Adventures as a Radio Amateur — callsign G5RAE G0WCZ and VK6GU
- New Callsign G5RAEI swapped out my old G0WCZ call for something that I like more. I’m now G5RAE.
- NVIS Notes and ResourcesThese are a few notes and links about NVIS propagation and antennas. This is in the context of setting up reliable-ish NVIS connections for regular morse QSOs for practice. NVIS Propagation Reflections at high angles (near 90 degrees) to the ionosphere only happen when below…
Continue reading NVIS Notes and Resources - Iambic Paddle wiringI always have to look up how to wire an iambic paddle to a 3.5mm or 6.5mm TRS (tip, ring, sleeve) jack and which paddle is which. I’m left handed and have over time taught myself different left handed and right handed paddling so what…
Continue reading Iambic Paddle wiring - VK6/SW activations on the Bibbulmun TrackI spend a week walking a part of the Bibbulmun track – a long distance walking track in Western Australia. I knew there were a couple of SOTA summits nearby. Turns out there were four summits pretty much right on our track. Over a week…
Continue reading VK6/SW activations on the Bibbulmun Track - Building a transcoder for DMR -> D-StarAt the Online Radio Club, we have a D-Star XLX reflector with SmartGroups. This is XLX944, and the smart groups TORC1, TORC2, and TORC3. We want to bring more people to this online watering hole, so we hatched a plan to add a transcoder to/from…
Continue reading Building a transcoder for DMR -> D-Star - The CW CommuterI’ve written before about trying to use CW while commuting. I was looking into a bunch of different ways of achieving commute CW operating via the Internet. And going back to 2016, I started thinking about how to send/receive CW via a lossy datagram-based internet…
Continue reading The CW Commuter - A Daily CW QSO: My 2019 challengeI want to get more comfortable with CW QSOs. I can do a 599 contest or special event QSO without thinking but I bumble around, feel the nerves and basically suck at sending nice clean Morse in a more conversational QSO. I need more learning…
Continue reading A Daily CW QSO: My 2019 challenge - Pi + Mumble + iCWI commute to and from London 4 days a week. There’s an hour on the train each way. I can only do so much CW training. What I need is something that connects to the phone to allow an easy CW QSO or two. iCW is…
Continue reading Pi + Mumble + iCW - Attachment to words and lettersThis is my next update on my morse learning experience. I had a bit of a break over Christmas while away from my commute morse code learning. Coming back, I’m please to have not gone backwards over the break. So while doing the walking part of…
Continue reading Attachment to words and letters - That head copy feelingSome more steps forward in the CW learning in the last week: …Ended up with a head full of word-bits without trying. Very different feeling. Exciting. Checked out Bengali website to celebrate. Oops. — Grae G0WCZ (@G0WCZ) November 11, 2016 And I did have a tears…
Continue reading That head copy feeling - CW: Getting inside the symbolsIn the last post I talked a bit about learning sequences of numbers. I got up to 3 numbers fairly reliably, then I went back to the weaker letters and numbers and tried that. I’m still doing this during my commute, and mostly in the…
Continue reading CW: Getting inside the symbols - Notes on CW learningI do most of my CW training while working to and from work on my morning commute. So, I’m not writing stuff down at all, just listening to the Morse Trainer app on my phone. Here are a few reflective notes on what I’m…
Continue reading Notes on CW learning - My CW QSO training word listI’ve been using Morse Trainer for Ham Radio on Android to speed up and re-learn morse up to decent QSO speed. I really like this app, it has most of what I need. One of the modes is own text mode where you can add plain text (which will…
Continue reading My CW QSO training word list