Amateur (Ham) Radio BS and Callsign Thread!

Nope, just a wannabe engineer. I would have ended up in electrical engineering if I didn't detest my public education experience so much. But if you tell me wide(25khz) bandwidth is where I should be set, I'll do it.

 

Wide/25 KHz is what you should use.

 

Final piece of my install came in today. Huge shout out to @forty2 the packaging was over kill for such a small part. But now I can put my mic in my glove box and forget about it when I’m not using it.

 

Sweet. Can't take credit for the packaging though, part comes from Shapeways. I only designed it, they make it and ship it.

 

Alright. Who are the Morse code gurus in here?

 

Define morse code guru

 

Haha. Someone who's fluent at the key.

I'm actively learning and trying to figure out what's the right pace to push. I'm learning at 20wpm and things are going smooth. I'm just not sure at what point I'll take on too much and potentially lose an ear for it.

I know there's no set time line, but dedicating about 15-20 minutes a day what would the milestones of progression possibly be like?

 

Always practice at faster speeds than you are comfortable with.

DO NOT EVER LEARN BY WRITING DOWN LETTERS. Copy in your head. Or type along on a computer.

Do not try to get every letter. Conversations don't need every word to make sense.

Practice on the air. Recorded code is are fine, but sending and receiving is better training.

Download a pileup trainer and crank it up. Copying calls fast is good practice in addition to QSOs. Many hot shot old time CW ops I know were military, and trained on code groups.

 

Thank you for sharing that.

I'm hoping to get some help from some locals. Our 6m group is pretty active these days and I have a feeling they'd be more than willing to help.

It's still a bit away, but any suggestions on a key?

 

Bencher BY-1.

I've been using the same one for almost 25 years.

No straight keys. No bugs. Please please don't get a bug. I want to shoot myself everytime someone with a bug calls me.

 

That's the ticket then. I don't need the best. Just want something that works and will last.

For studying I've been using

https://lcwo.net/


And for some sort of other practice I've been using this keyboard.

 

The finished product. Thanks for all the help y’all I also have a 1/4 wave vhf antenna for a lower profile lol

 

FWIW....

RUFZ is a fun CW training program. It's geared toward copying calls for contests, but practice is practice.....

Because it scores each session, you can also use it to gauge your progress.

It's also fun to look at high scores.... Some young eastern EU kids truly are CW gurus. 195wpm, unreal. Yeah, it's only copying calls, but if they can copy calls at 195wpm, they can probably handle 50wpm QSOs.

http://www.rufzxp.net/

 

I need that shorter antenna. I went through Starbucks today now my antenna is bent backwards

 

That is just a sign you should get better coffee.

 

Honeybee and Wild Love coffee were both pretty good last time I was in Knoxville. Better than Starbucks anyway.

 

Never heard of the wild love I’ll check it out. Honeybee is fabulous but they recently changed their hours and they are only open until 11 now

 

Anybody use SMSGTE with Aprsdroid?

When sending a message, even with an acknowledgement, APRSdroud keeps re-sending the message until it times out. I would like to either get a response to end sending or set the maximum number of tries to a lower number.

 

I have quite a bit. For me, I had to set the delay in the settings menu to like 800ms or something because it would basically send message traffic before the gateway could open up and start to listen. Make sure the audio input is set to the right mode as well.

 

The messages are being sent successfully, it just keeps trying to send multiple times.