[RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

[LANCE COLLISTER]

Richard Harrod wrote:
> Lance, sometime look for the K7KMT/b just West of Gillette,WY on 2m. 
> 144.298 in DN64 Good luck. Richard K7TNT DN74

Thanks for the suggestion Richard!  I think it would be tough for me to hear a 
beacon station at that distance, although it might be possible to work a well 
equipped station at the same location.  But I appreciate the tip, and will have to 
listen for it next time I have the 2m array untied.

One thing I have begun experimenting with here that makes it easier to spot 
beacons like that is my SDR-IQ receiver.  Since I use 28 MHz receive converters 
for both 2m and 6m, I just built a little splitter so I could send the 28 MHz 
signals to the SDR-IQ as well as my TS-830S.  With the SDR-IQ I can easily (and 
literally) "watch" a 190 KHz wide segment of whichever band's converter is 
activated.  It is especially fun to watch signals pop in and out on 6m during Es 
season, but I am looking forward to actually using it more as a receiver (as 
opposed to just a spectrum display) to copy really weak signals and elminate line 
noise on both bands.

There are several software programs that work well with the SDR-IQ to display the 
spectrum and permit you to receive whatever frequency you click on with your 
mouse.  Spectravue comes with the SDR-IQ, and Winrad is a very powerful but easy 
to use program that also works with it. But the most sensitive and powerful is 
definitely Linrad, which I am just starting to play with.

VY 73, Lance

-- 
Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
P.O. Box 73
Frenchtown, MT  59834  USA
QTH: DN27UB
TEL: (406) 626-5728   URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
2m DXCC #11, 6m DXCC #815

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