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Originally Posted By Nmbmxer: I think what happened is it was on and initialized, then I could turn it off and then back on again. If it was off and I restarted FLRIG it wouldn't start. I don't recall having to do any of this with the other computer; it just worked idk. View Quote Interesting, I had no idea that CI-V command is supported. I do know what the issue is, though, after writing a quick python program to control it. It's more a "sleep" command than a "power off" command. You need to turn the radio on manually, then issue the "off" command. It does turn the transceiver off, but keeps the USB port alive. With the port alive the "on" command can be sent and will be correctly recognized and executed. So basically it's a sequencing thing that only has to be done once until something upsets the USB port status on the 7300. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: It's more a "sleep" command than a "power off" command. You need to turn the radio on manually, then issue the "off" command. It does turn the transceiver off, but keeps the USB port alive. With the port alive the "on" command can be sent and will be correctly recognized and executed. . View Quote |
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Silent Brigade, 1/20/20: Dangerous wankers to a one. 3rd rate BB
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Originally Posted By Nmbmxer: If I understand you correctly: I need to start everything manually then close fldigi this shutting down automatically and then restart fldigi and since the usb port was previously initialized it should wake up. View Quote Yes. Manual power up, automatic shut down, which uses the CI-V to turn the radio off but leaves the USB port on. So button press the 7300 on, start fldigi, then close fldigi and assuming it runs of the off command when you do that, it should shut down the radio but keep the port up, so the next start command sent to the now-active port via CI-V is recognized. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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I should be present to NC tonight's net. Slight chance of T-storms, if that's an issue I'll update.
Net reminders start at 2330Z. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Well, looks like prop might suck tonight. I wonder if it's because my antenna is unhappy because it is 107°F here right now?
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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I still can't get the rig to auto-start. I did like Seek2 suggested and it fails to initialize. If I then manually send the same HEX string that is in the ST slot of commands it starts.
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Silent Brigade, 1/20/20: Dangerous wankers to a one. 3rd rate BB
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I keep seeing Olivia start tones and then a non-olivia mode. Very odd.
We had 4 stations + NC this week. Conditions were pretty variable. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: I keep seeing Olivia start tones and then a non-olivia mode. Very odd. We had 4 stations + NC this week. Conditions were pretty variable. View Quote I only had partial copy on 2 stations. Usually I have a pipeline to Net Control, tonight I only got a few letters here and there. Strange. |
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Originally Posted By weaponeer1911: I only had partial copy on 2 stations. Usually I have a pipeline to Net Control, tonight I only got a few letters here and there. Strange. View Quote Space weather is saying we're having sporadic radio blackouts, so our experience syncs up with that. I had S9 signals on a station that's usually S5-S7. Also I noticed on one of the propagation sites that 17M to 10M was expected to have better prop than 20M right now. I'm not sure how many of us have antennas that go above 20M, but it might be interesting to try the higher bands next week. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: I'm not sure how many of us have antennas that go above 20M, but it might be interesting to try the higher bands next week. View Quote |
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Silent Brigade, 1/20/20: Dangerous wankers to a one. 3rd rate BB
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Related to the 20M band being wonky... Today's sunspot number was 219.
I think I've pasted this link a couple times before, but man, I bet the guys at NCAR have got to be beaming (pardon the pun) these days. NCAR called for cycle 25 to be among the strongest ever seen. The official forecast from NASA called for a peak sunspot number (not to be seen until 2025) of 115. We're already nearly 2X that forecast, but still below the NCAR predicted peak of 260 -- and it's looking like that number might even be low -- but they did call that it would be a ridiculously strong cycle. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: Related to the 20M band being wonky... Today's sunspot number was 219. I think I've pasted this link a couple times before, but man, I bet the guys at NCAR have got to be beaming (pardon the pun) these days. NCAR called for cycle 25 to be among the strongest ever seen. The official forecast from NASA called for a peak sunspot number (not to be seen until 2025) of 115. We're already nearly 2X that forecast, but still below the NCAR predicted peak of 260 -- and it's looking like that number might even be low -- but they did call that it would be a ridiculously strong cycle. View Quote Last time there was a super strong sun cycle we had world war II |
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Mach
Nobody is coming to save us. . |
This article from 2015 was saying cycle 25 will end in 2022, but we know that cycle 24 was extended, and here will be a Maunder Minimum in cycle 26 between 2030 and 2040, which last time was called the mini-ice age and resulted is a stunted crop growing season and a lack of summer.
https://phys.org/news/2015-07-irregular-heartbeat-sun-driven-dynamo.html |
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Mach
Nobody is coming to save us. . |
I should be around to NC tonight. Countdown on 20M begins at 2330Z.
If everyone is up for it after 20M, I'd like to check 17M and possibly 15M. Frequencies to be picked at net time but probably 18100.5 or 18101.5. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Looking forward to 17m and 15m. I have an HT DMR net at 8pm central, but I should be able to multitask.
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Originally Posted By seek2: I should be around to NC tonight. Countdown on 20M begins at 2330Z. If everyone is up for it after 20M, I'd like to check 17M and possibly 15M. Frequencies to be picked at net time but probably 18100.5 or 18101.5. View Quote Those 17m freqs are in the FT8/FT4 band. Probably better to keep our emissions below 18.100. |
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Ill try to be on tonight.... my BIL just got his license, got the general even and he'll prob at least listen in tonight. if I can get some time with him before hand he may can participate.
we tried yesterday but I could never hear him. he could hear me and we could also hear the other signals out there but I just couldnt hear him. no on on FT8 could ever hear him either. I went through his settings and found some issues but still having problems. I got him to the point where we did verify his sound card in windows is fully active with audio deflection bars when fldigi's tune button is clicked. and his ic718 shows good power out. and when we adjust his sound card audio down then the ic718 power out drops which was what you expect to happen.. hes got a digilink and im about to the end of what I think I can do. ETA: he fixed it: "So, on my budget ic718, PTT has to be executed using RTS with echo. Not CAT since its civ." |
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Hands up don't ban!
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Originally Posted By weaponeer1911: Those 17m freqs are in the FT8/FT4 band. Probably better to keep our emissions below 18.100. View Quote The band plan shows it as digital, but all modes are permitted above 18110 as well, shortly before net time I'll look for a unoccupied spot and make the call. There's a lot of stuff jammed in 18100-18110 that is the nominal digital sub-band. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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I can do 6m,10m,15m,17m,20m,40m.
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Right now 18112.5 + 1500 is clear on 17M, and the Region 2 bandplan reflects all modes permitted above 18111.
I'm seeing wild fluctuations in noise on that frequency, almost like I have an intermittent antenna connection, but everything is checking out on my cables so it's probably just flaky propagation. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Any test messages so far? None heard.
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someone sent out a "...Testing" a few mins ago, shortly after I tuned up.
whats the wisdom on adjusting all the gains in the chain to the waterfall on fldigi? I dont have a signalink just a direct usb on my radio. but it does have a digital audio gain. the windows device has one, and then my radios RF gain knob is also there... I dont think I have any more adjustments in the chain there... how solid blue should the waterfall look with just noise? You can crank it up pretty high? |
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Hands up don't ban!
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I'm losing 20m. Only 30% copy on NC, no others.
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Sorry, double tap.
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Originally Posted By DarkLordVader: Any test messages so far? None heard. View Quote On 20M I'm on the normal schedule, 2330, 2345, 2350Z are all out, next and last is 2355Z. I haven't sent anything on 17M. Also my amp is having fits today but I think I have it back to behaving, but I'm running slightly lower power than usual (about 100W v. 150.) |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Welcome message sending on schedule. Space weather reports minor blackouts.
We'll see who hears after the intro, and if it's only one or two stations try 17M. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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18112.5
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Nothing heard here.
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Only seeing one of you. I did see startup tones twice after the first check in, but nothing
otherwise. I'll keep at it a couple more rounds but I think 17M is going to be a bust. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Just copied W1911, sent a very short reply. Not sure if I'm stepping on people
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I only saw NCS on 17m, heavy QSB. +4snr and then nothing then +4 again. 2 s-units more QSN here, lots of hash.
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Silent Brigade, 1/20/20: Dangerous wankers to a one. 3rd rate BB
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Yeah, 17 wasn't too hot either. I heard 9PP, 9UA, 1AP and 4CH, but it was very QSB. Never heard NC on 17.
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It was wotrh trying. See you guys next week.
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OK, I've called it quits on 17M.
Tonight's 20M net had 7 stations + NC. The 17M net I copied a single station, and had a decode that looked correct but wasn't on a second station, and tones but not even a partial decode on one or two others. So 17M sucked, basically. 20M seemed to improve significantly from the time I started reminders to the end of the 20M net, so I'm betting it's even better this evening. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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I guess NCS didnt see my 20m check in attempt, did anyone else notice a checkin that didnt get called by NCS? For 20m I did see KD and W4 very strong, WA & N4 ok, NCS & K1 weak/spotty, all else very weak or unreadable.
Odd for me to get bad copies for NCS. But on 17m you were very strong |
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Hands up don't ban!
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I heard NC initially, then my fldigi crapped out on 17m
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Mach
Nobody is coming to save us. . |
weaponeer was the only one I heard on 17 so I sent a check in immediately following.
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Originally Posted By Bophades: I guess NCS didnt see my 20m check in attempt, did anyone else notice a checkin that didnt get called by NCS? For 20m I did see KD and W4 very strong, WA & N4 ok, NCS & K1 weak/spotty, all else very weak or unreadable. Odd for me to get bad copies for NCS. But on 17m you were very strong View Quote I re-checked the buffer and didn't see anything -- I might have if I had called for late check ins on 20M. A couple stations that are always booming in on 20M I could barely copy tonight, so the band wasn't helping. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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17 was pretty dim for me. I heard a light signal, but nothing decoded. Had to drop off at 8:30, so didn't get to stay around long.
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We've had thunderstorms every day for last 10 days, have all my gear & antennas unplugged. Usually it brews all day & cuts loose in the late afternoon & early evening. Had some nearby lightning strikes that make me nervous. Maybe next week I can get back in the game.
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"Don't let your ego write checks your body can't cash."
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I think we should try 30m sometime, I forgot my antenna would load up on that band until yesterday when I was fooling around before the net.
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Silent Brigade, 1/20/20: Dangerous wankers to a one. 3rd rate BB
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I can try any but 6 or 160. I'll still listen in on those two if you guys try it. I usually hit pretty well on 30m JS8
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Originally Posted By Nmbmxer: I think we should try 30m sometime, I forgot my antenna would load up on that band until yesterday when I was fooling around before the net. View Quote 30M is an awesome band, but runs towards the short end of distance, 500-1000 miles it's great, past that it tends to suffer. So... probably great for everyone east of the Mississippi, but I probably won't make a very good NC station on that band. |
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Like most living things, you run them through a combine, it'll pretty much take care of it.
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Originally Posted By seek2: 30M is an awesome band, but runs towards the short end of distance, 500-1000 miles it's great, past that it tends to suffer. So... probably great for everyone east of the Mississippi, but I probably won't make a very good NC station on that band. View Quote |
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Silent Brigade, 1/20/20: Dangerous wankers to a one. 3rd rate BB
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Originally Posted By seek2: 30M is an awesome band, but runs towards the short end of distance, 500-1000 miles it's great, past that it tends to suffer. So... probably great for everyone east of the Mississippi, but I probably won't make a very good NC station on that band. View Quote I may/may not be a decent option for NC on 30m as I'm kind of centrally located fot our group. 20m hasn't been that great for me |
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