Just a quick update to say that ACOM Director 0.4.0 is now available for download, head over to the dedicated ACOM Director page for details
Category - Amateur Radio
Following the initial release of the ACOM Director beta the feedback has been excellent and it appears to have been very well received by the ACOM 2000 user community.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded a copy and tried it out, your bug reports, comments and opinions are invaluable in moving the software forward.
I am now working on the next beta release which i hope to make available soon and will be putting up a dedicated page on my site for ACOM Director, this will contain information on what type of cable is needed to connect to the ACOM 2000 and information on what type of interface is needed to support the remote power on features.
Thanks again to everyone who has tried out the software.
ACOM Director 0.2.0 is now in public beta, anyone is free to try this.
The feature set is limited at the moment while i get the bugs worked out of the main ACOM 2000 communication routines, however i have many features planned.
At the M0XXT/M9X station we use 2 ACOM 2000 Amplifiers, these are excellent amps and importantly they have the capability to be computer controlled. However there is a distinct lack of software that will allow you to control the amplifier from the computer. I believe this is mainly due to the somewhat complex control protocol that ACOM used for the amplifier.
It’s been a while since the last post, I’ve been very busy working on our contest station (M0XXT)
M0XXT will be entering CQ WPX M/2 this weekend, head over to www.m0xxt.co.uk for details of the work we’ve been doing on the station.
Some of you may have noticed that the site has now been re-branded to M0YOM. Despite having overdone it slightly the night before at the RSGB convention, it turns out that my full licence exam went succesfuly so i am now M0YOM 🙂
I woke up this morning to find my 35m long doublet all over the back garden, it had been supported by a length of paracord that ran over the top of the house and was secured on the oposite wall. It had been up for about 18 months and it appears that the paracord had finally succomed to UV degredation and snapped. Unfortunatly this takes me of all HF bands except for 80m and running new cord is very difficult as i have to feed it over the roof of the house somehow.
If you are using support lines that are susceptable to UV radiation i would strongly recommend replacing these at least every 12 months to avoid problems like this from occuring.
I’m pleased to say that the 5B4AGN Band Pass filters are now complete, enjoy the photo’s
During the build of the Band Pass Filters it has become obvious that my little miniVNA is just not up to the job. Because of this (after some advice from Bob 5B4AGN) i will be embarking on building one of these
Construction of the band pass filters continued today, progress has been slow recently as i needed some more parts (M3 10mm bolts and some M3 nuts), I also had the problem of finding some appropriate coax to use for the internal connections. As luck would have it i have a couple of barely working Wifi antennas that have some nice long leads of very thin coax, it turns out that the coax is RG-174, perfect for my short internal connections on the BPF’s.