Updated Cottage Kitchen Cabinets

Will start painting the cabinets Monday. Will refinish the top after painting. Maybe two weeks I'll be done!

Operating Split

 

Control Position 2011 March 23

FT-2000 Menu Control

 

SDR at The Cottage

SDR Up-Close and Personal

I'm so sorry but my fingers just aren't that small!	Just wanted to be sure you really understood the scale. And by the way, the numbers are not inches!

SDR

Single Ground Point

W8JI at The Cottage

Power Pole Arcing

Alabama Power came out to the house today to locate the source of the broad
banded "frying noise" I hear. The rep began with a receiver and yagi antenna
in an effort to narrow down the source. Once it was determined to be "close", she
began to "listen" to each pole with her parabolic mic. The following picture shows
the location of the arcing on the pole right outside the shack!

Click on the video below the picture to hear the arcing on the pole as detected
by their parabolic mic.

The video camera was unable to focus. However, you can hear the sound of the arcing as picked up

by the parabolic mic and you can see the red light come on signaling the sound of the arcing.

HTTP://W4UOA.BLOGSPOT.COM Usage Map

The Rendezvous and Comfort Station

Coosa County

W8JI SWR

LDG tuner was set to Bypass and FT-2000 tuner was off.

New Stat Counter

You may have noticed a new stat counter on the top right side of the blog. Implemented today, February 14, 2011, it will begin to track all hits on the site and provide interesting statistical detailed. Feel free to click on the View my Stats link see see details.

Portable Rotatable Dipole

1. Attach (screw in to the opposing connectors) two hamsticks (choose your band).
This would be the connectors at the upper left and lower right.
2. Connect your coax to the connector on the bottom left.
3. Clamp the fixture to a solid 20' long 1" fiberglass pole.
4. Strap the pole to the corner post of your deck or other secure vertical structure.
A rotor would be a nice twist (no pun intended).

The mount opposing the coax connector is insulated from the fixture itself.
The fixture is common only to the antenna connector shown at the top left.

Would this antenna perform better when pointed to the west than working off
the end of an east-west oriented 1/2 wave dipole?

Is this Jack's new interface?

Morning snow in Tuscaloosa

 
 
 
 

Winter Snow

 

Working with TRX-Manager

Left monitor shows Mentone TRX-Manager. Chat room was launched from Tuscaloosa.
Right monitor is from Tuscaloosa. Working up setup to use TRX-Manager as control program.
Notice the CW window on the Mentone machine. Remote CW works GREAT!

Dual Monitor Shot

Note the CPU utilization!

Stressing Connectnow and DSL

Shop operating postion

Trans-Oceanic Schematic

See Tuner Jack

Trans-Oceamic

Operating position this morning

Phil with Audio Boost

SDR Dark Skin

Phil on Jack's SDR

Springfield Operating Position

Klaus and Renate in New Zealand

Klaus is one of the wonderful people I met in my 33+ years at The University of Alabama. As a senior analyst at the Vienna, Austria, Institute for Advanced Studies, Klaus designed and coded a computer application (IAS, Interactive Analysis System) for managing and solving systems of simultaneous equation. Klaus visited the University and he and I worked with Nobel laureate Dr. Lawrence Klein at the UN to demonstrate the potential of IAS as an application to support Dr. Klein's global econometric model.

Klaus and Renate are celebrating their 33 years together by circumnavigating the good planet earth!

Way to go Renate and Klaus! Have a wonderful time!

Coffee Roundtable