WA5ZNU (Leigh)

This is my WA5ZNU page, for ham stuff.

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Ham Log

PSK 31

• See my Remote PSK Software
• See my presentation PSK31: Instant Messaging for Ham Radio?

XDIF Log Format

I am working to put together a group of people to define an extensible, XML-based logging format called XDIF.

Regular Home Page

Equipment

• Yaesu VX-2R
• Yaesu FT-817 (and LDG Z11 and Z100 and Elecraft T1)
• Elecraft KX1 (see how I carry it with me like an HT)
• Elecraft K2
• PSKMeter
• HW-16 (to replace WN5ZNU's lost one) and an HG-10B (instead of my old VF-1). Not yet working...
• A Drake TR-4C from my father, N5LK

Software

I am working on Linux software for PSK31:

• pskmeter software for the pskmeter hardware.
• Updates to gMFSK (not yet published).
• A client-server protocol for PSK, for remote operation via a Java applet, for example, and to separate the signal processing from the user interface. (See client. Server not yet published.)

History

• I got my Novice license in 1969, progressed through Technician and General, then Advanced, and upgraded to Extra just before my birthday in 2004. I also held an Element IX license and opreated at 50KW on 300 meters for a few years ;-)
• I have been active off an since then, I am now active on 2M and on HF.
• As a novice, my 7th contact was Hawaii on 40m, 75 watts into a trapped inverted Vee, on a Heathkit HW-16. I also worked Texas as DX on my 180mW QRP rig OX-1, with the amplifier running on a 9V battery.
• I was state network coordinator for NAVMARCORMARS in the early 1970's, but am no longer a member of MARS.

QRZ

QSL

See my QSL card generator in PostScript.

QRV

I am QRV on PSK31 mostly on 20 and 40, and CW on 40/30/20 in early and late evenings. On weekends I like to go HFPacking with my FT-817 and Pac-12 vertical or a 20M wire dipole.

QTH

838 Rorke Way
Palo Alto, CA, 94303-4409
USA

Grid Square CM87wk
Lat/Lon: 37.428833 N 122.114667 W

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