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Some will say yes and others will say no!  And in my experience I have swapped out my Wellbrook AL1530AL Loop in favour of a dipole. 

If I lived on a plot that was too small to erect a dipole then go for the loop but if you have the space a dipole could produce better results in dxing HF aero contacts. 

If you do plan on the dipole make sure you have a suitable 1:1 transformer.  I built mine from bits and I was quite surprised how 'different' reception was over the loop.  On the frequency the dipole was cut for (8MHz) reception was better and so was 10 and 11MHz.  13MHz was on par with the loop while performance on bands either side of these (3, 5, 6, 17 and 21MHz) were not so good.

Plans are afoot to include a 5MHz dipole once I've figured out the space and hardware required for one (read; placating the garden manager!).

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Air France: Demand dipped after Paris attacks

NEW YORK – Air France confirmed a drop in demand following the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, but said it's too early to gauge the full impact.

"We have noticed some decline in our bookings," Air France-KLM CEO Alexandre de Juniac told USA TODAY in an interview Thursday. He described the drop-off as "in line with what our competitors have faced in very similar situations," referring to the impact on local carriers following terrorist attacks in London in 2005 and in Madrid in 2004.

Air France was not directly targeted in the attacks, thought to inspired by the ISIS terror group. But industry observers had been watching to see if travelers have become spooked about flying after the Paris attacks.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2015/11/19/air-france-demand-dipped-after-paris-attacks/76073326/

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Bad Elf launches ADS-B Kickstarter

Bad Elf has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund development of a new Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receiver it plans to sell for $299—roughly half the cost of existing units.

Unlike the Garmin GDL-39 and Stratus, which only work with Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight apps respectively, Bad Elf said its receiver will show traffic and weather on multiple aviation apps. The company hopes to raise $500,000 by essentially pre-selling 1,500 receivers.

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/November/19/Bad-Elf-launches-Kickstarter

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Shaheen Air crash landing: Pilot was under the influence of alcohol, report finds

Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act is being used against a pilot accused of being drunk while trying to land a passenger jet.

In the skies of Pakistan, drinking is an act of terrorism — if you're a pilot

http://www.dawn.com/news/1219431

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Budget-friendly aviation gift guide

The holiday season is almost here, and there are a variety of aviation-oriented gifts to help keep pilots happy and safe without breaking the budget of friends, loved ones, or fellow pilots. AOPA's eMedia department assembled a selection of economical gifts that can bring smiles to faces in two modest price points. Ten gifts under $20 should please Uncle Scrooge and ten items under $50 are available for big spenders. These products are tried-and-true with our staff but as always, your experience may vary.

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/November/19/Budget-friendly-aviation-gift-guide

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Why Cobalt's New Private Aircraft Will Change The Aviation Game

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Cobalt's Co50 Valkyrie single engine piston private aircraft

http://cobalt-aircraft.com

http://hauteliving.com/2015/11/sf-why-cobalts-new-private-aircraft-will-change-the-aviation-game/593481/

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XTI Trifan 600 Moving To Preliminary Design

Nov 19, 2015

ormer Sikorsky CEO Jeff Pino is busily gathering input here this week on available engine, transmission, composite and fly-by-wire technologies that will enable the new Trifan 600 vertical-lift aircraft by Denver's XTI Aircraft, of which he's vice chair.

"We're on an investigative tour," Pino says.

XTI has already notched some $14.5 million in crowdfund interest in the new aircraft.

"We're moving to preliminary design," Pino says.

The Trifan 600 is aimed at well-heeled individuals and small-aircraft operators interested in "true point-to-point travel," Pino says. "It's heliport pad-capable," he says, and "opens up anybody's home if they have a tennis court."

http://aviationweek.com/nbaa-2015/xti-trifan-600-moving-preliminary-design

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Flexjet Emerges as Aerion Supersonic Jet Launch Customer

November 18, 2015

Flexjet has become the launch customer for Aerion's AS2 aircraft, the first commercially available supersonic jet, placing a firm order for 20 of Aerion's AS2 aircraft at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention and exhibition this week.

http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/topstories/Flexjet-Emerges-as-Aerion-Supersonic-Jet-Launch-Customer_86586.htm

http://corporatejetinvestor.com/articles/directional-aviation-orders-20-aerion-as2s-213/

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https://www.facebook.com/RadarBox24/posts/761407730654698

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Another Kinetic Avionics SBS-3 SDR used box trying to be resold on Ebay.  Let's see if it will ever get sold.

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One SBS-3 SELLING
Let me know if somebody is interested.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/252178274293

Note that Brian doesn't mention the other post here - "SBS-1 Wanted".

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Should Taylor Made RF Limited TMRF.co.uk and other ham amateur radio stores to stop selling the Tytera junk MD-380 DMR radio.
Without putting any notice on the product page about the MD380 time slot bleed over issue.
Taylor Made RF & others should stop flooding the amateur radio market with bad DMR radios.
The DMR Community can boycott those stores that is continuing to sell bad DMR radios.


You can read more about it on the TYT-TYTERA yahoogroup.

Topic: MD380 time slot bleed over issue?
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TYT-TYTERA/conversations/topics/1701

Topic: Interference to other time slot when transmitting
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TYT-TYTERA/conversations/topics/1685

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If you want to transmit in both slots at the same time you key then unkey and then quickly key again. I believe it is a defect in the C5000 chip and if such would be hard to completely fix. TYT has very little control over getting problems resolved.

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There was a lot of talk about banning MD380's from repeaters because of it.

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Last Tuesday I heard this happen on the AC4XQ system in SE Florida. There were conversations at about 7:30 AM. Myself, Conrad, & John were talking on TS1, while most of the drive to work guys were talking on TS2. We heard some interference on TS1, & I immediately went to TS2, & asked who was using a Tytera MD-380. Ryan admitted he was, so we told him what we had heard. The other 2 radios on TS2 at the time were a Hytera PD782, & a Motorola XPR4550. Both quality radios.  By the way, his tx audio on the Tytera is extremely loud, & the system owner told him to talk into the back of the radio, since there is no way to adjust the mike gain using CPS. Now Rick has Ryan on a short leash, & every time he gets on the repeater, someone goes to the opposite time slot to listen for more interference. Rick is seriously considering not allowing any more Tytera radios access to his system. It's a closed system, & you must ask permission to use it. The user's DMR-MARC # is entered into a computer. Not in the computer, you can't bring up the repeater. We are not DMRC, & we only have 2 TG's. One TG per time slot. Rick & John own all 8 repeaters on the Florida wide system. This is causing a rift between the charter members who have quality radios, & the new members who bought their radios for $125, & could possibly cause interference like Ryan's radio did.

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In my view, the MD-380, marketed too early and unpolished major problems. I understand it is an economic radius but have used us as guinea pigs for 390 and successives radios.

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There are plenty, almost too many DMR repeaters in our area.The 380 owners are free to use their radios on open D-Marc repeaters. Ours is a closed system, & the owners have lots of $ tied up in the 8 repeaters they own. It's almost a 7 day a week job to maintain the repeaters. Sub standard radios are not welcome here. There are many Motorola, Hytera,  CS700, & 750 owners who do not cause interference from the bleed over. By the way, this particular MD-380 owner is selling his radio, & has a Motorola radio on order.

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Hopefully they are working on a fix for that. It's not a user's mistake with programming. But until then, repeater owners locally are banning them because of the interference they cause.

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I've contacted TYT about this issue, with time-domain spectrum analysis captures that shows 32ms frames (33ms if tx start gap is included) and the correct 29ms (30ms) frames. But they have not bother to answer me.
I have zero hope on them fixing anything, and the same problem could probably affect the new Tytera Radios.

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But what we don't want is to be talking on TS1, & a guy with a MD-380 who is talking on TS2 bleeding over to TS1 & interfering with our discussion. This happened a few days ago here, & yes, I was one of guys who was on TS1 listening to the guy on TS2 causing interference on TS1.

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The local DMR repeater owner just put his foot down on users whose 380's are causing interference on his system.

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We have Hytera repeaters that can do exactly that. Remove the offending user's ID # from the data base. And now with $130 radios being available until the end of the year. how much interference will people who chose to buy top tier radios have to put up with? The repeater owner is getting upset, as he\s being bombarded with complaints.


Thread: Tytera radios - junk
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Guys, something you should all be aware of when purchasing these "budget" DMR radios... And I'm not suggesting the radio in post #1 is budget/crap as I have no experience with it:
One of our forum members -- a communications engineer with a doctorate, had the engineers at his firm check out one particular brand of radio: Tytera. They wanted to make sure the low-cost Tytera radios were suitable for implementation on their quality DMR network.
They found the Tytera radios have TDMA timing issues, in the sense they are not staying within their timeslots. That is causing overlap/splatter into the secondary timeslot. As a result, malicious interference can be caused to weak(er) signals when a Tytera radio is transmitting.
Tytera radios are not welcome on the network they're running as they have the real potential to cause harmful interference to other users.
Hytera, Motorola and other QUALITY brands did not have any timing issues.
DO NOT buy a radio based on price. You do get what you pay for.

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I find it scary that a DMR radio can be so bad that it can interfere with another slot. If I were the system owner, my answer would be to ban that radio from my system.
http://communications.support/threads/10541-Tytera-radios-junk

Maybe we can get some feed back from the ham club or Chris Taylor G0WTZ to talk about the MD-380 problem.
Elstree Amateur Radio Society - EARS
http://www.ears-gb.co.uk


Anmer can share it with his DMR members on his forum.

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Now THAT'S a pizza party!
Airline orders takeaway for five planes full of stranded passengers who were diverted due to bad weather

19 November 2015

* People on five of Delta Airlines flights diverted to Columbia received pizza
* Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport said that the weather caused the delays
* One woman claimed the act of kindness was a first in her 20 years of travel

Passengers on a delayed plane were treated to takeaway pizza by an airline when their flight was diverted.
The travellers on-board the Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta were given margherita and pepperoni pizzas while they waited to be given the all clear following a diversion to Columbia in South Carolina on Wednesday.
Photos of the takeaway feast, which was delivered to five of the airlines planes diverted to the airport, were posted on social media.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3325618/Now-S-pizza-party-Airline-orders-takeaway-five-planes-stranded-passengers-diverted-Columbia-bad-weather.html

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PHOTOS – A WEEK OF RETRO AIRLINE LIVERIES: AMERICAN, QANTAS, & PIA

It seems this was quite the week for a few airlines to show off some very cool retro liveries. We have American showing off their TWA scheme, PIA shows off a classic look, and Qantas has their Retro Roo II livery. They say things come in threes; it looks like airlines really came through on this one.
It is always great when airlines put out retro liveries, but it can be a bit odd (and cool) to see these liveries on different aircraft types that never previously saw those schemes. We take a closer look at these new (old) designs, and the aircraft they are on.

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/11/photos-week-retro-airline-liveries-american-qantas-pakistan/