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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | 11:35 pm
[spikeblackfang]
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Furry Ham Radio Operators Make Successful Contact to the ISS at Anthrocon 2009
We have just completed an unofficial event post-con about one block away from the Westin. KD8HQK, VA6FOX, Silaria, and myself K9SPK went to the Greyhound bus station garage at 10th and Penn Avenue to the top deck to work satellite, hoping to make contact with the International Space Station. We were successful. This location was chosen due to the fact that the David L. Lawrence Convention Center was officially closed off, and the site was recommended by a very helpful Dorsai member in Con Ops. I had pulled my car (2006 Chevy Impala 9C3) to the roof of the garage where we had an open sky and a moderately clear line of site to utilize its Yaesu FT7800R mobile radio, and able to broadcast at a full 50 watts of power. My signal (K9SPK) was able to be transmitted to and received back from the International Space Station at approximately 1,500 miles above Earth. There was no QSO made with the crew, however the signal did make it there and back at about a S6 or S7. The radio transmitter operator was K9SPK.
In attendance were KD8HQK and VA6FOX, as well as Silaria (not an amateur operator).
The antenna direction was managed by KD8HQK.
The transmitter was a Yaesu FT7800R at 50 watts NFM.
The receiver was an Icom IC T90A.
The antenna was an Arrow II Model 146/437-10WBP.
The signal on the return transmission was between an S6 and S7.
The antenna direction was Northeast at a 20 degree elevation.
The tracking program was Satscape Java. This was a very successful run, and next con, me and the others in attendance hope to organize an event similar to this for all Furry Hams to hopefully attend, most likely from the same location due to its height utilizing my vehicle for the transmitter unless we can acquire another radio that can be operated from an alternative power source. Thanks for those in attendance, and I hope you were excited about the very successful signal as I was. Cross-posted to my personal LiveJournal account. Current Mood:  excited | | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | 5:31 pm
[horny_oryx]
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Furry Hams Event Station (KF3RRY), Sunday 2-4pm!
The Furry Hams will once again run a solar powered event station at Anthrocon on the rootftop of the Convention Center to demonstrate amateur radio. A full 102' dipole has been erected on the Terrace (rooftop) level of the DLCC and will be on the air on Sunday beginning at 2PM and running until 4PM or later. Please join us on the rooftop for a chance to get on the air and work the special event station! If you would like to work the event station look for us on 20 meters phone and check THIS post for an update with the talk-in frequency. Any station that QSL's to the Furry Hams Event Station will receive a QSL card in return (postage paid to the US)! Thanks, and I hope to hear you on the air or see you at the panel! Oryx & Yappyfox | | Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | 4:26 pm
[scape_goat]
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Anthrocon
Hellos, Where is the best place to find info on ham shtuff going on at Anthrocon? Thankies! | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | 11:23 pm
[scritchwuff]
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CQ CQ CQ DE AE5ML
I just joined a couple days ago and wanted to say "Hi!" I'm ScritchWuff, or just "Scritch' from Albuquerque, NM. Last month I finally decided to go get my ham license, so I studied my behind off and drove up to Pueblo, CO to take the exams. Somehow I managed to pass the Tech, General, and Extra exams on the same day. The extra exam was quite difficult -- I had to study hard even though I have an engineering background. At this point, I haven't done anything on HF, but I plan on getting started on that side of things after AC. Eventually I'll learn morse as well. There is a nice empty field just over the wall from my house where I could sneak some ground radials and a mounting pipe for temporary antennas. HOA CC&Rs aren't an impediment to me. I see them more as a challenge to be overcome. I'll just sling a feed line over the wall and take my antenna down when not in use. That saves me from (1) having to deal with the HOA rules, and (2) having to deal with lightning and beefing up my home's electrical grounding system for now. I simply won't have any antennas up during a storm. Anyhow, it seems the solar cycle is on the upswing so this is probably as good a time as any to get started on the HF bands. For now, I just have my Yaesu VX8R handheld, which is serving me quite well. I'll be bringing it to AC, and am wondering what repeaters and/or simplex frequencies are typically used by the local furs out there. I also saw the previous post about the portable repeater at the hotel. Out here in NM we have a bunch of repeaters linked statewide into the "MegaLink" (NM5ML) system.. It's pretty cool, you can get onto the system from pretty much anywhere in the state, and they are all open repeaters. Is there something similar to that in the Pittsburgh area? Anyhow, just checking in and saying Hi! 73 AE5ML SK Current Mood: cheerful | 5:18 pm
[nius]
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Portable Repeater at Anthrocon
We're bringing back the portable repeater for Anthrocon this year. Here are the frequencies (these are the same as last year): Full duplex UHF: 443.4/448.4 (output/input) Tone: 100.0 Half duplex VHF: 147.555 Tone: 100.0 (cross-band repeat, simplex) The CTCSS tone is transmitted on both outputs. Hope to hear you at the con! | | Monday, June 15th, 2009 | 4:25 pm
[moth_wingthane]
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Calling CQ.
Hi all, New to the group and wanted to say hello to everyone :) Thanks to Swift_Fox for pointing me over here :) 73s Moth. | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | 6:25 pm
[swift_fox]
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Pictures of the 80 meter CW QRP Rig
I picked up this set up that's all kept in a small suitcase at the Breezeshooter's HamFest this last weekend up in Butler, PA. Complete set...$50. Now all I need to do is learn CW. But at least now I have a rig to learn it for. Enjoy the eye candy.
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80 meter QRP Rig
top to bottom, left to right:
Power Supply, Transmit Receive switch, straight key.
Ramseys 80m Transmitter, Band Filter, Ramseys 80m Receiver |
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80 meter QRP Rig
Manuals and US Map |
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80 meter QRP Rig
Coax, 80m 1/2 wave antenna and support line. |
KS3IFT AE | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | 10:39 am
[swift_fox]
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| | Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | 7:53 pm
[clintwk] |
Anyone going to All Fun Fur?
Hi. I've been a ham since '93, but am just finding out about Furries. Furry Hams is the best of both!! All Fur Fun is coming up on May 15 - 17 in Spokane WA, and I was wondering if anyone is going? I'd like to go but but am a coward to go by myself.. hi hi.. | 11:16 am
[tigerpaw]
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Dayton Hamvention 2009
So who's going to Dayton this year? My plans are going on Saturday as a day trip with my local club. *cross posted on radiofurs & furryhams* 73 de KT1GER | | Friday, May 1st, 2009 | 1:51 pm
[yappyfox]
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Twitter..
I was sitting at my HF the other day, wondering if any fur was out there in DX land.. but always up to the question who is avail? Who could be on the air? Well, I despise twitter for most of the spam people dump into LJ with it, but theoretically, it is supposed to be able to send SMS messages out as well. Well, I got to playing, and now on the furryhams.org website, there is a "cq tweet" option, that once you log into furryhams web site, you can send a tweet to the twitter user "Furryhams". Well, so far, that part works.. I can see tweets posted.. so I assume all would work in theory.. My stump right now is that I have yet to see any SMS to my personal twitter account.. Perhaps I mis understood how twitter works? I thought this would be a great way to announce to furry hams that you might be working a band, to alert people who might be near a radio and try to DX. Any thoughts? | | Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | 11:46 am
[graywolf769]
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Hamvention Anyone?
With the Dayton Hamvention coming up soon, any furs planning on going and/or want to organize some kind of meetup, furry talk in channel, dinner, etc some night in Dayton? | | Monday, April 20th, 2009 | 9:03 pm
[yappyfox]
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[tigerpaw]
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FCN
Just wondering is there any plans for any Radio activities at FCN 09 next weekend. Last year ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sparkybluefox had a few fox hunts one afternoon and was wondering if was any possibly this year. Because if not, then i'm not going to be bring any extra gear along, hunting antenna etc.. *cross-posted to radiofurs* de KT1GER | | Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | 5:18 pm
[justincheetah]
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Good thing I didn't get QSL cards!
Through no other method other than lottery, I beat out the other four folks (well, two, but there were three applications by one person via club calls) for K1TTY. *kittygrin* Mew! Current Mood:  bouncy | | Saturday, March 21st, 2009 | 6:12 pm
[nius]
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Virginia QSO Party
CQ CQ VAQP! I'm running QRP from home, can work any band 80m thru 2m (and heck, we could try 160, but my loop doesn't like to load up down there). Anybody want to try making contact? :) 73 DE KI4HWK | | Monday, March 16th, 2009 | 11:09 am
[swift_fox]
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| | Friday, March 13th, 2009 | 9:45 pm
[lildobe]
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FWA?
So are there any organized Furryham events or frequencies that we are planning on using at FWA?
Current Mood:  curious | | Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | 12:27 pm
[justincheetah]
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K1TTY - The Competition
After a wild ride with illegal applications, another HAM contesting said applications, cancelations, awards, denials, and much fun, K1TTY came up this past Sunday for list preference vanity calls. Of course I applied for it =^.^= So did four other entities. Two clubs, two generals, and one tech. Seems to me vanity calls should favor higher license classes! Keeping my paws crossed! Current Mood:  anxiousCurrent Music: Enya | | Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | 8:57 pm
[yappyfox]
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Field Day.
So, It looks like my local ARES org has appointed me in charge of field day this year. I am quite new at these, only having participated in a couple, and sorta helped run a casual one last year at AC.. But a couple questions have come up so far. If the club's call sign's trustee is only a Tech class license holder, does that mean that call can not broadcast higher than tech privledge, even if there are Extras at the event? Or would he have to use an Extra's license call sign for the event, or even gain a special even callsign? Secondly, does anyone have any recommendation on logging software to use in a multi-station competition that would make it easy to locate duplicates and such (I know they exist, I've only ever done paper logging in the past, and usually the remote stations end up telling us we were duplicating :P ) |
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