If you want to work a DX station in a pileup, you have to learn how to Work Split. In this video, I explain the process, give an example with a diagram, and then show how to Work Split with a KX1, KX3, and a FT-817.
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Getting Started with Digital Modes
Want to get your head around the concepts and hardware needed to start using some of the amateur radio Digital Modes? You’ve come to the right place! This comprehensive video will tell you everything you need to know to get started and it lays the groundwork for a series of upcoming in-depth videos on RTTY, PSK31, JT65, and Winlink.
The following questions are answered in this video:
- Why Digital?
- What is Meant by Digital Modes?
- How Does Digital Work?
- What Kind of Radio is Needed?
- What Kind of Computer is Needed?
- Do I Have To Make My Own Cables?
- What Cables Are Required?
- What About Push-To-Talk?
- How Does A Signalink Box Make Things Easier?
- How to Connect Radios to a Signalink Box? (FT-817 and KX3)
- The Importance of Setting Optimal Audio Signal Levels
Portable at Bobcat Ridge – Black Friday 2015
Taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather here in Nashville (67 degrees!) I drove up to Bobcat Ridge and worked a few stations on 15 meters with 5 watts from my trusty Elecraft KX3.
Why don’t we make this a Black Friday tradition?!
Contacts with 1/10th of a Watt!
My friend Tim Kreth (AD4CJ) sent me a couple of cell phone videos that he shot last weekend during the ARRL Sweepstakes contest.
Tim was only using 1/10th of a watt and he made a number of contacts. Here are a couple of them…
2,000 Miles with 1/2 Watt – In Voice Mode!
Check this out. I worked a station today in Oregon with only 1/2 watt – on 20 meters in SSB mode.
Bad News: I forgot to push the Record button on my camera so I have no video!
Good News: I recorded the audio… so it DID happen and I can prove it…
Portable Digital QRP Demo
I take advantage of the CQ Worldwide DX Contest – RTTY Mode, to show my portable digital QRP station.
In this video, with only 5 watts, I work Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, Morocco, and Croatia.
Yes, QRP does work!
QRP bike ride…
One of my favorite things to do in ham radio is to take a QRP rig with me on a bike ride. I’ve got several places where I go on my bicycle and set up a station.
This evening, I rode to one of my favorite spots and worked K2H (VA) and N4LB (TX) before packing it back up and heading home.
I used my Elecraft KX3 with a Sotabeams 20m/40m linked dipole antenna.
My bike with a portable camp chair and my radio gear stuffed into a pannier.
Here’s what it looked like after setup. The antenna was hoisted up into a tree and tied off to the handlebars of my bike. The KX3 has a Begali Adventure attached… what a fun combo!