PA0O NETHERLANDS GRONINGEN

Aurora effect

2012-02-27T20:57:00.000+01:00

70.296 LA4ANA JO59CU 55A
70.174 GM4JYB IO88UP 52A going down fast new one GM

70MHz FSK441

2012-02-25T14:14:00.000+01:00

Screen dump with IS0WAZ

also new YO2LAM in FSK441   good reflections 4seconds the best

Last night WE6XGR almost continuous copied at 499.501 kHz again

Landen tot nu toe gewerkt 70MHz
PA        tropo
DL       tropo
ON      tropo
G         tropo
LA       tropo/ms
OH      ms
OZ       tropo
YO      ms
I           ms
IS0       ms

499.501 kHz WE6GXR many decodes last night

2012-02-24T12:29:00.002+01:00

2012-02-24 03:14

WE6XGR

0.499501

-19

FN12

PA0O

JO33hg

5988

25 times decoded
also many decodes by PA0A

2012-02-24 03:14

WE6XGR

0.499501

-14

FN12

PA0A

JO33de

5972

Albert nu iets betere ontvangst lijkt het.
Ik had bandhopping 498kHz 80 en 160 aanstaan dus 1/3 van de tijd op 498kHz
De 1e keer dit seizoen een signaal over de plas op 500kHz

donderdag ochtend HR/F2JD zeer goed signaal op 160m maar helaas geen tijd even geprobeerd met 100W
maar toen moest ik stoppen.

70MHz transverter is klaar. Propagatie is er niet echt.
Geen ES Aurora en slechts matig meteorscatter
paar Landen nu gewerkt PA,OZ,DL,G,I,LA,OH enige DX mogelijkheid is FSK441 of JT6M JT65B voor tropo afstand (LA)

Dus staat WSPR vaak aan.
Altijd decodes van PA0TBR Ton, Richard G3SHK IO90DX ( 623km tropo) en OZ7IT Jørgen
Er is veel meer mogelijk maar ja de meest om's hebben geen idee of willen niet een WSPR baken signaaltje laten staan.
Ik wil maximaal gebruik maken van de "resources" en laat een propagatie bakentje aanstaan.
Ondertussen kan ik gewoon aan het werk of klussen om het huis...
UTC dB DT freq drift Hz power dBm
1050 -15 2.7 70.092516 0 G3SHK IO90 37

ARRL CW

2012-02-19T10:20:00.004+01:00

Het ging de laatste tijd alleen maar berg af met de propagatie.
Veel geomagnetisch stormen.
Dan was 10m toch nog redelijk open zaterdag middag.

160m was de slechtste band
aantal gehoorde stations slechts 5
Met 100W was er niet veel te beginnen
Maar toch KC1XX en KM1W beiden op 6 banden
W3LPL kon me niet horen eindeloos CQ hoorde niemand!
Jammer dat zou ook een 6-bander zijn.

Op 80m ging het s'morgens goed. Wat ik hoorde kon ik gemakkelijk werken. Ik hoorde velen tevergeefs roepen
Dus slecht kan de geïmproviseerde 80 "shunt" verticaal niet zijn.
40m zondag ochtend goed open naar west-kust NV MT UT BC WA CA ze kwamen allemaal tot verbazing retour.

Ook de duoband 30/40 inv-V dipool kan nooit helemaal trash zijn ik kwam in de piles redelijk snel aan de beurt.

de teller staat 10uur lokaal op 369Q 141 multy's

live score te volgen op
http://www.getscores.org/live/

Zondag 10m zwak geen nieuwe stations kunnen werken
Maar 15m was tijdens SS super veel multy NV UT WA CA BC SK nog gehoord
Dat maakt de ARRL weer mooi. Ik werd een beetje verzadigd van al die oostkust W's

op 160m zondag tegen einde alleen VE1ZZ 599!
Op 80 en 40 nog wat multies erbij

0.0 Wyoming en Southdakota!
de eindscore

QRV 4M transverter (old 6m) + BLF177
7ele 2/4/6m 3-band met 160m inv-L white wire feed through using isolated stand-off

OH5LID KP41KL 70.267 MS FSK441

2012-02-16T20:29:00.001+01:00

FW0NAR/P 7031 CW op de valreep very good ears in a lot of QRI again

Hello 28MHz a bit recovered

2012-02-16T11:52:00.004+01:00

listening 3512kHz for ZK2C nothing heard this morning
Might have been the last chance this FB expedition ends 17-2-2012
Bad luck all the earth magnetic disturbances since the good 80M copy of VP6T it has not got good again.

heard very clear 539/549 signal ZL3NB working G's at 3505
RX loop direction S-W long path
On the TX antenna hardly detected in the noise

WSPR 28 this morning

2012-02-16 10:04

PA0O

28.126166

-17

JO33hg

VK3XPT

QF22nd

16426

2012-02-16 09:12	PA0O	28.126178	-1	0	JO33hg	1	A45WT	LL93	5462	106
2012-02-16 09:24	PA0O	28.126176	-20	0	JO33hg	1	UA9XSS	LP63tn	2885	48
2012-02-16 08:18	UA9XSS	28.126085	-25	2	LP63tn	10	PA0O	JO33hg	2885	269

Some improvements to the 70MHz BLF177 done now "easy 150 out in the dummy load"

Had to replace the middle LP coil section with a longer one that helped a lot.

The unwanted feedback at 28MHz seems to be fixed also.

Also the used brown 500V silver mica Sprague C have some loss at these frequency replaced one by

an ARCO 462

28MHz propagation bye bye

2012-02-15T14:15:00.001+01:00

No VK at all this morning.
The solar magnetic storm cleared all.

Yesterday morning ZK2C 7012kHz CW not easy
Great expedition.
It will be difficult to get them on 80m tought I heared some weak CW this morning at 80m 3512 ??? must have been my imagination
still hangover from the marathon CW PACC run?
During PACC Sunday morning I heard FW0NAR at 40 CW very very weak on the K9AY loop working to EU possible I was to late local 10:30 already to have success. They could not copy me ( PA switched on)

I had to play lumberjack to improve my firewood stock.
Heavy job took all evening.

Then saw there had been some aurora. Possible i missed some signals at 70MHz.
Got some new tuning C Arco462 and Philips Teflon types.
Tried to improve the performance of the BLF177 Amp
Not really could improve it.
But could leave out one tuning C without drop of performance.
The Arco462 in the top middle seems to be redundant.

Now the BLF177 Drain goes over the 5 turns coil over the 1nF DC uncoupler C in the 2 stage phi filter the input has a fixed 47p C to gnd replacing that one by a tuning C did also not bring anything.
The 2nd coil 6 turns 6mm 70nH got a bit warm tried to replace with thicker wire coil measuring same 70-100nH but had to place back the original seems there is a difference in value I lost the output tuning.

In FM my modulation is reported as very good using a simple CB type dynamic microphone at the Flex1500.
Monitoring my signal at the IC706 showed a echo sound caused by the digital processing 0.5 -1 second.
Monitoring the CW signal makes you can not send code anymore ... the timing delay confuses your mind too much.
But in linear mode USB it sounds a bit distorted.
Then checked the bias currents of the driver stages a bit low for class A-B 36mA BLY87 and 150mA for the MRF238 that is driven to 2Amps have to be increased and also switched off during receive.
Regularly I have to reset the Power-SDR to get the audio out of the "noise hash error" I hope this can be solved soon. This is my main issue with the Flex1500 It is very nice to be able to switch the FM deviation between 2.5 and 5kHz. PA1AT not so far but being very weak could be copied better in small band FM.
At 70.350MHz
Again it was way after midnight when I finally switched off the lights.

PACC 2012 its over!

2012-02-12T13:10:00.000+01:00

Ben wel een beetje murv nu.

CW only en Low Power /K3 power

live scores alleen PI4TUE en PA6V lieten de live score zien.
http://www.getscores.org/live/

The BLF177 some better result

2012-02-11T01:46:00.001+01:00

A few days I let it rest it was useless to continue the trial and error method. I went ice-scathing.
Then I did check the low-pass filter using RFsim99 this is a great tool. RFsim99 does not work under W7 btw.
It had to be redesigned for a higher cut off frequency. Then the matching improved a lot.
A good thing to suppress unwanted oscillations was to use a stopper resistor at the gate of the BLF177 10 Ohm was good but I had only a small R that got brown by the drive power. Now I use 2x 0.5W 1 Ohm carbon types.
The capacitors stay cool in the filter. I believe the pass through is okay now.
Possible it was never optimal for 50MHz too and the BLX15 could have been better performing.
But I did not want to give up on this modern MOS power BLF177.

I have to learn more how to use this great tool.
The L/C calculated L's compared to the measured values with the L/C meter gave quite some differences but roughly the L's in use should be about 70nH now, much smaller values then they where before.

I want my lazy BLX15 back!

2012-02-09T23:19:00.002+01:00

I did replace my old BLX15 power transistor with a modern Power MOS device.
The BLF177   the BLX15 has 6dB gain only at 70MHz.
While the BLF177 should have over 20dB.

After a few days trying all I could think of to get stable power out of the BLF177 MOS   at 70MHz the result was 2 melted tuning C's.
It sure can generate power this device but I did not manage to let it work at the wanted frequency.
Many combinations of L and C where tested. The original circuit was used for 50MHz relatively close to 70MHz. I did not expect major changes in the L and C's in use.
The   2 stage low-pass filter should be almost the same.
Of course the bias circuit is different   but simple only a pot-meter to get about 3V at the gate for 500mA. The BLX15 needed the 0.7 PN diode in parallel to get a 500mA bias.
I have edited an input file with the scattering parameters from the specification data for RFSimm99

I need a working circuit with practical L and C values to continue.
It is very strange that I can not find a tuning for this device. Only oscillating ? At one moment it looked ok I could drive easy 150< in the dummy. But then suddenly at switching in the tuning C burned out and fuses blown.   At lower Voltage I managed to get 20W with 1W drive but very unstable.

Victims of the shear oscillating power... Arco type 406 80pF and a smaller one

PACC comes propagation leaves,,

2012-02-09T00:01:00.000+01:00

423 km to OZ7IT

624km IO90

Will the sunspots left us just before the PACC? 28MHz closes just 2 days before the PACC?
Last year just 1 day after the PACC 28 opened..

PACC next weekend but propagation has been very poor last 2 days. only VK6XT was left on 28MHz and very short open to USA. 80/160m very poor 160m suffers almost a radio blackout. Hope it will improve for the weekend ..

ZL2TCA 28.126039 WSPR spot this morning fb propagation

2012-02-02T17:28:00.003+01:00

whole page this morning real good on 10M

2012-02-02 08:10	ZL2TCA	28.126039	-26	0	RE79sp	5	PA0O	JO33hg	18354	334
2012-02-02 07:10	VK2MEV	28.126023	-16	0	QF57ua	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16452	320
2012-02-02 07:24	PA0O	28.126173	-15	0	JO33hg	1	VK2MEV	QF57ua	16452	65
2012-02-02 07:22	VK2MEV	28.126022	-13	0	QF57ua	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16452	320
2012-02-02 07:36	PA0O	28.126173	-15	0	JO33hg	1	VK2MEV	QF57ua	16452	65
2012-02-02 07:32	VK2MEV	28.126022	-14	0	QF57ua	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16452	320
2012-02-02 07:12	PA0O	28.126173	-18	0	JO33hg	1	VK2MEV	QF57ua	16452	65
2012-02-02 07:44	VK2MEV	28.126022	-26	0	QF57ua	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16452	320
2012-02-02 07:48	PA0O	28.126173	-25	0	JO33hg	1	VK2MEV	QF57ua	16452	65
2012-02-02 07:56	VK2MEV	28.126022	-24	0	QF57ua	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16452	320
2012-02-02 08:00	PA0O	28.126171	-13	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 07:48	PA0O	28.126171	-12	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 07:36	PA0O	28.126171	-18	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 08:50	PA0O	28.126172	-24	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 08:26	PA0O	28.126172	-19	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 08:14	PA0O	28.126172	-15	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 07:24	PA0O	28.126171	-20	0	JO33hg	1	VK3XPT	QF22nd	16426	78
2012-02-02 07:26	VK1UN	28.126144	-17	0	QF22lf	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16409	312
2012-02-02 08:14	PA0O	28.126162	-6	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 07:36	PA0O	28.126162	-13	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 08:10	VK2KRR	28.126121	-1	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:56	VK2KRR	28.126122	+3	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 08:04	VK2KRR	28.126122	+2	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:46	VK2KRR	28.126122	-1	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:48	PA0O	28.126162	-9	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 08:00	PA0O	28.126162	-3	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 07:34	VK2KRR	28.126123	-1	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:12	PA0O	28.126162	-15	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 06:56	VK2KRR	28.126123	-19	0	QF34mr	20	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:10	VK2KRR	28.126123	-6	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 09:02	PA0O	28.126163	0	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 08:42	VK2KRR	28.126121	+3	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 08:32	VK2KRR	28.126122	+2	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 08:38	PA0O	28.126163	0	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 09:08	VK2KRR	28.126121	-17	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 08:24	VK2KRR	28.126122	+1	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:22	VK2KRR	28.126123	+10	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 09:14	PA0O	28.126163	-14	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 08:18	VK2KRR	28.126122	-1	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 07:24	PA0O	28.126162	-4	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 08:26	PA0O	28.126163	-3	0	JO33hg	1	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2012-02-02 09:00	VK2KRR	28.126121	0	0	QF34mr	2	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 06:52	VK2KRR	28.126123	-13	0	QF34mr	20	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2012-02-02 08:00	PA0O	28.126174	-25	-2	JO33hg	1	VK5WR	PF95hi	15757	81
2012-02-02 08:14	PA0O	28.126170	-27	0	JO33hg	1	VK5WR	PF95hi	15757	81
2012-02-02 08:16	VK5WR	28.126089	-25	-1	PF95hi	5	PA0O	JO33hg	15757	314
2012-02-02 07:36	PA0O	28.126170	-16	0	JO33hg	1	VK5WR	PF95hi	15757	81
2012-02-02 07:48	PA0O	28.126171	-25	0	JO33hg	1	VK5WR	PF95hi	15757	81
2012-02-02 07:40	VK5WR	28.126090	-21	-1	PF95hi	5	PA0O	JO33hg	15757	314
2012-02-02 07:36	PA0O	28.126183	-12	0	JO33hg	1	VK5FSCK	PF95ip	15740	80

TK5/VK1UN Ross Somalia Mogadishu

2012-02-02T00:03:00.003+01:00

Daar zullen vele DX's graag een QSOtje mee willen maken!

1146 -23 0.4 28.126054 0 LJ22PA 37
1154 -26 0.6 28.126053 0 T51/VK1UN 37

CQ 160 test and VHF 3band 70MHz SWR okay

2012-01-28T11:11:00.001+01:00

poor propagation X2 flare yesterday evening

only NA/VE heard and QSO
VY2ZM and K1LZ

HK0NA redelijk copy maar no ears for EU
in our SR ..

But finaly in the log of

20120128 0654 1834,9 CW PA0O 599 CE1/K7CA 599
yes I was heard this time.

20120128 0826 7006,1 CW PA0O 599 VP6T 599
20120128 0836 18132,0 USB PA0O 59 TN2T 59
20120128 0840 24898,0 CW PA0O 559 VK2GWK 499 Henk

Na wat email contact met Martin DK7ZB ivm hoge SWR

Vrijdagmiddag even met wat zon even de mast omlaag en een nieuw mantelstroom filter /balun gemaakt.

Dwz ca 60cm 50Ohm grijs 6.2mm goede kwaliteit Coax gebruikt ipv de 75Ohm H125 was ook nog soepeler kon nu 4 slagen door de ringkern cq 400uH is dat

En nu is de SWR zeer goed! op 70MHz en ook op 6M en 2M
bingo! dat was het probleem De element lengtes waren goed
Behalve misschien de dipool voor 6M daar zit de kabel op die zou 1 cm te lang zijn omdat de lengte top-top gemeten wordt altijd volgens Martin ZB. Er is een luchtspleet van 1cm dus 1 cm te lang.
Ik heb alle elementen zo gelaten. 6M heeft nu een beetje oplopende SWR boven de 51MHz dat was met de 75ohm balun juist aflopend zoveel effect had dat stukje 75ohm .
De cabel is 30m H2000 naar boven.

Tevens heb ik nog een geïsoleerde houder dwars op de drager van de 3Band Mini yagi gezet om de 160m verticaal vrij te houden van de beam bij draaien van de antenne dat werkt prima.
Ik had geen SWR variaties meer op 160m bij het verdaaien van de VHF antenne waar deze verticaal dwars doorhien loopt.
Gewoon een kort stukje 3/4 PVC dat met de mast meedraait. zelfs antenne noord gaf geen probleem.
Het ei van Columbus!

WSPR 70.028600 MHz OZ7IT good copy
en PA0TBR good copy 2-way WSPR

Now Flex1500 settings in PowerSDR

USB conservative ruler maximum left

process piority high seems the best setting here with the Dell D420 notebook W7pro32

hoop dat de ruis-crash over is!

Internet Explorer8 opgeruimd eindelijk weer tekstinvoer mogelijk.

2012-01-26T19:24:00.000+01:00

Kon op webpagina's geen tekst meer invoeren op mijn mini tower PC XP met IE. Vreemd en lastig.
Dan starte ik Firefox of Chrome en dan kon dat wel.
Internetopties werd geweigerd! op mijn eigen PC als administrator gekker moet het niet worden met die beveiligingsmanie van Microsoft.

Nu heb ik Internet Explorer 8 gedeinstalleerd dat lijkt te helpen.
Zoeken naar dit probleem is ook lastig alleen al de ommschrijving van het verschijnsel veel te veel hits die er niet mee te maken hebben.

Google is gewoon de beste zoek machine MS probeerd van alles om je aan de Ask en Bing te berngen desnoods wordt het ongevraagd op je werkblad geinstalleerd. Het is lastig om de zaak schoon te houden van MAlware...

Could not enter text in webpages   no cursor appeared in the textboxes only pull down menu with the mouse. Strange problem. I needed to start Firefox or Chrome if need to enter text
F.i. when wanting to log in on a site that was not possible! Internetoptions could not be opened restriction on my own PC as administrator !
Then I wanted to uninstall IE ..   of course that is not real possible in Windows hihi.
But un-installing IE8 was allowed by MS...   and it seemed to fix that problem.
Finaly

VP6T Bounty or Pitcairn Island fb signaal 80m cw

2012-01-24T13:07:00.000+01:00

This morning excellent signal from Pitcairn VP6T 3503kHz CW nice one
recording 3503KHz around 08:00 UTC thats broad daylight 09 localtime!
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fa8b0192.html
also worked on 30m few days back.

And the first time worked HK0NA 7024.5kHz CW
heard on 30m too but they could not hear.

http://www.vp6t.org/

De 3 band mini antenne (DK7ZB)  werkt!
In de mast gezet gisteravond in het donker en met voor de verandering wat regen...
Moet nog een isolator afstands houder maken voor de 160 verticaal die nu door de antenne omlaag loopt. de draad kan gewoon meedraaien maar mag geen contact maken ivm overslag op 1.8MHz.
op 4m heb ik GB3BAA in/uit en GB3BUX   dat is ca 500km gehoord
2M en 6m werken ook en SWR is ok   op 6m iets hoger in de band dan zou moeten volgens DK7ZB site. Maar zeker goede aanpassing. Hoe goed hij werkt dat moet nog blijken de komende tijd.
Maar ik beschouw het nu als een geslaagd project.

1e QSO 70.150MHz met Jan PA0VAJ 9+60    op dit moment 10W  rf     antenne 1:2 past niet erg goed aan op 70MHz helaas. Maar ontvangt goed.
Wat improviseren maar voorlopig werkt het een beetje.
Met de oude TS515 op 28MHz  nostalgie   zo was ik ooit begonnen op 144 CW/SSB met een transverter QQE03/12 QQE06/40   laat Jan nu ook nog een TS515 en QQE0640 gebruiken dat is toevallig. Tja zelfde generatie HAM..
De TS515 ruikt nog net zo als 30jaar geleden een beetje teerlucht van de trafo van de voeding die ik destijds nog zelf gemaakt heb.

Improvising to get in the air at 70MHz to make the first QSO with Jan PA0VAJ
very very loud ..

And the 3 band mini antenna in the mast 22m a.g   it works!
I can receive GB3BAA IO91PS  70.016MHz    and   GB3BUX 70.000MHz >500kM tropo
weak in /out but copied   must be okay
2m seems to work fine 3ele good matching Beacon PI7HVN JO22ww received well at 144.423.3 MHz. I realise this is the first time I have a horizontal 2m beam in the mast since 20 years!
6m 2le is okay heard LX0SIX but weak also bad prop for tropo of course with this low pressure WX and rain.
Matching at 50MHz is a bit high band

again a night operation

2012-01-24T01:22:00.001+01:00

Finally after 48hour continuous heavy rain and wind that ended midnight Sunday/Monday we had a relative nice day with some periods that it did not rain .. But had to wait to dark before I had time to put the mini 3-band VHF antenna in my mast that was a quick job. Cable was already available in the mast so now at 22m a.g. with good cable I was very curious how this small antenna would perform.
First tests receiving showed some good FM signals at 70.425MHz of locals.
Then 2m , the SWR was low! receiving a dutch beacon quite good much stronger then on my vertical.
2m seemed alright too
Then 6m low SWR but a bit tuned high SWR went up in the DX part a bit but reasonable 1:1.5
That should be easy to correct with some extension of the radiator
Heard LX0SIX but deep in the noise.
Then tried to receive one of the G- beacons I heard weak GB3BAA at 70.016 at some peak
could trim my old 50MHz now on 70MHz BF900 preamp on that one a real signal.

So conclusion project is a success!
Now have to get the old transverter running 5W out so far.

Never ending storm and rain

2012-01-23T00:07:00.002+01:00

Geen antenne werk mogelijk dit weekeinde
Zoveel k-weer in een maand dat is vast nu al een nieuw weerrecord

toch nog wat DX tussendoor

20120121 1309 18102,2 RTTY PA0O         599 4W0VB           599
20120122 1040 10106,0 CW   PA0O         599 VP6T            599
20120122 0100   3524,0 CW   PA0O         599 PJ4C            599
20120122 1510 28018,0 CW   PA0O         599 PJ4C            599
20120122 2022 10144,1 RTTY PA0O         599 PJ4C            599

PJ4C inmiddels toch 160 tem 10 behalve 40 nog
Heb er ook niet echt naar gezocht.

HK0NA nog op geen enkele band ze werken steeds phone dat trekt te veel "lids" heb ik geen trek in.
Valt me wat tegen deze expeditie.
PJ4C is wel veel beter vind ik. Ook daar veel ge-tune al of niet met opzet maar meestal was PJ4C sterker dan de zwerm QRM'rs die altijd te vinden zijn op de frequentie van een DX-peditie.
De DX code of conduct zal toch ook in Jip en Janneke vorm moeten worden uitgebracht.

De 4M transverter staat nog steeds op de werkbank er blijkt toch van alles niet meer te werken in de oude 50MHz transverter. Zelfs delen van het antenne relais beginnen te ontbinden na zoveel jaar pauze 1988 -2012 das toch een end.
12V defect een UA78HG regelbaar 5A das de 2e die "zomaar"stuk gaat.    Nu een UA7812 + 2 dioden opgekrikt naar 14V en daar een 2n3055 achter dan blijft er 12,7V over. Dat zou toch 4A moeten kunnen doen. |Niet kortsluitvast deze erg simpele schakeling.

.......
Even een vastloper van Firefox er zomaar tussendoor
Gebeurt vaak dat ik Chrome of Firefox met taakbeheer geforceerd moet afstuiten..
Krijg je altijd de slimme melding: Firefox reageert niet wilt u het afsluiten? nee natuurlijk niet gewoon doorwerken kan dat ook?
.....

N1MM ging ook paar keer offline met de K3 lijkt erop dat Google Chrome de CPU load erg hoog maakt als de browser gewoon aanstaat zonder actie van mijn kant! vreemd. Dan sluit ik Chrome af en alles weer normaal.
N1MM kon niet meer online met de K3 moest eerst Chrome afsluiten.

WSPR 10m is nog steeds open naar VK4/5 en soms VK7AB maar het wordt allemaal wel minder.\

Nu was er ook nog Aurora zondagavond
Helaas 4m nog niet QRV

zo ziet WSPR eruit tijdens/na Aurora de traces worden breed uitgesmeerd door het Doppler effect van de reflecties tegen bewegende ionisatie lagen vermoed ik.

Klaar voor de real test. ready to launch

2012-01-21T16:04:00.001+01:00

Daar staat hij dan de laatste schroeven aangedraaid de 4 stralers met kunststof stripjes verbonden voor de stabiliteit en tegen resoneren mechanisch natuurlijk. Helaas al wekenlang is het weer hoofdmenu storm en regen.
Het is maar een 2 ele beampje voor 4 en 6 en 3 ele voor 2 toch verwacht ik er wel wat van.

The small 3-band Yagy/Una finished for test in the mast. But the weather will not cooperate the main dish is storm and rain. It has to wait.

Elektronica eldorado In Hoogkerk

2012-01-20T21:01:00.001+01:00

Vrijdag middag dan kun je er kijken Bas.
Ik had (nam) even tijd en was in de buurt.
Zelfs de ouderwetse Antenne mastklem TV model vond ik daar tussen de vele interessante elektronica onderdelen die overal liggen
Het bestaat nog een zaak met zowel hypermoderne als ouderwetse radio/elektronica .
Overal waar je kijkt ligt elektronica smikkelen en smullen voor de liefhebber.
En niet duur. Of lijkt dat zo door de € ? Vroeger had je Radio Midwest
aan het schuitendiep Wild West wel veel rommel.. En Telec was ooit ook als radio/elektronica in Hoogezand begonnen. En oude Pekela en Veendam. Nu is dat allemaal haast weg.
Maar bij van Dijken waan je je weer in de dump. Hoewel hoofdzakelijk nieuw spul.

Ik vond er SO239 kabeldelen heel zeldzaam teflon en verguld goed spul.

Toch maar weer eens aan de knutsel voor 70MHz

2012-01-18T22:49:00.003+01:00

Bezig met een kleine 3band VHF antenne DK7ZB en ombouwen van de 6m transverter naar 4m

ca 100-150mW

De oude veel gemodificeerde 6m transverter nu met een 42MHz VCXO
Kwam erachter dat de regel ingang pin1 van de VX-4231 niet werkt maar de frequentie is behoorlijk in de buurt van 42MHz misschien scheelt het een paar honderd Hz zoals bij alle tot nog toe gemaakte x-tal oscillatoren het geval was... Helaas dus geen VCXO functie deze oscillator.
Ik herinner me nu dat de 22MHz x-tal oscillator eerst mooi op frequentie was in 1986.. en toen viel het ding hard op de grond. Einde Xtal het was een ex-tal geworden moest weer een nieuwe bestellen.. duurde en duurde . Maar het nieuwe x-tal moest met kunst en vliegwerk op de juiste frequentie worden getrokken..

Deze transverte heeft echt het minimum aantal actieve delen 3 transistoren 2 voor TX 1 RX BFR34
ontwerp is vele jaren geleden door PE1CKK gepubliceerd
Toch komt er ruim 100mW uit.
Ik heb heel wat 6m landen ermee gewerkt met een PA erachter natuurlijk.
Dat bewijst natuurlijk niet dat deze transverter goed is..
Ik vind het een slim ontwerp 2 Schottky dioden en een bandfilter (midden) dat met dioden wordt omgeschakeld voor TX en RX gebruik.

Ik kan nog niet controleren of de ontvanger het doet geen antenne nog
Maar daar wordt nu ook aangewerkt de 3 band Yagi/Una van DK7ZB
Het is nog wel even afwerken maar hopelijk ben ik dan snel ook op 4m actief
ooit wel x-band gemaakt en Aurora signalen uit EI GM gehoord op de IC706 die alleen ontvangt op 4m helaas geen TX mogelijk ivm hoge MF in de buurt van 70MHz.

Mantelstroom blokkering met een ringkern 4 windingen ca 200uH zou toch moeten werken

Een even grote blauwe ringkern geeft bij 4 wdg slechts 8uH mogelijk is deze oranje kern niet geschikt voor VHF maar dan nog, Rf gaat dan ook normaal door de kabel

Ik denk dat niemand verschil zal merken met of zonder de mantelstroom spoel.

Op lagere frequenties misschien wel een sterker effect?

USB serial

2012-01-10T00:56:00.000+01:00

http://pa0o.weblog.nl/geen-categorie/usb-serial-converters-nog-eens-weer/

Trimble GPSDO aangesloten

2011-12-29T00:53:00.000+01:00

http://pa0o.weblog.nl/

WSPR DP1POL IB59uh active 28MHz

2011-12-26T23:45:00.002+01:00

DP1POL IB59uh was reported 28mc in USA this afternoon
I hope to see them soon here too

After VK0TH the 2nd deep south WSPR signal

I send an email to KC4AAA to persuade them using WSPR too from JA00aa ! Amundsen-Scott base

28MHz still holding on

2011-12-25T12:27:00.003+01:00

This Morning 100mW to VK7AB at 28Mhz gave good decodes
guess 50mW would do.

Had the Flex1500 running with Notepad night and morning. Was surprised to see that it was still working good late morning after a long sleep.
When minimising the Power SDR screen the CPU load sinks to 15/20%
I don't know for what reason but now t seems t work stable.
Power SDR settings seems default.

2011-12-25 10:36	PA0O	28.126024	-12	JO33hg	1	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-12-25 10:44	PA0O	28.126025	-16	JO33hg	0.5	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-12-25 10:58	PA0O	28.126026	-23	JO33hg	0.1	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-12-25 11:04	PA0O	28.126027	-26	JO33hg	0.1	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84

VK0TH WSPR 28MHz QD95lm Macquarie Island

2011-12-19T19:02:00.000+01:00

2011-12-19 13:12 VK0TH 28.126070 +1 QD95lm 10 PA0O JO33hg 18208 277

Dat zijn de spots! QD95lm Macquarie Island
WSPR is natuurlijk geen "echt QSO" maar toch rapport en locatie uitgewisseld..
En vanuit PA kom je niet snel over de 18000km grens.
Dat lukt veel gemakkelijker vanuit S-W EU CT EA G F EA8 en nog betere signalen vaak ook..
Voor ons PA ZL op het zuider eiland in RExx dat gaat over de 18000km

28MHz is toch nog steeds heel goed
Weliswaar geen W6 meer 's avonds maar smorgens VK
en ZL voorzover QRV gaat nog steeds goed

En de laatste paar dagen was 28MHz Longpath goed open o.a. BA7IO en VR2 met QTF S-W
Helaas geen LP WSPR signalen gezien.

L/C meter kit

2011-12-18T00:05:00.000+01:00

Mooi bouwpakket nice kit 39,50€
Geheel compleet zeer duidelijke beschrijving
0-838,8nF o-83,8mH
+/- 1% +/- 0.1pF +/- 10nH
1 a 2 uur bouwtijd
Op QRL hebben we de Peak L/C tester die is ook zeer goed maar zwakke clips en prijzig deze heeft stevige clips en is goed in het lage bereik.

Tevens nog 30m H43 glanzend nieuwe coax aangeschaft
haast? nergens te koop
www.vandijkenelektronica.nl

Another storm is heading our way ...

2011-12-12T23:19:00.002+01:00

I might have to travel and the weather forecast is very bad.
Tonight I removed the Steppir elements for my peace of mind. Easy job. It could be even easier if Steppir provided end caps to close the EHU when the elements are out now I use duck-tape. Have to look for caps that fit on 48mm tube.

Its over! ARRL10 contest. Saturday & Sunday final results

2011-12-10T18:03:00.001+01:00

Sunday morning up for part 2 of the ARRL10 thought the band was pretty bad.. but receiving on the K9AY instead of the beam... oepss I was not awake a very weak UA9 was coming back
I wondered why he could copy me so well.. Then finally I saw the RX-ANT switch was on.. sorry that's why I screwed it up with ZL1BYZ.
Band was as good as it can be in December.
A lot of backscatter echoes.

About 11 local Longpath to Japan and China very strong over South America! Could work a few JA 9+ signals much stronger then morning direct path. But not so many one would expect a pile?

Since the weather was nice we decided to take a walk.
Good to have some fresh air and change the mind.
At the cost of some JA BA and possible KH?? ..

My final result Sunday evening at band close 18:00 local 19:00UT
CW only with PA and still hi SWR..

worked 60 of 100 zones
Mexico this year is counting in the sections 32 to the total! of 100 W/VE sections not easy to get them of course I got 5 XE zones
60 of the total of 100 CW only
The missing part of USA was the Northwest and VE Northwest difficult as always no VE6 VE7 seen or heard pity.
How would that be if this ARRL10 was in October or November?
a madhouse! Even with this propagation it was hard to find a "free"spot.

Pit-stop Saturday evening:

Beam seems to work okay , Still high SWR 1: 1.9 this morning
last night it seems okay.

New cable needed
Latest N1MM 11.12.0   there was an issue about hesitating CW msg out . I Had no problems this time.
Seems fine this version I can not remember where I enabled skimmer or RBN spots could not switch it of if it was on?

Live score

Propagation not bad good signal ZM2V    weak ZL1TM few VK few JA but sometimes difficult echo signals from f.i. VK2CT

Band practical closed 17:30 local time

Storm and more storm

2011-12-08T22:46:00.001+01:00

Yes! tonight the rain and wind stopped
So again lowered the beam and found the cable gave high SWR on a dummy / power meter.
The SWR raised when tuning up to 29MHz something was wrong.
Now replaced and SWR is 1:1.5 28   to 1:1.1 29 on the Steppir
I could tune up the band with the Steppir what I couldn't do before in October in the high sunspots and JA XE W in the FM part > 29MHz.

Anyway I am a bit ready for the ARRL10    if the WX stays a bit quiet.
The total cable loss over 60m ( 30m 50Ohm 26m 75Ohm )
5W in 3.8W out   -1.19dB 28MHz
I can live with that.

also 50 to 75 Ohm gives   SWR 1:1.5 in worst case 1/4 wave I believe

Hard to prepare for the ARRL this way hope for some breaks Friday
I have another 4 ele beam or I could ad 2 extra directors as a DX reading glass for the Steppir..
But we have to wait for the storm to lay down ..

KH2/N2NL 160m

2011-12-07T21:48:00.001+01:00

KH2/N2NL

Nice propagation also to JA in a storm noisy shack.
Glad I had the 7ele beam windcatcher removed yesterday night..
And the first time this season decoded VK7DIK at 80m

2011-12-07 18:40	VK7DIK	3.594044	-16	0	QE28sf	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16731	307
2011-12-07 18:44	PA0O	3.594151	-15	0	JO33hg	5	VK7DIK	QE28sf	16731	84
KH2/N2NL recorded by Lutz,DM2LB Danke dir Lutz das war das 2e QSO mit Dave dieses Jahr..( da waren kein andere anruffe an dem Moment)

BA7IO 160m

2011-12-07T00:23:00.001+01:00

BA7IO Vange 160m
Nice signal tonight 1822kHz up1

Tonight I removed the 50MHz yagi again.
I wanted to see if any DX would slip through to the north but it did not.
The weather forecast is only storm and rain.
Many decodes 6M WSPR of OZ7IT PA0TBR M1DUDevery day but noone else QRV at reasonable distance.
No UA9 SWL or any other Rusian at 6m unfortunately.
summary 6M WSPR last 2 weeks the first one is an Freudian misdecode..

2011-12-07 11:10	PA0O	50.294415	-17	-1	JO33hg	0.5	VK5ZRL	PF95gc	15771	81
2011-12-02 20:36	G6AVK	50.294416	-26	-1	JO01ho	5	PA0O	JO33hg	447	63
2011-12-04 09:38	OZ7IT	50.294482	-7	-1	JO65df	200	PA0O	JO33hg	428	242
2011-12-05 16:14	PA0O	50.294467	-23	-4	JO33hg	5	DF0ZDF	JN49cx	382	163
2011-11-30 13:44	M1DUD	50.294471	-11	0	JO02qc	2	PA0O	JO33hg	377	68
2011-11-30 22:32	PA0O	50.294514	-18	0	JO33hg	5	M1DUD	JO02qc	377	252
2011-12-01 17:54	PA0TBR	50.294432	-27	-1	JO22pi	10	PA0O	JO33hg	136	41
2011-12-01 18:16	PA0O	50.294499	-23	-1	JO33hg	5	PA0TBR	JO22pi	136	222

I had some shorts between the inv-L wire and the 7el LFA the wind blew the wire against the beam.
I can still use the Steppir at 6m but have to solve the high SWR problem first. Receiving seems good.
Possible one part of cable must be replaced.
I can work it in the dark the beam is lowered on the driveway and good light.
Only the rain and storm has to pause a bit...

Steppir works again

2011-12-03T12:11:00.001+01:00

Last night just before another storm depression did hit I could repair the problem.
It was the cable luckily not the STEPPIR itself. Difficult to connect it weatherproof to the EHU if it must be possible to disconnect easily.
I forgot to use the "stekker SAFE" shell that protects cable joints nomal used to protect power cables outside.
Just 1€50 at Horbach.
Only used tape over the N-to-N joint but already there was water intruded. These shells are very good protecting connector joints as it also fixes it.
Self vulcanising tape plus the connector shell better of course.

Time synchronise problems in W7

2011-12-01T19:50:00.001+01:00

My Notepad W7 DELL420 clock was slowly drifting out of sync second by second and WSPR 50MHz did not decode anymore.

I use Symmtime, this program reported to synchronise the PC clock to the selected timeserver at the given interval 15minutes. But I was running 6 seconds behind. forcing synchronise did not chance the PC clock.
I had windows internet time unchecked because Symmtime or Dimension 4 would take over that job?? Both did not!
Dimension 4 did even report the how much the PC clock was adjusted + or - seconds nice. But In real nothing was adjusted.
Must have something to do with access right again.
I did install not in the restricted programs directory but in my own
C:\ham\ and as administrator did not seem to cure it.

I did re-check Windows: synchronise with an internet time server again. Clicked sync now and instantly the PC clock was adjusted.

Then I modified the default time update interval of the Windows clock to 1000sec (decimal) and removed the SymmTime and Dimension4.
To de-install Symmtime first rightclick the Symmtime Icon on the taskbar right bottom screen select exit.
Then the programm can be un-installed over the Config Programs
I like Symmtime for XP it is fine but not for W7 it seems.

here is the link that tells you how to do that.

In XP I have no problem Symmtime keeps the clock sychronised.

http://tweaks.com/windows/36948/change-internet-time-update-interval/

CQWWCW and Murphy

2011-11-29T22:53:00.001+01:00

Had a very good start at 80/160 Saturday early morning at about 04:30 the counter was 500 QSO had some very good runs.
Then had to sleep knowing I would miss the early 10m opening to Asia/ VK/ZL/JA.

But then Saturday after 1 QSO with a late signal of VK2IM on 10m I could not tune the STEPPIR and while trying this N1MM gave the "this action can not be completed because the other process is busy" MSGbox error.. brrr bad news and these error BOX in Visual basic should not be used since it brings you in an endless error loop. I avoid these msgBoxes in programs it is very annoying and blocking you to do any other possible actions to  fix or determine what is the problem.
The msgbox pops up as soon as you try anything to open or close in N1MM. The other annoying msgbox: "would you like to send an error report?" popup... A question upon yes or no gives the same result.

I could not fix it by restart it said com2 already open but no programs where using com2..
USB-converter broken? Also WSPR reported COM2 error..
Then replaced the USB-serial converter and it worked again..

Still the Steppir would not cooperate.

Finally got it to run..
The next problem showed up a random "send message delay"
When replying a call with enter, the T/R switched in normal quick but it took sometimes seconds before the reply CW message was send..
Very frustrating. N1MM CWIO dll always worked flawless. Better than the K1EL keyer. Even when CPU load is pushed to 100% when TX-ing N1MM keyer has a fantastic timing.
That is until now in this CQWWCW...
Switched off call look-up fifo buffer unchecked
Latest version download anything I could think off tried.

I have seen on the N1MM group there was a similar delay problem caused by the cluster load when the spots are coming from the Reverse Beacon Network there is a high amount of spots loading the PC to much and causing delay in handling trafic.
I can imagine that in the CQWWCW only the cluster spots can generate to much trafic .
Pity I did not switch off the Telnet box to check that.
N1MM does by it self cancel a lot of spots due to CPU load I saw that message oft in this major contest.

Then I copied the whole N1MM logger map to my fast laptop i7
It seems better but still random delays noticed..
But the Laptop setup was much more affected by RFI..

On top of this we got a heavy storm wind and the Steppir was turning free in the rotor the rotor clamps where lost grip. Only after the contest the wind layed down. Now I was sure this could only be Murphy's work.
It was fighting against windmills everything that worked fine for many months/years suddenly failed.
Saturday only 200 QSO with all this troubles. I thought to quit the contest.

Brought the beam down 2 times cable was interrupted by turning over the 360dgs..
But Still the tuning was not possible. I had some tuning issues at 10m before but that could be fixed by just stepping to 6m and back to 10 to bring the elements back in position?

In the end the result was not that bad but could have been easily much better ..

My results

ANYONE having this random send message delay issue with N1MM?

10m was real wide open but I like to think that my signal would drown in the EU battlefield anyway. But on 160/80 PA-land was still a wanted multiplier...

EL2MF VP2MTA

2011-11-25T00:56:00.001+01:00

2 nice DX and new

TOP BAND EL2MF 1821.5kHz

and VP2MTA on 80m (100W) fb signal
nice DX stations with good receiving for a change..

After fruitless calling 9N2MD ( Mega Deaf) ;-)
surprised being heard ...   I do have a signal !

TEAMVIEWER   great program works super remote controlling your PC WSPR   But once you got a licence key the programs has restrictions! Only 1 session allowed so if you left your QRL PC connected you can not use it any-more

The free users have no restrictions   strange policy?

80m "data" qrm wspr window blocked for days again

2011-11-23T18:28:00.001+01:00

24 /7 data QRM

ZK2V 30m and E51MAN on 17m nice new ones
9N7MD 10105kHz good signal. But I quit after many calls waisted time.

some DX

2011-11-19T20:35:00.001+01:00

28 is not what we are used too. T2T in the evening seems not possible. They are too late on 12m for us only working USA

But still some DX to catch

20111117 1751   7004,0 CW   PA0O         599 T2T             599
20111119 0842 28037,3 CW   PA0O         599 VR2UW           599 Ray
20111119 0957 24897,7 CW   PA0O         559 9N7MD           599
20111119 1046 24945,0 USB PA0O          59 9N7MD            59
20111119 1709 24910,7 CW   PA0O         599 FO/N6JA         599
20111119 1927 10108,5 CW   PA0O         599 ET3AA           599

50MHz
WSPR

2011-11-19 10:40	PA0O	50.294581	-12	0	JO33hg	5	OZ7IT	JO65df	428	57
2011-11-19 11:56	OZ7IT	50.294477	-7	0	JO65df	5	PA0O	JO33hg	428	242
2011-11-19 13:02	M1DUD	50.294468	-13	-1	JO02qc	2	PA0O	JO33hg	377	68
2011-11-19 13:24	PA0O	50.294564	-22	0	JO33hg	5	M1DUD	JO02qc	377	252
2011-11-19 12:08	PA0TBR	50.294573	-15	0	JO22pi	5	PA0O	JO33hg	136	41
2011-11-19 12:10	PA0O	50.294518	-21	0	JO33hg	5	PA0TBR	JO22pi	136	222

OZ7IT still the best DX since the beam is up.

137.5 kHz last week

2011-11-17 21:36	G4WGT	0.137497	-26	0	IO83qo	0.02	PA0O	JO33hg	613	90
2011-11-17 19:06	M0PPP	0.137563	-24	1	IO93gm	0.1	PA0O	JO33hg	536	90
2011-11-19 16:14	PA3EGO	0.137507	-10	0	JO22mb	5	PA0O	JO33hg	172	38
2011-11-17 20:58	PA0A	0.137500	+10	0	JO33de	1	PA0O	JO33hg	24	67

OZ7IT +3 in WSPR tropo 50.293MHz

2011-11-14T00:09:00.001+01:00

Now I am the owner of the tiny Flex-1500 .

This is not only a small transceiver but also a spectrum-analyser.

I   have it running with WSPR   using
VAC Virtual audio-cable
© Eugene V. Muzychenko

and Virtual Serial Port VSP Manager
© Steve Nance K5FR
Only the USB cable to the PC   / Laptop is needed.
Audio and serial port are virtual connections by software.

The 1500 has USB no Fire-wire this is a bit critical but with some tweaking in the configuration I hope to get it stable over long time.

Same way it can be connected to N1MM which I did not do yet.

I was surprised by its sensitivity at 50MHz. A preamp gave no improvement on reception of the beacons.
ON0SIX LX0SIX OZ7IGY
The Signal level meter is the best I have ever seen. Weak signals stil have a clear level reading 0-10db over the noise band.
The Pan display shows all. I do have to read the manual there are many more options to find out.

I let it run WSPR    Good signals from OZ7IT +3dB RX
my signal -2 with 5W ( I measure 6W out )
A second WSPR signal in range is M1DUD JO02 constant copied.

Not much of DX so far...
But 28MHz still wild   no DX limits is seems

This morning again ZL2RF 28MHz my 1W 11 decodes
New one for me WA2YUN in RK39hh "only" 11718km
But the propagation to JA was a bit faded. Or I was too late to switch bands ..

Tonight heard K3ZM 1.825MHz early Called with 5W he gave 569
1W was possible too he was extreme strong for 160 clean 599 on the GP and 579 on the loop !

4 ele STEPPIR versus 7 ele LFA ??

2011-11-12T13:56:00.001+01:00

Found 50MHz closed in the morning. I have the relative heavy 9m long 7ele LFA back at 22 M ag
Now I can make a direct compare

On LX0SIX 50.02165 :
The Steppir 4ele included the extra 6meter director
At about 16Mm a.g. and 60m coax cable
And the 7 ele 9m boom at 22m ag 30m H2000

Yes there is a clear audio difference in favour for the 7ele
But I would expect S units difference?
1 S-unit only I think
Or the STEPPIR is super or this LFA is doing not much
It is time to make a small good designed 6m/4m Una ..
And forget about this dragon...
This pictures made Saturday when I first could see the results of last night.

The white line 160m inv-L is kept free from the boom by the spreader wires this way I can rotate the 6M yagi without detuning / sparks

The JIDX some JA's with good signals I guess only the big guns this time. Few weeks ago one could work JA in FM 10W..

PABEKER-CW 33 QSO toen maar aan de koffie en gestopt er kwam niemand meer retour op 80/40

6 m antenna back up again

2011-11-11T20:45:00.001+01:00

This afternoon I took the 6m 7ele LFA Uda down from the attic and placed it back in the mast at 22m a.g
Cold wind from the south-east and early dark but everything went good 80/160/40/30 meter wire dipoles all stretched without getting stuck in the trees.
With the high sunspots I am hoping for some 6M DX ...
It is not 100% impossible that some signal leaks trough to northern areas???
Or is it?
Anyway I did sacrifice the multi-band dipole 40-10 for 6m then but still have 20-6 Steppir and the 40/30 dual dipole.

I cleaned the shack a bit and taddaa a little bragging..

I am FLEXED

2011-11-10T23:15:00.001+01:00

This week I am testing a Flex-1500 SDR the smallest SDR from Flexradio
My first experience with SDR.

I am very impressed! This small modem type box is a complete transceiver
It has superb receiving. PAN is an extra dimension to radio. It has incredible small filtering a square shaped 25Hz filter no ringing!

POWER SDR gives super radio-front control offering possibilities not seen before

I need some time to get used controlling everything by mouse. There are special control wheels too.

On the other hand the conventional radio's like my K3 is also constant connected and controlled by a PC.

Definite this is the future of radio.

Then I saw the new power fets

144MHz 3w drive 1250W RF out! woow 50V 30amps

A simple small PCB 7x14cm on a cooling block

50V Power thats it!

That's the end of the PA tubes too...

the MRFE6VP61K25H or the Philips

BLF578XR 1200W "unbreakable

TX7M LOTW confirmed but 80m is missing

2011-11-10T22:30:00.001+01:00

LOTW confirms of this excellent DX-pedition with good ears and operating the low bands
sorry I have missed 160. Low band propagation was very poor but still some EU's managed it into the 160m log.
Also TX3T Tahiti could be worked on some 10 12 15 30


Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-24 16:53:14	15M	CW	21.03267	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-23 08:51:19	30M	CW	10.10994	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-22 17:52:42	15M	SSB	21.30670	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-22 17:42:10	12M	CW	24.90430	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-22 17:03:18	10M	CW	28.03863	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-22 07:41:40	17M	SSB	18.16001	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-22 07:32:23	20M	CW	14.03345	MARQUESAS ISLAND
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-21 10:58:08	20M	CW	14.02939
Details	PA0O	TX7M	2011-10-20 17:34:02	17M	CW	18.07970	MARQUESAS ISLAND

PA0O has worked TX7M on 11 out of 27 band slots

Propagation suggestions for TX7M from NETHERLANDS or from CQ zone 14
Leaderboard stations in CQ zone 14 or NETHERLANDS or in EU

	6m	10m	12m	15m	17m	20m	30m	40m	80m	160m
PH
CW
RTTY

UKRAINIANDX

2011-11-06T20:22:00.003+01:00

Had a strange problem with N1MM at the start of this contest. The incremental # was out of control..
It incremented double. The auto-serial number started at 5 not 1 and in 10 QSO it was already at 50 .

I could not find any fault in N1MM configuring.
But my Notepad was also running N1MM in general logging.
Had to switch N1MM off then al was normal again. n=n+1 every QSO..
But the first 10-20 contacts will be marked as invalid by the contest robot..

Strange, N1MM normal did report that the contest types do not match in multi user network mode.
But have not seen this behaviour before.

28 was again wide open to VK1 2 3 4 5 6 7 even 200mW copied by VK7AB again.

But no DX worked or heard in the contest !

10m wspr this morning down to 200mW

2011-11-05T20:07:00.004+01:00

2011-11-05 06:58	PA0O	28.126024	-23	0	JO33hg	5	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-11-05 07:02	PA0O	28.126023	-16	0	JO33hg	1	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-11-05 07:14	PA0O	28.126023	-23	0	JO33hg	0.5	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-11-05 07:26	PA0O	28.126022	-29	0	JO33hg	0.2	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-11-05 07:38	PA0O	28.126022	-28	0	JO33hg	0.2	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-11-05 07:46	PA0O	28.126022	-28	0	JO33hg	0.2	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84

The mornings before 1W was enough for ZL1JA and ZL2RF

this evening could catch 3D2T at 30m CW and
E51NOU South Cook ZK1 In a big W-pile on 28.009.9 CW
E51NOU Bill van der Heide was waiting for his flight to North Cook. I was copied as PA0OPA A miss-copy that happens ofther with my 1 letter suffix.
I had that with TL0CW Rudi on 80m CW firts he got my call correct. But then he added an extra letter to it..
And to correct an extra letter is difficult in CW with low signals and high QRM.

Jaap,
Yes, you are right about my miscopy. I will correct my log. You were also very weak and of course there was the usual qrm, but I should have realized it was you.
My flight to N Cook has been delayed until the end of the week. Until then I will be in S Cook and signing E51NOU. I will have a different callsign for N Cook.
73 Bill

I send Bill this text, I'm hoping for some activity from exotic locations ...

One question
would you be interested in running WSPR beacon from your exotic QTH?
When your radio is idle ? you could run 1 or 5W WSPR 28MHz?
You would be almost the only one there in the whole Pacific except for KH6 there is noone!

If you can run digimodes like rtty /psk with your rig and PC it is very simple to setup
and the results are amazing!

f.i. today I reduced 28MHz to 200mW still VK7AB copied my signal

WSPR is a full automatic receive / transmit system developed by Jim Taylor K1JT
genius! low power vy small bandwidth 200 cycles for all stations on 28MHz
and it works while you can not be in the shack /home or have something else to do..
Still you can use your equipment

it is worth trying

7Q7GM topband

2011-11-02T01:10:00.001+01:00

7Q7GM with K8EJ 1827.5 operated by GM0GAV Gavin and GM3YTS
good signals

KH2/N2NL 3506 kHz earlier evening

CQWWSSB WAZ 28 !

2011-10-30T14:37:00.002+01:00

total Q 273    including 20 and 15 some  40 80 1 W on 160m
28MHz super propagation  KL7 KH7 via longpath, AH0 ZL VK
etc etc

WAZ 28MHz completed Sunday afternoon with zone 2 VE2IM
KL7RA zone1 giant pileup hard to break,   good signal 59 over the pole. Some other KL7 heard and again KH7 long path S9 QTF 160
Could complete zone 1 2 19 40 39 5R8A 38 V51A Sunday

WAZ 21Mhz and 14MHz could also been possible in this weekend but 28MHz kept me busy enough already.

Some 80m W big guns could be worked with Lowpower Sunday evening late. W3LPL KC1XX W2PV zone 5 was the only worked on 6 bands.

My setup K3 ACOM1000 3ele Steppir seems to be marginal in the CQWWSSB world where every extra kW does help.

Calling CQ did not rase pileups. The bands overloaded with contesters  gave an extreme qrm level.
Some S9 copied stations just kept on calling cq as if I was using the wrong sideband??
I was not build for Phone.

Topband YC0LOW/1 TL0CW new

2011-10-29T01:24:00.002+02:00

YC0LOW/1 Jo good signal from his /1 location preparing CQWW Test this whole weekend... very promising
Had high QRN level as always but he gave 599!
TL0CW 2nd QSO
I had him on 80/160 but uncertain due to tuning and QSB
this afternoon & evening WSPR 28 screen filled with W including W6 and 7 's ! This morning as usual VK1-6 ..
Propagation seems to be recovered.

Yesterday heard South Cook on 28 but too weak and simplex.

My old IC2E 2m FM porto did stop working after 30 years.
I bought that one in 1980....
No receive no tx just noise seems PLL part.
This is an analoge technic design very low standby power just few miliamps... it had 2W

TX7M 80 & 40 in the log

2011-10-26T10:32:00.001+02:00

TX7M 3527kHz   nice greyline peak this morning first time heard anything at 80m.
And they have good ears for W-EU too.
0830 local time sometimes vy clear 559
Also 40m CW could be added now 10 slots
I could be QRV at the best SR-SS time between 8-9 local time in the morning. Thats normal the time you will be @ QRL ...
But I had worked some overtime last evening..
The best time for the high bands is in our evening time 12 hours later. QTF is about  W N-W
The super 10m propagation is  reset after the aurora we had 2 days ago.

Last evening 160m C50C very strong just 1 call at the right freq.
TL0CW on 80m heard good big pile no QSO.
Heard weak 1817kHz just under a strong fishing beacon.

High bands party is a bit over after the aurora no more USA heard
but VK1,2,3,4,5,6 still decoded in WSPR @ 28MHz in the morning

Propagation is too good!

2011-10-23T19:22:00.000+02:00

Getting used to good propagation is a quicker process then getting used to poor bands..
Again this morning/day 28MHz is complete filled with stations from 28.0 to 29.7 and even higher it is buzzing.

Only was listening 29.650 FM. USA and JY4NE TA etc etc
The Steppir is doing fine but SWR is high at 29MHz and I could not tune it yet.
Tried long with TX7M on 40m but they could not hear EU working JA and W's 559 signal good copy long time.

TX7M now worked on 10/12/15/17/20/30
TX3T    4 slots
3XY1D   160m open
T32C 17 slots not hrd on 80/160

Used DELL LATITUDE D420  notepad where offered 135€ at the "Dag van de radioamateur" radio market Saturday.
Could not resist to purchase one. A low power/weight PC for WSPR intalled W7-pro.
I fact I like the screen 1280X800 is better readable then the 1980x1080 ...

WSPR 2.21 works okay using the internal sounddevice.
After adusting the line in what is more complex in W7 compared to XP.
The ICOM IC706    tuned 80Hz up to correct the freq
28124.680 kHz   output "L" means little over 2W @ 28MHz

The homemade CV-I interface works with WSPR but only if the DTR line is disconnected. RTS is used for T/R
Therefore I use a simple 1:1 back to back D9m-D9female interface leaving pin 1 6 and 9 open.
For N1MM logger pin 6 is needed for CW keying.
So for N1MM the "interface" is not used.

And I purchased a Rusian tuning unit for lowbands 500kHz  Hoping we get a permission for 500kHz again. Possible I can use it at 137kHz aswell .
It is a variometer L with switchable taps.
125mm diam   L1= 22wdg   L2 71wdg
and 2x 13wdg 100mmdiam Vario L in between

3XY1Deaf on 80m

2011-10-22T02:14:00.001+02:00

kost je wat kWh om bij deze expeditie in het log te komen
Full power and patience... a lot patience

But it is a good test if you can make it to them you can make it everywhere...
They suffer from high QRN in Guinea
Finaly they copied my slow CW
They use up-speed CW 30-35 wpm but at a very low QSO rate
1/minute ? this speed does not match the band conditions.

Some extra power installed ..

Could not make it with TX7M on 20m strong but uplink 20-30kHz is not my style. This way they terrorize the whole CW part!
This is not good for the ham spirit.

1W to ZL2FT 28MHz

2011-10-20T21:31:00.000+02:00

2011-10-20 07:42

PA0O

28.126098

-18

JO33hg

ZL2FT

RF70mb

18293

A super day again at 28MHz

There was no real clean freq left on 28 Rusian taxis
The typical rolling tjirps many Japanese etc etc

Tried to work 3XY1D at 17m they had a good signal but seemed deaf
Tonight heard them again now at 12M cw but still "deaf"
Strong on 30m CW but many calls no response.
Fast CW but low QSO rate they must have a giant pile?
But if so why give the callsigns after every QSO then?
Beats me.

This seems an unworkable dxpedition for me.

T32C does hear much much better. added some slots again.
TX3T was not heard anymore.
They have moved to Marquesas isl.
now TX7M log search of TX3T is removed too I had 4QSO
Tonight weak in CW at 17m but they picked me up!
Must confess I was not running low power.

160m again a new DXCC FR/DJ7RJ
very pleased with this one in the African zone where receive conditions are very difficult it is very hard to be heard in the tropical zones at 160m. This gives me the impression that my 160m ant is working okay. There where many callers who could't get trough to him.

And an easy QSO with JT5DX at first call gives some hope for the coming Stew Perry DX challenge this weekend..

XE1KK 29290 S9+

2011-10-19T16:33:00.000+02:00

Need I say more ? Mexico in FM on 10m
XE1KK FM 29.290MHz
JH1SCD 28MHz FM recording
Today I felt a bit like a Greek ham...
No QRL and 28MHz filled with DX ;-))

I had fixed the "ARC" problem in my 160 inv. L-vertical by using a spreader wire along the rotary dipole. To separate the vertical wire from the metal parts. Since the wire carries very high RF voltage at the top.
The Insulation was browned out at some parts. Also with low power there was a short-circuit. I could not TX in windy conditions.

When testing the antenna and trying to hear anything from T32C on 80/160 found that 160m was not as bad as I and others thought..
I was heard well in JA heard a few JA's and could easy work HL5IVL @ 1821.5 and later heard KH2/N2NL again at 1826.5 weaker then the days before but now I could contact for a new one thanks Dave!
I have extended the inverted L with 3m wire tuning it below the band and now using the tuner to match it. I hope that the max current point is elevated this way and my earth system quality does have less influence to the ERP.

WOOW WOOW cycle 24 came alive..

2011-10-19T01:34:00.002+02:00

28MHz sounding like 20meters all day.
KH6MB
TX3T Tahiti (4 band slots)
T32C Kiritimati Chrismas Island (12 band slots)
VK ZL many JA's strong USA West coast
I was back home evening in time to catch TX3T and T32C cw and phone at 28MHz and 21Mhz
Busy times with 2 DX-peditions and super propagation.
Not yet heard H40KJ

A35CT Tonga RTTY 21MHz right over the north. Everything seemed to be possible today.

But tonite 28 closed earlier then the passed days. Does this mean that the extreme 28MHz propagation is over fttb?

Low bands are rather poor no sign of T32C or TX3T so far.
T32C is only reported in the USA and Pacific.
but
KH2/N2NL heard last 2 days at greyline around 20UTC 1826.5kHz

I have a shortcut in the vertical could not TX. The vertical wire isolation is worn and the wire is touching the metal mast/ antenna in the wind.

East Kiribati T32C 40m Sundaymorning

2011-10-16T13:09:00.001+02:00

T32C very nice website
And what a giant set up
A good copy 539 /559 over the north pole.
jammed crazy but the jammer let a short break..
Lot of QRI almost impossible to get a clear copy.
This recording was the better copy after QSO.
T32C 7.002 16-10-2011 7:12 Qso
real sick ex-ham?

Later in evening could fill in 12 and 15m
I did not hear them at 80 -160 this weekend .
They report only 1 160 QSO with PA
With Kees PE5T a real top performance! So it can be done I have to be there around 05 UTC in the morning and hoping for a good greyline and not to bad QRI..

10m RTTY JARTS was very good although I think the Saturday was even better. Loads of JA's not much else 1 VK3 worked VK6 heard with good signal no VK spots seen. I expected some more since WSPR showed many VK including decodes by VK7AB and VK2FLR just after sunrise.

T32C

2011-10-15T22:10:00.001+02:00

After return from Konya Istanbul back home.
WSPR was still running 10 80 160 band hopping shown that the low bands 160 80 are in a deep recession last week(s). Almost no DX was reported. Most days/ night the max DX was 2000km on 80m exception was VK6ZT 80m and A45SWL on 160 K1JT and some east coast copies on the K9AY ( in the not optimal direction)

2011-10-14 22:10

PA0O

3.594163

-26

JO33hg

VK6ZT

OF78sq

13966

Propagation swapped to the high bands.
28MHz is wide open. Late night to W6 7 0 . Unseen propagation for long long years.
Managed to get in the log of T32C 17 and 20m in the late evening Friday signals weak QTF almost over the north-pole.

Saturday lots of JA 28 RTTY in the JARTS contest. Had a short run but not much time for radio after being off home 1 1/2 week.
Found out to late I used the dipole while I was turning the beam... did not help much.. I was a bit out of the routine..
Saturday 100 Q in the JARTS had to do other jobs around the house.
Evening heard T32C 24938 phone about 54 here. Tried but signal faded out.

T32C 3D2R YJ0VK

2011-10-02T01:09:00.001+02:00

Goodbye 3D2R T32C YJ0VK have fun and work all of Italy !
I was expecting to get them in the log easier using the STEPPIR and PA if "needed" but even when the signals where a good copy they did not respond. Propagation was not favourable in North-West EU. Signals sounded AURORAL. They seem to have difficulties to copy us (me) between all the South and east EU's but of course we have to go right over the north pole while Italians f.i. seem to have a path more south ??

Anyway I reconnected my 160/80m antenna to the WSPR ANT-switchbox to be QRV again in WSPR 10m 80m and 160m leaving for TA-land tomorrow.

Dat viel niet mee
3D2R op 30M kunnen werken.
Op 80 en 160 zou het nog nieuw zijn maar geen signalen gehoord ik heb 80m phone maar niet geprobeerd chaos en veel QRI vooral op 80m daar is de storing al of niet opzettelijk maximaal.
YJ0VK goed signaal in Phone 14.184 Maar helaas by numbers...arrrgg. &%$#! trouwens vorig jaar al gewerkt in CW.
Hij was bezig "5" only een uur later pas bij "0" ! tja en toen hoorde hij enkel een paar 10kW Italians..
Toen was het signaal al 2 S-punten gezakt een bibberig over de pool signaaltje.
En dan moet ik concurreren met Rome en omstreken!
Nou het was Italy voor een Italy achter
Lekkere Pizza's en koffie lousy operators.
Iedereen schreeuwt maar wat niemand luistert.
Chaos alom in Phone.
Zodra er ook maar een dx-peditie actief is komen de Lids uit de closets
En gaan uitgebreid tunen of commentaar geven op de DX QRG

Niet te geloven elke 10 seconden was er wel weer een andere kneukel aan het tunen.
En dan daar kwam dan weer de gebruikelijk zo mogelijk nog dommere reactie van de politie op..
Het was heel fijn !

Gelukkig ben ik vanmorgen niet thuis gebleven voor deze Deafpeditions

Mooi fietsweer. Het laatste weekend in korte broek....

Soort kanaal 14 communicatie.
Ook nog stomme frequentie gekozen precies op de up-link van 3D2R

Het blijft bij de ene verassende Phone verbinding op 17m

Er is weer wat moois te werken ( niet echt dus)

Vandaag lukte het met YJ0VK op 18.130 USB zwak via Noord maar zonder PA kwam hij toch vlot retour. T32C op 30m en 3D2R op 7.005 zwak gehoord helaas zakte de propagatie in vanmiddag.
Ik had 80 en 160 aanstaan voor deze stations maar het was niet de juiste dag..
Zo heb je VK2KRR op 160m WSPR en en de volgende dag niets.

WSPR was vanmorgen nog goed op 28MHz
maar niet veel USA meer . De voorspelde blackout is opgetreden.
Tot de middag was het nog goed op 28 dit is de oogst van 1 dag

2011-10-01 07:38	PA0O	28.126077	-25	0	JO33hg	10	VK7AB	QE37ne	16905	84
2011-10-01 08:40	PA0O	28.126036	-24	0	JO33hg	10	VK1TXR	QF44np	16489	71
2011-10-01 09:06	VK1TXR	28.126090	-20	0	QF44np	5	PA0O	JO33hg	16489	316
2011-10-01 08:52	PA0O	28.126010	-24	0	JO33hg	10	VK2KRR	QF34mr	16351	73
2011-10-01 07:12	VK2KRR	28.126154	-24	0	QF34mr	10	PA0O	JO33hg	16351	316
2011-10-01 09:20	VK5ZRL	28.126068	-26	2	PF95gc	5	PA0O	JO33hg	15771	314
2011-10-01 07:28	VK5BC/P	28.126081	-22	-1	PF85mc	20	PA0O	JO33hg	15672	314
2011-10-01 09:04	PA0O	28.126019	-27	0	JO33hg	10	VK5AYD	PG70jx	15055	78
2011-10-01 08:52	PA0O	28.126008	-13	0	JO33hg	10	VK4ABW	PH58hf	13277	69
2011-10-01 08:44	VK4ABW	28.126118	-17	0	PH58hf	10	PA0O	JO33hg	13277	325
2011-10-01 14:58	PA0O	28.126069	-27	0	JO33hg	1	LU8WAG	FE77lf	12672	230
2011-10-01 15:14	LU8WAG	28.126003	-30	0	FE77lf	1	PA0O	JO33hg	12672	38
2011-10-01 16:06	PA0O	28.126024	-4	0	JO33hg	1	PU2MWD	GG56tv	10001	229
2011-10-01 15:56	PU2MWD	28.126149	+1	-3	GG56tv	5	PA0O	JO33hg	10001	29
2011-10-01 14:54	PA0O	28.126014	-25	0	JO33hg	1	PU2BFG	GH64ci	9248	232
2011-10-01 14:38	K9AN	28.126183	-22	0	EN50wc	0.5	PA0O	JO33hg	6829	43
2011-10-01 14:18	PA0O	28.126028	-19	-1	JO33hg	5	K3SIW	EN52ta	6688	301
2011-10-01 14:18	PA0O	28.126077	-22	0	JO33hg	5	N5ALX	FM18fm	6322	292
2011-10-01 14:18	PA0O	28.126099	-25	-1	JO33hg	5	W8QYT	EN85	6113	301
2011-10-01 15:12	N2NOM	28.126057	-23	0	FN22bg	5	PA0O	JO33hg	5933	48
2011-10-01 14:30	PA0O	28.126011	-30	0	JO33hg	1	N2NOM	FN22bg	5933	294
2011-10-01 14:18	PA0O	28.126017	-23	0	JO33hg	5	KC2GMM	FN21uc	5923	292
2011-10-01 14:32	KC2GMM	28.126111	-11	0	FN21uc	10	PA0O	JO33hg	5923	47
2011-10-01 07:26	PA0O	28.126006	-23	0	JO33hg	5	A45SWL	LL93	5462	106
2011-10-01 08:02	PA0O	28.126022	+3	0	JO33hg	10	4X/NH7L	KM72ov	3203	124
2011-10-01 08:08	4X/NH7L	28.126197	+4	0	KM72ov	1	PA0O	JO33hg	3203	324

WOOW 28 comes alive

2011-09-25T11:53:00.001+02:00

CQWWRTTY
I choose for radio. Skipped the Sunday morning cycle round and the very nice late summer weekend. Propagation looked very promising with the high solar flux and good results on 28 WSPR the days before. Al-dough that's no guaranty for the next days but!
28 wide open to USA and Japan the Friday evening late 20UTC 28 open to N-Texas rare!
In the CQWWRTTY not real my preferred mode but DX-wise interesting.
Lot of radioactivity from JA on 28 and in between some extra goodies
KG6DX DV1/JO7KMB W6HGF/KH0 KH2 and FIJI 3D2EG heard in a giant pile but he was covered to much could only work some more Italians. Later on 21093 same story. Those Pacific area's are very touch to get. Once there is propagation we are behind everyone to get there... I was running LP 100W but tried with PA for this occasion to work once Fiji it did not help.
No VK2 heard 28 Sunday Saturday I was maybe too late 2 VK6 I could QSO 21MHz ZM2B the only zone 32 sofar
W6HGF/KH0 on 21118 was forced to QRT by constant calling trough his QSO's by what I heard UR2 and others they just would not stop calling and made QSO impossible.
No matter what he said they kept on calling..
In RTTY this way the QSO rate goes down to zero. Other than in CW or Phone there is no escape against this operators.
It was the last day of 4W6A I did not try to call them any more zero QSO I hope they have a good trip home.

28MHz Australia center of the world 10m CW 5W1SA 4W6A

2011-09-17T09:52:00.002+02:00

Later in CW
28.034 KH0/NH2B simplex(..) heard but went QRT before I was ready to call
28.008 KH2/N2NL fb operator good signal but worked before.

Then 28031 heard 5W1SA Samoa NNE almost over the north-pole signal sounded a bit Auroral not strong 539 but good Q5 I called many times at the right uplink although he never mentioned he was listening up. But no response I guess full power from an ACOM1000 is not enough?

Then 28.021 4W6A East Timor 559 569 auroral sound (all signals) up 5-10 called 500 times I felt a bit like an idiot.
If he can not hear this signal full power in the 3 ele StepIR he must be deaf or running hi power in a noisy place? Even when calling at the right uplink freq. no response.
Possible East Timor is not allowed to work PA?
Big pile of course a bit behind the usual wall here but never the less one time I should be in the clear?
Why should I push it to the limit trying to work someone who can or will not receive me anyway?
I lost my appetite complete for 4W6A I am not trying again in the pile not spending 1 mW more.

Netwerkte het netwerk nog nu werkt het net niet

2011-09-14T20:22:00.002+02:00

Why do networks always resist till the very last bit to work properly ?

De raadselachtige wereld van het netwerk.

Gisteren werkte N1MM met 2 users prima
vanavond zelfde configuratie
netwerk naam lijsten identiek zelfde prog versie zelfde contest hoewel gisteren met verschillende "contest"werkte het toch met waarschuwing

nu willlen de logs niet synchroon.

de K3 als master 192.168.2.101
de IC706 user 1 ip 192.168.2.104

beiden kunnen elkaar pingen zelfde router / subnet
maar: connection failed

tja misschien morgen beter

je weet het maar nooit met die netwerken soms hebben ze er gewoon geen zin in.

achteraf
Restart N1MM van user1 toen werkte het weer ok..
Afterwards restarting N1MM at user2 did fix the problem.

propagation WSPR

160 en 80m de laatste dagen zo dood als een deur amper 2000km haalbaar

28MHz vandaag iets hersteld

VK4ABW/8 Darwin vele decodes en V53ARC

gisteren CX2ABN tot laat in de avond vele decodes

STEPPIR, de mast staat nu wat lager op ca 12m vlak boven een boom op storm stand.
Vanavond op 18MHz/17m De voor/achter verhouding op deze band is enorm.
4S7NE en 9Y4LAS S8 signaal ging haast helemaal onder in de ruis op reverse.
Extreem F/B ook op 20m c.a. 20dBvoor/achter.
Af en toe moest ik de elementen even resetten. Het besturingskastje merkt niet dat de stuurkabel eruit is en gaat vrolijk door met afstemmen..
Maar hij werkt als een speer.

KD1KT 18.149MHz F/B switching reverse and back 3el STEPPIR S9+15 down to S5!