2008 CQ World Wide Amateur Radio Contest

Posted on December 19th, 2008

I managed to get some of the World Wide CQ Contest on video later on in the Contest. Watch the video to see for yourself the splatter and pile ups at my QTH using my Yaesu FT-767GX, Delta Loop, G5RV and Hustler Vertical.

Tags: 2008, 2e0hts, amateur, Contest, CQ, CQing, DX, FT-767GX, ham, hf, radio, Wide, Word, WW, Yaesu
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Amateur Radio SSTV (Slow Scan TV)

Posted on December 10th, 2008

http://www.kernowradio.info

Slow Scan TV using my Yaesu FT-847 on 14.230Mhz (20 Metre Band)

Although we can now send pictures via e-mail,
What Fun it is to send and receive them via Radio with the Only thing between you and the other person is the Air we breath!!
SSTV is a method of Sending and Receiving Pictures via Radio.

The Pictures I received was from a Radio Amateur in Spain Call sign EA5FO,
He was making a general CQ call for another Amateur to contact him and exchange pictures.

The Pc is used to decode the signal and display the picture in the software,
Slow Scan software used was MMSSTV.

All I used for this was my Pc mic that I put on top of my Radio speaker and my Pc with the MMSSTV Software and of course my Yaesu FT-847
My Method of using SSTV is not the Norm!
You would normaly have an Interface between the Radio and the PC, Not using a Pc mic on top of the Radio speaker as I did
MMSSTV http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/

Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television

Tags: amateur, FT-847, ham, hf, radio, Scan, science, Slow, SSTV, Technology, tv, Yaesu
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Amateur Radio On HF

Posted on October 13th, 2008

This is my radio shack on hf

Tags: amateur, antenna, ham, hf, radio, shack
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