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    From Gareth Paley@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 31 17:21:17 2022
    Think I need a newer PC . My 9 year old £59 eBay special is struggling to run all these apps at the same time. Still, managed to make a couple of contacts on 80m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwWOgb2Svw

    73 de M0WWS

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  • From Jim gm4dhj ...@21:1/5 to Gareth Paley on Sun Jan 1 09:11:13 2023
    On 01/01/2023 01:21, Gareth Paley wrote:
    Think I need a newer PC . My 9 year old £59 eBay special is struggling to run all these apps at the same time. Still, managed to make a couple of contacts on 80m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwWOgb2Svw

    73 de M0WWS
    did you make any real contacts?

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  • From Gareth Paley@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 1 02:25:44 2023
    On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 9:11:18 AM UTC, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
    On 01/01/2023 01:21, Gareth Paley wrote:
    Think I need a newer PC . My 9 year old £59 eBay special is struggling to run all these apps at the same time. Still, managed to make a couple of contacts on 80m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwWOgb2Svw

    73 de M0WWS
    did you make any real contacts?

    Yes. I called CQ at 22:32 UTC and 9A1CCB replied to my call with their locator Grid. I replied with an R for roger and their signal strength (R+3). They must have been some QSB and they were definately running more power than me as I had to repeat my
    report a couple of times but eventually they sent a roger with my signal strength (R-12) which was 15dB below theirs. We completed by exchanging 73's at 22:35 UTC. Then I used gridmapper to automatically log the contact for me on TSQL, HRDLOG, and
    ClubLog and QRZ. You can see a few earlier contacts I made when I go off and check my log at qrz.com. Didn't you watch the video? Here's the link again starting at my initial CQ - https://youtu.be/LhwWOgb2Svw?t=34 - try it with the sound up and watch
    the Rx Frequency box in the WSJT-X window corresponding to what is coming out of the speaker and is been displayed on the spectrum scope - then it might make more sense.

    73 de M0WWS

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  • From Jim gm4dhj ...@21:1/5 to Gareth Paley on Sun Jan 1 14:15:04 2023
    On 01/01/2023 10:25, Gareth Paley wrote:
    On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 9:11:18 AM UTC, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
    On 01/01/2023 01:21, Gareth Paley wrote:
    Think I need a newer PC . My 9 year old £59 eBay special is struggling to run all these apps at the same time. Still, managed to make a couple of contacts on 80m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwWOgb2Svw

    73 de M0WWS
    did you make any real contacts?

    Yes. I called CQ at 22:32 UTC and 9A1CCB replied to my call with their locator Grid. I replied with an R for roger and their signal strength (R+3). They must have been some QSB and they were definately running more power than me as I had to repeat my
    report a couple of times but eventually they sent a roger with my signal strength (R-12) which was 15dB below theirs. We completed by exchanging 73's at 22:35 UTC. Then I used gridmapper to automatically log the contact for me on TSQL, HRDLOG, and
    ClubLog and QRZ. You can see a few earlier contacts I made when I go off and check my log at qrz.com. Didn't you watch the video? Here's the link again starting at my initial CQ - https://youtu.be/LhwWOgb2Svw?t=34 - try it with the sound up and watch
    the Rx Frequency box in the WSJT-X window corresponding to what is coming out of the speaker and is been displayed on the spectrum scope - then it might make more sense.

    73 de M0WWS
    nope

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  • From Gareth Paley@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 1 07:58:24 2023
    On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 2:15:08 PM UTC, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
    On 01/01/2023 10:25, Gareth Paley wrote:
    On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 9:11:18 AM UTC, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
    On 01/01/2023 01:21, Gareth Paley wrote:
    Think I need a newer PC . My 9 year old £59 eBay special is struggling to run all these apps at the same time. Still, managed to make a couple of contacts on 80m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwWOgb2Svw

    73 de M0WWS
    did you make any real contacts?

    Yes. I called CQ at 22:32 UTC and 9A1CCB replied to my call with their locator Grid. I replied with an R for roger and their signal strength (R+3). They must have been some QSB and they were definately running more power than me as I had to repeat my
    report a couple of times but eventually they sent a roger with my signal strength (R-12) which was 15dB below theirs. We completed by exchanging 73's at 22:35 UTC. Then I used gridmapper to automatically log the contact for me on TSQL, HRDLOG, and
    ClubLog and QRZ. You can see a few earlier contacts I made when I go off and check my log at qrz.com. Didn't you watch the video? Here's the link again starting at my initial CQ - https://youtu.be/LhwWOgb2Svw?t=34 - try it with the sound up and watch the
    Rx Frequency box in the WSJT-X window corresponding to what is coming out of the speaker and is been displayed on the spectrum scope - then it might make more sense.

    73 de M0WWS
    nope
    No?, Oh well, as my old grand grand grand grand grand grandpappy used to say on ye olde twitter - https://twitter.com/markpaulson7/status/990373493559644161

    73 de M0WWS

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  • From jim.gm4dhj@21:1/5 to Gareth Paley on Sun Jan 1 18:52:07 2023
    On 01/01/2023 15:58, Gareth Paley wrote:
    On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 2:15:08 PM UTC, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
    On 01/01/2023 10:25, Gareth Paley wrote:
    On Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 9:11:18 AM UTC, Jim gm4dhj ... wrote:
    On 01/01/2023 01:21, Gareth Paley wrote:
    Think I need a newer PC . My 9 year old £59 eBay special is struggling to run all these apps at the same time. Still, managed to make a couple of contacts on 80m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwWOgb2Svw

    73 de M0WWS
    did you make any real contacts?

    Yes. I called CQ at 22:32 UTC and 9A1CCB replied to my call with their locator Grid. I replied with an R for roger and their signal strength (R+3). They must have been some QSB and they were definately running more power than me as I had to repeat my
    report a couple of times but eventually they sent a roger with my signal strength (R-12) which was 15dB below theirs. We completed by exchanging 73's at 22:35 UTC. Then I used gridmapper to automatically log the contact for me on TSQL, HRDLOG, and
    ClubLog and QRZ. You can see a few earlier contacts I made when I go off and check my log at qrz.com. Didn't you watch the video? Here's the link again starting at my initial CQ - https://youtu.be/LhwWOgb2Svw?t=34 - try it with the sound up and watch the
    Rx Frequency box in the WSJT-X window corresponding to what is coming out of the speaker and is been displayed on the spectrum scope - then it might make more sense.

    73 de M0WWS
    nope
    No?, Oh well, as my old grand grand grand grand grand grandpappy used to say on ye olde twitter - https://twitter.com/markpaulson7/status/990373493559644161

    73 de M0WWS
    that's the way

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