works! 73 de VU2TUM
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Hello This is VU2TUM. I am inviting you to a Google Meet session on 03/12/23 at 11 am IST ( 0530 UTC) where I will show how to setup Gpredict, Hamlib (and FLrig) to interface your CAT enabled radio. The three software mentioned above are cross platform open source software and available free of cost, i.e. available for Linux, Mac, Raspberry Pi and Windows. While I am primarily a Linux & Mac user, I will attempt to show it how to do it on Windows as I understand many hams have windows machines What we will not cover in this online discussion is how to do it for "your radio" in specific. I can share basic steps. As as disclaimer, I would like to point out that I am not a software person and my day job does not involve programming etc. I learnt this on my own and willing to share. That said, it is likely that someone can come up with a more efficient method and I am happy to learn as well. See you during the Google Meet https://meet.google.com/wnm-zdve-hvh
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Like others said, such methods will not help achieve proficiency in morse. One needs to learn and associate sound patterns rather than dits and dahs