{"id":98,"date":"2022-10-21T00:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2022-10-21T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:24:56","slug":"fall-2022-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2022 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I took another hiatus from ham radio but fired things up again recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I keep spending money on equipment that I don’t use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m trying to muster up the interest in 2m\/440, but I just can’t seem to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve checked into a few local nets, but I don’t have much to share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m looking at winlink and Vara FM but haven’t made a move on this front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still trying to get some HF CW going… I can call CQ for 5 min straight and never get a reply. But jump on FT8, and I’m working the world, literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10m has been on fire lately. I’ve heard a lot of SSB voice comms but only managed a few short QSOs with people in the US. Finally had someone come back to me on a CW CQ last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, FT4 and FT8 is hitting Japan like magic in the late afternoons. Along with Hungary, Brazil, Russia, and Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My antenna situation is still marginal. I’m starting to think my 10m vertical is garbage. I can switch between my homemade dipole and my pro 10m vertical, and the signals are always better on the dipole. I strung up another dipole with a north-south orientation and connected it to my little Xiegu G90 but haven’t tried it yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought a mobile rig to put in the car, a poor choice impulse buy of a TYT TH-9800D quad-band (10\/6\/2\/70cm) FM rig. Honestly, I’m not sure what value 10m and 6m have when they can only work in FM mode. I put a magnount on the car but haven’t permanently installed the rig as I’m just not sure where to put it or how to pull the power through the firewall without making a mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still haven’t tested out the two RadioShack 10m rigs I bought on eBay like 2 years ago. An HTX-10 and an HTX-100. The HTX-100 might be fun to take mobile to do some CW or SSB work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took another hiatus from ham radio but fired things up again recently. I keep spending money on equipment that I don’t use. I’m trying to muster up the interest …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","anons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}