[K3PZN-List] Traffic for Tonight

[Pat & Laurie Kilroy and family]

Can someone please pass this traffic for tonight's meeting?  Tnx!  

For Digital Committee

After reading the club newsletter last Thursday and being fired up 
about the digital net, and not hearing anyone else, I opened the 
net on 28.120 MHz PSK31 at about 8:30 p.m.  

Got one checkin: Curt, WB8YYY.  It was a good net, running almost 
3/4 hour.  Got a chance to troubleshoot my PSK31 setup.  Was 
battling three problems.  1. Lack of transceiver stability.  
2. Trouble with PTT not kicking in on Xmit right away.  3. Heavy 
dc noise on band.  Thanks, Curt, for your help on some!  

Letting the radio warm up helped on the first one, although the 
ol' TS-130S appears not to be cut out for rock solid frequency 
stability.  The PPT got progressively worse and I isolated the 
problem to my interface.  I'll work more on that soon.  And, 
finally, regarding the heavy noise, during the course of the net 
I just stayed put between the harmonics (lines on the freeware 
DigiPan "waterfall" display).  Later I traced the noise to the 
wall-wart used by the laptop.  Apparently it's not regulating 
the power supply as nicely as it should.  I just disconnected 
it and used battery power.  

Any one for continuing the 10m PSK31 net?  It is especially FB 
for Tech Plus hams!  

Take care and 73,

Pat
N8PK


Pat Kilroy
pat@patkilroy.com

Laurie Kilroy
laurie@patkilroy.com
Phone 410-552-6530