Here’s my decodes from the 12/27/21/ 09:51 ISS 60 degree highest elevation pass:
ISS SSTV decodes from 12/27/21/ 09:51 60 degree highest elevation
20m HF packet stations heard 11/3/21
I’ve played with VHF packet quite a bit but never experimented with HF packet. As an experiment I decided to start up my HF radio today and tune to 14.105 LSB with the UZ7HO software packet modem and leave it running during the day to see what I could hear and decode.
Turns out there were a bunch of stations, mostly sending beacons, but I also caught one side of a packet QSO. Here’s a list of the stations/packets I heard during the day:
1:Fm KE0GB-7 To ID [09:33:33R] [+++]
COSCO:KE0GB-7, Colorado Springs Area BPQ Packet Node
1:Fm KB9KC To BEACON [09:41:00R] [–+]
Ken Carterville, IL
1:Fm KI0ID To BEACON Via DRLNOD,N0HI-2 [09:47:06R] [+++]
KI0ID/B
1:Fm KE0GB-1 To MAIL Via KB9KC-7 [10:24:05R] [+++]
Mail for: K8BZ
1:Fm VE3PZ To KB9PVH [11:04:03R] [+++]
is kind of on a high ground and
1:Fm VE3PZ To KB9PVH [11:04:14R] [+++]
I think we are probably equal
1:Fm N0HI-7 To ID Via KB9KC-7 [12:32:35R] [-++]
N0HI-7 LinBPQ Switch on Raspberry Pi4
1:Fm K0RCW To ID Via DRLNOD,N0HI-2,KB9KC [17:25:19R] [++-]
K0RCW Robert’s Packet Station in Lakewood, CO
Working JA Stations on FT8 – late evening 20m
While sitting at my radio desk and checking in on my RCARCS weekly 2m net, I fired up my HF radio and noticed at 7:30pm on 20m it sounded like there was a bunch of JT8 signals, so started up WSJT-X to take a look:
First up I noticed call sign 8J3ZNJ which is an unusual prefix I haven’t seen before, turns out this is a 50th Anniversary special event station for a Japanese ham radio club,
Calling CQ a couple of times I then picked up contacts with 3 other Japan stations. Not bad for some casual spur of the moment FT8 operation!
Packet Radio: ax25 node logon message: updating for a cleaner menu
After logging on to an ax25 node, you’re shown a message like this:
DAVBBS:KK6DCT-6 Welcome to KK6DCT-6 network node Type ? for a list of commands. help <commandname> gives a description of the named command. -- @kk6dct-6 20:52:01>
This is what is shown by my node that I’m currently setting up. I’d like to show a list of the apps I currently have configured. You can see the configured commands by entering a ? as the message tells you, but the formatting is not ideal, especially as I’m adding more apps and this list is getting cluttered. This is what the ‘?’ command shows for my currently configured apps:
@kk6dct-6 20:52:01> ? DAVBBS:KK6DCT-6 Commands: ?, Advent, Bye, Connect, Escape, Finger, Help, HItchhikers, HOst Info, Links, Mheard, NLinks, Nodes, PIng, Ports, Routes, Status TAlk, Telnet, TIme, Users, W1-WeatherDavisCA, W2-Weather5DaysDavisCA W3-WeatherForCity, W4-Weather5DaysForCity, Z1-Zork1, Z2-Zork2 Z3-Zork3, ZConnect, ZTelnet
When you logon, the first part of the welcome message that’s displayed is configured in /etc/ax25/node.motd (message of the day). Editing this file I can now more cleanly format the menu (and I might come back and change some of the names of the apps to make the menu options clearer later) :
DAVBBS:KK6DCT-6 Welcome to KK6DCT-6 network node W1 - Weather in Davis, CA W2 - 5 day weather forecast: Davis, CA W3 - Weather in specified city W4 - 5 day weather forecast for specified city Advent - Adventure / Colossal Cove Z1 - Zork I Z2 - Zork II Z3 - Zork III Type ? for a list of commands. help <commandname> gives a description of the named command. --
Much better!