Hi friends! I made the first of three operational practices to get my license, operating the beautiful ICOM 737 🙌🏻🤩

I was gifted a radio last year. It sat in a box, untouched all this time. I'm heading into surgery tomorrow (Achilles rebuild), so I'm going to be off my feet for a while. I'm going to use my recovery time to study and get certified. There's something about the hobby that's always interested me. My goal is to "walk away" (sorry, I couldn't resist) from this with, at least, my Technician license. I'm looking to learn something new and possibly join a new community.

One more note: while this may not seem like a big deal to some people, I've always had difficulty with certification tests, even the simplest ones. Tests are super difficult for my brain. I can be a subject matter expert at something, but once I have to take a test, my brain scrambles the information and I do not test well.

Found the perfect home logger for me, self hosting wavelog on my own server and interfacing through my phone or home over LAN. What do you guys think of this set up.

Radios: ICOM 706MKIIG W/ PSU

ICOM 2100-H 2M ONLY (NOT PICTURED)

YAESU VX-6

AUX EQUIPMENT:

MFJ-557 MORSE KEY

MFJ-945E MOBILE ANTENNATUNER

SAMLEX SEC1235 PSU

DIGIRIG

ANTENNA:

40M EFHW (40-10) UP TO 1KW

SOFWARE:

WAVELOG (LOGGER)

WINLINK EXPRESS

VARAHF

HAMRS PRO

JT SYNC

WSJTX

GRID TRACKER

They can be as simple or as advanced as you want, and features you’ve added to a DIY build or just some feature you really love in a radio you purchased.

I'm really struggling to locate the source of this trash on the spectrum.

I'm currently using a powered loop antenna about 30 feet off the ground 10 feet from the peak of my roof. It's new. Ive been using the same loop antenna for months. Within the past month its gotten worse. I even replaced the whole rig. From the antenna right up to the SDR. Still getting this. I live on a farm away from any major source of noises that I can think of.

If I back off the gain it improves but never goes away. I've switched to Q-Branch still the same thing. I realize what I said there...anyhoo.... I also up-converted and still getting the same thing. It appears across the whole spectrum. I have 3 seperate SDR's and all 3 are producing this so it can't be them as far as I can tell.

I also tried my RADDY RF919 using the built in loop antenna, the external loop antenna as well as pluging in the powered loop antenna and all produce similar results.

I wont lie, I'm no expert, and I certainly don't pretend to be. I know a few things. Enough to get 7.200.00 in for the late light laughs. I would absolutely love to know if anyone has similar issues or ideas of how to get rid of this. It's not a show stopper but when I do have to up the power it becomes overwhelming to the front end of the receiver.

This is the spectrum from about 4-5 months ago:

And that's the band now.

Hi all, I've made something that I was missing as ham radio operater, so please check if that works for you, would appreciate comments and suggestions.

You upload your adi log, and it tells you a story, also you can add pictures and save it as pdf, everything stays in your browser, nothing is uploaded.

I think it can be valuable for HAM community

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73 de YT3MD

Duca

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I have a BF-F8HP Pro and it will not transmit or receive on any frequency I try but it works on FM Radio and I’ve tried installing new firmware and factory resetting but it still just doesn’t work