How I Used To Do It Condenser Mic XLR-XLR Cable Mixer with Phantom Power Input gain setting Compression setting (usually 0) 3-band EQ (usually flat) FX Send knob (half-way) FX out 1/4” “Left” plug 1/8” stereo “Left” connection FTdx3000 “Line” jack (3-cond mini handles line in & out) How I Do It Now Condenser Mic… Continue reading Simpler Mic Audio Path
Category: Ham Radio
What To Do For 160 Meters?
Even if I could put supports up high enough on the furthest four corners of my lot (and I don’t think I could), the entire perimeter of the lot does not amount to 160 meters, so there isn’t room for a full wave horizontal loop. If I simply used the furthest-out trees that are tall… Continue reading What To Do For 160 Meters?
Bencher Keyer Does Double Duty
I had thought it’d make sense for a keyer plugged into a modern HF transceiver to be able to function as a PTT switch when using the radio in a voice mode. I searched through the radio’s enormous menu, but found nothing. Then I thought, “What if I just wired it up to both jacks?”… Continue reading Bencher Keyer Does Double Duty
13 Colonies
…is a Ham Radio Special Event running all this week. I forgot that it started before the 4th, so I wasn’t paying attention until today. Derp. One of the things I’d noticed during and just after Field Day is that although my long-wire antenna should tune up well on 80-meters (it’s more than long enough, and… Continue reading 13 Colonies
Field Day 2019 – Follow-Up
I did not do great in the contest, from a points perspective. It will be very easy to improve upon, especially as my CQ-ear tunes in further. But – Field Day is only somewhat of a contest. Depending on whom you ask (or watch, or operate with), it might be slightly more, or significantly more,… Continue reading Field Day 2019 – Follow-Up
Field Day Station Setup About Dialed In
Video Station Tour I’d seen many mentions in many forums/groups/etc. of people using Serial Port sharing, splitting, virtualization, or whatever. I tried to do the things they were doing, using the software packages they were using, and I couldn’t get it to work. Repeatedly failed. Quite frustrating. Then, whilst a-googling the interwebs, I found some… Continue reading Field Day Station Setup About Dialed In
Another Weekend, Another Contest
I didn’t even look online at first. I just turned on the radio, because based upon past experience, if there’s no CW contest active, the bands will be dead quiet, aside from the typical QRM, because, as you know, the sun-spot cycle is set to crappy propagation mode. Lo and behold, turned on the radio,… Continue reading Another Weekend, Another Contest
How About log4om?
Had experimented quite a bit with N1MM’s super big contesting logger, which I believe I will still be using for Field Day next month. But I still wanted to find something that… integrates with fldigi (and a couple other digital-mode programs I’d want to use) is designed for regular day-to-day (i.e. non-contest) logging is good… Continue reading How About log4om?
Dipped My Toe Into CW Contesting
For a long while, N1MM seems to have been the standard for contest logging software. I’m not absolutely sure, but I think it may have been what the Twin Cities Repeater Club used for Field Day way back in the ’90s when I would participate at their Field Day event, the last full weekend (of rain)… Continue reading Dipped My Toe Into CW Contesting
Dits and Dahs and Ants in my Pants
In the previous post, should you have been so unfortunate as to have read it, you saw that I had gotten a Bencher BY-2 Chrome Iambic Paddle set. Very exciting. …to a very niche market, of which I am a member. Way back in the early days of my Ham Radio avocation, most of the… Continue reading Dits and Dahs and Ants in my Pants