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Digging in the dirt
The title of this post was borrowed from the title of Peter Gabriel's song. One of my favorite artists. Not that the lyrics have anything to do with my subject. But still, I was digging in the dirt and...
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Circular SWR ruler
The SWR ruler I made.I'm not the first one writing about this ruler. IW0FFK mentioned it on his webpage/blog before. However I did not read that before and it was PA3GTM Hans that gave us the DIY "kit"...
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Interference (3) VDSL continued
Just before I got the notches on my VDSL line I experimented a lot with ferrite and my ground system and hoped for a good outcome. I already wrote a concept post on my blog including this video. And...
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The hunt for new WSPR DXCC
It has been a while I hunted for new DXCC on WSPR. Sometimes it takes time before new DXCC show up on WSPR. A new one would be E51WL (North Cook Isl.) but so far he didn't copy much from Europe as far...
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WSPR DXCC active and needed
When starting with WSPR in 2009 I immidiatly got the idea to see how many DXCC I could reach with only 1 Watt and a simple antenna. The ultimate goal of course is to reach 100 DXCC. Now, 7 years later...
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Icom IC-7300 price drop
Lots of radioamateurs that don't want to spend all their money on their radiohobby are waiting for a expected price drop of the Icom IC-7300 including me. I know it's too early and the radio is still...
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Observing my own 30m WSPR TX results last week(s)
I dare to have my WSPR W5OLF 1W transmitter almost on 24/7 with 18 minute TX intervals (still continues). It might be a interesting thing to analyse who received me and when. But I haven't got the time...
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#cqww SSB 2016 from a contestsite
Together with my XYL I decided it was time to try someting else for contesting. I knew local contest station PA6GR had a need of operators for the upcoming CQWW SSB contest so I will participate the...
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#cqww Experimental realtime propagation PE4BAS
Just as experiment I want to make a chart and display the number of WSPR spots for some continents. Just to see what propagation is like on 20m just before the CQWW SSB contest. I tried to make a...
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#cqww Till now
Local reporter talking to PA4O Peter (left)Lots of problems encountered when powering the station. Not everyting can be told but we had a power failure and some problems with a broken computer. Besides...
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#cqww Ham radio hobby public pelations
Probabely not really interesting for english language readers so I will write this post also in Dutch. We did some p.r. for the hamradio contest hobby and welcomed regional radio and TV to interview...
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Will Li-Fi save our radiospectrum?
Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a bidirectional, high-speed and fully networked wireless communication technology similar to Wi-Fi. The term was coined by Harald Haas and is a form of visible light...
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Loop skywire details
Look closely to see the North East poleof the loop.This could be the last year I assembled the loop skywire. Things are changing and the new antennamast is planned for next year. So, I might try...
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S-Match© experiment
PA1PRD's endfed tunerMore info about the S-Match© can be found at the website of PA0FRII always wanted to experiment with this design to feed my horizontal loop. Since the system works with a simple...
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PA-beker contest 2016 verslag
Event: PA-beker contest 2016Section: LOW power SSBLogger: N1MM+ Station: Icom IC-706MK2G at 100WAntenna: 84m horizontal loop @7m aglSorry this post is only in Dutch as it is probabely not interesting...
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Some news
It doesn't happen often but I have to write about some news I found.First of all, DL4MFM adventure radio recently updated his interesting log analyzing page.http://tools.adventureradio.de/analyzer/This...
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Friese 11 steden contest 2016 (video)
Event: Friese 11 steden contest 2016Section: LOW power SSBLogger: HRD V4 log export to excel sheet later Station: Icom IC-706MK2G at 100WAntenna: 84m horizontal loop @7m aglAs this is mainly a Dutch...
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S-Match V1.1
Have been fiddling with the S-Match. Modified the coil with a sliding contact. It's working well on 80m and 60m. I can't tune 160m and haven''t got enough capacity to tune above 6MHz. I have been...
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60m DX, use it while we can
Oh yes, we will continue using 60m in the Netherlands but there will be a change in rules. We are allowed 100 KHz bandwidth from 5350-5450Khz now with 100W since December last year. Next year our...
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