Timeline for How to find transmitting (voice and CW) Amateur stations in UK?
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| Dec 20, 2017 at 19:21 | history | edited | Wossname | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2017 at 20:38 | comment | added | Wossname | Thanks you all for the information. Alas I'm still not having any luck receiving anything in any of the "popular" bands. One thing I'm still not sure about is how far I should "zoom in" on the waterfall display in HDSDR. I suspect it should simply be the goal to fill the screen width with the selected band's entire coverage but I can't get the "feel" for it at all. | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 1:39 | comment | added | Scott Earle♦ | @rclocher the 2m band in the UK is 144-146MHz | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 1:50 | answer | added | Scott Earle♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 23:59 | comment | added | captcha | Further to that, many club repeaters also broadcast a time signal on the start of a new hour. Tune in just before that and you may hear the club repeater's ident(ifier) announcement. Wrt the APRS signals, good! That means your antenna and RSP1 are working! | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 23:50 | comment | added | rclocher3 | @Wossname, your town most likely has a ham club with a 2m FM repeater. You could probably find the club's web site with a web search. Their site should give the frequency of their repeater in the 2m band (144--148 MHz). In my area there isn't a lot of chatter on FM anymore, except for a weekly net that two dozen people check into for a half hour or so. So if you find that frequency and listen, you should hear some decently strong FM signals. (The input and output frequencies of FM repeaters are different, but the quoted frequency is the repeater output, which is the one to monitor.) | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 22:06 | comment | added | Wossname | @captcha, 144.800 MHz didn't give me anything at all, but the website showed 2 people locally transmitting in the 440 MHz area, sounds like data for sure. What should I see on 144.800 Mhz? | |
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| Dec 14, 2017 at 21:44 | comment | added | captcha | This might not exactly relate to your question, but to see if your antenna and RSP1 are working properly you could tune in to 144.800, Europe's APRS frequency. Then check on the aprs.fi website if anything is nearby. The signals will be short (~ 1sec) bursts of data but if you're just trying to test things out it may be very useful. Modulation is in narrow FM. | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | Wossname | @rclocher3, I'm afraid I don't know what that entails. Could you pleas elaborate? | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 21:23 | comment | added | rclocher3 | Perhaps you could start by monitoring a local repeater on the 2m band. | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 21:15 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | so, what frequencies does your discone work well on? Your discone has a ground plane "built in", that's the cone part – and discones work pretty well with those, so you couldn't even get a significantly better reception with a different kind of antenna of the same size and a larger ground plane. The downward pointing rods are your ground plane, and the fact that a discone works relatively well over a large range of frequencies is exactly because that's how it works. | |
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