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- | ====== Ham Projects | + | Moved to [[radio: |
- | 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. | ||
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- | ===== Lab HF access ===== | ||
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- | Antennas tested thus far: | ||
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- | * **PAR endfedz**(? | ||
- | * **40m inverted-V**: | ||
- | * **Magloop**: | ||
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- | Coax drop options: | ||
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- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
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- | Rig options/ | ||
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- | ** HF ** | ||
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- | * Yaesu FT450 | ||
- | * 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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- | ** V/U ** | ||
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- | * ??? | ||
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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)| | ||
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- | ===== Weekly Net ===== | ||
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- | Chris will throw out a call Weds evenings at 7PM UTC(TAI), so keep an ear out. | ||
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- | ===== "Radio Night" ===== | ||
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- | | Date | Theme | Comments | | ||
- | |12/ | ||
- | |26/ | ||
- | |12/03|2m Yagi Build|Built some excellent tape measure yagis based on the plans [[http:// | ||
- | |26/ | ||
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- | ===== Mini Maker Faire ===== | ||
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- | It may be too soon for this year but a full license holder could apply for a special event callsign and we could show the station to the public or use it for talk in (providing directions and help to those visiting). Setting up an ardf challenge within Summerhall on very low power would also be interesting. | ||
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- | ===== Other Projects ===== | ||
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- | * [[sdr|SDR]] | ||
- | * RX/TX iGate - requires NoV - [[http:// | ||
- | * Repeater research - GB3ED may or may not be back soon. | ||
- | * WSPR/QRSS? |
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