Last weekend CQWWRTTY
CQ WW RTTY - 2014-09-27 0000Z to 2014-09-29 0000Z - 414 QSOs
PA0O - Off Times >= 30 Minutes
Total Time Off 31:19 (1879 mins)
Total Time On 16:41 (1001 mins)
... 25Q per hour only
still it is better then calling 1 hour ZD9XF at 28.012 MHz with 0 QSO result
must be doing something wrong these DXpeditions need EME ERP to catch
Overall propagation very much lower then the previous year.
I remember to have worked 40 zones in RTTY .
Hoping October and November might bring some good propagation.
Saturday morning 10m very quiet.
No surprise to me being 24*7 QRV as WSPR propagation beacon the 10m spots from VK3 became rare last months
But 10M USA was open often in the afternoon/ evening.
Sunday morning 10M sounded a lot better even a few JA's heard.
I spend quite some time to end with little over 400 QSO running 100W
poor bands but high activity
and some nice DX
like KH7XX 20 and 15
VK3TXD 40 20 15
zone 6 7 8 9 30
JA's on 40m just the very big guns but even in the big EU S-EU piles I could get trough easily with 100W.
How different that is in DXpedition piles VK9AN even with max power no QSO
20140927 2035 7035.45 RTTY PA0O 599 147 14 JH4UYB 599 0 0 3
20140927 2037 7038.53 RTTY PA0O 599 000 14 JE1ZWT 599 0 0
20140927 2039 7030.68 RTTY PA0O 599 149 14 JA1OVD 599 0 3
20140927 2042 7029.43 RTTY PA0O 599 150 14 JM1XCW 599 0 3
20140927 2046 7038.53 RTTY PA0O 599 153 14 JS3CTQ 599 0 3
20140927 2120 7028.00 RTTY PA0O 599 164 14 JR4OZR 599 0 3
20140927 2216 7062.30 RTTY PA0O 599 175 14 HK1T 599 0 0 3
20140928 0856 28100.63 RTTY PA0O 599 253 14 JS3CTQ 599 0 0 3
20140928 0903 28115.80 RTTY PA0O 599 257 14 9M2CNC 599 0 0 3
20140928 0904 28119.54 RTTY PA0O 599 258 14 ZD8RH 599 0 0 3
20140928 1635 21135.50 RTTY PA0O 599 322 14 XE2FGC 599 0 0 3
20140928 1627 28134.00 RTTY PA0O 599 318 14 YS1/NP3UT 599 0 3
But some piles when competing with EA I DL tough going
I wonder what the competition is running but it s not all about power being south in EU HF life seems easier..
In CQWWRTTY running 100W does not get much attention a bit boring in the end and the RTTY signals gets annoying.
Early morning 02 local heard 3501 very weak ZD9XF Nigel deep in the noise high static's I thought to hear my call not so sure. Afterward I should have shut down to get some sleep since next evening ZD9XF was a lot stronger.
It was the first real test for N1MM+ beta RTTY contest.
I was using N1MM+ for a while one contest the SAC CW worked fine.
maybe the keying timing different? could be imagination.
But it worked well keying speed can be set to 99 wpm !
Set up no problem.
After a while RTTY contesting i noticed interruptions in TX and RX
the Windows circle cursor was turning at every TX after a few characters
the TX was hold up for a second or so.
After restart it worked well for a while but then again delays.
Could be my relative slow Dell D420 notebook? but that works well with N1MM clasic.
Then exported the ADIF CQWWRRTY to the clasic N1MM
and continued the contest.
I have seen occasional wait circle signs but only a few times.
RTTY code responds quicker to the keypress.
ZD9XF was open on 17 and 80
Next day evening heard ZD9XF on the 17M reasonable signal on the 30m dipole.
But just as I was ready to call he said QSY 3501 well 80m also missing.
Then bit later ZD9XF showed up on 3501 noisy and still Statics but much stronger then the night before.
Not to many callers in the start the QRI folks where not alarmed yet since no cluster spot...
So almost no one was tuning his rig on 3501 extensively as usual
QSO was easy.
Before I had to repair the K3 KPA3 having low output with HI-CUR message at 3500 kHz
symptoms:
Low output 10 and 6m max 60-80W no stable level.
High current at 80m 23A+ ! no matter what load / tuning.
TX 5W calibration failed indicating LPA malfunction.
The middle R15HVF1 output FET of the LPA had low / short Gate-Drain
That happened before 2012 July I got 2 spare R15HVF1 1 left
deja vue:
http://pa0o-jaap.blogspot.nl/2012/07/4m-wspr-24-hours-top-list-unique.html#uds-search-results
Replaced the defective R15HVF1 and then runned the 5 and 50 Watt calibration procedure. Nice feature just wait and automatic all bands are calibrated if everything is well.
Now all bands power displays 110W with decent current 16-18A
50MHz 106W 12.8A 13.2V 168W DC would mean 62% efficiency
My DAIWA NS660p say 90W = 53% n more true.
power measured by DAIWA NS-660P @ 50Ohm dummy.
100W @ 10M 16A 48% that is the efficiency to expect .
109W @ 24.905 16A 52%
103W @ 21.012 17.4A 45.5%
108W @ 18.086 16.9A 49 %
108W @ 14.012 17.8A 47%
110W @ 10.105 18.8A 45%
110W @ 7.070 18A A 47%
115W @ 3.513 16.5A 53.6%
105W @ 1.836 16A 50% power is dropping after 20sec
remarks
K3 current display not stable when transmitting
DAIWA not so optimistic measuring.
Strange that with the faulty LPA the current raised to over 23A one would expect lower current. Only 1 phase driven I guess.
But next time when I have to replace one of the RD15's I just cut the leads
long enough to weld the new RD15 to the existing leads. Not removing the leads from the PCB trough holes that is too difficult.
CQ WW RTTY - 2014-09-27 0000Z to 2014-09-29 0000Z - 414 QSOs
PA0O - Off Times >= 30 Minutes
Total Time Off 31:19 (1879 mins)
Total Time On 16:41 (1001 mins)
... 25Q per hour only
still it is better then calling 1 hour ZD9XF at 28.012 MHz with 0 QSO result
must be doing something wrong these DXpeditions need EME ERP to catch
I remember to have worked 40 zones in RTTY .
Hoping October and November might bring some good propagation.
No surprise to me being 24*7 QRV as WSPR propagation beacon the 10m spots from VK3 became rare last months
But 10M USA was open often in the afternoon/ evening.
Sunday morning 10M sounded a lot better even a few JA's heard.
I spend quite some time to end with little over 400 QSO running 100W
poor bands but high activity
and some nice DX
like KH7XX 20 and 15
VK3TXD 40 20 15
zone 6 7 8 9 30
JA's on 40m just the very big guns but even in the big EU S-EU piles I could get trough easily with 100W.
How different that is in DXpedition piles VK9AN even with max power no QSO
20140927 2035 7035.45 RTTY PA0O 599 147 14 JH4UYB 599 0 0 3
20140927 2037 7038.53 RTTY PA0O 599 000 14 JE1ZWT 599 0 0
20140927 2039 7030.68 RTTY PA0O 599 149 14 JA1OVD 599 0 3
20140927 2042 7029.43 RTTY PA0O 599 150 14 JM1XCW 599 0 3
20140927 2046 7038.53 RTTY PA0O 599 153 14 JS3CTQ 599 0 3
20140927 2120 7028.00 RTTY PA0O 599 164 14 JR4OZR 599 0 3
20140927 2216 7062.30 RTTY PA0O 599 175 14 HK1T 599 0 0 3
20140928 0856 28100.63 RTTY PA0O 599 253 14 JS3CTQ 599 0 0 3
20140928 0903 28115.80 RTTY PA0O 599 257 14 9M2CNC 599 0 0 3
20140928 0904 28119.54 RTTY PA0O 599 258 14 ZD8RH 599 0 0 3
20140927 2016 7051.20 RTTY PA0O 599 132 14 VK3TDX 599 0 0 3
20140927 2023 7055.32 RTTY PA0O 599 136 14 E21YDP 599 0 0 3
20140927 2253 7049.27 RTTY PA0O 599 189 14 VK6IR 599 0 3
20140928 0004 3584.50 RTTY PA0O 599 229 14 NR4M 599 0 0 VA 3
20140928 2143 7028.99 RTTY PA0O 599 404 14 9M2CNC 599 0 0 3
20140928 2145 7038.90 RTTY PA0O 599 405 14 PY2NY 599 0 0 3
20140928 1828 21103.83 RTTY PA0O 599 341 14 KH7XX 599 0 0 3
20140928 1800 14108.30 RTTY PA0O 599 334 14 KH7XX 599 0 0 3
20140928 1635 21135.50 RTTY PA0O 599 322 14 XE2FGC 599 0 0 3
20140928 1627 28134.00 RTTY PA0O 599 318 14 YS1/NP3UT 599 0 3
some goodies
I wonder what the competition is running but it s not all about power being south in EU HF life seems easier..
In CQWWRTTY running 100W does not get much attention a bit boring in the end and the RTTY signals gets annoying.
Early morning 02 local heard 3501 very weak ZD9XF Nigel deep in the noise high static's I thought to hear my call not so sure. Afterward I should have shut down to get some sleep since next evening ZD9XF was a lot stronger.
It was the first real test for N1MM+ beta RTTY contest.
I was using N1MM+ for a while one contest the SAC CW worked fine.
maybe the keying timing different? could be imagination.
But it worked well keying speed can be set to 99 wpm !
Set up no problem.
After a while RTTY contesting i noticed interruptions in TX and RX
the Windows circle cursor was turning at every TX after a few characters
the TX was hold up for a second or so.
After restart it worked well for a while but then again delays.
Could be my relative slow Dell D420 notebook? but that works well with N1MM clasic.
Then exported the ADIF CQWWRRTY to the clasic N1MM
and continued the contest.
I have seen occasional wait circle signs but only a few times.
RTTY code responds quicker to the keypress.
ZD9XF was open on 17 and 80
Next day evening heard ZD9XF on the 17M reasonable signal on the 30m dipole.
But just as I was ready to call he said QSY 3501 well 80m also missing.
Then bit later ZD9XF showed up on 3501 noisy and still Statics but much stronger then the night before.
Not to many callers in the start the QRI folks where not alarmed yet since no cluster spot...
So almost no one was tuning his rig on 3501 extensively as usual
QSO was easy.
Before I had to repair the K3 KPA3 having low output with HI-CUR message at 3500 kHz
symptoms:
Low output 10 and 6m max 60-80W no stable level.
High current at 80m 23A+ ! no matter what load / tuning.
TX 5W calibration failed indicating LPA malfunction.
The middle R15HVF1 output FET of the LPA had low / short Gate-Drain
That happened before 2012 July I got 2 spare R15HVF1 1 left
deja vue:
http://pa0o-jaap.blogspot.nl/2012/07/4m-wspr-24-hours-top-list-unique.html#uds-search-results
Replaced the defective R15HVF1 and then runned the 5 and 50 Watt calibration procedure. Nice feature just wait and automatic all bands are calibrated if everything is well.
Now all bands power displays 110W with decent current 16-18A
50MHz 106W 12.8A 13.2V 168W DC would mean 62% efficiency
My DAIWA NS660p say 90W = 53% n more true.
power measured by DAIWA NS-660P @ 50Ohm dummy.
100W @ 10M 16A 48% that is the efficiency to expect .
109W @ 24.905 16A 52%
103W @ 21.012 17.4A 45.5%
108W @ 18.086 16.9A 49 %
108W @ 14.012 17.8A 47%
110W @ 10.105 18.8A 45%
110W @ 7.070 18A A 47%
115W @ 3.513 16.5A 53.6%
105W @ 1.836 16A 50% power is dropping after 20sec
remarks
K3 current display not stable when transmitting
DAIWA not so optimistic measuring.
Strange that with the faulty LPA the current raised to over 23A one would expect lower current. Only 1 phase driven I guess.
But next time when I have to replace one of the RD15's I just cut the leads
long enough to weld the new RD15 to the existing leads. Not removing the leads from the PCB trough holes that is too difficult.
Comments
geen probleem de export en import van de contest liep goed
Ik heb mijn bedenkingen tegen de dot net gebaseerde programma's
typisch MS groter en tragere programma's .com naar .net