Quote from: gil on May 22, 2018, 05:03:01 AM
Doing it now.

More here: http://radiopreppers.com/index.php?topic=1450.0

Quote from: gil on May 22, 2018, 07:00:32 AM
Jack Binns was awakened by a tremendous crashing sound, screaming metal and a shudder that ran through the ship. As the wireless operator, Binns knew immediately what to do. Fortunately his long-wire antenna was still up and he had backup battery power. Jack started sending CQD on his spark-gap transmitter, ultimately saving four thousand lives from his ship, the Republic, and those of the Florida, the vessel that hit them in the fog. It was on January 23rd, 1909, and the first significant use of Morse code to save a great number of lives at sea.

Nice article, however this introduction is too short, in a way. As I know well from several years in the profession, a radio operator cannot just go ahead and send distress signals without the ship's Master ordering him to do so. That was probably a rule in 1909, too, as confirmed by a contemporary news article:

https://www.nytimes.com/1909/01/26/archives/how-binns-flashed-his-calls-for-help-drenched-and-hungry-he-stuck.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/01/26/101863306.pdf
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/remembering-jack-binns-heroic-radio-operator/

And "saving four thousand lives"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Republic_(1903)   — 1,500 lives saved.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_(Schiff,_1905).  — 900 passengers transferred to the Baltic. (The Florida did not sink.)

Also, it seems the whole story was more complicated and perhaps a little different from the summary above:

See also: http://www.jackbinns.org
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Binns
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/news-from-1959-death-of-jack-binns.25776/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2009/01/21/jack_binns_hero_feature.shtml

Quote from: solaris0121 on April 30, 2018, 07:47:54 AM
(PS - make sure your aerial isnt plugged into any kind of distribution system (active or passive) in case you pick up some nasty voltage or static that fries your radio)

I would also worry about myself frying my neighbours' television sets or radios that may be connected to that distribution system, which was the case in the apartment building where I live, with a huge antenna on the roof.

(That's history now though, in my case, because radio, TV, and broadband Internet come into the apartment from an underground cable which, obviously, cannot serve as an emergency antenna.)

Quote from: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/prepping-anthropology/
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
For Preppers, the Apocalypse Is Just Another Disaster

The prepping movement has a bad image spurred by right-wing extremists. But preppers are a largely misunderstood bunch.
CHAD HUDDLESTON / 14 MAR 2018

Radios are mentioned only briefly: "... the usefulness of short wave radios ...".

Quote from: gil on March 20, 2018, 05:56:20 AM... the Les Moxon book on HF antennas ...

Quote from: CroPrepper on March 20, 2018, 05:08:19 PMDo you got the isbn # of the moxon book?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1643787.Hf_Antennas_For_All_Locations
https://www.amazon.com/Hf-Antennas-All-Locations-Moxon/dp/1872309151
http://www.arrl.org/shop/HF-Antennas-for-All-Locations
https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/3372.html
https://www.radioworld.co.uk/Second_Hand_HF_Antennas_for_all_Locations_by_Les_Moxon
About the book: http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/1997-05/msg00622.html
About the author: http://www.eham.net/articles/7960

Quote from: Andywragg on March 08, 2018, 03:18:52 PM
Photobucket want to start charging me to link my photos to other sites.

There are many free alternatives:

https://www.lifewire.com/free-image-hosting-sites-3486329
https://www.thebalance.com/top-free-image-hosting-websites-1357014

P.S. I notice a paperclip adjacent to your two last posts. However I cannot see any photos.

For what it's worth I found some links through Google:

http://www.sm6why.n.nu/sark-100
http://www.die-jetzis.de/sark100.htm
https://sark100-swr-analyzer.soft112.com/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sark100swranaly/files/
http://ok1rp.blogspot.no/2015/12/60-mr100-antenna-analyzer-pc-interface.html
http://www.jh4vaj.com/archives/2537

Quote from: oz123colin on March 03, 2018, 08:50:27 PM
* WinPCC-Sark100.exe.7z  Downloaded this file but my Winrar is reporting the file is corrupt. :( Anybody having the same issue. ???

I am on a Mac and cannot really do much to help. The file downloaded OK, but cannot be opened on a Mac. Try removing the suffix ".7z" before opening, so your PC understands it's a .exe file may help.

Quote from: gil on May 12, 2017, 04:37:43 PMHello Joel. I did post it somewhere here... Do a search on MR100... If you can't find it I'll look around...

Quote from: Sparks on March 03, 2018, 08:33:27 PM

Quote from: oz123colin on March 03, 2018, 07:39:51 PMCan see a post making reference to the software being attached to a post but cannot find the software there ,, done search ,no luck... can you please direct me to the correct page to download this software thankyou.

There is a piece of software for downloading attached to this post:

Quote from: gil on January 10, 2017, 05:13:22 PMHello. Connection is through a simple USB cable. I'll attach the software to this post.
I find myself using it all the time... Very useful piece of gear...

Quote from: oz123colin on March 03, 2018, 07:39:51 PM
Can see a post making reference to the software being attached to a post but cannot find the software there ,, done search ,no luck... can you please direct me to the correct page to download this software thankyou.

There is a piece of software for downloading attached to this post:

Quote from: gil on January 10, 2017, 05:13:22 PM
Hello. Connection is through a simple USB cable. I'll attach the software to this post.

I find myself using it all the time... Very useful piece of gear...

Quote from: CroPrepper on March 02, 2018, 08:48:52 AMI also read somewhere the 817 has a built in antenna tuner ...

Are you certain? If that is so, why did my ham radio vendor insist I needed this one?

http://www.nevadaradio.co.uk/antenna-accessories/antenna-tuning-units/ldg-z817

Quote from: gil on January 19, 2018, 04:37:53 PM
See my thread on the armored Bitx40...

http://radiopreppers.com/index.php?topic=1277.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r19nbag65po

QuoteHelge Fykse  [LA6NCA] — Published 30 Nov. 2017

I show here two of the best radio receivers made during WW2.
E52b and Lo6K39a.
Lo6K39a is probably the world's best TRF receiver.
E52b is the best receiver made during the war.

Quote from: lc65 on November 14, 2017, 04:09:38 PM
BTW - is there a place to look up SW transmission information? That is a list of transmitters on the air.

There certainly is! I bought my very first edition of this outstanding book some 55 years ago:

http://www.wrth.com/  —  http://www.wrth.com/whatiswrth.html

Many questions to ask about this story, and questions are also being asked in this group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/radio-officers
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/radio-officers

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/radio-officers/4nSrzwXe-LQ
(Radio Officers › 2 American women at sea adrift for over 5 months).