{"id":1966,"date":"2009-02-08T19:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2022-09-17T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T15:15:08","slug":"station-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/08\/station-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Station goals"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI set a few goals back in July<\/a> and thought I would take a look at my progress:<\/p>\n

What I want to accomplish in the Kansas Shack:
\n– HF phone and CW operation; 80m-10m
\n– HF digital modes (PSK-31, RTTY, PACTOR III)
\n– Computer logging
\n– 2m FM base station
\n– APRS weather station, interfaced with a dedicated 2m transceiver
\n– Online weather page, showing current weather conditions
\n– Separate, organized workbench<\/p>\n

HF phone and CW operation; 80m-10m – my HF activities are centered around my IC-7000. I would like to get the TS-930S<\/a> up an operational, but I am afraid that is not in the budget at this point.<\/p>\n

HF digital modes (PSK-31, RTTY, PACTOR III) – I am using my RIGblaster Plug & Play<\/a> for digital modes… other than PACTOR III. I have not yet hooked up my SCS PTC-IIusb Modem.<\/p>\n

Computer logging – I do have Ham Radio Deluxe loaded now, but I want to find a good linux version.<\/p>\n

2m FM base station – currently the FT-2800M<\/a> for the job. I do have some plans to move my IC-208H<\/a> from the truck into the shack. That will give me a 70cm capability in addition to the 2M. The truck is getting a new rig… more on that soon.<\/p>\n

APRS weather station, interfaced with a dedicated 2m transceiver – I am using a FT-1500 for the job, connected to UI-View32 and receiving data from the Davis VantagePro2. The problem here is that I only have the one antenna up so this limits my ability to hop on the local repeaters from the shack. I need to either get a coax switch to be able to switch between the two rigs or put another antenna up.<\/p>\n

Online weather page, showing current weather conditions – yes indeed… I think this<\/a> is working pretty nice.<\/p>\n

Separate, organized workbench – also a success… although it seems to be too crowded with stuff<\/i>. The best part is the pegboard for tools – I no longer have the problem of quickly locating the tools I need.<\/p>\n

Overall, I am happy with the progress I have made getting the shack in shape. What I want to work on now:
\n– New antenna for HF
\n– Fix up the ARSIB<\/a>
\n– Get the SB-200 amp working
\n– Transition all shack computers to Ubuntu linux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I set a few goals back in July and thought I would take a look at my progress: What I want to accomplish in the Kansas Shack: – HF phone and CW operation; 80m-10m – HF digital modes (PSK-31, RTTY, PACTOR III) – Computer logging – 2m FM base station – APRS weather station, interfaced … Continue reading “Station goals”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[27,30,34,98,99,117,118,148,201,207,213,242,248,259],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-antenna","tag-aprs","tag-arsib","tag-ft-1500m","tag-ft-2800m","tag-ic-208h","tag-ic-7000","tag-linux","tag-qth","tag-rigblaster-plug-play","tag-sb-220","tag-ts-930sat","tag-vantage-pro2","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-vI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}