Ham radio as a side dish
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Like many others on the list, I survived decades as a pilot (commercial-instrument, multi- and single- / former CFI / some noncompetitive aerobatics / and a glider rating.) In fact, I discovered long ago that many GA pilots are hams and vice - versa. More than one might expect. The advantage of ham radio is that I don't need a medical certificate to keep doing it (lost mine in 2011 after battling with the FAA for a series of "specials"). It is also far less expensive; unlike owning airplanes, I never had to convince the XYL that owning a transceiver was financially reasonable.
A second connection is radio astronomy, along with the related subject of SETI. Anyone know if Paul Allen was ever a ham? Ted, KN1CBR ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 21:29:11 -0700 From: Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> To: Elecraft <[hidden email]> Cc: KX3 <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] Ham radio as a side dish Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Many of us combine our affinity for radio with other activities we?re equally passionate about ? perhaps more. An obvious example (one that renders this post marginally non-OT) is hiking / camping; for some of us, it?s a natural environment for small radios and big ambitions. What are your ham-activated avocations? Do they come with as-yet-unsolved problems in the field of radio ergonomics? Where is the boundary between communications media and the things you most enjoy talking about? Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Ham-activated avocations....
Rebuilding the instrument cluster in a 1988 Ford Mustang for road racing. Two fasteners, two factory Ford plugs and presto...out comes the dash pod! Mega squirt air/spark/fuel engine management KIT, yes lots of soldering, same car now with a race built 347 stroker and a new engine harness for the new mass air meter, O2 sensor, 32# injectors. Connects to a laptop pc for on the go engine tuning. Also came with an engine simulator kit to test the final assembled board. This car competed in the Nevada Silver State Classic and on road course tracks in WA and OR. High speed electric model boats, hydros, sponson riggers, tunnel cats, mono hulls, Many scratch built, all needing servos, speed controllers and RC gear. These were raced competitively against others racers in the different classes at the local area racing ponds. These were all things my son and I did together. Who says hams don’t have other connected interests?! Life is full of adventures, what are some of your ham inspired activities?? And after almost 54 years of hamming, finally made it to Dayton the last two years! 73, Roger VA1RST, K7SJ, WA7BOC K2 755, K3 75 Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Like many others on the list, I survived decades as a pilot (commercial-instrument, multi- and single- / former CFI / some noncompetitive aerobatics / and a glider rating.) In fact, I discovered long ago that many GA pilots are hams and vice - versa. More than one might expect. The advantage of ham radio is that I don't need a medical certificate to keep doing it (lost mine in 2011 after battling with the FAA for a series of "specials"). It is also far less expensive; unlike owning airplanes, I never had to convince the XYL that owning a transceiver was financially reasonable. > > A second connection is radio astronomy, along with the related subject of SETI. Anyone know if Paul Allen was ever a ham? > > Ted, KN1CBR > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 21:29:11 -0700 > From: Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> > To: Elecraft <[hidden email]> > Cc: KX3 <[hidden email]> > Subject: [Elecraft] Ham radio as a side dish > Message-ID: <[hidden email]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Many of us combine our affinity for radio with other activities we?re equally passionate about ? perhaps more. An obvious example (one that renders this post marginally non-OT) is hiking / camping; for some of us, it?s a natural environment for small radios and big ambitions. > > What are your ham-activated avocations? Do they come with as-yet-unsolved problems in the field of radio ergonomics? > > Where is the boundary between communications media and the things you most enjoy talking about? > > Wayne > N6KR > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email]
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Many cavers are also hams. We use 2M HTs for communication on
the surface when project caving in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. The WA6BAI repeater lets us coordinate with people in Fresno from near the cave entrance. We can let the cook know how many people are planning to come for dinner. Over half of the NCRC cave rescue instructors are hams. Ham radios have been very useful in some emergency situations. For example see the President's Letter in: <http://wvara.org/het/Archive/heterodyne-2014-08.pdf> We have also used QRP 80M radios for cave to surface communications. The radio in the cave had two random wire laid on the floor of the passage actin as an antenna with a tuner. This setup let us coordinate a cave radio demo showing how to locate the surface location directly over the transmitter in the cave. More information about cave radios is in the back issues of Speleonics <http://caves.org/section/commelect/drupal/speleonics>. 73 Bill AE6JV On 5/25/18 at 9:29 PM, [hidden email] (Wayne Burdick) wrote: >Many of us combine our affinity for radio with other activities >we’re equally passionate about — perhaps more. An obvious >example (one that renders this post marginally non-OT) is >hiking / camping; for some of us, it’s a natural environment >for small radios and big ambitions. >What are your ham-activated avocations? Do they come with >as-yet-unsolved problems in the field of radio ergonomics? >Where is the boundary between communications media and the things you most enjoy talking about? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The first thing you need when | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | using a perimeter defense is a | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | perimeter. | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Fascinating thread Wayne. Most of my time now is devoted to design of electronics for a radio telescope near Canberra in Australia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molonglo_Observatory_Synthesis_Telescope Love my KX line though still a nervous nellie about CW. Most of my life now is doing hardware and code for the PIC18F67K40 to control beam formers for a telescope upgrade. Cheers All, Glen VK1FB (My call is a tribute to my mentor Doug DeMaw who I met in Connecticut in the late 70s). ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Andy,
Pick up a copy of the DVD "North Atlantic Crossing". Two young men used what appeared to be an Icom HF rig for long distance communications on HF air bands to contact various European airports on their route to Norway. They installed a large, salt water fishing reel in the modified, single engine Mooney, complete with stranded copper antenna wire. When time to use an HF band, they cranked out just enough (pre-marked) wire from the fishing reel to hit the resonant frequency. I can't recall where/how the antenna wire exited the aircraft but got the impression that, among other mods (extra capacity fuel tanks, etc) the antenna device was approved for that flight. (www.flightfilms.com) (800) 510-1017 Terry, W0FM -----Original Message----- From: ANDY DURBIN [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 1:55 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] Ham radio as a side dish "Drag a wire behind you like they tow banners." If it were as simple as you suggest then I think a few of us would be doing it. Picking up banners with an aircraft in flight is a skill that most pilots don't have. It would be far better to use a retractable antenna. However, a legal installation of any sort of antenna extension/retraction mechanism on an aircraft with a standard airworthiness cert would be a significant challenge. (No banner experience but I do have lots of time towing gliders and flying jumpers) 73, Andy k3wyc ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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There are many amateur radio operators in Civil Air Patrol as air crew
(Mission Pilot, Mission Observer, Mission Scanner, Mission Photographer), Ground Team members, and Radio Communications officers also. On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:32 AM, Glen Torr <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Fascinating thread Wayne. > > Most of my time now is devoted to design of electronics for a radio > telescope near Canberra in Australia. > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molonglo_Observatory_Synthesis_Telescope > > Love my KX line though still a nervous nellie about CW. > > Most of my life now is doing hardware and code for the PIC18F67K40 to > control beam formers for a telescope upgrade. > > Cheers All, > > Glen VK1FB (My call is a tribute to my mentor Doug DeMaw who I met in > Connecticut in the late 70s). > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I'm amazed that such an eclectic group has so many similar experiences in
which I am included: flying, NAVAIDs, boats, trumpet, bass in choir, etc. Adding to the ILS story, while stationed at Canon AFB NM, I also worked full-time as a TV broadcast engineer. I was part of a team that installed a new FM station at the same location. Shortly after that, I got word at the Communications Squadron Chief of Maintenance office where I worked of F-111D pilots experiencing country and western music on on runway's ILS approach. The FM frequency was 107.5, just below the ILS localizer band. My Chief and I stook a giant RADAR spectrum analyzer (two-man carry) to the FM TX site. As expected, it was clean. Next, I visited the Avionics shop to put a USM/323 RF signal generator on one of the F-111 ILS receivers. With a 105.5 FM modulated signal, the ILS RX lit up! It was as broad as...! The least expensive solution was to move the ILS (Localizer and Glideslope since they're related) to a new frequency pair. That meant new antennas, phasing lines, alignment, etc. I'm certain it cost more than the new RCA FM transmitter and antenna/feedline, but was "easier" to accomplish. BTW, an HT and helmet-mounted headset work pretty well in sports car racing. However, I never tried to add HF mobile to my Spec Miata, much less try CW while on the track! I have some interesting in-car video recordings of me calling my wife after some "incidents." 73, Bill, K8TE -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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