The weekend is almost over but on Friday like most of us a "to do list" was made. As for the ham related items on the list I did not do to bad at all. As of Sunday afternoon the K2's 100 watt (KPA100) kit is done, installed and working in the K2 (well almost I did submit a post to the Elecraft site about a small issue). I set up
Ham radio deluxe computer control software to also work with my K2. I ran out of serial ports on the computer so I was able to use my
Edgeport/8. It has 8 serial ports and is USB connected to my computer. I connected it to my computer installed the drivers and it works great. My radio room is clean along with my work area where I do all my kit building.
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| The new monitor to the right (click to enlarge) |
My other ham related adventure for the weekend was to get a second LCD monitor. I have a second output on my video card and able to take advantage by adding a second monitor. It will help out during contests, on one screen I can run
PowerSDR and a propagation page as well. On the other monitor I can run
N1MM contest software along with QRZ.com. But there are many combination's I can try out over time both for contest and casual operating. The monitor to the left that is blank and hooks up to my laptop again during contest time. I like to to monitor getscores or work on my blog during slow times and it does not tax the CPU of my main computer.
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| New monitor with PowerSDR and propagation reports (click to enlarge) |
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| N1MM along with QRZ.com (click to enlarge) |
The weekend is almost over but on Friday like most of us a "to do list" was made. As for the ham related items on the list I did not do to bad at all. As of Sunday afternoon the K2's 100 watt (KPA100) kit is done, installed and working in the K2 (well almost I did submit a post to the Elecraft site about a small issue). I set up Ham radio deluxe computer control software to also work with my K2. I ran out of serial ports on the computer so I was able to use my Edgeport/8. It has 8 serial ports and is USB connected to my computer. I connected it to my computer installed the drivers and it works great. My radio room is clean along with my work area where I do all my kit building. 
4 comments:
What a lovely set-up.
Thanks Andre for the comment.
Very nice, like the shack colour. Just re-vitalized my shack but not quite finished. My to-do list is a lot longer than yours it seems
Good morning Bob, yes I chose the colour as it is soothing and relaxing.
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