Echolink Update (Again)

I have moved the Echlink Node to VHF.  It is now parked on 146.460 (100Hz Tone).  It will stay on VHF until my Alinco 135 quits and then will go on whatever  radio/band I can scrounge up.  I am currently running the node at 10 watts. The node currently covers Caryville, Jacksboro, LaFollette, and portions of Powell Valley and Lake City.

EchoProducer is providing additional control and instructions at regular intervals.  The node will be connected to *DODROPIN* nets on a regular basis including the Breakfast Club Net from 07:00 am until 9:00 am M-F

*DODROPIN* net schedule

Steve, W4HKL

Tennessee IRLP Nodes/Repeaters

Tennessee IRLP Nodes/Repeaters as of March 3rd, 2014

TN IRLP

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Student Radio Club of Campbell County - JHS

My attempt at starting a high school amateur radio club is underway.

Much is still left to do.  I'm actually carrying out an Icom AH-4 tuner each morning and retrieving it each afternoon at this point. Everything is being routed through he classroom window.  Hopefully, things will get "nailed-down" and installed much more professionally soon.  But I'm gong to get the membership settled down first so they can be involved in everything.  It's the best way to learn.

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 Eagle One Antenna

(approx 33 ft vertical radiator housed in telescoping fiberglass mast.)

If you look closely, you can see the two guys on each side consisting of polyrope.  Probably not needed, but adds enough support so the antenna won't "give" much in strong storms.

 9 foot ground for current tuner (AH-4 - not pictured) and approx 200 yards of fencing as a counterpoise.

One of our projects will be to add an 80 meter coil to be remotely switched in and out of the antenna circuit and to tune the antenna from the operating position with a homebrew tuner.

Station Ground

Cabling will eventually be routed through the grill where old heating units used to be located.

HF and VHF/UHF polyphasers will be mounted near top of ground rod on a mount fabricated by our machine shop.

Current station is the Icom 706 MK2G from my go-box.

Station will eventually be replaced by an Alinco DX-70 and homebrew tuner.

Turn Your PC Into A Panadapter for $130

I found a very interesting article among many other cool things over at http://n4py.weebly.com.  This one that might appeal to all us HF operators - a how-to on using a little Japanese SDR and some free software to create your own panadapter.  It's not going to out-perform a $1000 model, but it doesn't sound too bad for the money.

N4PY makes well-reviewed software for a host of SDR amateur rigs.
http://n4py.weebly.com/

Link to source of the SDR mentioned in the article...
http://zao.jp/radio/soft66ad/


Article from the N4PY website written by WD5FUN
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900 Mhz Info

I'm beginning to compile info on the 900 Mhz amateur radio band.

Here are a few links to start off.

The 33 cm Band:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33-centimeter_band

Info from
EF Johnson 900 MHz Information


Video of a Amateur Band modified EJF

More coming soon... W4HKL