Barely Works Technology
Planned Operations Page

- Now QRV
  - post my table of dBm to S-units to the list, suggest inclusion in the manual
  - acquire a calibrated noise source or equivalent
  - replan and redo the noise figure measurements and calculations
  - VPN DOS failure notwithstanding, try out KA7EXM's UHF3_33x.EXE (8/2/07 e-mail) and see if that doesn't do it.
  - also see hardware tests page

- EME
  - Next Steps on EME-2
    - See 2006 May 12 e-mail.
  - 300 W. 2 m amplifier and elevation rotator enables the W5UN contact
  - VE7SL does single yagi moonbounce to Europe on JT65.  (Moonrise over the ocean...).
  - Digital EME discussion, QST 2003 May, p. 78.
  - HB9Q 15.28 m. dish supports single yagi 432 @ 50 watts.  QST 2004 March, p. 84.

- Planetary and Planetary Radar
  - SETI League's Extra Terrestrial Century Club 24 award for verified contacts or reception of 24 natural or man-made radio signals from beyond
    the earth's atmosphere. Includes satellites, lunar seismic transmissions (!) spacecraft and natural phenomena.  QST 2003 January, p. 89.
  - SETI history, people, and pictures.  W2ETI 1296 moonbounce beacon, QST 2005 September, p. 43, 118.
  - Mercury
  - Radio Jove, also see J. Kelly Smith, MD 10 foot university research dish, QST June 2005, p. 31.

- LOTW
  - MacLOGGERDx V 3.8, DogPark, QST 2004 March, p. 55
  - Get set up
  - When I put contests on the web (new or old), upload them there.
  - Individual QSOs only as requested.
  - Not much fuss, be reasonable.

- Upper Atmosphere Sounding at 10 GHz
  - as described in QEX 2003 Jul/Aug p. 3.  W7PUA, DSP-10s seeing refraction at 30 km.  Award in QST 2004 October, p. 49.  Fascinating!
  - Will need a partner within a few hundred miles.  San Francisco?  Phoenix?
  - Good writeup of EHF amateur bands and atmospheric absorption characteristics.  QST 2003 July p. 79.

- Meteor Scatter
  - WSJT information and conventions, QST 2007 April, p. 65.
  - Digital, QST 2003 September, p. 85

- Silent satellite sounding by skin reflection.
  - Put the bistatic illumination volume on the satellite's expected track.
  - Look for airplane-like signatures but faster and weaker (OSCAR 6 is smaller and further away, for example).
  - Do this initially on a non-silent satellite so the result can be checked.

- Satellites
  - N1JEZ operated AO-40 mode K.  QST 2002 December, p. 55.

- Mountaintopping
  - Have the battery
  - Have the laptop (and hope to use the Mac)
  - 2M7 should be car-transportable

- ARRL CCEs
  - Level 1 AREC (EC-001) only
    - Register with LAX ARES, see 2007 Feb 28 e-mail.
  - Antenna Modelling (EC-004)
  - HF Digital Comm (EC-005) (maybe)
  - others (maybe)
  - National Emergency Response Planning Committee Report, page 7. recommendations "every ham should have"
    - ARRL's ARECC Level 1
    - Red Cross combined course in Adult CPR/First Aid Basics
    - Red Cross online Introduction to Disaster Services (http://www.redcross.org/flash/course01_v01/)
    - FEMA IS-100 (Introduction to Incident Command System)
    - FEMA IS-200 (ICS for Single Resource and Initial Action Incidents)
    - FEMA IS-700 (National Incident Management System)
  - List of current offerings, QST 2003 May, p. 44.

- Frequency Measuring Tests
  - probably requires HF

- Above 10 GHz
  - Based on the issues encountered in operating these frequencies, this is no longer a central goal.

- Misc.
  -Water scattering at 10 GHz.  QST 2003 January, p. 88.
  - Here's a guy who has done remarkable work in way-below-noise-floor detection by tracking deep spacecraft at X-Band (8 GHz).
  - Here's another guy who has done a lot of interesting stuff.  See his 7 - 30 MHz mobile homebrew antenna at QEX 2003 Jan/Feb p. 3.
  - Link to W6RMK's website.

- Tips
  - AWG, for copper, #10 is 1 ohm / 1000 feet and it's logarithmic from there.  QST 2005, p. 63.
  - To measure an unknown balun with RF analyzer, terminate in 50 ohms and SWR is ratio.  QST 2005 June, p. 52

last updated 2008 January 2 cbd