April meeting Highlights RF Propagation Prediction and Beacon Resources

August 18, 2022April 9, 2010 by k1ra

At the April meeting Andy K1RA presented information and links to various online propagation resources, including published long and short term HF, VHF and UHF propagation predictions, RF propagation prediction software and various real-time CW, PSK and WSPR beacon projects. The information included real-time map displays, DX cluster web sites and free software used to …

March meeting covers Software Defined Radios

August 18, 2022March 13, 2010 by k1ra

During our March 2010 meeting Andy K1RA presented details on SDR’s or Software Defined Radios. The presentation covered a brief history, a technical overview, commercial and DIY SDR hardware, freeware software and a live demo. Andy brought in his Softrock RXTX v6.3 SDR along with several software applications including Rocky, SDRadio, WinRad and PowerSDR. Both …