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#60m CY0S Sable Isl. worked
I saw CY0S spotted on the DX cluster and since I have a day off the job I was able to be on the radio. I didn't have much hope since the new solar panels from our neighbours give me a lot of high QRM...
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New digimode CW8
A publication in the VERON monthly magazine Electron last month is about the new digimode CW8. So far not much is known about this mode since beta testers have to keep this a secret. Test are...
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#CQWW WPX SSB Contest 2023 review
Click to enlarge. This is one of the biggest world wide contests for HF amateurradio. The aim is to work as many different stations preferable DX. Multipliers are the different prefixes (WPX=World...
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Happy fool's day 2023
Of course the new digimode CW8 was a joke. But certainly well done, an article in a national hamradio magazine including a well looking website. I'm shure some people did take it seriously.What about...
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Why I will not participate in the PACCdigi contest
The PACCdigi contest is tomorrow. It is organized by the VERON which is also organizing the famous yearly dutch PACC contest. Of course it is nice to have another digital mode contest and the mixed...
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Blogging in April and how about the radio hobby
Only my third post in April. Yes, I lost my inspiration I think. And also traditionally we have a very busy month at the job causing chaos in my mind. However, I worked some very nice DX this month,...
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Building another YU7EF duoband antenna (1)
As mentioned in the last post I'm building another duoband 6m/4m antenna for PB7Z Bernard. I have no scrap parts for this build and have to design everything from start. I learned from my own similair...
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Building another YU7EF duoband antenna (2)
Of course another antenne build by me always goes slow. I have to do this in between all my other chores. Unfortunatelty there is always something that happens like a water tap leakage, a faulty...
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Building another YU7EF duoband antenna (3)
Slow progress is made. I wish I had this antenna ready before the ES season. But unfortunately it takes time to build and time is a precious thing. I can't help experimenting with this design as...
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ES season here I am
I continued building the YU7EF duoband antenna this morning but things didn't work out like I thought. So, I decided to exchange my experimental multiband halo for my own YU7EF VHF duoband 6m/4m...
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#6m Argentina & Uruquay worked
Both +11000km distance on VHF. Suddenly incredible propagation. It was over 10 minutes later. Both are new ones on 6m for me. This is the fun of the magic band!
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Building another YU7EF duoband antenna (4)
Finally I had some time today to finish this project. Actually I though it would only take a few hours. But after all I was busy most of the day. I made some photos from the progress. I can't tell...
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#4m Switzerland worked
Switzerland is allowed on 4m since a short while. Did not see HB9 before on this band. But propagation was very good today. I managed to work HB9OAB for my 40th DXCC on this band. First new one on 4m...
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YU7EF duoband antenna installed at PB7Z
I took a day off the job to bring the new YU7EF duoband antenna to PB7Z and help to install it in his tower.Bernard has quite a lot of gear in his garden so assembling the antenna was a bit tight but...
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#6m Barbados worked
I didn't realize I have not worked Barbados on 6m before. So it is a new one for me on 6m. I had quite a good report. I've also tried for HC5VF Ecuador but was unable to reach him.
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#6m Angola worked - #60m Kosovo worked
Both new one on those bands. D2UY took many days and many calls. Working Z66X on 60m was easy, only one call and I was into the log. What a difference...Many will not see FT8 as valid QSO's. That's...
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