Kiwi-2 sdr receiver lake merwin, Washington state, U.s.a.
Tune in to the KB7RQQ - Lake Merwin, Washington KiwiSDR Receiver
http://21185.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073 Listen from anywhere in the world! Please email me any comments or questions.
Info
The site overlooks Lake Merwin from 1260' in Southwest Washington State. Site has a view of the Mt. St. Helen's volcano across the valley that erupted May 18th 1980.
The receiver is a KiwiSDR2 with a W6LVP Active Loop antenna for receive. It has back-up power.
Internet to the site is fed by a commercially licensed 5-gHz radio link to internet across the lake. The licensed frequency keeps me away from the public-open frequencies as to maintain good bandwidth. The internet is delivered by RF from a site on the west hills of Portland, Oregon.
The path is Portland, Oregon to Woodland, Washington, then to Davis Peak where I am gaining access. That is approximately a 50 mile RF haul but works extremely well using quality Ubiquity antennas and routers. Download speed averages about 50 mbps and upload (output) is right around 20 mbps.
Future upgrades will include a user controllable antenna switch that will allow remote switching between the loop, a beverage antenna, and hopefully other experimental antennas.
This SDR samples ALL of the HF spectrum from 0 - 30 MHz at once, allows four connections at a time, decodes DRM, Fax, NAVTEX, FT4/8, WSPR, and many more modes. There are no set time limits.
Please feel free to play around with it and have fun. I'd appreciate to hear if you find it useful.
To get a listing of ALL Kiwi's available including a map and search field: http://kiwisdr.com/public/
Short-Wave.Info Shortwave Station Schedule and Lookup
Use this Website to find things to listen to or identify stations heard
Start by entering or selecting something in the search criteria. When the map shoes up, drag the green-dot to SW Washington State on the map and use the search features to find stations that are broadcasting using your search criteria. You will see a signal-strength meter on the right of the stations that you should be able to hear. Same for your own region. If you have a shortwave receiver, drag the dot over your region to see what you should be able to hear at your location.
EIBISPACE - tHE eXTENSIVE sHORTWAVE bROADCAST lIST
Frequently updated Shortwave Broadcast schedules
This is THE list in both text and .CSV format that can be downloaded so you can search on the fly. Many SDR programs will incorporate the .CSV file to provide a lookup withing the program. Kiwi uses this list for header tags but I've noticed that they are a bit behind. Not sure if I can update this myself in Kiwi just yet... Working on that. This schedule changes a couple of times a year for Winter/Summer broadcast schedules. Worth saving the text file to your desktop and searching it in regular old MS Wordpad or similar.
Search Ham Radio Callsigns Heard
If you are hearing Ham Radio operators, You can look them up here by callsign
Ham Radio Operators receive call letters from the FCC just like other radio services. Try to capture them and look them up. Ham Radio callsigns will be one to two letters, a number, and one to three additional letters. Example: KB7RQQ. QRZ.com is a great source for Ham Radio information and propagation and solar weather info.
TIP: Most HAM radio transmissions below 20 Meters (14Mhz) will be in Lower Side Band or LSB. Communications above will be in Upper Side Band or USB. You will still see some hams operating in Amplitude Modulation or AM in portions of the 40m and 80m band. If you get something that sounds weird, try playing with the different modes.
CLANDESTINE SIGNAL HUNTING - CATALOG OF STRANGE SIGNALS
Visit Priyom.org to listen in, join the search, and help contribute to researching these mysterious signals. This site will show when the next transmission is and provide a link directly to an SDR that is close. It will also put you on the right mode and frequency so you don't need to adjust anything. Priyom also catalogs what is known about each station and can provide location, what it may be, scheduled frequencies and times of transmissions for each.
ПРИЁМ-PRIYOM: RU. "RECEPTION - CONVERSION OF TRANSMITTED RADIO WAVES OR ELECTRIC SIGNALS INTO PERCEPTIBLE FORMS, SUCH AS SOUND OR LIGHT, BY MEANS OF ANTENNAS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT."
Ham Radio Venture Overland - A brandmeister dmr talk group
Brandmeister DMR 31655
Listen Live: http://149.28.90.160/ Click on the 'RX Monitor' icon.
Ham Radio Venture Overland, co-founded by Mike AA1PR in Vermont, is a talk group of like minded hams that enjoy the outdoors,vehicle based off-road travel, and camping. Join us!
We welcome long winded ragchews. We are very much pro-round table... so throw your call out. You are never 'interrupting' us. We welcome the conversation.
Ham Radio Venture Overland is linked to the following:
Allstar: 42353 (linked to bridge 54897) Sponsored by WW1VT Vermont Allstar/AA1PR Mike
TGIF: 31655 (standalone) Sort of a channel #2
Wires-X: 81335 (linked)
D-Star: XLX-303H (linked)
P25: 31655 (linked)
M17: 31655 (future)
Join our Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/171709459018812
Visit our webpage for more information
Weekly Net!
Sunday Evenings @ 6:00PM Pacific
XLX-303H
Is sponsored by coloradodigital.net
the bigfoot 200 endurance run - mt st helens, washington
Each August,
I take part in a communications event where we coordinate and operate a radio network in support of a 200 mile endurance trail run. The terrain is 700 square miles of the Mt. St. Helens and Mt Adams wilderness of the Cascade Range in Southwestern Washington State.
We utilize, VHF/UHF FM simplex and repeaters, HF/VHF Winlink, satellite tracking of each individual runner, provide mesh networking, and Starlink internet to the many aid stations along the event route.
We provide communications for coordination with base, re-supply, search & rescue, general safety of all event goers, and can provide information about individual runners to family and crew throughout the event.
Below are some links that will give you an idea of the scale of this event. I can't imagine a better example of putting amateur radio to use in less than ideal conditions for a full week, then 'acid' testing these methods and gear. This organization, runners and crew depends on us for 100% of the communications since there is no cell access, and no line-of-sight for personal simplex radios.
If this sounds like fun? We are looking for you!
Communications Team Video - What it's like to work a week long event
2022 Bigfoot Endurance Run - Scrapbook Video
Bigfoot Amateur Radio Club
Allstar Repeaters
Marble Mountain WA7BF - 147.16+ 103.5 (NA7Q/K7TME) Allstar #542107
Lake Merwin WA7BF - 147.220+ 103.5 (NA7Q/KB7RQQ) #542108
These two southern Mt. St. Helen's machines are linked and include the K7SOA "Coastal Amateur Radio Club" nodes and repeaters.
Allstar Commands
NODE# 542107 (Marble) & 542108 (Merwin) both have the same feature packed controllers.
---Permanently connected to the main coastal hub #54189
*86 Disconnect Hub
*10 Disconnect last link
*76 Disconnect ALL Links
*88-Connect back to main hub #54189
---Autopatch --Contact KB7RQQ for phone number if needed
*61+ 10 Digit number
*0 (zero) Disconnects call and autopatch
*89 Answer incoming call - incoming call will be announced over air
*969 Skamania County Non-Emergency Number
*970 USFS Columbia Dispatch Center
*990 NWS Weather for today
*991 NWS Weather for tomorrow
*918 Autopatch reset (if hung on busy signal)
