QRP Operating - Austin, TX

On October 26 I finally had a chance to do some more K1/QRP operating. This time while on a trip to Austin, TX. The weather was great: sunny and about 75. My antenna was again a 67' (full wavelength on 20 mtrs) endfed wire . The operating position was on second floor balcony. I ended up running my antenna up to eaves above me and then sloping...

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The mobile ham's palm.PC.

This effort the pocket PC or hand held PC work very well and if the application of a serial connection is present a host of digital modes are open up to the mobile operator.With a dongle a interface between the palm PC and a serial environment a radio or transceiver control software is used to control your rig and Telnet radio spots to your transceiver and set the rigs frequency to the dx spot a logging program can incorporate...

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Avantgo

The Avantgo web site has a free download of many web clippings, say there is information on a page you need on the hobby like satellite information, you can copy a site to your handheld pc or palm.There are many preloaded synced pages that are already on the Avantgo web site.Give it a look and you will find something for your palm or pc...

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