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Custom Morse Code for Mobile Phone Ring Tone

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have Morse Code playing instead of plain ringtone on your phone? You would know who calls without need to reach phone. Of course it would require you to have skill of recognizing Morse Code, but that is minor issue, right? If you do not know it yet, it can be learned. It’s great skill to have, anyways.

Well, there is simple tool that may help: Morse Code Generator . It creates audio file with sound of Morse Code using your custom text. Generated sound is nice sinusoidal tone, pleasant for ears.

What you do is type in text phrase, choose Morse Code speed and Tone frequency and click button Generate. […]
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Da li koristiti antenski analizator umesto SWR metra?

NanoVNA, foto: YL3AME

Danas su dostupni antenski analizatori odličnih karakteristika a izuzetno pristupačne cene (vidi pod NanoVNA) tako da radio-amater koji se iole bavi gradnjom antena, filtera, baluna, prialgodnih elemenata i drugih sličnih sklopova treba i mora imati jedan ovakav instrument.

SWR-metri se često koriste za umeravanje antena i slična merenja ali su daleko manje praktični i korisni od antenskih analizatora. Prilično je mukotrpno umeravanje antene SWR-metrom jer morate ručno da menjate frekvenciju emitovanja i merite preko celog ciljanog opsega da biste snimili karakteristiku antene i na osnovu toga odredili da li su potrebne i kakve korekcije. I nakon korekcije morate ceo postupak ručnog merenja da ponavljate. […]
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Upotrebljavate li SWR-metar?

Neophodno je da antena koja se povezuje na predajnik ima impedansu koja odgovara impedansi predajnika. Ako ove impedanse nisu usklađene, u antenskom sistemu se javlja reflektovana snaga. Ova snaga se sabira sa emotovanom snagom i javljaju se vrhovi snage koji mogu biti značajno veliki i izazvati i kvar radio-stanice. Takođe, usled neusklađenosti impedanse velika je verovatnoća da će izračena snaga u antenu biti znatno manja do zanemarljiva. Takođe se povećavaju neželjene smetnje koje antenski sistem emituje u okolini radio-stanice.

Neusklađenost impedansi antenskog sistema i predajnike je uvek loša stvar i mora da se izbegne. Da bismo to izbegli moramo prvo da izmerimo. […]
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Fast hand writing for receiving Morse code

Receiving Morse code is a challenge. It is achievable and there are operators that reached stunning skills of receiving Morse Code in very high speeds. One of the limitations is hand writing speed, thus most high skilled operators receive Morse Code „in head“. But sometimes you do have to write it down, right?

First helping technique that should and is learned along with learning Morse Code itself is optimal hand writing. This cuts number of strokes for each character which speeds up writing. Also it is important where strokes end to minimize movement between written characters.

This image shows one of the ways to optimize hand writing. […]
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Radio-amateri od RATEL-a dobijaju pretnje izvršiteljima

U drugoj polovini 2019. godine radio-amateri su od RATEL-a dobili obaveštenje da je RATEL doneo odluku da promeni iznos naknade za korišćenje radio-frekvencija za radio-amatere. Iznos je sa dotadašnjih 10 dinara podignut na 1000 dinara. Da,  dobro ste pročitali – uvećanje od samo 100 puta!

Ovim su radio-amateri dobili izuzetnu zahvalnicu za sav svoj rad na tehničkom obrazovanju mladih i sve svoje humane aktivnosti u vanrednim situacijama.

Naročito je interesantno da je RATEL obavestio da je ovu promenu uveo retoraktivno za 2018. godinu.

Obaveštenje je sadržavalo poziv radio-amaterima da se izjasne da li se slažu sa ovom odlukom a nisu ga ni dobili svi radio-amateri. […]
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Fixing Baofeng UV-B5 broken battery latch using 3D printer

I’ve got UV-B5 years ago. It survived lots of use and still served fine. There was one glitch – in some moment latch that keeps battery locked was broken. Radio was still usable but it happens from time to time that battery slips out of socket and radio silently turns off. It was quite annoying but hardly fixable issue.

Until today.

As I recently got myself 3D printer (Prusa I3 MK3S) I get to an idea to model and print replacement part. As every experienced computer expert, I first looked if someone else already did that. And indeed, Thingverse member Olex had the same issue and already did modeling. […]
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