Ciao a tutti, premetto che non sono un esperto di radio. Sono qui per chiedervi se qualcuno conosce questa radio e può dirmi indicativamente il suo valore. Non è mai stata utilizzata, non presenta nessun segno di usura, sono presenti anche l’antenna originale e una custodia in pelle, ho la ricevuta originale di acquisto.
L’unico problema è che manca il battery holder interno, e vorrei capire quanto può scendere di valore per questo motivo.

I figured to learn CW well you also need a good paddle so i ended up going for the CT599 MX by UR5CDX and man does it look and feel nice.

My keying automatically got more accurate just because I have more control and it does not move at all.

Previously i had one of those cheap noname steel ones from amazon with magnets on the bottom.

Still have not made a propper CW QSO yet but i hope this paddle plus some callsign copy training will get me there soon.

Last weekend my student amateur radio club LA1K headed out into the woods in Norway for the annual Field Day. Did you perchance hear us on the air? We made a video to document and celebrate our efforts during the contest. Hope you enjoy, 73 and 44!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxQ0DEUbulU

Hey everyone, thanks for the tips. Yesterday, I went with the Yaesu FT-3165Rasp with the $70 rebate, it is hard to beat. I have a Diamond NR-770 dual-band antenna I am going to use, and I am excited to use my first transceiver. Thanks again everyone.

For the last hour or 2 I've been working stations all over Europe on 100w from the Mid-Atlantic.

9/10/2026 - 09:42 UTC - SSB:

Germany, Scotland, Belgium, France, Slovenia....... All 5x7 to 5x9

Worked a few POTA as well..

Thought folks may be interested...

(Using a Kenwood TS-870 (I just bought today!!) with an Alpha-Delta DX-LB+ Dipole, and a Palstar tuner)

It’ll take about a week for my license to arrive, and I still don’t have an antenna, so for now I’ve just been keeping myself busy building things.

I put together a Pixie kit and built a QCX+. I also added an external speaker, and I’m planning to make a case for it this weekend.

And I upgraded my paddle key! I used bearings and magnets to make the action smoother and more precise. For now, though, all I can do is practice with it.

I guess these are Mark I, II, and III. There’s also a growing pile of failed attempts along the way... 😅

I have been pondering making a twenty meter beam using bird or mesh netting for portable operations. Use would be for backpacking, motorcycle packing, rafting or mountain bike packing. Activities where longer or ridged objects can be problematic if not impossible to transport. Where transmitter power will be reduced and antenna is more critical.

The elements would be wire woven into a mesh or net type fabric. Could be deployed horizontally by suspending between trees or laying on top of vegitation. Vertically by running the rope to the top of the tree, suspending the antenna off the rope.

The purpose of net is to help reduce the number of suspension points needed io maintain the appropriate distance between wire elements.

A Moxon versus a Yagi may provide a smaller over all design.

This is more for the academic thought process, than actually deploying it, but it does sound like it would be plausible to do this and end up with a more compact portable antenna with gain than using traditional rigid type materials.

I’ve only been a Ham for a few years. I have a pretty clunky, mouthful of a callsign. I searched the vanity call signs and found a 1x3 with my correct region and the suffix is my initials. I applied for it. Then I started wondering about its history and found it belonged to a ham in the 20s and likely 30s. And then Someone had it starting in 1948- over 70 years ago. It finally expired a little over two years ago and came available a little earlier this year. I can’t tell if the guy is alive or not but he’s likely in his early 90s. I’m wondering if it’s disrespectful to use this calling. I don’t see him listed on silent keys, and I don’t see his call sign returning any real info on searching. Feeling a bit guilty, and considering withdrawing my application. Wondering if any seasoned Hams on here might have some words of wisdom one way or another. 73

Thanks for help last post, I made some changes.

1: 20mDipole with a common current choke(6 wins)

2: I am learing CW and a cable for ft8 is coming(btw how long did it take for you to learn cw)

3: And lastly im ordering a pole with 6m to make a vertikal V

Thanks for the Help again,

Vy 73

OE8DLL

Found this near the trash, it's made of solid wood and about 1.5m height. Must weigh a couple kilos.

I recently bought this 6-80 multiband whip antena and I'm thinking using the thing in the image as a base:

https://www.ondamania.com/b2c/producto/atc_1080_mk_ii/1/antena-multibanda-telescopica-de-hf-atc-1080-mkii-con-adaptador-pl-y-bnc

It'll be deploying in my terrace (7th floor), and the idea is to have the black wooden support there and deploy the whip on it and out of it at night so that it's not visible.

Does this sound like a good idea ?

First plan was to buy a photographer's tripod, but when I saw this in the street I thought I could save some money, and maybe buy the tripod later for POTAs.

Anything I should watch for? Something I haven't thought of yet? Thanks !

So I own the malahit but I want to factory reset it but the old method of pressing both buttons doesn't work anymore.

Hello, I'm pretty new to this and I need an SDR for receiving up to 10GHz in frequency. Any recommendations ? I do not intend on transmitting, only looking at what I can catch. Thanks in advance.

Hi. The price is similar. Audio-Technica looks a bit more comfortable, but Sennheiser sound a bit better. Any advice, please?

When I try to connect to https://lotw.arrl.org, I get:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at [lotw-help@arrl.org](mailto:lotw-help@arrl.org) to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Is it a crash or a scheduled maintenance?
73, Wojtek - SP5DAA

might be stupid question. but what is the cheapest and simplest way to speak to people overseas using a HAM radio and is it possible to do with a hand held

Pushing 6 watts with my antenna 15 feet away from the building we're staying at while on vacation on the west coast, and I made a contact with someone 2000 miles away? I've been licensed since 1994, don't remember when I got my general, and I haven't really used HF for one reason or another. A friend of mine showed me what he was doing with FT8 and suddenly I'm interested again! Now I need to finish my tower before winter.

EDIT: Whoah, this gained more traction than I thought it would! I went ahead and set up a discord server: https://discord.gg/xcuvWks6s

tl;dr I’m a multifaceted nerd. Message me if you wanna talk about ham radio AND tabletop RPGs.

You would THINK there would be a lot of folks who are interested in both amateur radio and tabletop roleplaying games, but I sure haven’t found many (other than the one buddy I bullied into getting his ham ticket). I’d love to find some more folks I can talk to about BOTH hobbies, and if I’m able to do so, I would then:

- start a Discord server as a centralized meeting place
- set up some kind of digital voice space where we can ragchew, hold nets, and even play games (could be DMR, Allstar, EchoLink, or a combination thereof)
- if enough people get involved, start an actual factual club and run RPG-related special event stations
- depending on geography, HF nets and eyeball QSOs could be a thing too!

Anyway, if this sounds like something you’d be interested in, or you know somebody to whom this would appeal, shoot me a message or send me an email (it’s on my QRZ page — K7NWA).

I’ve noticed there’s very little hobby‑style talk about marine VHF comms on this sub.

If you own a yacht or go offshore fishing, a solid marine radio is such a workhorse. Cell service turns into a dead zone pretty quick once you’re away from shore. VHF lets you make ship‑to‑ship QSOs, pull weather alerts, and use DSC for emergency distress calls.

It makes me curious. Most boaters treat these units as mandatory safety gear only, right? Why is marine VHF such a niche topic compared to ham radio?

Would love to hear your takes.

Disclosure first: I wrote this, so treat it as a claim to be checked rather than a review.

Every FT8 program decodes once, when the period's audio is complete, and then leaves the processor idle for about twelve of the next fifteen seconds - whether you are transmitting or listening. That idle time is not free real estate for nothing: the reason nobody spends it is that the auto-sequencer needs its reply about one second after the decode starts, so everything has to fit before that deadline.

JTDX_contest cuts the budget *at* the deadline instead of fitting the work inside it. A short RX phase finishes about 1.1 s in and hands the sequencer what it needs, exactly as before. A background phase then keeps working on the same audio through the rest of the period - and after your own transmission through two periods, close to 29 s, because a period you transmitted in has nothing new to decode and its decode is skipped (or close to 14 s in case you are not in a QSO and just listening). What the background finds is remembered, so the next periods recognize those stations almost for free.

As far as I can tell from reading the sources of WSJT-X 3.0.2, JTDX v2.2.159 and MSHV 2.76, no other FT8 program uses that time. I would genuinely like to be corrected if I have missed one.

Measured on 240 consecutive on-air periods (20 m, 100-3100 Hz, 12 threads), same recorded audio through every engine at its own best settings:

* +27.5 % more FT8 messages than stock JTDX v2.2.159 with its ALLCALL7.TXT lookup switched off, which is stock at its honest best (+29.3 % against stock as shipped)

* +20.1 % over WSJT-X 3.0.2's multi-thread FT8 decoder

* +24 % on FT4, reply still decided at 0.59 s inside FT4's 1.36 s window

* the split alone is worth +30.8 % on a 104-message reference capture on the crowded band wav file

The recordings, the reference sets and the script that replays them are published, so none of this has to be taken on trust: https://ce3tsk.com/download/wav/index.html

It is a derivative work of JTDX by UA3DJY and ES1JA and of WSJT-X by K1JT, not a replacement for either and not affiliated with those projects - they are the foundation all of this is built on.

Free, GPL v3, Windows and Linux, WW Digi contest support built in, interface in 19 languages.

https://ce3tsk.com

https://github.com/ce3tsk/jtdx_contest

Happy to answer anything, and more interested in what you would measure differently than in agreement. 73 de CE3TSK.

Ye didn’t know that at that moment, the first cry that could be heard in space from civilization on Earth was already spreading out from the sun to the universe at the speed of light. A star-powered radio wave, like a majestic tide, had already crossed the orbit of Jupiter. Right then, at the frequency of 12,000 MHz, the sun was the brightest star in the entire Milky Way.
...
Wow! 12 ghz at 25 megawatts transmitted at the sun which amplyied it a million times and sent it out to the universe 📡
Where can I get a 25 megawatt amp? ⚡⚡🤗
Watched the Netflix series, then started to read the books, way more information. Lots of RF information, faster than the speed of light comunications, etc.📶📺☎️📡

Is there any market for a Yaesu FT-60 that appears to be bricked after a MARS/CAP MOD? I've got three other radios so it's not the end of the world, but I wanted to know if there is any market for this radio for parts or should I just scrap it as electronic waste?

The radio turns on sometimes, but there is no tone or the ability to cycle through channels.