Posted on 30-03-2008
Filed Under (Shortwave) by Chuck

Tube Radio with 4 tubes, experimental.

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Posted on 30-03-2008
Filed Under (Shortwave) by Chuck

From the YouTube post.

9290kHz China Jammer to SOH (Taiwan)

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Posted on 30-03-2008
Filed Under (Amateur Radio, PSK) by Chuck

Let the great site psk31.com tell it.

“Translated literally, it’s an acronym for “Phase Shift Keying, 31 Baud”. PSK31 is a form of modulation (or “mode”) that offers a new and higher level of performance in conversational communications (keyboard-to-keyboard) that we “hams” (amateur radio operators) can enjoy. And it’s been made instantly usable by all of us, due in part to the proliferation of the personal computer, and in part to the superb and generous efforts of some very talented ham/programmers.

In the short time that PSK31 has been in use, its popularity has grown by leaps and bounds. It may in time replace or at least greatly supplant RTTY and other modes for person-to-person communications. It’s fun, easy, and well worth the effort to get set up, which is not very much at all.”

Or this from Wikipedia:

“PSK31 was developed by English amateur radio operator Peter Martinez (G3PLX), and introduced to the wider amateur radio community in December 1998. Martinez initially called his creation “varicode”, because it uses variable length encodings (Huffman codes) to represent characters.

PSK31 was enthusiastically received, and has since quickly spread into worldwide use. Due to the efficiency of the mode, it has become especially popular with operators whose circumstances do not permit the erection of large antenna systems and/or the use of high power. Also, very little in the way of additional equipment is required (normally just an old PC and a few extra interconnecting cables), and the software is both free to download and will run on older, slower computers.

As the computer is used simply as a ‘means to an end’, the mode has also attracted a new audience of ‘mainstream’ radio amateurs, not necessarily interested in computing or data communications per se. Nowadays on some bands the operating ‘atmosphere’ is less akin to the world of data, and more like that usually found in the morse code sections of the bands. Indeed many operators simply treat the mode as ‘automatic telegraphy’, even adopting long-established morse code conventions, language etc., but using a keyboard instead of a morse key.

PSK31 has also been heard in use on the Citizen’s Band.”

PSK31 Frequency List

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Posted on 30-03-2008
Filed Under (Frequency List) by Chuck
FREQUENCY(MHz) SATELLITE
-------------- --------------------------------------------------
    3.840      (LSB) Amateur Radio Satellite (AMSAT) Net
    3.860      (LSB) Space Shuttle Air-to-Ground Retransmissions
    7.185      (LSB) Space Shuttle Air-to-Ground Retransmissions
   10.780      (USB) Space Shuttle Launch Support.
   11.175      (USB) Global HF System; NASA aircraft
   11.407      (USB) Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft
   14.295      (USB) Space Shuttle Air-to-Ground Retransmissions
   15.016      (USB) Global HF System; NASA aircraft
   29.354      (USB) RADIO ROSTO
   29.357      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.360      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.364      (USB) RADIO ROSTO
   29.370      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.374      (USB) RADIO ROSTO
   29.380      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.384      (USB) RADIO ROSTO
   29.390      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.394      (USB) RADIO ROSTO
   29.400      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.403      (USB) COSMOS 1861
   29.408      (USB) COSMOS 2123
   29.410      (USB) COSMOS 2123
   29.420      (USB) COSMOS 2123
   29.430      (USB) COSMOS 2123
   29.440      (USB) COSMOS 2123
   29.450      (USB) COSMOS 2123
   29.454      (USB) COSMOS 2123
  119.100      Washington National Airport; NASA aircraft
  121.700      Washington National Airport; NASA aircraft
  121.750      (WBFM) Soyuz TM Voice Channel
  121.950      Wallops Flight Facility; NASA aircraft
  122.850      Langley Air Force Base; NASA aircraft
  126.500      Wallops Flight Facility; NASA aircraft
  130.165      Mir Space Station EVA Voice Channel
  130.625      Mir Space Station Voice Channel
  135.575      Applied Technology Satellite-3 (ATS-3) Voice
  136.650      TRANSIT 5BN 5
  136.800      Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8 (IMP-8)
  136.860      International Ultrviolet Explorer (IUE)
  137.350      NOAA K, L, & M
  137.500      NOAA 10, 12, K, L & M
  137.620      NOAA 9, 11, 14, K, L & M
  137.770      NOAA K, L & M
  137.850      METEOR 3-5, METEOR 2-21
  137.960      High Extreme Transient Experiment (HETE)
  137.980      Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8 (IMP-8)
  138.000      Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8 (IMP-8)
  139.208      Space Shuttle (ONLY WHEN DOCKING WITH MIR)
  142.600      Mir Space Station
  143.075      TUBSAT
  143.618      Mir Space Station EVA Voice Channel
  143.625      Mir Space Station Voice Channel
  145.550      Amateur Radio (Mir Space Station & Space Shuttle)
  145.800      Amateur Radio (Mir Space Station)
  145.825      OSCAR 17
  145.826      UOSAT 2
  145.840      Amateur Radio (Space Shuttle)
  146.835      Amateur Radio Satellite Net (AMSAT); Washington DC
  147.100      Amateur Radio Satellite Net (AMSAT); Houston, TX
  147.450      Space Shuttle Air-to-Ground Retransmissions
  149.910      COSMOS 2184
  149.940      COSMOS 2218, COSMOS 2279
  149.970      COSMOS 2239, COSMOS 2327
  150.000      NADEZHDA, COSMOS 2230, NADEZHDA 4, TSIKADA
  150.030      COSMOS 2233
  165.000      Progress M
  166.000      Soyuz TM, Progress M
  243.000      (AM) Space Shuttle Emergency Voice Channel
  259.700      (AM) Space Shuttle Primary Voice Channel
  268.450      FLTSATCOM
  279.000      (AM) Space Shuttle EVA Voice Channel
  296.200      Hypersonic Flight Experiment (Hyflex)
  296.800      (AM) Space Shuttle Voice Channel
  328.250      Transceiver Experiment satellite (TEX)
  399.760      COSMOS 2184
  399.840      COSMOS 2218, COSMOS 2239, COSMOS 2279
  400.000      NADEZHDA, COSMOS 2230, NADEZHDA 4, TSIKADA
  400.075      COSMOS 2233
  400.550      FREJA
  416.500      Space Shuttle, Pegasus, Titan IV, Delta II
  435.025      UOSAT 2
  435.795      JAS-2
  435.910      JAS-2
  436.800      OSCAR 27
  437.925      Mir Space Station
  437.950      Mir Space Station
  437.975      Mir Space Station
  922.000      Progress M
  922.750      Soyuz TM
  926.100      Soyuz TM
 1227.600      Ocean Topography Experiment (Topex/Poseidon),
               Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS)
 1480.500      L-1011 aircraft telemetry.
 1530.000      INMARSAT
 1537.000      INMARSAT

 1544.500      NOAA K, L & M
 1575.400      Ocean Topography Experiment (Topex/Poseidon)
 1698.000      NOAA K, L & M
 1702.500      Seastar/SeaWIFS, NOAA K, L & M
 1704.000      Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre-4
               (SPOT-4)
 1707.000      NOAA K, L & M
 1727.500      Pegasus chase video.
 2202.500      Atlas Centaur stage
 2203.000      Ariane 4 & 5 Launch Vehicle
 2205.930      Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre-3
               (SPOT-3)
 2206.000      Ariane 4 Launch Vehicle
 2206.500      Atlas Centaur stage
 2207.130      Telecom 2-C & 2-D (TC2C & TC2D)
 2208.586      Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
               (GOES I-M) Metsat Project
 2209.086      Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
               (GOES I-M) Metsat Project
 2210.500      Atlas Centuar stage
 2211.000      Atlas Centaur stage, Tracking & Data
               Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)
 2212.000      Engineering Test Satellite VI (ETS-VI)
 2215.000      Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST), Sampex,
               Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS),
               Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)
 2215.500      Atlas Centaur stage
 2217.500      Space Shuttle, International Cometary Explorer
               (ICE), IUS Stage (part of Titan IV booster)
 2218.000      Ariane 4 & 5 Launch Vehicle, Systeme Probatoire
               d'Observation de la Terre (SPOT-4)
 2220.000      Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS), Japan
               Earth Resources Satellite (JERS), Marine
               Observation Satellite-1B (MOS 1B).
 2227.000      Ariane 5
 2227.500      Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
 2230.000      RADARSAT
 2232.500      Tracking & Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)
 2235.000      Hispasat 1A & 1B
 2237.104      Hispasat 1A & 1B
 2241.500      Delta II Launch Vehicle
 2242.000      Cluster 1
 2244.500      Delta II Launch Vehicle
 2245.000      Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
 2245.500      X-ray Astronomy Satellite (SAX)
 2247.500      National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration-K,
               L, M, N, N (NOAA)
 2249.000      Cluster 2
 2249.800      International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
 2250.000      Space Shuttle
 2250.500      L-1011 aircraft video downlink.
 2252.500      Delta II Launch Vehicle, Defense Support
               Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).
 2255.500      Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-B),
               Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Hubble
               Space Telescope, Wideband Instrumentation System
               (part of Titan IV booster)
 2256.000      Cluster Spare
 2256.220      ASCA (ASTRO-D), Yohkoh (Solar-A)
 2259.910      Geotail
 2263.6018     Space Flyer Unit (SFU)
 2264.625      European Telecommunications Satellite II (EUTELSAT
               II)
 2264.818      Hotbird-2
 2265.000      Polar
 2266.500      Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)
 2270.000      Cluster 4
 2270.400      International Cometary Explorer (ICE)
 2272.000      High Extreme Transient Experiment (HETE)
 2272.500      Seastar/SeaWIFS, Centaur Stage (part of Titan IV)
 2273.000      Clementine
 2273.500      Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe
               (TOMS-EP)
 2273.760      Space Technology Research Vehicle (STRV 1-a & 1-b)
 2275.000      Wind
 2275.300      Small Spacecraft Technology Initiative (SSTI)
               (Lewis), Transition Region & Coronal Explorer
               (TRACE).
 2276.500      Roentgensatellit (ROSAT)
 2277.000      Cluster 3
 2278.350      Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
 2280.721      Geostationary Meteorlogical Satellite-5 (GMS-5)
 2282.500      Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)
 2287.500      X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE), Space Shuttle,
               Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility-Imaging
               (AXAF-I), Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Earth
               Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), Extreme
               Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE), Gamma Ray Observatory
               (GRO), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Landsat 4, 5
               & 7, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS),
               Earth Observing System-AM (EOS-AM), Titan IV Stage
 2288.500      Pegasus Launch Vehicle
 2289.600      Hyflex
 2292.037037   Pioneer 6, 7, 8, 10 & 11
 2292.407407   Pioneer 6, 7, 8, 10 & 11
 2293.148148   Ulysses
 2295.000      Galileo, Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM)
 2296.481481   Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM)
 2296.500      Galileo
 2297.900      Magellan
 2298.333333   Cassini
 2299.074074   Cassini
 2320.000      Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR)
 2401.220      OSCAR 17
 2401.500      UOSAT 2
 3840.000      Satcom C3
 3600.000      INMARSAT
 3737.500      TELECOM 2B
 4583.500      L-1011 aircraft video
 5400-5900     Space Shuttle
 5480.000      Hyflex
 5745.000      Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre-4
               (SPOT-4)
 5765.000      Delta II, Pegasus/L-1011 aircraft, Atlas Centaur
 8082.500      Landsat-7
 8150.000      Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)
 8212.500      Landsat-7
 8250.000      Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)
 8253.000      Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre-4
               (SPOT-4)
 8342.500      Landsat-7
 8350.000      Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)
 8253.000      SPOT-4
 8400-8440     Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
 8408.209876   Ulysses
 8415.000      Galileo, Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM)
 8417.680      Mars 1996 Mission
 8417.716      Mars Global Surveyor
 8417.716050   Mars Global Surveyor
 8420.400      Galileo
 8420.432097   Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM)
 8423.148147   Mars Global Surveyor
 8425.800      Magellan
 8427.222      Mars Pathfinder
 8427.222222   Cassini
 8429.938      Mars Pathfinder
 8429.938272   Cassini
 8474.660      Geotail
 8475.000      Midcou
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Posted on 30-03-2008
Filed Under (Frequency List) by Chuck

Radio Control Frequency List

27 MHz Frequency Band
Channel   Frequency
Number    (MHz)     Flag Color     Usage Restrictions

  1.      26.995     Brown          none
  2.      27.045     Red              none
  3.      27.095     Orange        none
  4.      27.145     Yellow          none
  5.      27.195     Green          none
  6.      27.255     Blue             Shared with CB Radios
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Posted on 22-03-2008
Filed Under (Antennas) by Chuck

Hy-Gain LP-1010 14 Element Log Periodic

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Commander Bill McArthur talking on 2 Meters

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Posted on 22-03-2008
Filed Under (Amateur Radio) by Chuck

APRSTV #3

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Posted on 22-03-2008
Filed Under (Shortwave) by Chuck
 Freq. Start Stop  Call  Pow  Azm   Target Zones          Days     Stdate Spdate
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 3185   0000 1300  WWRB  100   340  2-4,23,24             1234567   281007 300308
 3215   0000 0900  WWCR  100   46   4,9,27,37-39          1234567   281007 031107
 3215   0000 1000  WWCR  100   46   4,9,27,37-39          1234567   041107 301107
 3215   2200 0900  WWCR  100   46   4,9,27,37-39          1234567   100308 300308
 3215   2300 1000  WWCR  100   46   4,9,27,37-39          1234567   011207 090308
 5050   0000 0500  WWRB  100   0    2-4                   1234567   281007 300308
 5070   2100 1200  WWCR  100   40   4,9,27-29             1234567   100308 300308
 5070   2200 1300  WWCR  100   40   4,9,27-29             1234567   011207 090308
 5070   2200 1200  WWCR  100   40   4,9,27-29             1234567   281007 031107
 5070   2300 1300  WWCR  100   40   4,9,27-29             1234567   041107 301107
 5110   0000 2400  WBCQ  50    245  3-5,9-11              1234567   281007 300308
 5745   0000 0500  WWRB  100   150  11-13                 1234567   281007 300308
 5745   0500 0800  WYFR  100   44   27                    1234567   281007 300308
 5745   0800 1000  WYFR  100   160  14                    1234567   281007 300308
 5745   2000 2300  WYFR  100   44   27                    1234567   281007 300308
 5755   0000 1200  KAIJ  100   320  2,3,34,35,45          1234567   090308 300308
 5755   0000 1200  KAIJ  100   320  2,3,34,35,45          1234567   281007 041107
 5755   2200 1300  KAIJ  100   320  2,3,34,35,45          1234567   041107 090308
 5810   0000 0500  WEWN  500   20   4,5,9                 1234567   281007 300308
 5810   0000 0500  WEWN  500   285  10                    1234567   281007 300308
 5810   0500 0800  WEWN  500   40   27,28                 1234567   281007 300308
 5835   0100 0600  WHRI  250   315  2,3                   34567     281007 300308
 5835   0600 1100  WHRI  250   42   4,5,9,17,18,27        1234567   281007 300308
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Posted on 22-03-2008
Filed Under (Weather) by Chuck

FREQUENCIES OF INTEREST DURING HURRICANE SEASON REPRINTED FROM THE SALVATION ARMY TEAM EMERGENCY RADIO NETWORK NEWSLETTER

  • 3815 ANTIGUA/ANTILLES NET
  • 3815 INTER-ISLAND 75 METER NET (CONTINUOUS WATCH)
  • 3818 ANTILLES NET
  • 3915 SOUTH CAROLINA EMERGENCY NET
  • 4270 FAX PICTURES FROM CFH HALIFAX
  • 4426 USCG BROADCASTS FROM NMN PORTSMOUTH VA
  • 0400,0530,1000Z
  • 6330 FAX PICTURES FROM CFH HALIFAX
  • 6501 USCG BROADCASTS FROM NMN PORTSMOUTH VA
  • 0400,0530,1000,1130,1600Z
  • 6673 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 7165 ANTIGUA/ANTILLES NET
  • 7232 SOUTH CAROLINA EMERGENCY NET
  • 7243 SOUTH CAROLINA EMERGENCY NET
  • 8080 FAX PICTURES FROM NMN
  • 8764 USCG BROADCASTS FROM NMN PORTSMOUTH VA
  • 0400,0530,1000,1130,1600,1730,2200,2330
  • 8765 HEALTH AND WELFARE TRAFFIC
  • 8993 AIR FORCE AND COAST GUARD USB
  • 10536 FAX PICTURES FROM CFH HALIFAX
  • 11246 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 11249.5 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 11398 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 11425 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 13089 USCG BROADCASTS FROM NMN PORTSMOUTH VA
  • 1130,1600,1730,2200,2330
  • 13245 ANTIGUA/ANTILLES NET USB
  • 13354 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 13510 FAX PICTURES FROM CFH HALIFAX
  • 14150 AMATEUR NET
  • 14275 INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO NET / RED CROSS
  • 14283 CARIBUS NET
  • 14283 HEALTH AND WELFARE TRAFFIC
  • 14303 HEALTH AND WELFARE TRAFFIC
  • 17314 USCG BROADCASTS FROM NMN PORTSMOUTH VA, 1730Z
  • 14316 MARITIME MOBILE NET
  • 14325 HURRICANE WATCH NET (AMATEUR-TO-NATIONAL HURRICANE
  • CENTER)
  • 14375 AMATEUR NET
  • 18019 HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
  • 21310 HEALTH AND WELFARE IN SPANISH
  • AMATEUR EMERGENCY NETS IN HURRICANE AREAS:
  • REPRINTED FROM THE SALVATION ARMY TEAM EMERGENCY RADIO
  • NETWORK NEWSLETTER (JANUARY 1993) WITH ADDITIONS
  • ALABAMA 3695
  • ANTILLES 7165
  • SOUTHERN LA 7245
  • BAJA 7235
  • BELIZE 3935
  • BERMUDA 14275
  • CARIBBEAN EMERGENCY 14185
  • CARIBBEAN MARITIME MOBILE 7115; 1200Z
  • CARIBBEAN WX 3808; 1030Z
  • CALIFORNIA WX 3948; 1400Z
  • GEORGIA 3975
  • GULF COAST CENTRAL HURRICANE 3935; 7245
  • GULF COAST WESTERN HURRICANE 3845; 7260
  • GULF COAST OUTGOING ONLY 3967; 7283
  • GULF COAST HEALTH & WELFARE 3993; 7264
  • INTERAMERICAS H & W 21390
  • LAKE CHARLES LA 3993.5; 7264
  • LOUISIANA 14340; 1900Z
  • MANANA 7070
  • MEXICAN NATIONAL 3987.5
  • MISSISSIPPI ARES 3923; 3910
  • NORTH CAROLINA 3915
  • SOUTH CAROLINA 3915
  • SOUTH TEXAS EMERGENCY 3955; 7250
  • TEXAS TRAFFIC H & W 3691; 7290 DAY; 3910 NIGHT
  • TRANSATLANTIC MARITIME MOBILE 21400
  • WATERWAY 7268

WHENEVER A HURRICANE IS WITHIN 300 MILES OF LAND
IN THE NORTHERN WESTERN HEMISPHERE, THE HURRICANE
WATCH NET IS OPERATIONAL ON 14.325 MHz USB.
THE HURRICANE WATCH NET PROVIDES COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AND THE AFFECTED AREAS.

THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS BROADCASTS
STORM WARNINGS ON 2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, AND 20.0 MHz
A.M. AT 8 MINUTES PAST THE HOUR AND HALF-HOUR.

TOLL FREE COAST GUARD INFO LINE AT NMN PORTSMOUTH, VA:
(800)742-8519. THIS RINGS AT A WATCH OFFICER’S DESK!

REQUEST REVERSE-REPORT ANY CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS
FOR THIS LIST. ASMDCT/AAR1OT

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