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Great to see Bob N4XAT join today's Zoom experiment. We did manage to have a brief 'QSO' on the Zoom chat, although we both had our hands full of technical 'stuff' I think!
As you can see in the chat box (click the image to enlarge it), Bob was running Zoom to hear the Sussex crew, The W1NT WebSDR to hear David, Messenger to read what was going on with Steve GJ6WRI (great that you could join us Steve) as well as his Kenwood tuned to 21.343MHz!
OK, so this isn't really ground-breaking stuff, as it's basically what we do to audio-stream our 70cms GB3HY repeater net, but I wanted to see how it would sound on HF with the totally different noise conditions etc. and it seems to be working reasonably well.
It would be nice if tomorrow, somebody with Messenger could inject Bob's Messenger chat back into the radio Net, or join the Zoom call to do the same. It must be frustrating not having the capability to reply in any way. Sorry, I don't use Messenger and transmitting on the same radio that's streaming to Zoom doesn't seem to work very well for some reason.
I'm currently uploading today's recording to our YouTube channel. Edited, it's about 24 minutes. Find it here: https://youtu.be/NRwpHZ49Hng
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Well well well. This is welcome news. I was beginning to wonder if this would ever happen, but I'm very glad to see that it's now imminent.
I hadn't realised quite how much I'd missed these fellas.
If you've never seen TX Factor, you can't really call yourself a radio amateur. OK, so that might be a bit of an overstatement, but if you're new to the hobby, get on YouTube and get caught up!
Episode 27 was released way back in December 2020. It seems even longer ago than that, but episode 28 will apparently be released in the next fortnight.
Happy days.
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Join us at lunchtime (13:30 kick-off) every weekday this week to listen in on our 15m Lunchtime Club Net. No radio required!
You can look at mine instead. It's the (fairly) new Yaesu FTDX10, and I'm lending it to you for free.
All you need to do is click on the link to our Zoom channel on the website homepage.
To give you a taste of what you'll get, I've uploaded a 15min clip to YouTube, and you can find a link to that on our Videos page.
I'd be happy to hear any audio reports and suggestions for the Zoom recording if you'd like to pass them on to me. I've been playing around with the various audio settings in Zoom trying to maximise the quality, but it's not quite there yet. I currently have Zoom set to 'Original Sound' because the automatic background noise filtering that gets applied was taking out not only the noise, but some of the higher audio frequencies. All input welcomed.
This is by no means a permanent arrangement, but maybe we can find a cost-effective solution to stream audio on demand from the club shack at some point. We'll make that happen somehow, I'm sure.
73's
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Please be aware that on Tuesday 1st February, the traditional lunchtime net frequency of 21.345 MHz was considerably disrupted by a rogue signal maybe 3 kHz wide smack bang on top of our USB window. Very annoying, but it wasn't long before Ken managed to reassemble the members 20 kHz down the band at 21.325 MHz. Please keep this in mind and sweep around the band in the coming days if you encounter this problem when joining us.
Regards
Berni M0XYF
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Dropped down to the 15m FT8 slot on 21.074MHz after the net on Thursday just to have a look at the propagation. I'm seeing some noticeable improvements over time as the SFI gets above 100 more often.
No useful signal reports from me I'm afraid, other than to say that the locals were booming in, Gavin was readable, but nothing heard from Thomas or David. Keep going Thomas, you'll get there. Enjoy the journey as they say. The signal from Ken's 15m loop is a dramatic improvement here in terms of both signal strength and audio clout over both the 20m version and the dipole.
