| The name's Fred M. Spinner....
the Call is W0FMS...
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(Opinions are mine only!) |
| IA QRP Club / Fred Spinner W0FMS / Jeff Woods W0ODS 30m "WARCbler" modifications to the NJ-QRP PSK-80 Warbler rig | IA QRP 30m WARCbler |
| W0FMS Axial Mode Helix Antenna Dimension calculator (in Javascript) | Javascript Helix Calculator |
| "Rube Goldberg" Patio AO-40 setup and results (As seen in June 2002 QST Magazine!) | Rube Goldberg AO-40 |
| Beverage Antenna Calculator. Not completely done, no instructions yet. | Beverage Antenna Impedance Calculator |
| Use an Old Astatic D-104 with a Modern Rig (Collins KWM-380) | D-104 to Modern Rig Modification Circuit |
| Electro-Mavin 2.4 GHz Filter Network Analyzer Plots (no longer available from E-M) | Surplus Filter Plots |
| K5GNA Murata Filter PCB Network Analyzer Plots | Murata Filter Board Plots |
| Iowa QRP Newsletters in Adobe .PDF format. (Getting pretty outdated as IA-QRP hasn't been doing these for awhile.) | Iowa QRP Group Newsletters |
| VHF/UHF Antennas you can build for $15-$20 or less... | Kent Britian, WA5VJB's "Cheap Rover Yagis" |
| K0DAS' 10-m Bionic Death-Ray Yagi | Rod's BIG 10-m antenna |
| Fractal Loop Antenna Explained
Plus link to the "Web Archive" to find the antenna this page is based on that has since been taken off of the Fractal Antenna Systems webpage |
Fractal Loop Explained
"Archived" "Fractenna" article |
| L.B. Cebik's unusually good antenna pages. | L.B. Cebik |
| Field Day Pictures from the Radio Farm (N0MA) 1998..Dated..yes...but respresentitive... | "Hotter than hell" Field Day 98 |
| Pictures and soapbox commentary about the June 1998 VHF QSO Party...
Rover pictures from/of KA9VAW/R or why I decided to get W0FMS as a call finally!! -- I sold all of my pickup trucks! I need a new rover mobile!! WAAH!! :-( |
Rove on... |
| The most detailed information page so far is the Motorola 56002 EVM page. Note: Its a little out of date, but then again not much has changed with it. My last internet provider Internet Navigator "Your Ticket to expensive and poor service" lost some of the site. I'm not going to rebuild it... | EVM page |
| Also here is WT0D's PC Board Morse Code Keyer Paddle. I personally got to play with the unit, and it has an exceptional feel for something that small. Here's the link: | WT0D's Paddle Page |
| American Radio Relay League (I'm a member) | ARRL Home Page |
| Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, North America (I'm a member) | AMSAT-NA Home Page |
| Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio
(I'm NOT a member.. they were too lax with membership newsletter mailings...) |
TAPR Home Page |
| Central States VHF Society
(GREAT conference once a year) |
CSVHFS Home Page |
| IOWA QRP Club -- KQ0RP | Iowa QRP/KQ0RP Home Page |
| W5YI Volunteer Examiner (#24147) & ARRL VE too.. | W5YI VEC |
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Current Finished/Unfinished Projects: (Links:) |
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| AMSAT-OSCAR 40 Home Brew Antennas.. Starting the "Big Dish" Project | "Big Dish" Project |
| Dallas Semiconductor (Now MAXIM!) One-Wire WX Station -- I've taken it down due to WAY TO MANY hacking attempts.. I can't keep up with them anymore. Plus the Dallas one-wire stuff really is poor quality. If you want to get into to weather monitoring for real, spend the extra bucks on a Peet Bros, or another commercial unit. Since @Home is gone, my static IP is gone, there is another reason for not bringing it back. I apologize to the Cedar Rapids Guys, as many used to use it. Maybe again someday... When I can get high speed internet out in the country, maybe.... |
Dallas I-Button site. |
| Small Wonder Labs PSK-20 -- Neat PSK-31 Rig (GREAT "New" Digital Mode) -- Built it and it works like a charm | Small Wonder Labs |
| NJ QRP Club PSK-80 "Warbler" -- Neat PSK-31 Rig -- simpler than the PSK-20 | NJ PSK-80 rig |
| 1296-Equipment: Down East Microwave generously provided some gift certificates at the Central States VHF Society Conference in Winnipeg in 2000 for the gift drawing at the banquet. I was fortunate enough to win a $100 one. I've purchased a 1296-144 transverter and have it half working. As with the other two DEM transverters I've built, I'm having problems with the Brick Amp final self-oscillating. I'll work through the details, and post the solutions when I find out what is wrong. | Down East Microwave |
| 1296-Equipment: Antennas: Double-Quad Antenna. I am always interested in experimenting with odd (non-yagi) antennas. This antenna is supposed to be a broadband 8.5 dbd antenna. I've built a small one out of nothing but 12 gauge wire and feedline. Later I'll test it on a network analyser and on the range next year at the CSVHF Conference. | Double-Quad Antenna |
| RDFing a power line noise that is completely wiping out HF here
at the W0FMS QTH.
*A local house fire has apparently stopped my problem-- but I can't prove the fire and the noise going away were related. Oh, well.... Shows the importance of taking RFI complants seriously, IMHO* The other gentelman in the complaint, however, remains without any resolution. Alliant energy is completely unhelpful and is under the scrutiny of the ARRL RFI Commitee now for my problem and the problem of others in Eastern Iowa. The FCC has stepped in, and maybe we can get something resolved. I'm looking forward to the weather getting better, as it seems as if I'm going to have to track down the problem myself. Hrrumph... Well.. I'll be moving to the country in a month or so anyway....Covenants suck, noisy utilities suck... |
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| NEW SITE! NEW SITE! Since @Home webspace (which was totally unreliable, anyway) is gone, and MediaCom can't seem to get their $@#$@ together, I bit the bullet and paid for webhosting. Seems good, prices are reasonable. See Arivoo for details.... (Yes, I accept donations. This site costs me a total of $100 a year including domain registration prices. If you want to donate, mail me at fred@(nospam)spinner.org. Thanks...) Amazing how few offers I've received so far!!! (6/12/2002) | Arivoo Web Hosting |