W3RGA's Homepage

Welcome to my homepage. You were probably directed here from my QRZ page. Have a look around, and thanks for stopping by.

Station

Rig

QRP Labs QMX (80, 60, 40, 30, 20)

Home Antenna

TrueLadderLine.com 125' Doublet inverted V at 35'

Balun Designs 1:1 ATU Current Balun

Portable Antennas

DX Engineering TWIG 71' EF Random Wire

Ham Radio Duo Just OK Mini 20M Vertical

Tuner

LDG Z-11ProII

PC

Dell XPS 13

Software

N1MM Logger+

W3RGA-# RBN Node

My RBN Node will be OFFLINE until I complete some home station repairs.

I started running a Reverse Beacon Network node around 2017, I enjoy using the RBN and wanted to contribute to the project.

Node is currently spotting CW 24/7 on all bands 630M through 6M. Node also spots RTTY & FT8/4 during contests.

If you have a special use case you can Telnet directly to my W3RGA-# RBN node @ w3rga.ddns.net:7550
Otherwise it's recommended you get RBN spots from your favorite (+RBN) enabled cluster node.

See the Last 100 Spots it has sent to the Reverse Beacon Network .

See the Most Recent Spots it has sent to PSK Reporter .

SDR

▪ Red Pitaya SDRlab 122-16 running Pavel Demin's SD card image

RX Antenna

▪ W6LVP Magnetic Loop (3' off the ground on the side of a tree)

▪ DX Engineering RXFC-75 choke

▪ 200' of quad shield RG-6

▪ DX Engineering RXFC-75 choke

▪ Palomar Engineers CMNF-500-50 choke

▪ Turn Island Systems 60 MHz Filter-Preamp

▪ Mini-Circuits ZN2PD-20-S+ SMA-splitter

▪ Palomar Engineers CMNF-500-50 choke

Software

▪ CW Skimmer Server

▪ RTTY Skimmer Server

▪ CWSL_Tee

▪ HermesIntf

▪ CWSL_DIGI

▪ WSJT-X

▪ Meinberg NTP

▪ Aggregator, my BadCalls.txt contains over 900 commonly busted calls

▪ CW Reporter

▪ PowerSDR_STEMlab_Edition

Have a look at my RBN Top-Spotter Page and try my RBN Data-Sorter App.

W3RGA-1 DX Cluster Node

Telnet to my W3RGA-1 DX cluster node @ dxc.w3rga.com:7373

Try my DXSpider Filter-Builder.

Check the DXSpider documentation wiki.

Node is using my custom baddx file that contains over 900 commonly busted and bad calls. And a fresh usdbraw.gz that I update monthly with the latest FCC database.

See my nodes Uptime. Node maintenance is performed monthly on the last Monday around 00:00 UTC.

Node runs on a dedicated Ubuntu Server.