Category Archives: Data

Digital audio noise on receive when using WIRES-X

Posted on May 29, 2020 by g6nhu

Back in February, I bought myself a Yaesu FTM-100DE with the intent to use it connected to a PC for WIRES-X. In the meantime, I’ve been using it to talk to friends via a YSFReflector and I wrote about how … Continue reading →

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UTC clock for macOS

Posted on April 5, 2020 by g6nhu

As radio amateurs, time is important to us and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), often called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the most important. We log our QSOs in UTC, (ideally) we give net times in UTC and our clocks need … Continue reading →

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How to set up a Yaesu System Fusion reflector (YSFReflector)

Posted on February 20, 2020 by g6nhu

Over the last four or five years I’ve been a regular user of two digital voice modes, D-STAR and DMR. I don’t particularly like to use them to work ‘DX’ but they both have their advantages regarding linking repeaters together … Continue reading →

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Essex Radar

Posted on June 18, 2019 by g6nhu

I’ve been running an instance of Virtual Radar Server (VRS) for some time and recently decided that this is something I can easily share to anyone who is interested. What is VRS though? VRS is a server running on my … Continue reading →

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Receiving weather fax pictures on HF using fldigi

Posted on January 26, 2019 by g6nhu

A week or so ago I saw a weather fax (WEFAX) picture someone had posted that they’d captured on HF. This grabbed my attention because I like maps and I like to see things to do with the weather. I’d … Continue reading →

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QSO365 #2 is complete – A QSO per day in 2018

Posted on January 1, 2019 by g6nhu

To start with, I’ll post the basic statistics for the entire year of 2018 and then go into the background. QSOs made: 3789 Unique QSOs made: 2962 Average QSOs per day: 10.4 Days missed: 0 <- This is the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Amateur radio, CW, Data, FT8, HF, JT65, JT9, New DXCC, PSK, QSO365, Review, RTTY, SSB | Tagged | 2 Comments

If you use WSJT-X for FT8/WSPR/JTx etc, you should upgrade to V2.0.0 as soon as possible

Posted on December 11, 2018 by g6nhu

WSJT-X version 2.0.0 has been released and everyone who uses this software for any data modes should update as soon as possible.  This new version is NOT compatible with previous versions so everyone is encouraged to upgrade to 2.0.0 as … Continue reading →

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