I came home to find the neighbor's tree crew finishing up tree trimming, and got them to remove one branch that kept my SteppIR from rotating more than 90 degrees. What a difference! Now I can rotate 360!

I worked Joe K1JT on 14.076 JT65a with 5W from the K2 and my now free-to-rotate SteppIR. Joe was -11dB S/N in a 2.5KHz bandwidth for his 10W, and gave me -10dB report as well.

Joe was very patient as I wasn't running the latest release from their Subversion tree and it doesn't give HF operators much time to react -- it expects you have a 2.5s path delay to read the decoded message! So I may have fumbled the protocol and timing a bit. But at least I got it to key my K2.

233600  1   7/9                    CQ K1JT FN20              1   0
233702  Transmitting: JT65A   K1JT WA5ZNU CM87
233800  8   -4  0.1  -22  3 *      WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1  10
233800  1   8/10                   WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1   0
233858  Transmitting: JT65A   K1JT WA5ZNU CM87 OOO
234000  7   -5  0.3  -22  3 *      10W HR RRR                1   0
234000  1   9/11                   WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1   0
234101  Transmitting: JT65A   -11 TNX JOE 7
234200 13   -6  0.3  -22  3 *      TNX 73 GL                 1   0
234200  1  10/12                   WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1   0
234304  Transmitting: JT65A   5W HR RRR 73
234400 11   -1  0.3  -22  3 *      CQ K1JT FN20              1  10

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- posted by Leigh @ 23:56 z