User:TheAnarcat

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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

  . <!> 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)

I uploaded a few photos in this album.

New quad antenna project

A sketch of my antenna

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$ check canadian tire?
hose clamps 8 home depot ~15$ unit price ~2$
1"x½" copper pipe 8 home depot ~5$ for spreader/wire attachment
8"x½" plastic tube 1 home depot ~2$ for spreader/wire attachment
8m ½"PVC 4 home depot ? 3/4" en stock
4m 1"PVC 1 home depot ? 1" en stock
plywood 3'x2' home depot 5$? 1' x 2' used for the beam/pole fitting
U clamps and bolts 4 home depot ? for the beam/pole fitting
tripod 1 addison 40$ ~2' x 2'
sandbags 3 home depot 30$? one per leg
5-way 1"PVC conn. 2 creativeshelters.com 3.08$ phase 2
15' 1" fiberglass 8 mgs4u.com ~160$ phase 2, unit price 17.10$ - use the type 1L because the type 1 doesn't fit in the 5-way PVC connector
3m steel pole 1 downstairs? 0$? to connect the beam and tripod

Total price: ~280$

Références

Je collecte ici des bons sites au sujet du ham radio.

Software

This needs to be merged into Software

  xplanet -latitude 45.5 -longitude -73.66 -wait 60 -label -projection azimuthal -fork -radius 90
  ibp FN35EM

... others to follow, there's a whole hamradio section in debian.

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