I maintain a calendar of on-air events for slow-speed #MorseCode . Hopefully, this will be useful to anyone actively learning CW. Let me know if I am missing any events. Thanks!
today was a real first for me. Completed my first successful FT8 contact on 20m using a homebrew antenna annd a Z-match I build from a kit. This is also my first ever successful HF contact.
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I'm only somewhat familiar with it because residential interference is something you'll hear #AmateurRadio operators swearing about pretty often ;)
If you ever get bored, an RTL-SDR is pretty cheap on amazon. You could use it to get an idea whether or not it's an RF issue or something else. Although do understand that the cheap SDRs don't go very high up the frequency bands, only to about 1.4 Ghz or so, I think.
It's a glitchy, experimental trio for flute, clarinet, and MIDI keyboard/Max. There are Morse code and other ham radio samples, electric piano, and bowed cardboard box, and it's surprisingly groovy.
My ham neighbor, W7HGK, went SK last year; over the weekend his widow gave me a chance to take a few things from his shack before the local ham club helps disassemble the rest.
Besides a bunch of components for homebrew radios, I took a small selection of his packet gear. Not that I expect the books to be up-to-date, but I enjoy reading old technical books to see how much things have/haven't changed.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-dec-engineers-saved-ethernet
Reminding me how badly CSMA scales to packet radio, unless we could manage to get the /CD part in that is.
I wish there were some like minded hams near me so we could experiment with slotted Aloha. The early work with the Montreal protocol I did was all CSMA. Store and forward of course is a great use of a high tower as well and we had that on early Amateur Radio sats. (Larry Kayser)