PA0O ham radio

Jim-san JG1KGS   operates  VQ9JD   in  WSPR  also on top band  and 80m      nice  activity   160 and 80m  and higher bands 2011-04-05 22:50   PA0O   1.838014   -25   0   JO33hg   5   VQ9JD   MI62er   9098 Lots of VK on  28MHz  copied every morning.  The VK's have really got the taste for WSPR   also on 6 and 2m    Just 1 day later not a single VK on 10  and 80 / 160 as dead as a doornail... Just this Friday again VK7DIK  did decode me again 80m around grey-line time

To compare with the K9AY loop i made a small active antenna   to the concept of PA0RDT   http://yu1lm.qrpradio.com/pa0rdt%20whip.pdf I used a strip of double sided copper  clad  epoxy print 200x30 mm. The amplifier is a FET  U310  and  2N3053 emitter follower. This small capacitive antenna  did fit in a cycle bidon (bought on the Alp de Heuz once..)  Interesting this antenna  is only picking up the Electrical-field.  It is also a good RFI sniffler. I used a relative big pickup plane of about 3x20cm  at the risk of IMD but i wanted to compare this E-field antenna on the 137kHz and 500kHz bands. It works but the DCF39 TX at 138.9 kHz is about 30B stronger on the K9AY Loop. I have to check that out the difference should not be that big. That was at the low position (top picture). I moved it on top of the house about 8m a.g.   Now DCF39 138.9 is s9+30   the difference ...

To be 100% sure  if a system works  absolute stable  you just have to provoke it  by saying: this system is working 100% stable... And wait what happens.. I did that yesterday  and today  after weeks  i had to restart WSPR  and reset the   network connection. The time was out of sync  and after reseting the w-lan  interface the WSPR  timer was struck.    For the first time as far i can remember.. This very bold statement  really  wakes up mystic powers in equipment..

3 months   Since the end of last year until now  i have a Dell Optiplex GX620  P4 running   with Windows XP -32 (X86)  WSPR is running  24x7   i have had no hangers   no reboots needed. I am using the Prolific chip USB-serial  adapter.   This Prolific is suspected to have errors when using it with N1MM But it never gave an error with WSPR. One time i had an error with N1MM  during the PACC contest. The frequency displayed at the logger was out of control. That was corrected by reset interface  it did not occur again. This same error appeared very often when using W7-64 pro  and  N1MM+ prolific (or any other??)  USB-serial. My conclusion  is  100% stable for WSPR and almost 100% with N1MM The same time I purchased an other  W-LAN router The Eminent Gigalink 300N  to get rid of the Linksys...

I recently posted my enthusiast article about using   WSPR  when i am not in the shack or even not at home. I got a lot of response some positive reaction even... It seems that WSPR  is not so well known . some HAM's  where afraid that there would be an invasion of QRM of Robot stations when everyone would use this like i do 24/7/365.. And they where wondering how much radio spectrum would be used ... although I just explained 200Hz band-slots... Reading and listening is not as easy as it seems. Although  i explained  briefly  WSPR  is using a very small band slice 200Hz and low power, still  the old packet radio QRM  stories came up. Some HAM  possible did confuse WSPR with other DIGI modes that are not as silent and effective in power and frequency use.  Operating a radio unattended is not allowed in USA at some or all? freque...

I was 2 weeks in Egypt again for  QRL reason. We stayed 50 s-east of Baltim  close to the Mediterranean coast. http://looklex.com/egypt/baltim.htm     Thousands of hand build  dows sailing boats can be seen there. These boats are  unique. The Egyptians are decorating their trucks boats and Tuk tuk's  artistic  xtremely.    This region is the coolest part of Egypt. It can be very cool here  but this time it was nice  15 -20 mostly. Sand beaches  and dunes.   And inland farmer land typical for the Nile delta. This land is almost wetland partly it has some elements in common with our country. But still waste is dumped along roads and canals like 20 years ago. I would say a primary task of the new Egyptian government would be to clean up this.  I fact the people here live very close with nature  as we did hundred years ago. Also we did dump...