Being limited to the 10-Meter band for HF in germany, and the 10-Meter band being susceptible to rapid band condition changes, the ability to make contacts greatly depends on the propagation for your current location. To get an idea of where in the world I can be heard under the current conditions, I do a… Continue reading Test propagation with the Reverse-Beacon-Network (without knowing CW)
Category: repeater operation
Connecting to repeaters
Using a repeater for the first time
Whilst my Dad (G8DUK) is visiting, we decided to try the 2 metre repeater located in Blankenese. This meant that we needed to configure the yaesu for duplex operation for the first time. This was actually very trivial, as we just needed to activate repeater operation, and the defaults were exactly what we needed (a… Continue reading Using a repeater for the first time