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There are a number of projects in the pipeline relating to amateur radio; these will be updated as they progress. | There are a number of projects in the pipeline relating to amateur radio; these will be updated as they progress. | ||
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- | C: I cleaned up this page massively as it was turning into a wall of text. | ||
===== Lab HF access ===== | ===== Lab HF access ===== | ||
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Antennas tested thus far: | Antennas tested thus far: | ||
- | * **PAR endfedz**(? | + | * TBD. Now we have a radio we can start looking at what Summerhall will let us install and what works best. Inv-V looking like the best option currently. It may be worth making a fan-IV |
- | * **40m inverted-V**: works well. | + | |
- | * **Magloop**: | + | |
Coax drop options: | Coax drop options: | ||
- | * [[http:// | + | * TK is trying to arrange free cabling |
- | * [[http:// | + | * Paracord dropped in conduit ready for cables |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | Rig options/ | + | Rig: |
- | ** HF ** | + | |
- | * Yaesu FT450 | + | ===== Hacklab ARC ===== |
- | * C: Here's an idea: having built a Softrock RXTX myself, an option I have been considering is maybe doing something similar what is done with the SDR currently: feeding a Peaberry (basically a Softrock with integrated ADC/DAC) into a Raspberry Pi mounted amongst the existing SDR hardware and sticking a PA on the front of it. This has the advantage of being cheap - <£200 for the Peaberry, Pi and PA - and it would allow us to use existing network infrastructure since the actual RF hardware itself woud be on the roof. No messy coax runs: we coud just use the ethernet run that's already there. By using something like [[https:// | + | |
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- | * Once three of us have Advanced licences, this opens up the possibility of the Hacklab obtaining a Full (Club) licence. Fee for this is £20 (club licences last 5 years) and a callsign of the form MM0xxx will be assigned to the Hacklab. | + | |
- | * Not uncharted territory; see [[http:// | + | |
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- | If you are willing to volunteer yourself for inclusion on a potential future Hacklab ARC application please add yourself below. | + | |
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- | | Name | Callsign | | + | |
- | |Tim K| MM0TKE | | + | |
- | |Chris N| 2M0FFY (sitting Full < | + | |
- | |Alex H| 2M0LBH (still to sit exam)| | + | |
===== Weekly Net ===== | ===== Weekly Net ===== | ||
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|12/03|2m Yagi Build|Built some excellent tape measure yagis based on the plans [[http:// | |12/03|2m Yagi Build|Built some excellent tape measure yagis based on the plans [[http:// | ||
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===== Mini Maker Faire ===== | ===== Mini Maker Faire ===== | ||
hams/projects.txt · Last modified: 2019-06-03 18:13 by tim