Name: | david |
QTH: | Beauty Point |
Country: | Australia |
Grid: | QE38JU |
Web: | www.lovelands-shetlands.com… |
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ITU: | 59 |
CQ: | 30 |
IOTA: | OC-006 |
***** PLEASE ****** ALL QSLing is via my manager, Bob, N2OO so PLEASE go and look at his QRZ page now, to see what his requirements are BEFORE you send him anything. ***************************
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Located about 20 minutes east of Launceston in north east Tasmania, the island located just below mainland Australia (OC-006).
The latest addition to the shack ....
Current equipment is: Icom 756ProIII running into a ZS6BKW (the computer enhanced G5RV) up about 100 feet strung between some trees. The ZS6BKW runs east ⇒ west so there is some directionality.
There is also a Mosely 3 element beam on top of a 2 section tower that seems to work quite well too - so all is good 8^)
I Use a Tigertronics SignaLink for digital modes (my current passion).
You will most likely find me on FT8, JT65 or JT9 on 40m - 10m (mostly 40m and 20m) where I use WSJT-X2 and JTALERT3 (JTALERT is a great addition to WSJT-X and if you haven't tried it - then you really should! Lots and lots of nice additional features for you to play with). Power out is usually 40 watts with the occasional "splurge" upto 60 watts for a special contact. Figure if I can't make the contact with 60 watts then bad luck to me.
I am currently swapping between WSJT-X and JTDX1 software, for no other reason than I can. Both have there plus's and minus's ... I duuno - maybe I'm just wishy-washy and can't make up my mind. Once I got past the different user interface JTDX is easy enough to use. JTDX appears, to me anyway, to decode slightly better than WSJT-X. That is not to say it does, just it appears that way to me. I also seem to have less Omnirig errors using JTDX than I did when using WSJT-X. Again, others may disagree, but .... that's the joys of ham radio :-) And before you ask why Omnirig - well I am damned if I can get Hamlib to work any more than a few minutes before throwing up the blue screen of death. Seems there is something in my setup that disagrees with Hamlib - so its Omnirig for me :)
You will also find me occasionally "fiddling" with Fldigi and it's various modes too.
My logger of choice is Log4OM4 which works nicely with the above 3 programs.
QSL via :
eQSL.cc (automatically)
LOTW - (automatically)
HRDLog.net (automatically)
Bureau - see N2OO for bureau instructions
Direct - - see N2OO for direct instructions
Other interests include motorcycles - I have a Yamaha 1600 Road Star that I don't ride anywhere near enough because .. well .. no real excuse - just slack :)
Latest involvement is with horse and carriages - well pony and carriage to be precise. We have a shetland pony and a little jog cart that we go wandering around the grounds of a local historical house with ... quite enjoyable pastime ...
1 Download JTDX here
2 Download WSJT-X here
3 Download JT-Alert here
4 Download Log4OM here
Thanks for looking,
Cheers
David
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