Today I played Radio and won. Since I have a new laptop for work, I’ve been occasionally moving it from my office desk to the ham bench to mess with digital modes like FT8 and Winlink. But I’ve been waffling on getting logging software and keeping shitty paper logs of my radio contacts to manually …
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Electric Graffiti
Sometimes you find the funniest things in the most unexpected of places. Here’s a log from my session with the Winlink node operated by KE7XO at 14103.5 KHz: *** Connected to Winlink RMS: KE7XO @ 2019/01/26 17:51:23 USB Dial: 14103.500 at 2019/01/26 17:51:23 *** Station Bearing: 297, Range: 1751 km *** Hola, Bienvenido a mi …
Lost in Transit
So far, my hit ratio for making a successful Winlink connection over HF is 1 out of 20. My antenna just sucks that much, and my radio keeps overheating and turning off the output, and QRM/QRN causes any ongoing connections to fail. And then there’s the difficulty of burning an RMS node by failing the …
Winlink 2000 – Email on the Wind
Since I have my ham rig already set up for soundcard modes, I decided to give WinLink 2000 a try. WL2K is an email-over-the-air transport system that can take advantage of many modulation modes and frequencies, and allows a remote station with no Internet access to send and receive email messages complete with attachments. It’s …