Tomas //
Bastlí ještě vůbec někdo ?? Má bastlení v dnešní době ještě smysl... Já myslím, že určitě. Mezi radioamatéry je spousta šikovných lidí, kteří staví zajímavé projekty. Trochu mi chybí nějaká možnost výměny informací, nápadů. Založil jsem emailovou diskuzní skupinu s tématikou bastlení. Je dostupná na adrese http://groups.google.com/group/bastleni/ , kde je i webový archiv a příspěvky můžete odesílat přes web nebo mailem. Takže pokud se chcete pochlubit s nějakým zajímavým projektem nebo potřebujte poradit nebo něco sháníte pro své projekty pište do této diskuzní skupiny...
Jan 13, 2011: VUCC award support is now live -- Under the Awards tab you will find a VUCC button. The VUCC is ARRL's award recognizing VHF, UHF, and SHF work and counts Maidenhead grid squares.VUCC is an open-ended award in that you can work on it throughout your lifetime, just like DXCC. But, it is like WAS in that the rules require all the contacts to be made from a defined area (from locations within 200 km on 1296 MHz and below, and for SHF awards, contacts must be made from a single location, defined as within a 300-meter diameter circle.) The VUCC support in LoTW allows you to "make the rule or rules" necessary to find the QSLs in LoTW that satisfy the VUCC rules.
Beyond these set-up procedures, the VUCC support functions operate much like the way the WAS support in LoTW works. You are allowed to have multiple VUCCs, as long as they are from areas too far apart to be counted as one area. Most people will likely have one "home or primary" VUCC area though.
What is different: There are no "hybrid" applications -- you can make as many LoTW applications as you want and you can make separate applicatons the old fashioned way with paper QSLs. We will keep track. It is not necessary to have 100 grids confirmed in order to make an application, but of course, it is necessary to have 100 grids confirmed and applied in order to be awarded a certificate for 6 or 2 Meters.
The payment rate structure is different -- both different from the old VUCC fees, and different from the fees in DXCC inside LoTW. Paper applications will cost more than LoTW applications. There are lower prices for ARRL members, but US stations must be members of ARRL. There is no "range of prices" for LoTW credits (what you pay to use a QSL inside LoTW) -- the LoTW per-QSO fee is 16 cents. You will see all the prices in the Application screens.
It is possible to give credit for up to 4 different grids using LoTW. This option is available for those who operate from "grid lines" and follow the rules for this set forth in VUCC and the Fred Fish Award (see VUCC Rules # 4.E.).
It is possible to "link" your ARRL-affirmed list of grids (those grids that have already been accredited to your VUCC award) -- that means you have already received a VUCC award and want that data to appear in LoTW. This is very similar to what you can do with DXCC in LoTW. Unfortunately, some of the older VUCC applications exist only on paper and will need to be typed-into the system by ARRL staff. If you have not made a VUCC application since 2000, you may be in that group, so please have patience as we will not be able to enter that data for a while.
Take your time and enjoy the new tools. If you see matched QSOs and they are showing grids which you do not believe are correct, please let us know. We do check submitted grid data for accuracy, but there may be errors. You have final control over which of your confirmations you apply to your VUCC. If you believe someone has submitted QSO data with an incorrect grid square, please let that station and us know. The originating station can fix his geographic data and resubmit the logs.
We are extremely busy with finishing 2010 DXCC data right now, so please have patience with our rollout of VUCC support -- there is no hurry, it is going to be here for a long time. Questions as always to lotw-help@arrl.org
73 from the LoTW Team
Krátký klip toho, jak se amatérské rádio vpašovalo do kreslené pohádky (japonské) :-)
více:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563/
ZS6DJM zabudoval 70MHz transvertor přímo do transceiveru na místo určeného pro interní baterie. Rádio ukazuje kmitočet přímo na 70MHz a to díky funkci určené pro spolupráci s transvertory.
Po domácky vyrobený enkodér CTCSS pro TRX FT736.
kompletní informace na: http://ludens.cl/Electron/fts8/fts8.html
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