Had some fun at the weekend. A few of us from the radio club had a go at the practical wireless 144MHz QRP contest from Epsom Downs. Managed to work 61 stations, including Scotland and Ireland. This was good practice for the ssb field day in September. Had a few folks staring out of the windows from passing cars wondering what we were doing.
I bought a hands free kit for my Yaesu FT7800 in my Volvo.
Very simple to install, it just plugs into the Microphone socket and replaces the fist mic.
It has a Microphone which clips on to the sun visor, and a ptt swtich, which I’ve cable tied to the gear stick.
It’s surprising just how much easier driving is with both hands while operating the radio..
Or was Doc Brown based on him?
My picture in practical wireless
I’m currently working on cloud adoption, and this resonated
“….despite its worthiness, ITIL has been tarred with the slow moving brush of public sector IT lethargy.”
From the website http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/2161/itil-redundant-cloud
Spent yesterday digging the old pointing out of the patio, and then repointing, which I got about half way through. I used a mortar gun for part of it, which I haven’t had a lot of success with in the past, but found that by adding plasticiser to the mix worked much better.
Aching a bit today.
As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been lent a couple of radios to play with.
On the 4m Anytone rig that Martin, M0SGL lent me, I managed to contact Fred G3XXN, in Worksop about 40 miles away, who kindly came back to my CQ call. It was quite crackly, but the contact was made.
Martin, M1MRB, lent me a Motorola DP3400 DMR handheld, which I tried out – see the following video :-
Found a problem with the Icom 2820 dual band radio I have in my car on Thursday night, where the microphone stopped working.
Upon investigation, it looks like the microphone socket, (which is an RJ45 socket), has come loose, causing the connection to be become intermittent.
Looking inside the case, the socket is held by a couple of tiny plastic lugs, one of which appears to have broken.
When I’m feeling brave, i’ll have to solder the connector back to the board, and then somehow secure the socket so it’s not loose. Either that, or I’ll send it back to Icom to do it for me.