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I did not either....but other than a little activity from the HAMsters I have not heard of any activity or planned....And to be honest I have no idea if anyone else or clubs are doing anything.

@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup need more mesh nodes😁

We started doing recently posting the training portion of the meetings in the show...Not always but on topics we believe will be of interest to others. you have given me the idea of live streaming our club meetings and we may start doing that in the next month.

We are happy to help, by the way we learned in a very recent study performed just 5 seconds ago that those who share 500 times absorb the fountain of youth and live forever.

Thanks for the feedback Michael We will be addressing most of your comments this coming July episode

I might be off on this (disclaimer) but I’m going to give it a shot. FT8 was designed as a weak signal mode, created to be used to determine propagation conditions. To me, that’s the plus side. It’s surprising how far very weak signals can travel. An indication for potential communication using other modes (I.e. analog). The downside is, I believe there is an automatic mode allowing you to make connections while you’re away from your station. Some would call them QSO’s because, technically, two way communication between stations happened. People will go after WAS or DXCC using FT8 and it can happen in a reasonably short period of time. However… There are those of us who have committed to two way communication between two people, as the definition of a completed QSO. To me, automatic FT8 is like you buying a nice sports car (your radio) then hiring a driver (your computer). You wave goodbye to the driver as he takes your car out for the day while you make quiche. When the driver comes back with your car, you tell the world what a great driver you are. Not really the same as you acquiring the skills to be a great driver and maybe making mistakes you have to fix. Put another way, self driving cars might be a hit with the nerds among us but I’m pretty sure it will be a long, long…long time until we see self driving race cars more popular than human driven race cars. I’m not opposed to digital modes as long as there’s a human at the controls. I’ve been tempted to try QRP EME and meteor scatter. I live under a major east to west flight path for commercial and military aviation so airplane scatter is a possibility. Those would be great situations for digital modes. As someone trying really hard to get Mobile DXCC (currently 75/100), I’ll be d@mned if I give credibility to “FT8 DXCC”. ARRL’s website lists ~38 Hams with Mobile DXCC compared to ~370, for example, who have QRP DXCC…no easy feat! If FT8 interests you, go for it. …just, please, don’t tell me about “your” accomplishments. I know the difference. 73 de WB3CFN

I will refrain from replying to this until the show - so stay tuned to next months show.

Thank you and welcome to the channel

I consider feed line the most vital part of a station......It all starts with the feed-line and antenna

Sure, will petition the courts for the adoption tomorrow. :)

Unless your going to be doing narrow band digital modes on 23cm the radio standalone is fine. Honestly once the radio warms up if your only operating 23cm the fan never comes on because TX power on 23 is only 10 Watts. I have two 9700's and use both of them stock with the exception being I did add some ceramic wool over the reference oscillator RF shielding can for insulation. That alone stabilized the frequency considerably as the fan cycles on and off when in 2/70.

Only if you are doing some EME or such....I have had NO drift issues with either of mine mobil or the QTH

SO HOW COME YOU ARE NOT SHARING THEM????

Technically we drove 86 miles to see the eclipse, but as we were up at our ranch for the entire weekend. and the Monday eclipse....I guess we can't count that :). Unfortunately we were not able to view the eclipse at all, it was 100% cloud cover for the entire day.

We are going to try and do a full video interview and tour or Scotts station in the near future.

And hello to you.....Is this Sebastian?

@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup yes, or I used to be!

@@arjayrivera6535 need to join us for breakfast again some time.....Been a long time.

@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup I’ll send an email to the Weak Signal Group for details.

Thank you......We have been busy expanding it into microwave bands - My goal is to enter retirement in a few months and be able to have some radio fun.

sadly it is....far to often

Her name is Brownie, a Maine Cool. Also is known as my little dog or doglet cause she used to bark when she was little. She is my old girl now at 13 years old and unfortunately not in the best of health. I am glad she came up to join in.

That is a very good question. And yes you don't want to risk it. In a simple sense it will become fairly dark and looking thru your solar glasses safety glasses you will see nothing. At that point totality begins. If you have timed out how long totality will be at your location that is when you start your timer. Personally I would give a good 10-15 seconds margin before I go looking. In 2017 I was using a telescope (and will do this eclipse) and then it gets to nothing in telescope with sun filter it is pretty clear it would be safe to look directly. I grant without the telescope there may be a point where some tiny amount of direct sunlight is still there that with sun safety glasses on you don't see anything. This giving it 10 to 15 seconds margin. There are phone apps to help time it as well as web sites to get the specific times it is safe. For me in 2017 I relied on my telescope with filter to know for sure when the last sliver of sun was covered. I knew I had about about three and a half minutes to set myself a timer for 3 min to be safe. As happened, I was viewing from a Walmart parking lot with lots of others and others had better timing than myself and some were giving countdowns to when glasses needed to be back on.

I personally do not mind, and I do not believe Samantha will either, but I'll let her respond to confirm.......As a rule I have no problem with any of our HAMster video's used as long as credit and link to the shows are provided.

My station and operating ends at the 23cm segment, I have been intrigued of late by 10 GHz....and some of its capabilities with a small dish. I would love to use it for EME, mostly due to it's small dish size - I have done at a friends station a couple of rain scatter and that is fascinating stuff......I just did not get to do enough of it to get a real feel.

that might be a great idea :)

Took me a long time of working you on 52 during my travels to Southwest Texas to get you on board...but once you did ...look out work you were on the way.

Thanks JC.......

Not sure why a couple of our shorts are running fast, will look into it - but here is the link for the full show so you can watch the segment you wish: ruclips.net/video/m0rgaH_z3HI/видео.htmlsi=Cjs6xcoPHTwyGtj1

I really like the original interview. It is one of my favorite segments of the channel. thanks @@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup

Thanks @@zyzaxaphone

Sorry about that. I'm still learning how to tweak these clips. The information MUST be squeezed into 60 sec or less to make it a "SHORT". I got a little crazy there, and will avoid the tactic if I can.

Thank you for the feedback - I am anxiously waiting for her to install the IC-905 in ROVER so we can see how it performs, but this year has not been kind to Rover :).

I made my first 3.4 GHz contact this afternoon and found out even with the amp, only -1 dBm on 5 GHz.@@N5XOHAMsterWeakSignalGroup

You are not coming up for me on QRZ - please look me up on QRZ and send me an e-mail - I would like to discuss the rover setup with you.

I can not speak for the others but for me and my family it was wonderful, we all met at my daughters and had a great time - 4 generations of our family

I think you will like our new season, we plan on provide much more technical detail and HOW TO to advance everyones capability in VHF/UHF/SHF operation - Weak Signal SSB, FM Simplex, Digital Modes and EME

We hope to have our first show of the new season uploaded by the 15th of the month - So stay tuned...SHARE AND LIKE PLEASE....HELP US SPREAD THE WORD.. Any feedback on our new introduction module?