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PACC 2025 contest review
Contest: Dutch PACC 2025Section: SO AB QRP mixedTRX: IC-7300 @5% (5W)Antenna 10m: 4 element LFA @14mhAntenna 80-15m: Doublet inverted-V @12mhAntenna 160m: Inverted-L with CG3000 tunerThis was my first...
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Bas Lev· PACC 2025 CW pile upListen to the pile-up I had on 20m. It actually was like this all the time on any band. Imagine that for a beginner CW operator this is all a bit overwhelming. I could not...
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My quest to learn CW (15)
15 months of learning CW now and still not able to make a real CW QSO (chat) with someone. At least, I could make a QSO with kind of a standard template or so. But if the station would ask me...
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Experimental multiband halo rebuild (2)
The weather here is improving. Sun is shining and temperature today was about 7C (45F). My XYL wants the antenna away from the garden. I agree with her. But experiments take time.From what I read in...
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Experimental multiband halo rebuild (3)
And again the weather was fine today. Lots of sun and a reasonable temperature. Good for antenna work.As I wrote before this experiment has a different approach. I use thicker isolated wire and make a...
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Should we be prepared?
/P setup tested at a German QTH 1,5 years ago Should we be prepared for a scenario without energy and (internet) communication? I thought of that after the MIVD and AIVD (dutch military/general...
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First VBand experience
Yes, it is made like this. VBand adaptor. My first experience with VBand today. I fabricated a kind of adaptor with an old mouse. I opened it took the printboard out and soldered a connector to my...
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Nerve-wracking battery replacement Iphone 8
Not really HAMradio related....or is it. In essence any mobile phone is a HAMradio isn't it. Anyway, my Iphone 8 battery died last week. I was only able to use the phone with the charger connected. So...
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Experimental multiband halo rebuild (4)
I was not really satisfied about the experimental halo yet. Some fine tuning was required. The weather was beautiful today and because they expect rain in the next week I decided this was the day to...
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Morse Code Battleship
I won! You probably know the battleship game. There are several variations. I even played battleship via packetradio about 25 years ago. What a fun! Hamradio duo developed a battleship game in which...
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My quest to learn CW (16)
Steady it goes. However had to skip last 2 days CW training because of the CQWPX SSB contest in which I participated. A post about that at a later time. At the right you see which faults I keep...
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#CQWPX SSB 2025 contest review
Last year I was writing in the review of the 2024 WPX that my score of 1 million points that year would be hard to beat....Contest: CQ WPX SSB 2025Section: SO ALL LPRadio: IC-7300 @100WAntennas:...
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Repairing a CW minipaddle
Type "CW minipaddle" and choose image at google and you find all kind of minipaddles. I found mine on one of the Chinese web stores on the net. Advertised as Mini Morse Code Key CW dual paddle with...
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#60m British Virgin Isl. worked
Took me one minute to work this one. Tnx to PB7Z who messaged me yesterday that this DX was on 60m. Unfortunately have not much time for radio at this moment in life. So this easy DX, new one on 60m,...
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Experimental multiband halo rebuild (5)
As promised and for archive purposes I analyzed the halo in wet conditions. It rained all day so the antenna was definitely very wet. What did it do with the resonance compared to dry weather...
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Brunei Darussalam first ATNO 2025 worked
I've been looking for V85 for over a year now. Had alerts in HamAlert but seldom saw him spotted and if so it was always on a time I was asleep. That was...till yesterday evening I got alerts he was...
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Manna/Chowhound Weekend
From the original post: https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/04/tomorrow-starts-mannachowhound-weekend.htmlOperations Manna and Chowhound were lifesaving food drops to Northwest Holland 80 years ago, just...
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My quest to learn CW (17)
I'm now at the point I feel there is no progress. It might be there but I don't feel it.I still practice every day. But not only the same LCWO lessons which got boring. With the help of PE2V Vincent I...
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5252F or YX805
No, these are not secret callsigns from spy stations. These are small LED driver ICs. Ingenious small cheap devices that feature a solar charger and a step up converter. Probably every solar light has...
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Paracette or Paraset research again
In the Netherlands we have the 80th year of freedom celebration after the second world war on the 5th of May. In honour of our freedom I have written some posts that are follow ups from posts I wrote...
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WW2 story from (near) my QTH
Today, May 5th 2025 it is 80 years ago that the Netherlands was liberated from the occupying Germans. This is a story I wanted to write for a long time. It happened around the village I live in. Radio...
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Are we into the Gnevyshev gap?
I notice that HF propagation lately is not as good as last year. Especially on 6m (VHF) were we had great F2 propagation at the end of 2024. Till now nothing interesting was heard (seen) on 6m, even de...
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Netherlands Telegraphy Club
I applied for a membership of the Netherlands Telegraphy Club. It seems to be an active club with some activities every month. Not shure if I'm ready to participate yet, but it would be a nice goal to...
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