On 500kHz only 1 USA report from EU ....me ;-)
Only 1 decode against 16 previous nights
160m yesterday evening and night not a single DX over 3000!
much later some USA decodes
I have never seen such poor propagation since i have been on with WSPR
80m the same
in the top DX list no EU present no VK to EU
One time i tried to make a sort of DX-index for JO33
I select 100 records descending on distance over 24hours and count the DX>4000
Most time my Index is well above 50 But now it was zero on 160 and 80m until long after midnight very unusual.
was the best DX decoded normally VK6 or VK7DIK
the best DX decode in EU was W to south DL
The other EU decodes in the list are erroneous.
The best band was 28MHz with VK6TQ and VK6GOS
15m also poor
The conclusion is that we where lucky last 2 weekend it could have been much worse.
So it was very clear to me right away that propagation was changed dramatically .
But no one made any remarks about it! very strange ! Everyone at the WSPR chat seemed to find this dramatic free fall of propagation normal???
My other .. sometimes conflicting hobby
This morning I decided to go for a "training" cycle trip...
Until now I always invented an excuse not to go.
But no radio event or QRL trip and absolute boring propagation so... no more excuse
It was a cold fog this morning at 8 am I decided to use my special hi tech thermo socks waterproof...
And not my neoprene Sleeves... a wrong decision as I found out painfully.
After 20km it started to rain cold rain snow almost. We got totally soaked and i got very cold feet and legs.
We decided not to do the long trip 100km rounding the Lauwersmeer Zoutkamp was our turning point only 75 km.
It has been some years that I have been so freezing cold.
We had to recover with warm jars and shower.
Now it just started to snow ...
I have installed Ham Radio Deluxe V5 on this XP machine works good
I want to have complete remote control over my K3 i am new to HRD i tried it on my laptop W764pro but it did crash XP should be no problem.
Now can control it with my mobile phone and the beta version Teamviewer for Android
It is just unbelievable...
I have not found out if there is another way i like an HRD web-server. Teamviewer has the advantage that it goes trough most routers and firewalls without anything to configure.
It is real good software. Download it and it works. It is free for private use but expensive to licence 1000€ or so.
But my station it needs remote controlled Antenna switch / tuner.
I have the ACOM1000 only using it sometime in DX-pedition pileups.
The ACOM is a beauty PA but has only the conventional 1 in 1 out connection and no CAT control.
Now i can use the ANT1 ANT2 of the K3
I have my 80m vertical on ANT2 and the 40-20-15-10 dipole on ANT1 or I have to swich manual to the 160 vertical at the cost of 15 and 10m for WSPR.
Receiving can be selected to the RX ANT alternative the K9AY loop for 500kHz f.i.
2011-02-27 05:18 | WD2XSH/7 | 0.495969 | -27 | 0 | EM31js | 20 | PA0O | JO33hg | 7830 | 39 |
160m yesterday evening and night not a single DX over 3000!
much later some USA decodes
I have never seen such poor propagation since i have been on with WSPR
80m the same
in the top DX list no EU present no VK to EU
One time i tried to make a sort of DX-index for JO33
I select 100 records descending on distance over 24hours and count the DX>4000
Most time my Index is well above 50 But now it was zero on 160 and 80m until long after midnight very unusual.
| 2011-02-27 06:08 | PA0O | 3.594140 | -16 | 0 | JO33hg | 5 | WB8HWF | EN80sc | 6497 |
the best DX decode in EU was W to south DL
The other EU decodes in the list are erroneous.
The best band was 28MHz with VK6TQ and VK6GOS
15m also poor
The conclusion is that we where lucky last 2 weekend it could have been much worse.
So it was very clear to me right away that propagation was changed dramatically .
But no one made any remarks about it! very strange ! Everyone at the WSPR chat seemed to find this dramatic free fall of propagation normal???
My other .. sometimes conflicting hobby
This morning I decided to go for a "training" cycle trip...
Until now I always invented an excuse not to go.
But no radio event or QRL trip and absolute boring propagation so... no more excuse
It was a cold fog this morning at 8 am I decided to use my special hi tech thermo socks waterproof...
And not my neoprene Sleeves... a wrong decision as I found out painfully.
After 20km it started to rain cold rain snow almost. We got totally soaked and i got very cold feet and legs.
We decided not to do the long trip 100km rounding the Lauwersmeer Zoutkamp was our turning point only 75 km.
It has been some years that I have been so freezing cold.
We had to recover with warm jars and shower.
Now it just started to snow ...
I have installed Ham Radio Deluxe V5 on this XP machine works good
I want to have complete remote control over my K3 i am new to HRD i tried it on my laptop W764pro but it did crash XP should be no problem.
Now can control it with my mobile phone and the beta version Teamviewer for Android
It is just unbelievable...
I have not found out if there is another way i like an HRD web-server. Teamviewer has the advantage that it goes trough most routers and firewalls without anything to configure.
It is real good software. Download it and it works. It is free for private use but expensive to licence 1000€ or so.
But my station it needs remote controlled Antenna switch / tuner.
I have the ACOM1000 only using it sometime in DX-pedition pileups.
The ACOM is a beauty PA but has only the conventional 1 in 1 out connection and no CAT control.
Now i can use the ANT1 ANT2 of the K3
I have my 80m vertical on ANT2 and the 40-20-15-10 dipole on ANT1 or I have to swich manual to the 160 vertical at the cost of 15 and 10m for WSPR.
Receiving can be selected to the RX ANT alternative the K9AY loop for 500kHz f.i.
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