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2018 highlights, 2019 goals
My traditional post at the end of the year. Looking back at my amateurradio activities. Have I met my goals? What's going to happen next year?Last years post didn't feature my PA6AA activity, I just...
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2019 agenda
My radiohobby agenda for 2019. Feel free to copy.I always have to balance my time between my family and hobby. With a agenda and planning I want to prevent conflicts if possible.This agenda is actually...
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Beverage experiments
Reading about the "open" beverage PA3FYM uses on 30m WSPR I went very curious. A beverage is for many the ultimate low noise receive antenna for low bands. But why? Well, because the beverage is a...
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Beverage experiments 2
Fence, click to enlarge. At the right the connectionwith the transformer (clamp with red wire)Well, a day later. I got some comments about the beverage that wouldn't work including some hints and tips...
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160m FT8 RX results with beverage
With a storm approaching I lowered the antenna tower so my inverted-V was unusable. Luckely the beverage has no problems with large winds. Roger G3XBM has good results using a earth electrode antenna...
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80m RX results on beverage antenna
I realize not everyone has the opportunity to connect a large fence wire as a receiving antenna. I don't hope I make people very envious. I just want to show what could be possible with a beverage kind...
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60m FT8 RX results with beverage
Although it looks like my barbwire fence antenna or a so called open beverage is working on this band I have my doubts. I don't think it does receive more as my inverted-V on 60m. The nice thing is...
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Fence beverage drawback
It has been raining a lot today and immidiatly I noticed a drawback of a non isolated fence beverage. Since the water is terminating the wire to the ground it doesn't work anymore. I have to wait till...
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2018 statistics
2018 statistics @PE4BAS. It has not been a real ATNO DXCC year due to low propagation and lack of time. My target bands were mainly 60m and 6m. I rarely visit other bands except in contests. I worked a...
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WSPR watch (apple)
No we're not talking about a apple watch! We are talking about a real good app to follow and analyze WSPR spots.Just before the new year I was listening on 20m WSPR 24/7 but at a certain moment I was...
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40m WSPR
From wikipedia:The band is most useful for inter-continental communication for one or two hours before sunset, during the night and for one or two hours after sunrise. It is extremely useful for short...
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Energy transition
I do not write very often outside the hamradio topic. But this time I do since the energy transition hype in my country worries me.Ever heard about neodymium, lanthanum, dysprosium, cobalt, manganese,...
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#60m DX January 23
Had a whole evening to seriously look for DX on 60m. Still hope to work PY (Brazil) and ZP (Paraquay) since I've seen these DXCC several times but was never able to get my FT8 signal heard over there....
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Just reading the blogpost from KB6NU today. Some things I read these days in the blog from the oldest women ever sailing the world VE0JS Jeanne are clear to me now. Reading about weather reports given...
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Experimental vertical antenna
Red lines indicate the verticalIn a quest to get my signal to south america and to have a second all band HF antenna for the PACC contest the idea was to make a vertical antenna and to use the...
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Experimental vertical antenna - elevated radials
Vertical wire aside the mastI got some comments on my vertical from PG0DX Henry. He told me I probabely should try to elevate the radials. It is a very good idea and I now remember that if you use...
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Experimental H-pole antenna
It has to be a year ago I got this vertical all band antenna info from dutch antenna "guru" PG0DX Henry. I almost forgot but when experimenting with the vertical I suddenly remembered it. The vertical...
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The death of Google+
Just got the message that Google+ will shut down february 4 and ending second day of april.Ok, I know Google+ never had the number of users Facebook has. But I got a lot of readers of this blog from...
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PACC 2019 contest upcoming weekend
PACC contest 2019 upcoming weekendEvent: PACC 2019 contestModes: SSB/CWDate: 9-10 Febr. 2019 12:00-12:00 UTC (24hrs)Exchange: RS(T) + Province abbreviation of 2 letters, foreign: RS(T) + serial...
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