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Antennas, Antennas, Antennas
When the ES season will arrive exactly is always a surprise. But we expect it at the end of April, or sometimes earlier. So, this is the time to get the antennas ready. My 4 element LFA beam was in a...
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Waiting for the ES-season, Australia on 10m
Finally there was some time for radio again today. Of course I had high expectations for some good ES on 10, 6 and 4m. However.... but at least there was some F2 propagation on 10m. Some DX was made...
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An evening on 17m
Not a band I'm on very often. But today it seems to be open very well. After listening on 6m, 10m, 12m and 15m without hearing (seeing) anything I finally stayed on 17m this evening.Normally I see...
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F2 propagation on 10m at midnight
Although I monitor 10m/6m quite often to detect some ES propagation there is still almost nothing to hear/see. However I got some reports that 10m (11m) does open at almost the middle of our night (22...
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Antenna damage...
When looking out of the window this morning I noticed something was wrong with the 4m/6m duoband antenna. Half of the 4m reflector was missing. We had some large winds last night with heavy windgusts,...
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WWFF JS8Call Island Activation | Hailuoto Kirkkosalmi OHFF-0970
Julian OH8STN and Ossi OH8HUB will be activating Hailuoto Kikkosalmi Island OHFF-0970 today. The special thing is that they do it primarely on JS8Call. Read about it on Julian's...
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6/4 duoband beam repair
Decided to work on the repairs first thing saturday morning. Before unexpected super ES would appear. The strange thing is that you don't see this at the other elements. Only the 210cm long 4m...
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ES season really does take-off
6m and 4m FT8 today... Worked A61ZX for a new one on 6m.
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First transatlantic 2021 on 6m
Another good day on 6m and 4m. This morning I was called unexpected by 9K2NO (Kuwait). First transatlantic was with VO1HP (Canada) on 6m FT4, not shown on the PSK reporter map unfotunately? Did see...
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Rebel's busted!
http://3z9dx-busted.com/Reminds me of my earlier blogpost about 3W3RR Romeo. Like history repeats itself. Dom is absolutely a rebel, that's for shure...
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Amazing 6m propagation 19-May
PB7Z Bernard messaged me he could work USA on 6m early in the evening. Unfortunately I saw nothing from that side. But 10 minutes later propagation arrived and did hold on till local midnight....
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#60m Monaco worked
Let's not forget about 60m!I recently noticed that 3A/IW1RBI would be active this weekend. Although uncertain if they would activate 60m I was eager to make a QSO and so I programmed my DX alerting...
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PE1BVQ SK
Some sad and totally surprising news arrived today. Last Sunday PE1BVQ Hans left us far too early. Hans was my most loyal blog reader in the past. Till a few years ago he commented on almost all my...
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#6m magic did not happen
For many here in Europe the 6m opened yesterday and especially in the evening towards north, central and south America. The FT8 frequency (50.313) was so full of signals that you couldnt find a single...
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#6m middle east magic did happen
Exceptional good propagation to the middle east today. Unfortunately I was a little late and missed a 9K2 station on 4m. I need to be more attend I guess. Should program HamAlert for stations on...
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#6m RX Japan, 3A2MW worked, the XE2JS case...
Already bored by the maps? I can't help it since 6m DX is very addictive. This morning I was able to see Japan first time in 2021. You don't hear it these days, the computer listens to the audio and...
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Congrats Dutch Novice license holders
Congrats Dutch novice license holders. It took about 5 years to get some more space on the amateur radio bands. Besides that you don't have to reduce power to 25W anymore and can use full power from a...
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The QSO that didn't happen but happened in the end...
I realize that the title of this post sounds very strange. And it is a strange story indeed. Actually a fellow blogger is involved.What happened? Well, I suddenly saw EI2KC Anthony on 6m FT8. He was...
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#6m Finally OJ0C and 1st Japan QSO 2021
Chasing DX on 6m is very addictive, It is so unpredictable and that's the fun of it. You can have a large antenna or a array of antennas, you can have power, you can have a worldclass...
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An evening on 30m
Since we are officially allowed on 30m FT8 now since last friday. And 6m was almost death. I decided to spend the evening on 30m. Despite being active for approx. 2 hours I was spotted by stations all...
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