[aklug] Re: Hams?

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On 09/30/2011 04:12 AM, Darren Coolidge wrote:
> Reading about Morse clicked for some odd reason. I ran into this pic a while
> back... http://i.imgur.com/vvEsG.jpg
> On Sep 29, 2011 8:20 PM, "Jim Courtney"<courtney@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> It's a good bet what the old-timer wants is access to the HF bands. A
> friend of mine in San Diego has a newer Ten-Tec radio that has an
> ethernet interface and a (Windows) client program. He gave me a login so
> I could try it out. I tuned my radio downstairs to something like
> 14.010MHz and turned up the volume. I went back upstairs, tuned the
> Ten-Tec client program (running under VirtualBox) for 14.010MHz, set the
> mode for CW, and typed on the keyboard. I could hear the faint morse
> code coming up from San Diego on the radio, delayed by a fraction of a
> second. I tried it in the other direction with equal success.
>
> I once heard about a ham radio club that has a station in Hawaii that is
> built with remote operation in mind, with the members scattered around
> the country. I looked but couldn't find any info about it.
>
> Alternatively - people can get very creative stringing antennas up
> inside small residential units. People sometimes connect their 100W
> radios to rain gutters, bed springs, etc. Not ideal, but probably more
> fun than using someone else's radio over the internet. The newer HF
> radios, power supplies, and antenna tuners are so small that smuggling
> them in and using them should not be a problem.
>
>
>
> On 09/28/2011 08:19 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>> * Christopher Howard<christopher.howard@frigidcode.co...
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Received on Fri Sep 30 07:12:38 2011