This link shows how one motivated DXer setup a Rohn tower complete with radials on a very small city lot. This looks like a lot of work
See W4EF's site here
Sunday, December 30, 2007
160M on City Lot
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
K4UJ Amateur Radio Resume
April 2007 - Scarborough Reef DXpedition (BS7H).
November 2006 - CQWW CW 160 SOSB/LP - Unofficial 3rd place.
April 2006 - Appointed as official member of the ARRL HSMM Working Group.
October 2005 - Led the 160M effort at NQ4I CQWW-SSB
October 2005 - Gwinnett ARES AEC for Technology
September 2005 - Hurricane Katrina Announcement
August 2005 - PJ7 announcement See the PJ7 Summary
April 2005 - ZF2UJ announcement - See the ZF2UJ Summary
March 2005 - Captain of the 160M effort at NQ4I WPX-SSB
1998/1999 - In the late summer of 1998 after much research and lobbying our group was rewarded with the appropriate credentials to activate KP5 (Desecheo Island). Within a month of our departure date the permit was rescinded. I will leave the details of why it was rescinded to your imagination for now.
December 1997 - K4WA and myself actived WP2Z on the Island of St. Croix for the 10M contest. We placed first in the Carribean and 4th in the World.
1997-1999 - Operated K4UJ DX packet cluster, primary connection via the internet, but provided 144mhz-1200 baud packet, 440mhz-9600 baud packet as well as 56K RF connection to the East Atlanta RF Lan backbone.
January 1997 - Actived K4UJ/KP4 for the CQ160 Meter Contest. TX Antenna was a dipole strung between two hills and a impromtpu receive loop was crafted at 3am to help reduce QRN.
July 1996 - Activated IOTA NA-0076. It was during this contest that we learned of the bombing at Olympic Park in Atlanta.
1996-1997 - Vice President Southeasetern DX Club.
1995-1997 - Membership Chairman Southeasetern DX Club.
1995 - Introduction to contesting, TopBand style. CQ160 - It was at the QTH of W8BLA, that he and K2UFT got me hooked on contesting.
Certifications:
ARRL EC-01 Level 1 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
FEMA IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command System
FEMA IS-700 National Incident Management System
Awards:
1996 ARRL Int'l DX Contest - 1st Place Single Op Georgia
1996 CQWW 160 DX Contest - 1st Place Single Op Low Power Georgia
1997 ARRL 10M Contest - WP2Z - 4th Place World
K4UJ Packet Cluster Node
K4UJ DX Cluster
Back in the late 90's I ran the AK1A packet cluster software front ended with Linux to provide worldwide AX25 and local 56K,9.6K,2.4K packet access. Changing QTH's forced me to take that node down.
Now I am in a location that I can play amateur radio again and have renewed interest in running a cluster. Being a unix/linux fan since the early 90's I chose to run the DX-Spider software.
You can access the DX cluster in a variety of ways via the internet. For telnet access, we recommend that you either configure your logging program to login, or use PuTTYtel, a better telnet client than the one that ships with Windows.
- Telnet to cluster.dx-is.org port 7300 or click here.
- Web page with 30 second updates and band only selection, here.
- Via your WAP enabled phone, here.
- Web access via a java console here.
Sorry, there is NO RF connectivity at this time, but if you are close enough I could get you connected via WiFi link ;-)
Features
There are many features that are not found on other cluster systems. I have listed a few of them below for you to experiment with:
- sh/qrz
Will perform a QRZ.com lookup for the given callsign. - sh/mydx - show dx run thru your spot filter
- sh/dx state in:oh - show dx in US state IN or OH
- sh/dx by_state in:oh - show dx spotted in US state IN or OH
- sh/dx by_zone 4,5,6 - show dx spotted in cq zones 4,5 and 6
Welcome
In order to blend a couple of my hobbies, I decided to start two blogs...
MostTraveledDXer (operating amateur radio in foreign sometimes remote places)
MostTraveledPhotographer (the photo essay part of the trip)
Combining the two, I should have plenty of stories and pictures to tell those stories with. Obviously one will be amateur radio centric and the other will focus on photography.
So the title may be a bit misleading at this point, but hey, you gotta have a few goals in life or you just wander around..
Paul
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