The WIA sent me a very welcome letter today. As of today, I now have a Standard amateur radio license which entitles me to…
- Power: 100W PEP for SSB and CW (I’ll have to check for FM)
- Bands: 80m, 40m, 20m*, 15m, 10m, 6m*, 2m, 70cm, 23cm (* new bands)
- Digital Modes! (timely too … we’re studying various digital modes at university)
If you wish to catch up… the new callsign is VK4MSL. And yes, it’s kinda hard now to not say FSJL when you’ve been so used to saying it the last few months. 😉
I’ve got some ideas that I’d like to try with digital modes, and also at some point I’d like to do some SSTV too… Priority at this time still is with my university studies, but I’ll be hitting up 20m and doing a bit of digital work in the coming months.
Congrats man!
Hopefully the sun will wake up in the coming year and we’ll get good enough conditions to do some HF.
PSK31 on HF is pretty cool! Do you guys get 30m privs? (10.1-10.150)
73,
-Corey KB9JHU
Congrats man!
Hopefully the sun will wake up in the coming year and we’ll get good enough conditions to do some HF.
PSK31 on HF is pretty cool! Do you guys get 30m privs? (10.1-10.150)
(do you have an HF rig yet??)
73,
-Corey KB9JHU
Heh, 30m yes… but only for those on an Advanced license… what I have is a Standard, which doesn’t give me 30m.
But yes, I have a HF rig… and talk on it regularly on 80m. Apparently 20m has been good to the US in the afternoons (UTC+10) so when I’m around the radio at that time, I’ll have to have a good listen to see what stations come in. Power limit is now 100W, which is the max the radio is capable of anyway.
Still looking at a better antenna however — the antenna I have at present is less than ideal for my needs it seems.