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Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes
"Around the Arctic Circle, VHF radio signals are starting to echo from Earth's upper atmosphere--a phenomenon called 'Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes.'"(txt from Southgatearc.org)I wrote a article...
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PE10WCA 10 years Castles On The Air
COTA-PA is going to participate in the 10th anniversary festivities of the World Castle Award (WCA) in the month of June. For this occasion we will have 8 activators using 8 different special calls...
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6m band range without ES propagation
Have been transmitting CQ on 6m for about 20 minutes. Didn't receive a signal at all. So, no ES propagation. Curious what my range is without propagation. I did this before last year and to test the...
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PE10WCA rehearsal PA-7 Menkemaborg
QSL from previous activationJust a rehearsal for upcoming WCA activations. I was active today from 10-11 UTC on 14.251MHz SSB. Log will be uploaded after I got it in the computer. I log with...
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PE10WCA - Castles on the air Breedenborg PA-03 actviation Sat. 8 June
From: https://www.deverhalenvangroningen.nl/ I will try to activate Breedenborg PA-03 this saturday June 8. Not shure about the time since I have a meeting with the guys from PA6AA contest group first....
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Finally transatlantic 6m propagation and a 60m surprise
There finally was some 6m band propagation to/from the west-indies and it gave me a new one. Contacted J69DS Frans from St.Lucia Island. He was defenitely the strongest although I saw some more...
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Domino
I got this info from John'sweblog: https://mw1cfnradio.blogspot.com/2019/06/lets-play-domino.htmlIt's a fun "contest" for the "Day of Russia". I guess all russians have a day off and those that are HAM...
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PE10WCA - Castles On The Air - Verhildersum PA-08 / Allersmaborg PA-02
Verhildersum PA-08Just to inform you I take a thursday (13-06-2019) afternoon off the job to activate 2 castles. Or at least one. Verhildersum PA-08 will be the first one. I will be on from about 11...
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Noctilucent clouds
Photo made from the radioshack windowIt's the first time I saw noctilucent clouds here at around 22 UTC. 6m Propagation to Japan/Asia was expected but didn't happen this morning. However I saw OH...
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Noctilucent clouds in relation to solar minimum
Photo from my shack window 12-06-2019 22UTCI slowly realize that the bright noctilucent clouds sighting we saw was rare just like a bright aurora. Here in the Netherlands it even was a item in the 8...
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First 2 Japanese rx on 6m
When I came back from shopping this morning I realized I missed to be in the shack when I received my first 2 Japanese stations of this year. There was an opening around 8-8:15 UTC. JA7QVI and JR7AIW...
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High (6m) hopes
Once again we saw NLCs (Noctilucent clouds) yesterday evening. This time in the direction NNE, about 30 degrees I think, exactly the Japan direction. So I had high hopes receiving Japan again but it...
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My thoughts about the IC-7300
The IC-7300 looks great in my shack!The Icom IC-7300 was lend to me by PB7C Bram. I've been contesting with the PD1RP's IC-7300 last year. But now I get the feeling of it in my shack. And I like...
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Summer solstice NLC and Japan on 6m
The NLC I saw at midnight was the brightest I ever saw till now. I even imagined I saw kind of waves in the air. This can be also seen in PA0K Paul's photo.This has to cause good propagation to Japan...
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6m DX adventures last week
Too much happened here to report about and I didn't want to report on 6m DX only every day. Although I worked a few new DXCC it was very hard since signals had a lot of QSB fading in and out too fast...
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More on some IC-7300 features
After I wrote my thoughts about the IC-7300 and returning the radio to the owner I realized I forgot a few things to write. First of all I talked about the heat problem I always have with my...
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FT8 Intercontinental DX code of practise
Just to remind that there are some gentlemen agreement rules. Keep it in mind when DXing on 6m. By the way, I worked Japan on 50.313MHz. But I guess I will have to check 323 as well especially for DX...
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PE10WCA PA-09 Rensumaborg sunday 30-6
I'm sorry there was no activation from PE10WCA anymore, Other things took my time as expected. My IC-706MK2G is still in my car together with the antennas and ready for the final activation. My license...
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Rowland ring feed experiment
Diagram by VK3YEWhen reading a article about feeding a simple conducting pole on VK3YE's blog. I immidiatly felt the need to experiment with this. Remembering my thoughts about feeding a large...
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Huge 6m band opening to Japan
Or should I write: Another huge opening to Japan since PA0O Jaap reported about one yesterday. Actually I saw South-Korea as well but unfortunately no QSO yet. Japanese stations however were strong at...
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