[Announcement] FreeDV Activity Day - November 5-6, 2022

[Maitland Bottoms]

K6AQ writes:
-----Original Message-----
From: Mooneer Salem <mooneer at gmail.com>
To: digitalvoice at googlegroups.com; freetel-codec2 at lists.sourceforge.net; ham-radio-tech-notes at groups.io
Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2022 2:20 am
Subject: [Freetel-codec2] [Announcement] FreeDV Activity Day - November 5-6, 2022

Hi all,

We'll be doing another FreeDV Activity Day on the weekend of November
5-6, 2022! This event will bring together people interested in HF
digital voice on the air for conversation and fun. Contacts using the
official application[1] as well as the SM1000 handheld microphone are
welcome.

(Note: this is different than previous Activity Days in that you have
the entire weekend, not just a 24 hour period. This may continue for
future Activity Days based on how the upcoming one goes.)

Event time: 12AM Pacific time (0700Z) on November 5 to 11:59PM (0759Z)
on November 6 (49 hours). Note: Daylight Saving Time ends in the US
during Activity Day weekend.

Suggested frequencies:
80 meters: 3.625, 3.643 or 3.693 MHz
40 meters: 7.177 MHz
20 meters: 14.236 MHz
17 meters: 18.118 MHz
15 meters: 21.313 MHz
12 meters: 24.933 MHz
10 meters: 28.330 or 28.720 MHz

(Note that LSB/DIGL is used below 10MHz as per current convention for
voice modes, USB/DIGU otherwise.)

As this isn't a contest, there's no pressure to make contacts or send
logs, but you can always confirm QSOs via the usual means if you'd like
(LoTW, eQSL, QRZ, etc.) Enabling PSK Reporter in the FreeDV application
and joining the QSO Finder[2] are recommended, however, so others can 
see that you're on the air and hearing them (for instance, here's the
current map of listeners[3]). :D

Feel free to spread this far and wide among your local ham friends and
groups! :) Let me know if you have any questions about the event and
definitely post here if you have issues getting the application working
prior to the event. 

Thanks,

-Mooneer K6AQ
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[1] FreeDV:
    https://freedv.org/

[2] FreeDV QSO Finder:
    http://qso.freedv.org/

[3] PSK Reporter:
    https://pskreporter.info/pskmap?mode=3DFREEDV&timerange=3D3600

Hello AMRAD Tacos...

I see there is a new version of FreeDV, 1.8.4, and I expect to update
the Debian packages tonight.
Even I expect to operate some of the time this weekend. :)

73 de aa4hs
-Maitland