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Thread: Share your favorite digital mode 'hot tip'
Post: RE: Share your favorite digital mode 'hot tip'
| Hi Doug,
have never seen one of my two rigs ever not come back from a Fake-It move. Been using this for 18 months now and chewed up a LOT of TX time on 28, 24 and 18 MHz chasing single band DXCC th... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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06-12-2022, 08:59 AM |
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Thread: Share your favorite digital mode 'hot tip'
Post: Share your favorite digital mode 'hot tip'
| Seemed like a good idea to start a thread where people can share their favorite digital mode hot tip... I will start us off, please add your own
In WSJT-X / JDTX and other variations from the WSJT-X... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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02-12-2022, 07:17 PM |
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Thread: why are Aussie hams going with USA licenses?
Post: why are Aussie hams going with USA licenses?
| I have over the last few years seen a number of Aussie hams sporting USA callsigns on web sites and online forums but I struggle to understand why people sit the FCC exam and pay the USA authority for... |
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VK5PJ |
General Discussion
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09-11-2022, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Looking for 8M reception reports
Post: RE: Looking for 8M reception reports
| Hi Chris and Hilary
I recently tried to apply for a license to operate on this part of the spectrum via our local authority and was flatly refused any sort of consideration for operating a beacon / d... |
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VK5PJ |
General Discussion
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08-10-2022, 10:19 AM |
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Thread: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
Post: RE: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
| Hey Doug,
today on a VERY busy 28 MHz FT8, with 30 to 35 per sequence, the green shows as the most briefest of a flash and the Yellow shows a much more pronounced flash, sorry I doubted you.
May ... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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17-09-2022, 08:17 AM |
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Thread: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
Post: RE: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
| Hi Doug,
definitely no colour flashes of any sort here in that box on my system. low end onboard graphics card with a M.2 solid state drive in the shack PC (Lenovo mini M710).
Will continue to s... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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16-09-2022, 02:13 PM |
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Thread: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
Post: RE: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
| Hello Doug,
have created a file system 'symbolic link' from one of my active folders to the 'default' location for all.txt. I can now run it and it gathers data from the active instance I have chos... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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16-09-2022, 08:13 AM |
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Thread: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
Post: RE: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on : BandVi...
| okay Doug,
that program will never work for me then, I do not have any of my WSJT-X instances running in that folder you mentioned, I use '-R NAME' parameter when I start each instance of WSJT-X / JT... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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15-09-2022, 08:40 PM |
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Thread: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on
Post: RE: Beta testers wanted for WSJT-X add-on : BandVi...
| Hi Doug,
downloaded the ZIP and tried to run it. then I get a "Invalid argument to date encode error"
no activity is displayed (blank white screen)
How exactly does this talk to WSJT-X ? is th... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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5,096 |
15-09-2022, 05:17 PM |
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Thread: FT8 Bots what exactly are they
Post: RE: FT8 Bots what exactly are they
| Hello Graham,
if you would like to see what a FT8 BOT looks like, have a look out for VK6AS (not the Old OP I knew) , this bloke runs his FT8 Robot 24x7 on the HF bands. He does not seem to care how... |
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VK5PJ |
General Discussion
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04-09-2022, 10:21 AM |
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Thread: Remote audio between two PC's over the internet
Post: Remote audio between two PC's over the internet
| Are you looking to get audio from one computer to the other in a painless way?
DF3CB Remote Audio (https://df3cb.com/remaud/)
Maybe from your remote receiver / transmitter across the road or acr... |
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VK5PJ |
General Discussion
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20-08-2022, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: Legality of importing a SDR with Tx capability
Post: RE: Legality of importing a SDR with Tx capability
| Hello SWL-VK3
Australia does not require a transmitter to have any certification when used in the Amateur service. is it up to the station owner to ensure it meets acceptable emission criteria. Un... |
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Regulatory, Licencing & Exams
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31-07-2022, 08:09 AM |
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Thread: VKSpotter slow response ?
Post: RE: VKSpotter slow response ?
| not wanting to pile on but noticed it most at login time for me anyway... was never sure if it was my connection or the spotter... the wonders of hosted services but hey Doug you know about that mor... |
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VK5PJ |
General Discussion
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26-07-2022, 08:35 PM |
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Thread: WSJT-X and JTDX 'improved'
Post: RE: WSJT-X and JTDX 'improved'
| Hi Ski,
yes some button placements seem to be a bit adhoc like the selector for odd/even, which I thought should have been in the empty spot by the clock BUT the nice thing is the author is easy to ... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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11-07-2022, 11:30 AM |
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Thread: WSJT-X and JTDX 'improved'
Post: WSJT-X and JTDX 'improved'
| For those who would like to sniff out a different flavor of WSJT-X and JTDX that have a slightly different screen layout, try these two links
JTDX Improved (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtdx-im... |
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VK5PJ |
Digital Modes
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5,039 |
21-06-2022, 05:28 PM |
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Thread: Solar Powered Radio Shack
Post: RE: Solar Powered Radio Shack
| Hey There Leigh,
the solar powered shack is a great concept and for many works well, some things to keep in mind is that have a circuit breaker on all sections of the solar battery and load to stop n... |
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VK5PJ |
General Discussion
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20-06-2022, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| I guess here is where it comes to a stop for a while. the dummy HDMI plug from Core Electronics, a distributor for Adafruit was a great success, the VNC session came up on 1920x1080 at first boot and ... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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10-06-2022, 09:35 AM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| Hi Doug,
yes seems like I have the same problem, have purchased two of these dummy HDMI plugs from Core Electronics (shameless plug) to see how it works out under linux Mint.. for these sort of th... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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03-06-2022, 05:47 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| Hello Tim,
have tried all sorts of variations on the start settings for geometry but I have also noted that if no video display is detected that the performance of VNC is utterly intolerable. it b... |
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Computer related
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03-06-2022, 05:42 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| epilogue,
cannot set a screen size value for a connection when no monitor is detected, end up with 1024x768 resolution and poor performance over VNC connection. Answer seems t be a dummy HDMI plug... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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01-06-2022, 01:46 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| Okay Last posting on this mostly boring thread,
I want WSJT-X to auto-start after reboot, so there must be a simple way right? it turns out there is a utility on the desktop menu called 'session... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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28-05-2022, 04:26 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| The next step...
as VNC does not handle the login screen on Linux (buggar) I have to get my system to auto login after a restart, so it can cope with power outages or planned reboots.. this was wa... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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28-05-2022, 03:35 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| Okay here is VNC, it is not going to be pretty and at one point I was ready to blow linux away and install Win 10 in its place, yep the air around me was B-L-U-E with nasty words.
After a great dea... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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28-05-2022, 11:36 AM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| Hello,
well 48 hours on and I must admit I was going to give up on the install of VNC under linux. Why of why is it soo hard, seems to be a common thing for lots of people, so I knew I was not alon... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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27-05-2022, 01:41 PM |
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Thread: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
Post: RE: my not so Raspberry PI adventure
| Hi Colin,
yes USB based serial ports,, I guess old habits die hard when it come to the names of things.. When you plug in the USB cable from most modern radios, they create one or more "COM ports" i... |
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VK5PJ |
Computer related
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26-05-2022, 08:01 AM |
