Anyone interested in practicing CW QRP, in Yellowknife
amateurs are
often on
144.140 nightly at about 21:00hrs MT.
Articles of Interest - Searching for a jammed transmitter
and Looking for a Bug
VHF DR for real (RT) 2011-01
VHF DR for real (RT) - What we learned
Looking 4
a Bug (RT)
Equipment
Inventory to be completed and submitted by each YARS member via e-mail to
President and Secretary ASAP, please.
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Subject: [Ykars] Prelude APRS Weather
From: "Chris Cameron"
Date: Sun, September 12, 2010 8:15 am
Hello
As of Saturday afternoon, and after quite a hiatus, the APRS weather station
located at Prelude is back on the air.
In the past this station was somewhat intermittant due to the low output power
of the Microtrac.
So far, with the higher power Microtrac, the reports have been quite consistent.
Check out the following links:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=VE8WD-2
http://www.db0anf.de/app/aprs/stations/weather-VE8WD-2
The findu.com website has a little more information and allows you to look at
different intervals and also the raw APRS data.
Hopefully have the Yellowknife station back on the air in a few weeks and a
third station later this Fall. 73 VE8WD
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Technical (Specs, etc.)
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Subject: [Ykars] Repeater Specs
Date: Fri, October 2, 2009 8:58 am
To: ykars@ykars.com
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Ladies and Gents,
At the last club meeting I was asked to put together a list of
specifications/requirements
we would be looking for in a new repeater. VE8GB
suggested I send it out to the list for comments/additions.
So, here's the list of basic requirements:
1 - 40+ watts
2 - 100% Duty cycle at half power.
3 - CW ID
4 - Fully synthesized
5 - 5 kHz channel step or lower
6 - Adjustable squelch
7 - Better than 0.5uV sensitivity at 12 dB SINAD
8 - Intermod reject ~70 dB
9 - CTCSS?
10 - Onboard AC Supply?
11 - External battery power input capability
12 - On board controller with DTMF encoder/decoder plus external link/phone
patch controls and/or an external controller interface.
13 - Software programmable?
Please send me any comments or questions you may have. We can talk about it
either on the reflector or at the next meeting.
Sam,
VE8SS
Footnote: See Ensign 2009-11 for further evaluation of prospective Rx
units. News
Images (courtesy of VE8SS)
Area Rx coverage prediction - Yk & Behchoko
Fox Hunt
boundary - Yellowknife
Jackfish & NTPC Rae (4pgs)
SOP's (courtesy of VE8IR)
SOP on Nets
SOP on SOPs
X-cerpts from Membership:
Tue, March 16, 2010 8:56 pm
Today, without knowing who the station was, I worked Antarctica for
the first time. For several minutes I listened to this station R1ANP
calling CQ with no takers. It was down in the noise on 30 metres and
occasionally distorted. I was hesitant to reply because I was sure I
had the call sign wrong, Russian stations start with R followed by a
letter but I kept copying R1ANP. So I called and heard AGN? for a
couple of times. Then I heard my complete call with 339. Great,
I've worked a Russian on 30 metres, OK, he was also 339 and we
exchanged TU dit dit. So I look the call sign up on QRZ.com
expecting nothing to come up, as I said Russian call signs are R nd a
second letter. Instead this pops up on my screen:
R1ANP Club Station of PROGRESS Base
located at: 69 23'S 76 23'E, Antarctica
Well thats DX!! Pretty close to the opposite side of the world, on
30 metres, running 9watts on CW! Sure beats chatting with the
locals on VHF CW, not much of an adrenalin rush there :-(
Ron VE8RT
Sun, March 21, 2010 9:03 pm
I worked R1ANP again, tonight at 02:55Z on 10.10690 MHz (30M) CW. He
was on calling CQ and only worked a few stations. Anyone looking for
an Antarctic station may want to listen up on this frequency at about
this time. His CW is very good at about 15WPM and he gives an honest
RST so don't expect a 599 exchange.
GN de Ron VE8RT
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Subject: Y2K cube contents
Date: Friday 10 April 2009 17:58
From: Ron Thompson
This afternoon I did an inventory of the Y2K radio cube.
Here is a list of the contents for the record:
Transceiver: Icom IC706MKIIG s/n 01213 barcode EPC0008908 with HM-95 DTMF
microphone and SP-7 speaker
Power Supply: Samlex America SEC 1223 s/n 03061-06482 barcode EPC009046
Modem: Hal Communications Corp. DXP38 s/n 211 barcode EPC008701
NO Laptop
In the partitioned compartment:
Antenna tuner: Icom AH-4 s/n 03321 barcode EPC009005
Icom mounting base MB-65 and bracket MB-63
Spare microphone HM-95
Separation cable OPC-581
Inverter: Statpower Technologies PROwatt 150 s/n 20185638 barcode none
Antenna: magmount 2m/70cm, Larsen MM2/70 PL
Hardware & wire:
Coax cable: estimated 100FT RG-58 with PL-259 terminations
Adapter: SO-239-SO239, qty 2, new in package
Mounting hardware: likely for AH-4 antenna tuner
Coils of orange wire: qty 2, likely for HF wire antenna
Cable assembly: to connect AH-4 to IC-706
In one of the many pouches:
IC-706MKIIG manual with this inventory list penciled on the front
Power Point printout of EPC HF/UHF e-Mail system
Samlex power supplies catalog
Dell Catalog (1999)
Barker & Williamson manual for BWD, BWDS antenna
Icom AH instruction book
DXP38 Operator's manual
DXP38 to TS870 interconnect sheet
(Important) Type 2 EPC Radio Systems - Interconnect and Operation manual
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Ron Thompson, VE8RT
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
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