The First 100 Years Are The Hardest

On 11/3 I got the great news over email that FCC has approved my application for WX7V! I’ll have to buy a new RWK hat, and will have to update my QRZ and LOTW pages. I used the excellent website I guess I won’t need all these backup applications now. Waiting for AE7Q to update so see if the others get flipped to Not Needed prediction or if I need to manually cancel the others. I highly recommend any who wants a vanity call sign to use the excellent tools located at  \ http://www.ae7q.com/query/

 After much study this summer I successfully passed my Amateur Extra exam on 10/2.   I used Herb’s remote VE testing group which was administered by Michael, WT9V from the local Ham Radio club K5RWK.   The remote exam was completed Friday evening via zoom meeting, at the lake using my laptop and phone’s hotspot!

Scott Anderson, NE1RD, Guide to Antenna Modelling https://www.n1fd.org/2018/03/06/antenna-modeling/ TechNight Slides https://www.n1fd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-March-Tech-Night-Antenna-Modeling-1.pdf Usefull Links https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/antennas-linux https://www.qsl.net/5b4az/pkg/nec2/xnec2c/doc/xnec2c.html https://www.eznec.com/  (Windows) http://www.w7ay.net/site/Applications/cocoaNEC/index.html (MacOS)

 From command line: $ nCAT -station KIFJBP $ nDAX - station KI5JBP  To increase or decrease AGC-T: $ rigctl -m 2 -r localhost:4532 L RF .30 $ wsjtx Radio Config: