Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance

The other day I was adding an item to my to-do list. The purpose of this list is to keep track of the things in my life that I'm interested in investigating or need to do or get to finish a project. My to-do list is like those of most of my fellow travellers, unending, unrelenting and never completed. As I tick off a completed item, three more get added and the list grows.

Given some spare time and to be honest, who has that, I am just as likely to find an item on my to-do list that was put there yesterday as an item that was put there 10 years ... Читать дальше »

An ARISS educational school contact is planned for Victor Glover KI5BKC with students at Scuola Scuola Secondaria di I grado "Anna Frank”, Pistoia, Italy, Pistoia, Italy .

The contact is scheduled on Friday December 4, 2020 at approximately 12.25 UTC, which is 13.25 CEWT.

The link to the ISS will be operated by the amateur radio ground station IK1SLD, located in northern Italy.

Downlink signals will be audible in Europe on 145.800 MHz FM.

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In this video Ria Jairman N2RJ explains how to install a PL259 on RG58 coax and looks at Wifi connectors, SMA and TNC F connectors and why we use them in ham radio

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00:00 - Pre-intro
00:30 - Intro graphic
00:40 - Introduction and shout-outs
01:36 - Installing RG-58 on PL259
03:37 - Wifi antenna connectors and polarity
10:43 - F connector in ham radio
16:54 - Next topic preview
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28 ноября 2020 г. в эфире работают следующие DX: