[K3PZN-List] Traffic for Tonight

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:57:46 -0500

HI PAT;

  I COPIED CURT'S CQ BUT COULD NOT TRANSMIT, I DID NOT COPY YOUR STSTION, 73

JOE ;-)

Pat & Laurie Kilroy and family wrote:

>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
>[email protected]
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>Laurie Kilroy
>[email protected]
>Phone 410-552-6530
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