Been a little less busy around the bench. I was finally able to successfully integrate my echolink interface board to my CAT200E repeater controller. Right now the NF9K repeater is maintaining a constant link (via echolink) with the K3HTK repeater up in Noblesville. Still a lot to do here. Trying work out a Linux based echolink PC vs. the Windows one that I’m using now. Windows is just not that stable.
Been working a little HF JT65. Central Europe has been open on 20 meters over the last two or three weekends. I’ve made contacts into Scotland, Whales, Germany, and Spain. Not bad for some impromptu operating while shuffling other things around the shack.
I’ve also spent a few cycles with my non-ham hobby, vintage computers. I have my Commodore 128 up and running, albeit with two 1541 drives. Trying to find a mass storage interface or a compact flash interface that I can use to store some of the software I’ve collected. I picked up close to 100 floppies full of software at the Brownsburg Hamfest for $5…. Nice addition to the collection. 25 or so of them are Ham Radio specific programs.
