You might want to read up on grounding. You should NOT use braid. Gary - AG0N

Stephanie, Big Sigh. Once upon a time, Ubuntu only supported Debian packages, which you & I often installed through Synaptic, and all was crystal clear, sweetness & light. And then folk started

The earth is a big resistor. Connecting to it is critical for lightning safety, but it looks like a high value resistor to RF, so it does NOT carry antenna return current very well, and the high

Well... NO! That is 7-9 feet of 6ga. wire. that isn't counting the 4 foot of the ground pipe, nor the braid to ea. equipment. I just didn't spell out every little detail. I thought the way I

Hi Randy, Thanks for your comments. For the present time I am going to revert back to rc1 and then I will have the ability to operate the way that I am accustomed to. As for future changes, I will

What you have done in the shack sounds good, but there is FAR more to Grounding and Bonding than that. Study N0AX's ARRL book on the topic, to which I contributed, and/or the slides for my talk at

I get what you are saying. I'm not a big gun either. Looking at my log it looks like the first time I logged an actual frequency was in 2010. Since then it was rare until digital modes came along. I

Hi Joe, Let's consider what actually is your antenna. Half of the antenna is the wire outside. The second half is whatever wires, conducting structures etc. you happen to have inside your house. The

If band is editable than frequency needs to be editable too and there should be logic to ensure they agree.  Not hard but will take some coding. On the other hand it's easily solved by making band

Jim, here's the main reason I don't want to do that. For QSOs that are important for award credit, there are situations where I need to be confident about the band. The two situations that come to

Thanks for filling in these kinds of details. I suspected that there might be some things of this sort.

Hey Stephanie, The reason that you aren't getting updated apps is because the software center and repositories only post software validated and verified by Canonical. Go to Joe's Website at

I configure WSJT-X as follows using a connected USB cable. In WSJT-X Radio Tab Rig = Icom-9700 , Cat Control = COM6 (may vary on your PC) , Baud rate 115200, PTT method = RTS, Port Com6 Mode check

You can probably just ground to your house ground lug on a socket. Would be of interest to measure the resistance of ground on two different circuits in your unit and get an idea of how good your

I did, but realized once I had the proper connection between WSJ-X and N3FJP's logger that the logging program would send back color information on a number of conditions, including duplicate (by

These boxes control the freq range of the waterfall, I suspect you have managed to change them [cid:image001.png@...] Peter M0PWX M0PWX Grabber Page

From one JP to another, thanks for that info. Quite helpful. Ferrites on order. A couple of interesting things: 1. I generally RDP into a headless PC that's used only for radio work. So no real

You just need to remove the headers from one file and append it the other in an editor. To adjust waterfall width change the "Bins/Pixel". Mike W9MDB

I switched from a Linux box to Windows 8.1. How do I merge the two logs to one on the new machine without losing any contacts? Which files do I have to combine? Also, using the new machine with an

Seven to nine feet is a quarter wave on 10 and 12 meters. You do not have an RF ground on those bands as a quarter wave from the ground rod is a high impedance point! In addition, is the "RF ground