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6m August 2
Glowing red towards the evening sun!The ES season is still there. 2 new DXCC for me on 6m. 4Z5AV Israel and ER1PB Moldavia.Late in the evening the band opened towards USA. And I met K1JT again, but now...
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Taste of magic - 6m at night 4-5 Aug.
Map from spotted stations (note: not everyone spots to PSK reporter!)I have to admit that since I got the 5 element yagi into the tower I'm a 6m band addict. 50 MHz is the only frequency I'm interested...
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Blogroll maintenance
Time for maintenance of my blogroll! After I received a couple of e-mails from bloggers that changed their URL. I noticed a lot of good amateur radio bloggers didn't update their blog for over a year....
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FT8Call a new mode??
I already knew FT8Call being developed for a couple of months. KN4CRD Jordan announced his ideas several times on the portabledigitalQRP facebook group. Now, yesterday I saw FT8Call announced at the...
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FT8Call 20m today
Results FT8Call 20m (click for more detail)In between busy times here I've been listening and experimenting with FT8Call today. I kept it on one band 20m as it is probabely the busiest band. Above the...
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Butternut HF5B Butterfly overhaul
Ready for cleaning firstRecently I purchased a second hand HF5B Butternut mini multiband HF beam from PD5JFK Jelle. The beam covers 14-30MHz and is very light. It is a project and needs some work. The...
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#JT9 RDRC Activity days 2018
We invite fans of digital modes of radio communication to JT9 Activity Days «Make haste slowly» which will take place from 00:00 UTC Saturday August 25 to 23:59 UTC Sunday August 26, 2018 on all...
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#JT9 activity days last weekend
Contact map (click to enlarge).Event: RDRC JT9 activity days 2018Software: JTDX 18Logger: HRD5Station: Icom IC-706 MK2G 25WAntenna: Multiband Inverted-V 2x20m open line fed, apex 12m aglTotal distance...
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The ultimate portable digitalmode unit (1)
We are not the only ones searching for the most efficient and ideal (digital) way to communicate. The army is constantly busy to find and develope new ways and new technologies. I came across this...
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6m after the ES
Reading the blog from Scottish radioamateur GM4FVM Jim I noticed he likes to work as many DXCC possible on 6m every year and missing Netherlands (a while ago). Contacts with the Netherlands seem to be...
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The 40th National Balloon Fox Hunt
The 40th National Balloon Fox Hunt on September 9, 2018Almost every radio interested person has heard of the Balloon Fox Hunt. In its 39-year existence, many radioamateurs and other direction finders...
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I was a little late being at the radio and install everything for simultaneous UHF/VHF. The balloon was already in and on the air. There are always more important things to do....Anyway, the once a...
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2m FT8
Reports yesterday eveningAfter the balloon event I still had the IC-706 connected for VHF/UHF. And since Paul PA0K efforts with PE1BVQ and his success with FT8 on 2m were inspiring I asked PE1BVQ for a...
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Teaser
Received a envelope today. There is a story to tell...Some of you readers know what it is all about.However, I've so much to tell and so many ideas but no time to write and so you have to wait....:-)
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Contests and certificates
Once again I obtained some first places in contests and the accompagnied certificates. Not that I am a fanatic contester but with the lack of real competition it's easy. Not even using the best...
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VERON HF day meeting
For the first time ever I attented the VERON HF-dag (HF day) which is a meeting for dutch HF users last Saturday. The main reason to go was to get the trophy I won with my second place in the PACC...
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WSJT-X 2 versus FT8Call
K1JT Joe wrote:"Many have noticed signals in the 7.078 and 14.078 MHz sub-bands that look like FT8 but are undecodable. These appear to be “FT8CALL” signals. FT8CALL is *not* FT8 — and probably it...
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FT-817 speaker replacement
BeforeNot that it was a need. But the speaker was offered at Sotabeams and if you apply for a newsletter you get a discount code. I never bought something at Sotabeams and actually I only heard from...
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3W3RR - Amateur radio adventures
If you are into this radiohobby you probabely do experiment with radio, communicate, have fun and meet interesting people. Well, I like the social aspect of radio just as much as experimenting. However...
View ArticleThe case of the failing FT-817 S-meter
This case took me several hours and since I didn't have time to solve this it was something that kept my mind busy the whole saturday. I think it is interesting enough to write a post about it.The case...
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