VERY BEST WISHES TO ALL OUR RAFARS MEMBERS, SUPPORTERS and their families
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MW7GBZ - WSPR2 (Whisper) Beacon homed on Grid Location IO82
I am not sure how many RAFARS members or for that matter any visitors to this website make the use of WSPR2 to get some idea of near time or historical propagation conditions (the last 24Hrs) on 40m. But for those who do, RAFARS now has a temporary WSPR beacon homed in Grid IO82 running on a Raspberry Pi Zero (filtered) @20mW output. By using the wsprnet.org App on the web you can get mapping or database listing showing. I hope to operate the beacon on 80, 40 and 20m but not until I can configure it to auto band change (and built the 20m filter and 3 way switching system). The poor propogation conditions we have had on 40m these last few months have show up well on WSPR with almost no inter G early mornings until 11:00 or noon.
Editor's Request - T1154 Restoration
I aquired an T1154 nearly 2 years ago and have only just round to looking at it, with a view to restoration and operation. It's complete and looks ok externally, but the wiring is in a very poor state and requires most of the equipment wire replacing. Has anybody undertaken this task before? To make things more tricky, some wire has been cut off at one end which makes end-to end replacement tricky, without generating a wiring out sheet. Any ideas or advise please? Some of the wire ends are very tricky to see never mind getting a soldering iron in to replace them. Is it actually possible to replace the perished equipment wire without a near or complete strip-down?
The 2 photos below of the T1154 show the poor state of the wiring and the task in hand.
73 QRV EDITOR
