[MRCG] Clatternet Tonight at 18:30 PDT

[Tim]

Remote heating of Hot Dogs?  LOL  Thought you'd use laser diodes for that
link...

A friend of mine has a super HF contest station on a remote hilltop.  He
runs it from home (or anywhere else) via a dedicated microwave link to/from
his ISP. Fun to see it work...

See you on Clatternet tonite...

And good luck in the contest
Tim



On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

> I'm sorry I didn't make it to the AM net last night. I was just too pooped
> after planting a mast for a microwave link between my folks' house and
> mine. That Riverside dirt is tough stuff, and we were way too far from an
> outlet for me to run my gigantic Milwaukee hammer drill.
>
> I expect to run Clatternet as normal tonight, but note the time change:
> We'll start at 18:30 PDT tonight and hope for a better propagation window.
> We'll continue on 40m for now. And of course, the wall clock time will
> shift again soon when daylight savings time ends.
>
> I'll recap the technical parameters:
>
> Net start time:                         18:30 PDT
> Mode:                                   RTTY, 850 Hz shift, mark low,
> 45.45 baud
> Channel freq (AFSK suppressed carrier): 7087 kHz (as indicated on PRC-47)
> AFSK mark tone:                         1575 Hz
> AFSK band center:                       2000 Hz
> AFSK space tone:                        2425 Hz
> Actual mark freq:                       7088.575 kHz
> Actual space freq:                      7089.425 kHz
>
> How you get your mark and space tones onto the correct radio frequencies
> varies depending on your equipment, and there may be multiple ways to get
> the same effect (for example, I tune my Yaesu FT-450D to 7087.5 kHz and set
> the center freq in fldigi to 1500 Hz in order to center the mark/space
> tones in my radio's audio passband). It can be really confusing at first,
> but it gets easier once you figure it all out.
>
> Note that there's a Dovetron MPC-1000 RTTY converter on eBay at the
> moment, with the listing ending on Tuesday afternoon. I used mine with a
> UGC-74C and a Yaesu FT-100 to check into Clatternet a decade or so ago, and
> I plan to put it back on the air again one of these days.
>
> I hope that we can encourage more MRCG folks to try out RTTY on
> Clatternet. Anything from vintage WW2 gear to modern ham stuff is welcome,
> and we're all happy to help out with the learning curve.
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/
>
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