Subj : Re: Feld Hell
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Don Lowery
Date : Tue Feb 25 2020 05:54 pm

 SD>  DL> Seems like everyone's using everything but Hell...but the only 1 sign
 SD>  DL> I picked up got me excited at the time.
 SD> One thing I highly recommend is joining the Feld Hell Club.  It's free!
 SD> https://sites.google.com/site/feldhellclub/

Did that many years ago...along with the 30? Club & several more. That was
before some of the tracking websites were around to tell you where you were
getting out to.

 SD> They have a weekly net on 40 meters.  I haven't been able to join up with
 SD> them on the air yet.  I ordered a 1:1 current balun for my 40 meter
 SD> dipole and it should be here today, yay!

Have looked at one of those for a long wire...but would have to use it on my
home-brewed end-fed or the SuperAntenna I got almost 15 years ago.
Eventually...may have to get an MFJ mag-loop. Got much of the stuff to build
it...including the resistor an old AM radio restorer gave me from one of the
sets he salavaged. Had a buddy in Twin Falls who's so noisy where he's at
that the loop is the only way to get out & get something clear sounding.

 SD> There isn't any for OS/2, sadly, and OS/2 will not work with the
 SD> Signalink. For ham purposes, I use Devuan Linux with fldigi and
 SD> everything works great with my IC-718.

Ahhhhhh...I have an RPi 3B+ with the ethernet HAT for power. If my old 2B+
hadn't been stolen by the bum who used to be my roommate...could hook that
up...since it was what I originally bought it for. Not sure if the Zero would
have enough power to decode some of the stuff like FT-8 & such.

When I bought my FT-450 about 10 years ago...looked at your Icom. Hard to
believe they are still building/selling them. Have also been thinking (if I
can find it)...getting the 80 M loop for the SuperAntenna & joining the
Sunday morning Net on 80 from Idaho.

 SD> I am trying to sit down and write a simple holiday-style casual logging
 SD> program for OS/2 and others using Pascal but I have been so busy with
 SD> everything involving my health that everything else has fallen by the
 SD> wayside.  Hopefully I will start working on that soon!

Nice!!! Am wondering how difficult it would be to compile FLDigi to run under
OS/2? Many of the libraries should be available. Maybe it's time to contact
the author to see what he says. If I could do the FT/JT modes...along with
Hell & such...that would be a hell of a use for OS/2. For that
matter...someone where the author of JT-65 & such should be smart enough to
do a copy for OS/2.

 SD> 73 DE KD5COL,
 SD> Sean

73
KA0TT
Don

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