[Nashua Area Radio Society]

Thanks Craig!

This information is still relevant this year.  New Post with 2022 details to follow soon.

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Would you be interested in buying my old Versa Tuner II??

 

-Spencer

W2SW

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Hi Bammi,

Thanks for sharing this with the club.  It looks like lots of fun and is something that all licensed hams can do.  I will mention it in our upcoming Membership Meeting on January 4th.  I hope our members will join in and give it a try.

Thanks,

Jon AC1EV

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Hi Fred,

I’m looking forward to talking about my most recent project, putting up a new 8 band Buckmaster OCFD at my NH QTH.

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Thanks for the heads-up on this event. Looks like it will be fun.

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Hello Hamilton,

I’ll also be interested to hear any recommended solutions to this problem.

I’m experiencing a similar problem when I switch between my Yeasu FTM300 running Wires-X & IC-7300 with DXlabs/WSJ-T/GridTracker. Everything is connected to my Win10 computer.

Ryan

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I ran across this article on grounding and bonding last week as I was searching the net for information on article 810 in the NEC. It might be helpful to some folks.

https://pslara.org/docs/2.D.pdf

 

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Hi Hamilton

Thanks for your response. I did see that post last week. That’s what prompted me to review my ground connections. We’re also starting to get low humidity static in the house now that we’re doing more heating. It’s time to get the humidifier running.

Last night I took this laptop apart far enough to discover an unused threaded stud on the ground plane. It must be there for service purposes. I made a slight modification to the case so that I could install a 1/2″ x 4″ copper strip that now comes out the back where I attached a stranded 12 gauge ground wire. It is connected to my common radio ground.

In the past I have metered my USB cables, and like you, found all sorts of low cost issues. Of course, some were only intended for charging, not data. But some are shielded, some are not. I marked all of the good data ones.

I had also looked into USB isolators (mainly low cost ones), but quite a few reviews reported issues with them. I did see devices that use the external 15-pin display housing on a laptop for a ground connection. But that doesn’t seem any better than relying solely on the USB ground.

I’m a believer in surge protectors, especially if they are replaced every few years. Most have no indication they have sacrificed themselves to a surge and no longer offer any protection. When I upgraded my main panel to 200 amps this past spring, I did install a whole house surge protector. But it won’t protect forever, either.

Marv – KC1LML

 

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Do you use gridtracker? I mute my alerts or else I’ll hear “wanted call” or another alert over the radio speaker. Nothing going out over the air, but the sound card pumps PC audio through the radio speaker sometimes.

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I, too, have been hearing voices every now and then on FT8. It happens when I least expect it, so it has been hard to catch what it is saying. But today I definitely heard “You’ve got mail”, and it came through my radio speaker.

My email program doesn’t say anything, and besides, it wasn’t open. In fact I didn’t have any programs running at that moment, not even WSJT-X.

I’m convinced the voice came in on someone’s FT8 transmission. I suspect there are some operators out there who don’t have their sound cards set up properly on their computer or maybe a software update changed them back to a default setting.

The instructions that came with my SignaLink USB went through the process of configuring a computer so that “system” sounds go through a computer’s normal sound devices and not through the SignaLink where they will be transmitted out to the world.

 

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