I hope to be of some help here - or at least to learn as much as I can. We will be taking ham radio and ubuntu (or some form or Linux) with us to help us on the boat - to do everything from Navigation to radio communications (like email via HF from remote parts of the planet). The main reason is in two years I'm retiring to a sail boat where my wife (My First Mate) and I will start a cruising life for a few years. I was in Combat Communications doing a lot of tactical stuff, and in 1982 was picked up by the White House and was soon a Senior Radio Tech for President Reagan and VP Bush (and later for President Bush) - did that WH stint for eight years. I owned a small TV repair shop when I was 16 (vacuum tubes in those days!) and went in the military in '76. Been a ham for about 20 years now.īeen involved in radio and electronics a lot longer, about 40 plus. I've used linux for many years in one form or another. I use Ubuntu - for about 18 months or so now.
#Ubuntu ham radio deluxe license#
Rick, N0NJY (Amateur Extra class license holder), Colorado Springs, CO. Shame about the no solar activity on the one hand, but it's great that it is finally showing the relation between solar activity and the variations of climate here.Īlready posted in another thread. Danged if I had been thinking I'd have been ready for the Rome Ham Fest being held just up the road at the National Guard Armory today.
#Ubuntu ham radio deluxe full#
Oh, and I just downloaded the General and Extra class pools and diagrams so that I can get full phone privileges one of these days. you know.Īnyway, I wonder how simple it can be to hook up and get going with CW? I, too, want to know more about using my computer and my rig to transmit and receive CW. (then there's the Cobra 2000 GTL with both speakers and a D-104 silver eagle.
I also have a 4 element yagi still in the box propped up against the wall across from me since my birthday to remind me that I need to get the lead out and get back on the air. Storms took my windom down, but I have it rolled up in the closet behind me and am looking forward to stringing it back up soon. Last night I dug it out and with some determined fiddling about it's back working again. The Kenwood developed a problem a few years ago, and would not turn on.
I have a Kenwood TS180S HF rig and a Windom antenna that I used to work all continents (not a paper hanger, so there's nothing but logs to show for it), and a Ranger RCI2950 Mobile 10 meter radio, an HTX202 handheld 2m with a home made 1/4 ground plane made out of 12 gage wire that I can hang from the ceiling to xmit on.
#Ubuntu ham radio deluxe plus#
Panicked taking the 13 wpm (but should have hung in there, dangit) and ended up just passing the 5 wpm, so I was stuck with Tech Plus license.
Took the Novice, Tech and General tests back in '97, and passed all of them the same day, only missing two questions in General related to frequency allocation.