New Start, New Car

My husband G0VGS has retired from his job today after 34 years with the same company. Today we picked up our new car and have started to fit the FT8900 in it. It will be nice to have the time to go out in the car and start to do more mobile work with Amateur Radio, both HF and VHF. Its the start of a new era for us and we intend to make the most of it!!

More on Routers

Well finally found one that seems immune to RF on 80 metres, its made again by DLink and seems to be rock solid. Strange how one make is ok and others are not. Anyway its working well but the speed of our broadband has backed right off because of the amount of disconnections over the last few days. Now need to retrain the broadband and get it back up to speed as its working at dialup speeds.

The Trouble with Routers!

Having just got a new router for the internet I find I am having all sorts of problems with it. If I transmit on 80 metres the router just disconnects! Now this would not be a problem normally because I rarely use the internet and radio at the same time. The problem is our DXCluster which runs 24 hours a day and can have upwards of 60 users in at one time and also provides cluster feeds to various other nodes. Tried everything this afternoon to track the problem down and it looks like RF getting into the phone line. Tried ferrites, tried relocating and no luck so we are back on the old DLink router which seems rock solid but is getting very elderly! May try again with another manufacturer next week but have tried Netgear and Linksys so far...

Thoughts of Sue

Yesterday I lost one of my best friends, Sue M3FWW. She had been ill since Christmas and passed away quietly in her sleep yesterday morning. Sue and her husband Bob G1OCK have been wonderful friends over the last few years and we will miss her terribly. Although Sue did very little radio she enjoyed the odd little chat and was very tolerant of Bob's enjoyment of radio. My thoughts are with Bob today as he tries to come to terms with his loss.