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Progress
The weather was reasonable this last saturday and I had some time to work on the antennatower. I had planned to place the rotor but after all it went well and I placed it as well as the top bearing and...
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Although I have been tinkering with computers since the early eighties of last century I now just want a computer that does what it has to do and nothing else. Unfortunately I got a message from...
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#FT8 DXpedition mode
I've not heard about the new "DXpedition" mode development before. But though I am not a member from any facebook or newsgroup related to FT8. I have been writing about digital modes in the future and...
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#60m New Zealand SWL
No matter how hard I tried I did not contact New Zealand yet. ZL is allowed on 60m since last week and there are already a couple of stations that made the contact from Europe to New Zealand on...
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3Y0Z Bouvet Island DXpedition aborted
So unfortunate....From their website:2000 UTC 3 February 2018During the last 72 hours we continued to experience the high winds, low clouds, fog, and rough seas that have prevented helicopter...
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Commercial versus homemade open line
Previously I wrote about the inverted-V I mounted in the mast as emergency antenna. Since the PACC contest is coming up I wanted to upgrade a little and made myself a more solid open line. The...
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Another CQ parrot idea!
Remember my failed projects post from last year? I built a new modem for the FT-817 when I couldn't get the USB soundcard modem working correctly. The new modem does what it has to do and works via...
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PACC contest 2018 upcoming weekend
Event: PACC 2018 contestModes: SSB/CWDate: 10-11 Febr. 2017 12:00-12:00 UTC (24hrs)Exchange: RS(T) + Province abbreviation of 2 letters, foreign: RS(T) + serial starting at 001Foreign rules:...
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Didn't feel well last 2 days. But it went better this morning. To test my voicekeyer and signal as last preparations for the PACC I made a recording from my voicekeyer on 80m. First with my normal...
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PACC 2018 contest review
Event: PACC 2018Section: Single Operator Low Power All Band SSBLogger: N1MM+ newest versionStation: Icom IC-706 MK2G 100WAntenna: Inverted-V apex 12m + multiband verticalWell, it was a nice contest...
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Hail JT9 for the ultimate DX
Notice the incredible low signal.New Zealand radioamateurs just have permission to transmit on 60m for 2 weeks now. And since I did read the blog of PA2S Henk, his article made me think about the...
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WSJT-X receive levels
By now everyone knows how you should transmit with a clean signal. That means, low power and adjust audio volume to the radio till you get no ALC reading but almost full adjusted output power. A good...
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TX with CAT
No, this is not about a pet. We had cats in the past but they all died unfortunately. This is about my portable digimode station which I wrote about in several occasions but if I can remember well last...
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#FT8 Hunting or be hunted
From http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/DXpedition_Mode_Test.txtThe first public test run for FT8 DXpedition Mode is scheduled as follows:Date UTC Frequency-------------------------Mar 6...
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#HF APRS Messenger
Screendump from 1999 UIview map...The APRS Messenger program provides a simple way to send and receive APRS messages over PSK, MFSK and GMSK modes on HF.It has been a long, long time ago I was active...
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#APRS messenger activity weekend
If you want to experiment HF APRS Messenger after reading my or Julian's blog it's time to join us this weekend. We shure want to learn from this. The ultimate goal is to do it portable.See:...
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#APRS on HF with APRS Messenger weekend review
Well, over the weekend there was only one station consistently in my heard list OH8STN. Finally just before closing the station sunday evening my neighbour PA4GB popped up on the screen and heard list...
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#FT8 todays hunting
Who is hunting who, that's the question of this test....From: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/DXpedition_Mode_Test.txtThe first public test run for FT8 DXpedition Mode is scheduled forMarch...
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Researching coax loss
As I'm in the process of rebuilding my antennamast and hardware I'm searching for the best options available. But not against any cost. Now I have measured almost no loss from PL-259 connectors on HF I...
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#APRS messenger on HF 2 - MFSK-4
It seems APRS messenger gets more attention worldwide. A number of stations are active now. In my last post about the APRS weekend I had doubts about the receiving capability of the messenger program....
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