{"id":3862,"date":"2015-06-30T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2015-06-30T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:27:03","slug":"amateur-radio-thoughts-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Radio thoughts 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"W5EHS<\/a>

W5EHS amateur radio station operator position<\/p><\/div>\n

Local ham radio friends have been stirring the embers of previously low fire ham radio interests. I am still active running a digital mode called PSK31 on the short wave bands but otherwise not as extremely active as I once have been. It\u2019s mostly because of my many other interests.<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t time for all my interests when I was working 12 hour work days. I did enjoy a night\u2019s sleep when I could work it in\u2026 Now I have more time in the daylight hours.<\/p>\n

I have already started doing more wood working which suffered from the same time limitations. I can also be more active in my radio interests.<\/p>\n

I am pondering or is it contemplating where my interests really lie within amateur radio these days. It\u2019s not all just operating a purchased radio appliance. There is a very technical side to amateur radio that we as Hams are encourage to experiment with and explore.<\/p>\n

All my interests in life have fallen or at least leaned to the technical side. That\u2019s what makes me more of an engineer than an operator.<\/p>\n

I have the basic station equipment and can run any standard and digital mode from 160 meters through 6 meters. I also can operate FM on 2 meters and 60 cm. What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

The above is just a scratch on the surface of radio wave communication. Like I said, operation is not the whole enchilada. I live in Texas so I can say that. I do need to get dust webs blown off my station call W5EHS (Easily Heard Signals).<\/p>\n

A few years ago I took a serious look at microwave communications. I bought a 10 meter transceiver for base unit for up\/down converting to microwave frequencies. I like the thought of experimenting with the hardware design of feed horns, wave guides and dish antennas. There is a microwave club in the Dallas area, North Texas Microwave Society (NTMS)<\/a> but I didn\u2019t approach them at the time. My thought is there does need to be some\u00a0partners involved as almost all operation is planned. I have seen contests where CQ (general) operation is possible but microwave\u00a0isn\u2019t a sit down a night and turn on the rig situation.<\/p>\n

No road map in my mind yet. Just casting about to see what bites. No doubt\u00a0I will be playing with hardware and software of some type. I have time to do some reading and dreaming. I\u2019ll dig out the microwave stuff again and have another look. Though the new hot interest just published in QST (magazine)<\/a> this month is the super LOW frequencies. Another whole new area to explore in radio.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to have options…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local ham radio friends have been stirring the embers of previously low fire ham radio interests. I am still active running a digital mode called PSK31 on the short wave bands but otherwise not as extremely active as I once have been. It\u2019s mostly because of my many other interests. There wasn\u2019t time for all my interests when I was working 12 hour work days. I did enjoy a night\u2019s sleep when I could work...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93],"tags":[43,16,42],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","category-hobbies","tag-amateur","tag-hobby","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}