User:TheAnarcat
I am anarcat and i hope i'm not screwing things up here too much. :)
I just passed my basic qualitification in Canada, with honors (so I can operate HF), yay! I am now AKA VA2ANK. -- TheAnarcat 21:50, 10 October 2010 (CDT)
My rig
- Transceiver:
- Yaesu FT-100D - 499$ on ebay
. <!> worried about power supplies and "no returns" policy of this vendor... . (!) should be shipped between oct 14 and 20th . actual price: ~570$ (to be verified)
- Antennas and gizmos:
- MFJ-941E - antenna tuner and switch 155$ at radioworld
- MAP-G5RV 1/2 - G5RV 50' dipole antenna (10-40m) 85$ at radioworld
- J146/440 - dual band VHF/UHF antenna (2m-70cm) 40$ at radioworld /!\ backorder
- 100' of RG8 coax cabling 65$ at radioworld
- MFJ-260C - 300W dummy load 0-150Mhz dry 50$ at radiowrodl
- 3 PL259 connectors 4$ at radioworld
- Total, incl. shipping: 452.35$
- Ferrites: ~40$ + 24$ customs fees
- Total rig cost so far: 1046.70$
New quad antenna project
I am working on building a new antenna, pictured right. It is based on this design, which uses a mix of PVC pipes and fiberglass rods, except I adapt it to a 20m antenna.
Here's my parts list.
| Part | Amount | Where | Price | Notes |
| AUG 12 copper wire | 40m | Addison | 29.32$ | confirmed |
| hose clamps | 8 | home depot | ~15$ | unit price ~2$ |
| 1"x½" copper pipe | 8 | home depot | ~5$ | |
| 8"x½" plastic tube | 1 | home depot | ~2$ | |
| 8m ½"PVC | 4 | home depot | ? | 3/4" en stock |
| 4m 1"PVC | 1 | home depot | ? | 1" en stock |
| U clamps and bolts | 4 | home depot | ? | |
| tripod | 1 | addison | 40$ | ~2' x 2' |
| sandbags | 3 | home depot | 30$? | |
| plywood | 3'x2' | home depot | 5$? | 1' x 2' used for the beam/pole fitting |
| 5-way 1"PVC conn. | 2 | creativeshelters.com | 3.08$ | phase 2 |
| 15' 1" fiberglass | 8 | mgs4u.com | ~160$ | phase 2, unit price 19.80$ |
Total price: ~250$
Pictures
I uploaded a few photos in this album.
Références
Je collecte ici des bons sites au sujet du ham radio.
- Manuals, courses
- Good overview
- Emergencyradio.ca online course
- tech manual
- HAM Radio primer - un peu vieux (14 ans!) dit que son kit a coûté 1000$
- Hardware
- hardware guide - motorola
- Exams
- Clubs
- Montreal Amateur Radio Club - Dorval est. 1932, mostly english and west-island-ish
- Rive sud
- Radio Amateur Canada
- Other documentation
- IRLP - Internet Radio Linking Project - using the internet to link stations
- Call sign lookup
- Available call signs in Canada
- US Ham bands
- Wikipedia:Family_Radio_Service - intéressant pour commencer, comme le CB mais plus puissant et sans interférence, pas cher, j'ai acheté un cobra FRS
Software
This needs to be merged into Software
- the oracles
- http://packages.debian.org/gpredict
- http://packages.debian.org/minimuf - allows you to compute the WikiPedia:MUF depending on salar activity and so on, but has an unusuable interface (you need to enter a series of digits... how about a GUI?!)
- http://packages.debian.org/gcb - calculates the right angle for your antenna
- http://packages.debian.org/xplanet - can show azimuthal projections of the earth on your background, screensaver or window - I use this in myxsession:
xplanet -latitude 45.5 -longitude -73.66 -wait 60 -label -projection azimuthal -fork -radius 90
- testing tools
- http://packages.debian.org/ibp - very useful for training to receive distant comms: show you which beacon is active when, with a map
ibp FN35EM
- packet:
- http://packages.debian.org/gmfsk - for packet radio
- http://packages.debian.org/fldigi - also looks interesting and fairly complete, not tested
- http://packages.debian.org/gpsk31, DebianPackage:linpsk, DebianPackage:phaseshift - same?
- http://packages.debian.org/fbb - mailboxes?
- to be tested:
- dismissed:
- http://packages.debian.org/predict and http://packages.debian.org/predict-gsat - console only, doesn't bring much the gorgeous visuals of DebianPackage:gpredict
... others to follow, there's a whole hamradio section in debian.
Stuff to buy next
- Another HF radio?
- Call those guys?