[Lowfer] Lowfer Digest, Vol 72, Issue 28
Gary
garylyons at cox.net
Mon Feb 21 14:52:04 EST 2011
Thanks Andy. This sounds simple enough even I should be able to do it. :-)
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> 1. Re: SM6BHZ again (JD)
> 2. 137.700 kHz 9 pm (jrusgrove at comcast.net)
> 3. The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP (Andy - KU4XR)
> 4. Re: The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP (jrusgrove at comcast.net)
> 5. Re: The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP (jrusgrove at comcast.net)
> 6. Re: The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP (Mitch Powell)
> 7. Test Capture (Andy - KU4XR)
> 8. Re: Test Capture (Scott Tilley)
> 9. Another Test Capture (Andy - KU4XR)
> 10. Re: Another Test Capture (jrusgrove at comcast.net)
> 11. Re: Test Capture (Gary)
> 12. Re: Test Capture (jrusgrove at comcast.net)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:02:35 -0600
>From: "JD" <listread at oswegoblade.com>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] SM6BHZ again
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
> bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>Message-ID: <7B655101224C4BC3B9A9383624FC030F at JohnHPNotebook>
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>Further proof that higher solar flux is not necessarily a bad thing for LF !
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>Message: 2
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:49:55 -0500
>From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
>Subject: [Lowfer] 137.700 kHz 9 pm
>To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>Message-ID: <000501cbd161$42a2a7a0$8d01a8c0 at JAYDELL>
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>WD2XNS will be on 137.7 kHz at 9 pm looking for possible cw QSOs.
>
>Jay W1VD WD2XNS WE2XGR/2
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>Message: 3
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:06:23 -0800 (PST)
>From: Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Lowfer] The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP
>To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net, Mitch Powell <mitch.powell at sympatico.ca>
>Message-ID: <342596.56426.qm at web63602.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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>Andy - KU4XR
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>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:53:41 -0500
>From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
> bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
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>Andy
>
>You might want to take a look at how you're processing the images for posting. I've been noticing
>that your pix usually appear with a horizontal scroll bar but the image displayed is not wide enough
>to warrant it. Turns out your latest image is actually 1150 pixels wide x 950 pixels high - the vast
>majority of it being a white background - which is not needed and uses up a good portion of the
>allowable file size. The spectrum display itself in this case is only 468 x 42 pixels! In this case
>getting rid of the white background reduces the file size from about 28k to about 8k.
>
>Not sure what program you're using ... but basically you want to crop to the desired spectrum
>display (468 x 42 in this case) and save that as the image. Don't cut and paste the cropped spectrum
>display onto a white 'canvas' background - there's no need for a background. Dropping the background
>means you can use less .jpg compression and/or display larger images.
>
>Jay
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andy - KU4XR" <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
>To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>; "Mitch Powell" <mitch.powell at sympatico.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:06 PM
>Subject: [Lowfer] The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP
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>
>> Andy - KU4XR
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>Message: 5
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:01:32 -0500
>From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
> bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
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>Last post was supposed to go to Andy direct ... sorry for the bandwidth.
>
>Jay
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>Message: 6
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:26:13 -0500
>From: Mitch Powell <mitch.powell at sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] The Canadian Lone Mountie - MP
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
> bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
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>No problem - it's a good lesson for us all !
>T U
>Mitch
>On 2011-02-20, at 11:01 PM, <jrusgrove at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Last post was supposed to go to Andy direct ... sorry for the bandwidth.
>>
>> Jay
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>Message: 7
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:22:50 -0800 (PST)
>From: Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Lowfer] Test Capture
>To: " European & UK\) and MedFer bandsDiscussion of the Lowfer \(US"
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>Test Capture
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>Andy
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>Message: 8
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:27:22 -0800
>From: Scott Tilley <sthed475 at telus.net>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Test Capture
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
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>Nice
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>On 2/20/2011 9:22 PM, Andy - KU4XR wrote:
>> Test Capture
>>
>> Andy
>>
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>Message: 9
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:54:58 -0800 (PST)
>From: Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Lowfer] Another Test Capture
>To: " European & UK\) and MedFer bandsDiscussion of the Lowfer \(US"
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>Since I'm experimenting now; Here's one that's cropped, enhanced,
>text added, and expanded to 175% of the original.. File size appears
>to be very small still...Haven't ever tried this stuff before...
>TNX Jay; I found out I haven't kieled over yet ! I learned something.
>
>Andy
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>Message: 10
>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:23:21 -0500
>From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Another Test Capture
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
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>Andy
>
>Looking good!
>
>There's still a tiny white border that could be even further 'cropped away' but no need to worry
>about that - it's inconsequential in terms of space used.
>
>Always enjoy seeing interesting captures. Wish more folks would post them ... pretty simple once
>you've done it!
>
>Jay
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andy - KU4XR" <ku4xr at yahoo.com>
>To: " European & UK) and MedFer bandsDiscussion of the Lowfer (US" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:54 AM
>Subject: [Lowfer] Another Test Capture
>
>
>> Since I'm experimenting now; Here's one that's cropped, enhanced,
>> text added, and expanded to 175% of the original.. File size appears
>> to be very small still...Haven't ever tried this stuff before...
>> TNX Jay; I found out I haven't kieled over yet ! I learned something.
>>
>> Andy
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>Message: 11
>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:02:26 -0600
>From: "Gary" <garylyons at cox.net>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Test Capture
>To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
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>Good morning Andy,
>
>Ok, what is the secret to capturing the captures so they can posted? I have had a couple dozen I would have posted as documentation for the gang of my reception report but I have not yet figured out how to to it.
>
>So, what is your secret?
>
>Gary/w0gx
>Edmond, OK/EM15gr
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>Message: 12
>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:14:37 -0500
>From: <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Test Capture
>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer
> bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>Message-ID: <002b01cbd1d1$ad0272e0$6d01a8c0 at DELL4>
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>Gary
>
>Since I post a lot of images (maybe too many?) here's how I do it. This may be a good topic for
>others that might be interested in sharing their captures here.
>
>1) Make sure the desired screen (like Argo) has Window's focus (the top blue bar of the window will
>be dark blue).
>
>2) Press alt + print screen to copy the active window to the clipboard.
>
>3) Open an image editor and press ctrl + V to paste the clipboard contents into the editor.
>
>4) Crop the image to the important essentials and save it in a .jpg or .gif format. Check the saved
>file size to see if it's ~35k or less. If not, go back and either increase the .jpg compression or
>make the image smaller. For .jpg, compression amounts up to 50 seems to work well without serious
>artifacts. Remember where you stored the image.
>
>5) Use the e mail 'attach' function to browse to the file and attach the image to your post.
>
>That's it. The 35k image plus a few k for the e mail itself will come in under 40k - which I believe
>is the size limit set by the administrator. If you wish to post a larger image you'll have to host
>it on a server where you have space available and include a URL link to it in you post. Example:
>
> http://www.w1vd.com/argoupload.jpg
>
>One final note. Always make sure that your attached image is 35k or less. If you attach a larger
>image it will more than likely get bounced and end up with the administrator for his attention. We
>really don't want to make additional (and needless) work him!
>
>Jay
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gary" <garylyons at cox.net>
>To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Test Capture
>
>
>> Good morning Andy,
>>
>> Ok, what is the secret to capturing the captures so they can posted? I have had a couple dozen I
>> would have posted as documentation for the gang of my reception report but I have not yet figured
>> out how to to it.
>>
>> So, what is your secret?
>>
>> Gary/w0gx
>> Edmond, OK/EM15gr
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