- Rob Mannion G3XFD talks to Stan and Mike
- k Peter Moss with three splendid home brew paddle keys. Two use magnets not springs
- A remotely controlled ATU designed and built by Stan Casperd G3XON
- When US Railroad Telegraphy came to Wey Valley, Allan in Cheyenne calls Laramie…..
- ….where Bill is already completely into the role! Our thanks to Ken Tythacott for this event
- Jon Hardy G3KND shows us how to refurbish precious valve radios
If you’ve got Broadband it’s nice to have the QRZ callsign search page www.qrz.com/callbook.html up all the time, because you can pop in the callsign of the station you are working, or waiting patiently to work, and immediately have all sorts of useful info in front of you, including the operator’s name and QTH. The same thing can be done with the Ham Call search pages, formerly known as Buckmaster, to be found at http://hamcall.net/
Just when you get to find something really valuable on internet it’s quite common to also discover that a lot of other people have also found it useful. That seems to be true of the DX Summit Cluster http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=50 which was always overloaded when there was a contest but has now got so popular that it looks as though the server can’t cope for much of the time. Not only do you have to be very patient when you call it up, but just when you’re getting used to seeing all this useful info on the screen, updated every 60 secs, then it dumps you into limbo and you have to call it up all over again.
Another useful website to have on screen when you’re on the air is the ARRL list of callsign allocations. If you don’t want to do it this way you can print out this text file in a jiffy using http://www.remote.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/dxcclist.txt and have it ready to hand. It’s only updated every three months at most, so there’s no problem in using paper.
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