Thanks to Ken, VY2RU for the following: HamRadioNow Episode 182: Worlds Best Hobby Dave Bell W6AQ talks to Gary Pearce KN4AQ about the worlds best hobby - Amateur Radio Until the Internet age, Dave Bell W6AQ was the most prolific producer of television programs about Amateur Radio, most of them aimed at a general audience on real, broadcast TV stations and networks. Worlds Best Hobby is Daves memoir. It begins with his introduction to Ham Radio as a teenager, and follows his life into family and his career as a television producer (a real television producer) with his radio hobby always by his side. In this episode, Dave talks to Gary about the book, and how he was able to produce a series of Ham Radio oriented programs with major TV stars and personalities in an era when television production was expensive, complicated and fairly rare. Watch Episode 182: Worlds Best Hobby - Dave Bell W6AQ on HamRadioNow: https://youtube/watch?v=s7aXolcJZoY Posted by: VY2RU - Ken on 26-12-14 | [0] comments (1 views) | Im Not Ignoring You, Im Listening 10 Up.... In passing a few weeks ago I mentioned listening 10-up. Its also a slogan I have on a t-shirt, it says: Im not ignoring you, Im listening 10 up. So what does that mean and what do you do when a station tells you that they are listening up, or down? If youre a DX station and youve got a desirable call, its likely that youll generate a pile-up, that is, lots of different stations all calling at the same time, trying to get the attention of the single DX station. As more and more stations join in the fray, the remote station will get drowned out by eager hunters who try to call early, or try to call late in an attempt to get the attention of the DX station. The impact of this is cumulative. Over time, the DX station will get buried entirely in spurious transmissions, so making a contact becomes harder and harder, sometimes impossible. Ive talked about the rhythm of a contact. If its all working as expected, the rhythm will help you synchronize your call with that of the remote DX, similarly, all the other stations on frequency will march to the same drum beat. Sometimes this just becomes too hard and a DX station might solve the problem by operating split. In essence, the station operates two frequencies, their calling frequency, which is where you can hear the station, and their listening frequency, which is where everyone else is calling and the DX station is listening. This makes it possible for the drum beat to continue and for the DX station to not be drowned out. So, how do you do this? On many modern radios youll have access to two VFOs, you tune one, VFO A, to the DX calling frequency, the other, VFO B, to the DX listening frequency. Youll push the split operation button and when you listen, youre listening to VFO A frequency and when youre transmitting youre doing that on the VFO B frequency. A station will announce this by saying something like listening 10 up, or 2 up, whatever they pick. During contests this is generally frowned on, since it ties up two frequencies, but during normal day-to-day operations its another tool to make HF contacts possible. Im not Ignoring you, Im listening 10-up. Onno VK6FLAB Posted by: VY2RU - Ken on 26-12-14
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:32:40 +0000
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