cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/4500180

Hello, I saw this community has zero posts and I thought, this should be a good start. Sharing with fellow CW lovers out there.

I started my HF journey last year in August. My first (failed) attempt at CW QSO in Nov 23. Then, I gave up. Restarted CW in March this year. Around that time, I gave up FT8 and also SSB. Still work SSB but not FT*. So, yeah, I am proud of myself to have achieved this. Some folks said, oh big deal, one can achieve this over a contest weekend. Maybe they can - for me it was significant work. Next goal SKCC 100. :-) 73 de VU2TUM

The transponder of MESAT-1 amateur radio satellite has been turned On for the weekend. Many are reporting strong downlink signals. I tested during a 29 deg pass over my QTH as well and I was amazed at the strong downlink of my CW CQ call.

Transponder uplink: 145.910-145.940 MHz Transponder downlink: 435.810-435.840 MHz

I set my uplink on 145.925 MHz and started calling CQ, scanned the downlink band to find my signal. I used two radios, FT991A for uplink and Icom 705 for downlink. Hope this helps!

New Yaesu radio announced. What do we think about it? To me, it looks like the Yaesu version of Icom IC705.

ARSI VU-DX CONTEST Dates: 28 – 29 Sep 2024 Duration: 28-Sep 12:00 UTC to 29-Sep 12:00 UTC Geographic Focus: India Participation: Worldwide Mode: SSB, CW, Mixed Bands: 40, 20, 15, 10 M

Hello This is VU2TUM. I am inviting you to a Google Meet session on 03/12/23 at 11 am IST ( 0530 UTC) where I will show how to setup Gpredict, Hamlib (and FLrig) to interface your CAT enabled radio.   The three software mentioned above are cross platform open source software and available free of cost, i.e. available for Linux, Mac, Raspberry Pi and Windows. While I am primarily a Linux & Mac user, I will attempt to show it how to do it on Windows as I understand many hams have windows machines  What we will not cover in this online discussion is how to do it for "your radio" in specific. I can share basic steps. As as disclaimer, I would like to point out that I am not a software person and my day job does not involve programming etc. I learnt this on my own and willing to share. That said, it is likely that someone can come up with a more efficient method and I am happy to learn as well.  See you during the Google Meet

https://meet.google.com/wnm-zdve-hvh