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N1MM-ClubLog Gateway » N2AMG's Place

2012-05-24T09:52:00.001-07:00

N1MM-ClubLog Gateway » N2AMG's Place

I love using Club Log's on line logging tools
and was pleased to find this great tool set offered by N2AMG
for linking the log of N1MM q's to ClubLog

cheers!

Steve
KG5VK

The NVARC “Ugly” Filter Project

2012-04-30T13:03:00.001-07:00

The NVARC “Ugly” Filter Project

Shreveport Amateur Radio Association Fellowship day

2012-03-21T16:14:00.003-07:00

The Shreveport Amateur Radio Association (SARA)
will hoist a social April the 14th

April 14, 2012 - Cook-Out On Arthur Teague Pkw, at the Boat Launch Pavilion Under the Barksdale – Shrev City Bridge. $5.00 per head. Hamburgers and Hot Dogs. There will be 2 or 3 equipment On-the-Air demonstrations.

N1LI with some neat info and a great wav file of K1DG's Four Sq

2012-03-06T07:37:00.002-08:00

click here

my personal contacts from Ti5 are in the log.....

2012-03-05T03:43:00.002-08:00

use this club log tool to see if I logged you....

http://www.clublog.org/logsearch.php

73

steve
KG5VK

WRTC Rankings

2012-03-04T16:50:00.001-08:00

http://wrtc-rank.com/

CQ North America from Ti5N......

2012-03-03T06:56:00.003-08:00

Yes we are well under way and having a blast at Ti5N
great team of ops here with me, Aj3G,Wk4Y,WA4PGM, and K1DG

Less than four hours into the contest and our team broke 1.5 million points
this morning our Q's were over 3k and the average Q rate per hour at times was almost 400 yes that is 400 Q's per Hour !!!

We (our team) has managed a few hundred Q's on 160 meters !!!

Steve
KG5VK

Club Log: Search all expeditions on Club Log for QSOs with KG5VK

2012-02-04T07:17:00.000-08:00

Club Log: Search all expeditions on Club Log for QSOs with KG5VK

if ur registered as a club log user this is a neat feature
if ur not with club log, why !

http://www.clublog.org/globalsearch.php

73
Steve
KG5VK

Cq Dx Contest from TI5N........

2012-02-01T07:01:00.001-08:00

I have been invited and decided to accept joining a team of great OPS at Costa Rica's TI5N during the upcoming ARRL DX Phone contest the weekend of March 3 & 4.
It's been awhile since I have been on the other side of the pile-ups and this should be a blast!
http://kg5vk.com/

Steven Lott

http://www.wa4pgm.us/TI5/2012/Operating_Plans.htm

ARRL Diamond DXCC award tracking

2012-01-19T12:23:00.000-08:00

I ran across this announcement for a software tool to assist us in tracking our progress for the ARRL DDXCC award......

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http://dwestbrook.net/projects/ham/checker/

I have added support** for the DXCC Diamond -- figured this was as good a reason as any to finally get this checker project off the back burner :) Example DXCC Diamond report:

http://dwestbrook.net/projects/ham/checker/reports/KJ4IZW/DXCC-Diamond.html

Note this is beta ... I got 95% done with it about a year ago and then couldn't get back to it -- But it's a general framework for parsing a ADIF file and checking pretty much any kind of awards. (It started out as a checker for the 070 Club endorsements)

This checker works very well with output from DXKeeper (which produces good adif!!).

Any comments or requests for other award series, please let me know ...
dwestbrook@gmail.com

73!
--david
KJ4IZW
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My thanks to David KJ4IZW for his work on this project !
Steve
KG5VK

Simple Antennas work

2012-01-06T06:41:00.000-08:00

Not everyone of us (least not I) can afford big aluminum on all HF bands
wires and ladder line work really well for the low freq stuff
For me it has always been pretty simple 1005/f for a loop of wire
But many can't get even a small loop on the low freq's within their property
Here is a smart guy that shares other methods.........
http://www.w5dxp.com/notuner.htm

cheers!
steve

Ham Radio and Friends

2011-12-26T05:25:00.000-08:00

It's synonymous for me, Ham Radio and My friends are so en-twined
and here is a link to one of the famous Ham friends that was in my circle of friends during high school.

Back then it was WN0FOI or friendly old Indian, WA0DYV Bill Orgroski, Gary Novak . Bill Ames WA0WBJ, who we were all jealous of because he had Drake Twins and a Quad and Jay Portnoy

There is also Al Rosenthal (Al and I got our License together, he was wn0foj) and a few others that I have lost touch with many years ago.

Yes, indeed Ward Silver N0AX and I ran in the same circles, yes that is a bit scary if you know Ward well :)
If you don't then you are missing out on a person that is a whole lot of fun to be around !

Of course my circle has grown since those days with many new friends
like Tom KR5D, Bob K8KI and Les Diefenbach which we met during our Air Force career

Today there are many others and I consider it a privilege and honor to know each and everyone
as that is the greatest gift of all friendship.

Randy,Marsh,Floyd,Ray,Mike,Tim,Marcel,Scott,Bobby,Mark,Glenn,Hugo,Matt, Joe, John and Ted

There are a few other Hams that I need to work on rekindling our friendship
as life has just drawn us apart, such as my old buddy Brian Lewis
which a bike ride brought us to come to know that we are both amateur radio ops.

Many of you I talk to almost daily either on the radio or the phone or by email
I look forward to spending more time in 2012 with each of you, either contesting alongside you or just chatting on the radio

73 and Happy New Year everyone !

Steve
KG5VK

wow more Clublog.org features discovered

2011-12-23T15:25:00.000-08:00

if your a user of clublog.org (if your not, then why !)

then you can use a script (html) like below (after u are logged into your clublog.org account)

http://www.clublog.org/dxccchart3.php?call=kg5vk

(substitute ur friends call on the end in place of mine, unless u just like tracking my progress)

cheers!
steve
KG5VK

see the last Ten Q's I uploaded to ClubLog

2011-12-23T06:12:00.000-08:00

click here
This will show you the last Ten QSO's I uploaded to Club Log.org

Here are a couple of other Widgets.....

DXCC

Log

Cheers!
Steve
KG5VK

listen to ur audio from GW7X

2011-12-22T13:04:00.000-08:00

This shared with me by George K5GH....

If you worked GW7X in the recent 10m contest (or several of the other contests since 2005) you can listen to how your QSO sounded at the GW end at the website below:

http://gw4ble.dxlist.co.uk/index.php

cheers!

Steve
KG5VK

Uploading your log to ARRL LOTW

2011-12-22T07:50:00.000-08:00

click here for a short movie on uploading your ADIF file to the ARRL LOTW server
This movie does exactly what the title says (Logbook of the World)
I plan on building more movies on LOTW features
dependent on the feedback from this one

cheers!
Steve
KG5VK

Tools that help us work what we need

2011-12-19T05:27:00.000-08:00

ClubLog.org

Offers several great tools
Besides the obvious of being a log tool it
has a feature set that may often be over looked

DX Spots for Needed DXCCs

Using this tool, you can search the DX Cluster for spots related to DXCCs that you have not yet worked. There are 10,551,747 spots in the database up to 19th December, 2011, so the search is limited to the last 30 days or 300 results.

Did you see those key words.........

Spots related to DXCCs that you have not yet worked

Ladies and Gentlemen, that is a powerful tool
if your working towards a specific award, say DXCC on 80m
then once up upload your current log in ADIF form to club log
it will give you focus with this tool on needed countries for that band !!!

Try it out I think it will help you work more new ones within a shorter amount of time
Of course we need t verify what we hear is what someone posted on cluster
and when I copy a call diff than what someone else did and spotted I always try and repost with the correct call - also not that the spots are from all over the world, so a spot posted from an op in India may of course not be workable from our country.

Cheers !

Steve
KG5VK

She is nice and shinney & hanging out at 85 feet

2011-12-03T08:41:00.000-08:00

4 el 40m M2 Beam
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KG5VK

ARRL Phone Sweepstakes is this week-end and we are in South Louisiana

2011-11-19T06:18:00.000-08:00

KN5O
Run Station

My results from 6 hours in the chair during CQWW Phone DX 2011

2011-10-30T17:05:00.000-07:00

CallSign Used : KG5VK
Operator(s) : KG5VK

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Overlay Category :
Default Exchange : 4

Name : Steven Lott Smith

ARRL Section : LA
Club/Team : Louisiana Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V11.10.0

Band QSOs Pts DXC Zn
7 13 38 4 12
14 73 206 19 60
21 79 230 21 67
28 1 3 1 1
28 135 395 27 94

Total 301 872 72 234

Score : 266,832

ARRL FD 2011 SARA K5SAR operated at KG5VK's shack

2011-10-24T05:34:00.001-07:00

2011 Field Day

Displaying entries for Section=LA

Entries 1 to 22 of 22 listed

#	Call	Score	Category	QSOs	Power Mult	GOTA Call	Section	Participants	Club
1	W5ZR	10,986	2A	2,692	2	W5RZY	LA	30	Louisiana Cane Field CC
2	W5EA	9,704	2A	3,284	2	N5LCC	LA	55	Twin City Ham Club
3	N5RD	6,560	2A	2,265	2		LA	15	Minden ARA
4	K5DF	5,636	3A	1,536	2	W5YW	LA	35	Daton Rouge ARC
5	K5SAR	5,128	4E	1,665	2		LA	15
6	K1DW	3,470	1E	1,063	2		LA	2
7	W5DDL	2,028	1A	449	2		LA	47	Acadiana ARA
8	N5II	1,952	2A	589	2		LA	7	Springhill ARC, Inc.
9	W5BII	1,828	2A	489	2	WA5LQZ	LA	33	Southwest LA AR Club
10	AC5PW	1,568	2A	239	2		LA	17	North Rapides RC

KA5M & KG5VK as seen last Oct at W5WZ's contest station

2011-09-28T15:22:00.000-07:00

Ham Radio Deluxe HRD SOLD

2011-09-23T03:30:00.000-07:00

while I have not confirmed this.....

Simon Brown, HB9DRV, has sold the rights to his popular Ham Radio Deluxe software package to a group consisting of Mike Carper, WA9PIE, Randy Gawtry,K0CBH and Rick Ruhl, W4PC. All three principals have more than 25 years of experience with radio data communications. Rick Ruhl is the president of W4PC Software, Inc whose products include the PakRatt , PKTerm and Radio Operations Center software suites. Randy Gawtry is the president of Timewave Technology Inc whose products include the PK and DSP families of data controllers and other commercial data products. Mike Carper is an experienced Fortune 500 technology executive, educator and f eatured speaker
in the areas of wireless technologies and IT Service Management.

cheers!
steve

Ham Radio License Frame - Amateur Radio License Frame - General Radiotelephone Operator License Frame - General Radiotelephone and Radiotelegraph License Frame

2011-09-20T14:10:00.000-07:00

Ham Radio License Frame - Amateur Radio License Frame - General Radiotelephone Operator License Frame - General Radiotelephone and Radiotelegraph License Frame
This guy makes some really neat stuff
and he is right here in Louisiana
Made in The USA!

New RBN Aggregator Available (version 0.92b)

2011-09-05T08:08:00.000-07:00

New RBN Aggregator Available (version 0.92b)

This from Pete Smith.......

Many CW Skimmer or Skimmer Server users are probably aware of the Reverse Beacon Network. The RBN uses a small piece of software called the Aggregator to collect spots from CW Skimmers and Skimmer Servers all over the world and forward them to the RBN's database server.

Since the inception of the RBN, we have been using an effective bare-bones version of the Aggregator written by Felipe, PY1NB, founder of the RBN. Now, thanks to the programming skills of Dick, W3OA, we have a new, Windows Aggregator in a near-final beta form, available for download and use. In addition to being much easier to configure and use, the new Aggregator has some important new features.

* It adds the option of a master.dta check to Skimmer Server (like the Paranoid validation mode in CW Skimmer).

* It also allows users to send spots to the Aggregator without first filtering them to remove the non-CQ spots. The Aggregator then forwards only those spots the RBN requests. For now, that will be CQ spots for HF and all spots for 50 MHz and up. In the near future this will allow us to experiment with spotting the NCDXA HF beacons, and probably other tricks that have not been possible up till now.

* And finally, the new Aggregator permits RBN contributors to connect locally to it with their logging programs, either taking advantage of the new filtering capability or not, as they wish.

For the full story and a download link, see the Reverse Beacon Network blog at http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com/.

--
73, Pete N4ZR