Ham Radio / Off-grid communication

Well I double checked and I'm well within the digi-mode & CW only part of the band so he can shove off to another frequency. I'll be done in 65 minutes or my radio explodes whichever happens first.

Also my radio is set to transmit on U-Digi, USB Digital Mode (it limits my power output and supposedly helps with the CAT control.)

@Channel Catfish where's the extra long option?
 
WanderingFarmer said:
Well I double checked and I'm well within the digi-mode & CW only part of the band so he can shove off to another frequency. I'll be done in 65 minutes or my radio explodes whichever happens first.

Also my radio is set to transmit on U-Digi, USB Digital Mode (it limits my power output and supposedly helps with the CAT control.)
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Well you're got one good DX with Flux, my equipment isn't exactly the fanciest nor the most noise free environment so it's not a big surprise I can't hear it. Thanks for giving it a go!
As I posted this you started to fade in for a second.
 
THE IONOSPHERE WANTS MY SHITPOST TO PROPIGATE

truly the world is healing.

Also, thank you, Channel Cat , for re-transmitting on your end.
 
WanderingFarmer said:
THE IONOSPHERE WANTS MY SHITPOST TO PROPIGATE

truly the world is healing.

Also, thank you, Channel Cat , for re-transmitting on your end.
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No problem, won't be able to make it through even like a fourth of it before my battery gives out sadly (didn't expect the bulletin to be so long) but its the shitpost that counts. Right now I'm on 7097.5 I believe, running the 30 second mode. If any of you got me, let me know. I'll see if I can get a better antenna by the time we do this again (if we do)
 
I'm planning on limiting it to a 15 minute transmit time next time. This uh... is kinda ridiculous really. Thanks for getting part of it out though!
Really so much happened when i was typing it up I realized i had 5 pages of Community Happenings to cover and try to collate together. It's a slap dash job too.

Lessons learned. Glad I have AC in my shop. i just cranked down and upped my fan speed so hopefully this lil x6200 doesn't explode in the stress test its getting.
 
It's looking like the stuff I'm picking up isn't you, but someone else judging by the frequency. 1757818258235.webp
I'm developing auditory hallucinations trying to pick you out so I'm going to have to call it.
Not all is lost! Flux caught it, that's a great start.

I think JS8CALL is having hallucinations too, I don't see where this could possibly be coming from:
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Ah I found it! Next time i'll transmit in slow mode too. i'm just using normal right now.

You're right, @Jotch , it's a good start even if it weren't working well. I'm getting to play with my radio and after a pretty rough week.
i'm also getting to see just how good Xeigu is as making "rugged" radios for carrying out in the field.
At this rate i feel like this thing could be one of those beacons in a dystopian sf movie. Quietly reeeeing away into the wasteland until someone stumbles across it hoping theres something important there.

instead it's just telling you about some hippo named Chantel that can't cook.
 
and that's it.
It turned itself off in heat protect mode.

73 lil X6200. I managed to get through the part about Charlie Kirk's wife giving her speech. I'll let my rig rest after some ft8 propigation test. i want to see how the beacons are picking me up

Confirmed max tx time of about 35 minutes
 
KiwiNet AAR

- Technical problems nearly delayed the transmission, all 15 minutes of testing time needed to get new computer online.
- Transmission began at 2101, estimated time to complete was 103 minutes, 45 seconds. Brevity is needed in the future.
- Primary frequency was clear at the beginning, but a Mexican phone station (that' s just voice, talking into the microphone) did begin to interfere somewhere around the 20 minute mark, reported by @Jotch
- Transmission ended at 35 minutes when my radio halted transmission to avoid overheating. I decided to end the test. the resulted in over half of the planned transmission not being sent, but a text copy has been attached ITT
- @Channel Catfish assisted and transmitted as well when it became clear we could not receive each other.
- @888Flux was able to receive and decode the partial transmission at -10db The last part of the message i sent was encouraging people to watch Erika Kirk's speech she gave yesterday.

Overall, we should consider this a success. Transmission was received and decoded by at least one forum user!
Future transmissions will need to follow the FCC guideline of 15 on, 2 off, to protect my rig from overheating. Until I can afford an amplifier, propagation should not be expected to improve. Cooperative re-transmitting and simul-transmitting will be necessary to maximize propagation if that's the goal. I had fun though, and so long as next week is a slow news week I might be able to avoid caveman-esque summaries. I can see why S2 picked this method for his news transmissions that he does.
 
WanderingFarmer said:
KiwiNet AAR

- Technical problems nearly delayed the transmission, all 15 minutes of testing time needed to get new computer online.
- Transmission began at 2101, estimated time to complete was 103 minutes, 45 seconds. Brevity is needed in the future.
- Primary frequency was clear at the beginning, but a Mexican phone station (that' s just voice, talking into the microphone) did begin to interfere somewhere around the 20 minute mark, reported by @Jotch
- Transmission ended at 35 minutes when my radio halted transmission to avoid overheating. I decided to end the test. the resulted in over half of the planned transmission not being sent, but a text copy has been attached ITT
- @Channel Catfish assisted and transmitted as well when it became clear we could not receive each other.
- @888Flux was able to receive and decode the partial transmission at -10db The last part of the message i sent was encouraging people to watch Erika Kirk's speech she gave yesterday.

Overall, we should consider this a success. Transmission was received and decoded by at least one forum user!
Future transmissions will need to follow the FCC guideline of 15 on, 2 off, to protect my rig from overheating. Until I can afford an amplifier, propagation should not be expected to improve. Cooperative re-transmitting and simul-transmitting will be necessary to maximize propagation if that's the goal. I had fun though, and so long as next week is a slow news week I might be able to avoid caveman-esque summaries. I can see why S2 picked this method for his news transmissions that he does.
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This was fun! As expected, my battery sadly couldn't take it, but looking at @888Flux's images shows that he got me, yeah. I suggest if the newslines are gonna be long to have a summary/abbreviated version at the beginning like this:
KIWI FARMS NEWS SUMMARY: JAPANESE PM ISHIBA RESIGNS OVER NOG AND JEET IMMIGRATION. OLD LADY STEALS BALL FROM DAD, GETS FIRED. YOUTUBE ALGO ENSHITTIFIED FURTHER. FAT PEDO VITO COPES WITH REVIEWS OF HIS SHITTY COMIC. FRENCH GOVT FALLS AGAIN. TRUMP-EPSTEIN CARD RELEASED. SHANNYFORCHRIST NOT FOR CHRIST. QUARTERING IS A FAT GRIFTER. ZOOMER REVOLT IN NEPAL LEADS TO NEW LEADER IN DISCORD ELECTION. ISRAEL BOMBS QATAR. ANISAS HUSBAND CUCKED BY THE KINO CASINO. UKRAINIAN REFUGEE CULTURALLY ENRICHED, LEADS TO GREATER RACIAL TENSIONS. KF SITE STILL SLOW. KF GAME JAM COMPLETE. PLEX.TV BREACHED. ANG VRONDA RETURNS. VAN OF THE GOBLIN OF AKRON'S GRANDMA VANDALIZED. NEWLY FAT NICK REKEITA RETURNS TO "STREAMING". YMS EXPECTEDLY DEFENDS BEASTIALITY. CHANTAL WON'T COOK FOR HUSBAND'S FAMILY. ROBLOX ATTEMPTS DAMAGE CONTROL WITH UNAUTHORIZED EMAIL TO SCHLEP. CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATED IN UTAH, PANIC IN USA. JET NEPTUNE THREAD OUT OF PG. KIDD BANDIT ROBBED BY ACTUAL WOMAN. BOLSONARO SENTENCED TO JAIL. CUTE NEW SNAILFISH SPECIES DISCOVERED. CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL GOES ON GAY TANGENT, NOBODY ASKED. FIRST KF JS8CALL NET. FIND OUT MORE ON KIWIFARMS.ST
END SUMMARY
This way there's a shortened version people with battery-powered transmitters can handle and then after this summary, you can go in with more detail on each newsline if you're on mains and your setup can handle the 100% duty cycle at a good power.
Good fun! We've got at least one instance now of this concept actually working, meaning we just need to iterate on what went wrong and we legit may be able to have Kiwi Farms On The Air. Quite exciting.
 
WanderingFarmer said:
Just reviewed my FT8 propagation and not a single station picked me up. I think i have an antenna issue, because i can hit 1050 miles on 20m FT8, but not a single beacon on 40m picked me up.
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Interesting. You run an EFHW, right? Have you checked the SWR while you were transmitting? It's possible some power may have been lost if the SWR wasn't that great - wouldn't be too much of a problem at say 20 watts, but with only 5, every bit counts. Keep in mind that there is also more noise on 40 meters than there is on 20 meters and so on. 20 meters is very much open at night, meaning it may be worth thinking about going there or at least one operator going there too at the risk of greater amount of non-Farmer eyes on a no-callsign operation.

I hope you manage to fix your issues! I'm thinking of posting about the received transmission in the Community Happenings thread, it may be beneficial to get more eyes on this. Maybe we can also ping our Dear Sneeder about this, but that seems a bit more of a risky thing, not sure he'd care too much about this.
 
Hey this is probably the wrong place to ask but I might as well anyways as a science experiment I've always wanted to build a radar to bounce a signal off the moon and use that to estimate the range what sort of licenses would I need or could I just do it in the middle of the night?
 
JJLiautaud said:
Hey this is probably the wrong place to ask but I might as well anyways as a science experiment I've always wanted to build a radar to bounce a signal off the moon and use that to estimate the range what sort of licenses would I need or could I just do it in the middle of the night?
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Truthfully: Go for it, do it in the ISM band or something and nobody will really give that much of a fuck if you're just pinging the moon.

But this is actually a whole thing. If you get a ham license and radio you can actually talk to people with moonbounce.

As for the gear, I could say but someone will know the modern meta better than I.
 
Mikoyan said:
Truthfully: Go for it, do it in the ISM band or something and nobody will really give that much of a fuck if you're just pinging the moon.

But this is actually a whole thing. If you get a ham license and radio you can actually talk to people with moonbounce.

As for the gear, I could say but someone will know the modern meta better than I.
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I was thinking about building my own set using a microwave magnetron as my RF source doing my own wave guides etc.
 
JJLiautaud said:
Hey this is probably the wrong place to ask but I might as well anyways as a science experiment I've always wanted to build a radar to bounce a signal off the moon and use that to estimate the range what sort of licenses would I need or could I just do it in the middle of the night?
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Technician license allows you 1500W on basically all the bands above 50mhz.
JJLiautaud said:
I was thinking about building my own set using a microwave magnetron as my RF source doing my own wave guides etc.
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What do you plan to use as a receiver? SDR dongle? A microwave oven magnetron is not going to put out a very clean signal.
 
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