Skip to main content

2021 ARRL160 in CW mode

I had some hope for the ARRL 160 CW high expectation but many poor signals with un-answered EU takers . Most  W / VE big guns  just continued CQ . I realize that USA USA traffic dominates the EU.  And only big EU QRO was heard .  Then i started run hoping for W/VE with EU RX antenna ,found a N-A  free QRG  then indeed  got response a few calls relative easy, Until a persistent caller  from let me say an ex - EU country blocked my little run, i send the om a report , no problem if someone, not in contest want a short exchange  But the om kept on calling in slow CW totally unaware of the ARRL160 ? how can you miss this activity my brain was spinning.  That inappropriate calling ended my appetite for the contest and I switched off . I seem to attract lunatics. In previous 160 contests there was a weak carrier that seemed to follow me when moving up or down a bit.

Propagation low bands continue to be very poor 630m only EU signals seen

In contrast  mode WSPR  DP0GVN at 1.8 was possible

TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmazMode
 2021-12-06 07:28  PA0O  3.570005  -20  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 07:18  PA0O  3.570004  -24  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 08:08  PA0O  3.570006  -27  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 07:10  PA0O  3.570004  -27  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 07:48  PA0O  3.570005  -19  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 07:56  PA0O  3.570005  -20  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 07:40  PA0O  3.570005  -18  0  JO33hg  5  ZL2005SWL  RE68mx  18315  42  2 
 2021-12-06 09:44  VK3KCX/1  28.126063  +1  0  QF22qd  50  PA0O  JO33hg  16442  312  2 
 2021-12-06 09:50  PA0O  28.125995  -18  0  JO33hg  5  VK3KCX/1  QF22qd  16442  78  2 
 2021-12-06 09:42  PA0O  28.125996  -15  0  JO33hg  5  VK3KCX/1  QF22qd  16442  78  2 
 2021-12-06 10:18  VK3KCX/1  28.126063  -30  0  QF22qd  50  PA0O  JO33hg  16442  312  2 
 2021-12-06 09:54  VK3KCX/1  28.126063  -5  0  QF22qd  50  PA0O  JO33hg  16442  312  2 
 2021-12-06 02:42  PA0O  3.570006  -24  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-05 23:54  PA0O  3.570006  -18  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 00:38  PA0O  3.570007  -20  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 01:50  PA0O  1.838190  -32  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 02:52  PA0O  3.570006  -26  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 01:22  PA0O  3.570006  -21  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 00:20  PA0O  1.838189  -28  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 01:22  PA0O  1.838189  -25  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 00:28  PA0O  1.838189  -33  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-05 23:06  PA0O  3.570006  -21  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-06 00:54  PA0O  3.570006  -21  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2 
 2021-12-05 23:16  PA0O  1.838189  -32  0  JO33hg  5  DP0GVN  IB59ui  13830  186  2

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Archive

Show more

Popular posts from this blog

2011-01-22 DIAMOND 2m 70cm 1m30 Colinear inside

Having relative poor signals on the local 70cm / 2m channels using this X50 Diamond collinear 70/2  1m antenna at a height of 25m. I needed to investigate what could be wrong. Measuring the cable only 3W is left for the antenna of the 10W 435MHz output from a IC451E The cable is 30m type H100 Z50 10mm outside diameter it is semi air-spaced but has an impossible 4mm² solid CU inner conductor not much air left. I preferred the H43 Z75 cable having lower loss and mechanical better ratio in conductor size. My antenna uses SO239 connector UHF type semi air spaced isolator.  3W should be enough for a comfortable noise free FM signal. But only 27km away at PA0A the signal is weak too weak something must be wrong? I made a simple reference dipole of 2x17cm CU wire. With this dipole the signals where totally worse. So the Diamond does work? I got curious to look inside. Maybe moisture penetration degraded the antenna. This  antenna is rainwater close in its n...
8 comments
Read more

SPF5189z Low noise preamp 23cm

 14-4-2018 updated Above the low noise  preamp 50 - 4GHz    ebay  6€ Tested  2 small porto antennas 1 Baofeng UV antenna left   2nd best signal on PI2NOS 2 eBay DIAMONDSRH805S  wide band 144/432/1200  it works for its size as expected 3 piece of wire :   best signal in the setup... Unit under test at workbench. It was stable  50mA  at 5V   few days,  but sudden the current went up to 100mA And i could  no longer adjust it with the negative bias Voltage. The - Voltage went to zero and the SPF input port became low Z. This SPF5189z was broken  no oscillations, no input overload just it broke while i was receiving the PI2NOS 430.125 using a small antenna at the workbench. The specs of  SPF5189z  say it has an internal circuit  regulating the bias current. Replaced . again   with an other of the 5 spare SPF i have. The new one again could be adjuste...
11 comments
Read more

TS790 cat interface

A CAT interface  for the old TS790 144/432/1292 tranceiver to work with N1MM  including the internal CW keyer DTR and "PTT" RTS and WSJT MSHV with "PTT" control Using the 3€ FTDI USB serial interface picture bottom page first i bought the Kenwood USB serial interface cable that cable has the TS790 special 6 pin DIN plug this interface works well ...as long as you cut the 4-5  wire bridge on the ACC din.. with the wire bridge it did go offline after 30 seconds or so  Kenwood interface cable with CH330 eBay 15€    This type Kenwood interface cable uses a tiny 6 pin USB CH330 chip  The driver is CH340 known for Arduino it workes in W7/10 64  It has only TX RX Usart function no DTR RTS available  The TS790 settings are 4800b 8bit data 2 stop  default  N1MM does not list the TS790 it has the TS890  but that one does not support modes the TS2000 does support freq and modes and let you switch 2/70/23 it seem...
4 comments
Read more