Karen Brown

yeah this is basically the exact setup i landed on after messing around with it for way too long. N1MM for contests, full stop, nothing else really comes close for that use case, the SO2R support alone if you ever go down that road is worth it. and Log4OM or even just TQSL for the day to day stuff. the sync issue is real though. what i do is after every contest i export the Cabrillo from N1MM, submit it, then export an ADIF and import into my main log. i turn off duplicate checking on the import because contest QSOs are valid even if you already worked the guy on a different band last week. havent had major problems with it in about 3 years of doing it that way. the exchange field weirdness you mentioned is usually because Log4OM doesnt know what to do with contest-specific fields like serial numbers or section codes, just map them to a comment field and move on. as for WSJT-X into N1MM, ive seen people do it but honestly i wouldnt bother unless you're doing a VHF contest where FT8 actually matters for the multipliers. for HF contests its kind of a distraction anyway

so ive been working on this DC receiver for 40m for like the past two months, based loosely on the Sudden receiver design but with a few mods i found on various sites. got the VFO stable enough finally after fighting that for way too long, and i can actually hear stations now which feels huge after nothing but noise for weeks. problem is the audio quality is just... bad. not like bad SNR bad, more like there's this low frequency hum that kind of wobbles in and out and the whole thing sounds like im listening through a tin can. ive double checked the power supply decoupling and added a few extra caps across the rails which helped a tiny bit but not much. the audio amp stage is just a basic LM386 circuit, nothing fancy, gain set to about 46dB with a cap across pins 1 and 8. my gut says its either a grounding issue or maybe some RF getting into the audio stage but i really dont know where to start. the layout is kind of a mess on the breadboard honestly. anyone been through something like this with a similar build?

yeah im planning on going, me and Dave from the repeater group were talking about carpooling. last year the parking was a mess so getting there early is definitely the move. not sure about any club meetup beforehand but i can ask around at the next net night