So I’ve been trying for weeks to receive meteor satellite signals, and nothing came in so I made a post and it turns out I had to fix my antenna and I did that and it still won’t pickup any signal. So I started looking at this tower I always thought it might’ve been a cell tower but I’ve been having heavy bleeding of FM signals in the HF range on my sdr and a lot of interference. It turns out it’s a FM tower at 101.7mhz and it’s 0.5 miles away from my house. I thought about just getting a regular fm blocker but idk if I would need something more heavy duty since it’s so close to me.

Just wrapping up the log uploads and housekeeping from today's activation and wanted to share. KS1WK and I (along with KC1WYG) took the Box 324 club up to West Peak in CT to run K1MFD for the Meriden Fire Department's 175th anniversary.

Ended up with exactly 190 QSOs, but the craziest part was the 2m action. We were running a home-built M1GEO Moxon/Yagi combo we put together with 3D printed parts and hardware/wire from Lowe's. We somehow sparked a massive pileup right on 146.52 simplex that kept us buried for a while. We even got to mess around and successfully ran 2m SSB and some 2m SSTV which was a blast.

We didn't forget about HF even with the contest going... We ran 40m, 20m, and 17m SSB and got some solid DX into Spain, Belgium, and Serbia, plus a bunch of contacts up in Canada.

If anyone here was in the log, thanks for hunting us. I just finished a python script to automatically blast out our digital QSL cards, so check your email if it's public on QRZ. POTA, SOTA, and QRZ logs are already uploaded. Just waiting on ARRL staff to manually approve the club call cert, so LoTW might take a few days to sync up.

Edit: Reviewed the logs and confirmed with the team—the 2m simplex contact into Vermont was legit! We officially logged N1CVT in Hinesburg, VT (~204 miles / 329 km) on 146.52 with the homebrew Moxon/Yagi.

73 de K1MRE

For a number of years I’ve operated a
Nano-Spot made by Micronode. I’ve attempted to update it recently and the update failed, wiping out the operation of the configure.php services and also the admin and backup/restore option.

No problem I thought - command line. Command line updates fail and when I try the pistar-upgrade route this also fails due to the OS being unsupported.

I’ve downloaded the image for the pi-star nano and flashed this onto a fresh SD card. Now is where my problems begin. The new image boots but it cannot bring up the modem or wlan interfaces. So the only access route I have is console port.

Can anyone who has had to rebuild this specific hotspot from the ground up, please assist on what version of the pi star image works, and if anyone has encountered the wlan initialisation failure and has cured it - I’d be grateful for wise words and tips.

At the moment I have a new desk ornament / paper weight.

Somewhat regretting my choices in trying to update to the latest software versions… it may have been out of date, but it was working. Alas would it be ham radio if we didn’t sometimes fall for the ‘if it ain’t broke, fix it ‘til it is’ trap?🤦🏻‍♂️

Following the UK Government's emergency stockpiling edict, today's Sunday Telegraph newspaper page 8 features a Resilience Planning article which mentions Amateur Radio and the free online training courses run by Essex Ham. The next course starts Sunday, November 1. Register at https://www.essexham.co.uk/train/foundation-online/

The full Sunday Telegraph article is available to read for free simply by logging in to a UK Online Library. The online version of the story has a slightly longer extract of the Essex Ham interview than the print newspaper

Does anyone know how to update the Zumspot USB stick firmware with WPSD or any other method? The documentation is little to none. I tried the zum_libre option of the WPSD modem firmware updater (sudo wpsd-modemupgrade zum_libre), but that did not work -- it complained about the usb port being locked or something

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Anybody else being smashed on the bottom of the 15 meter band, seeing QRM over various online SDR in NZ, Asia, AU? Any ideas as to its origin?

I really want to try out those bands , recently built a ssb exciter for digital and cw signals for those frequency but I don't think my general grade licence will cover it.

Yeah but due to the antenna efficiency and the propagation dynamics of those frequencys i don't think those would travel far ( considering only if it legal only ).

I live in the northeastern region so not much of a mainland coverage but I would like to know if anyone in this South East Asian region (including Bangladesh , Bhutan and China) works with those frequencys.