Now we are locked up in our houses as in a horror S.F. film
The streets and sky are empty
Just few weeks ago we where at our contest location PI4GN IARU UHF contest at 23cm already the Airplane scatter was affected. We did not know that this would be our last contest .
Saw Youtube Bill Gates warning. In 2015 he almost exact! pointed out what will happen when a Virus like Corona would spread out over the world.
"We" did not act to this serious warnings .
Health authority's like in Taiwan Germany did act direct in December and January last year
so now when i see our "taskforce" i can't help thinking of that.
Bill Gates said it all I think of my child wood far travelling was only for few people.
Our school organised a 50km day bus trip.
The Greta generation is flying to Bali after having a well deserved ski holiday.
Everywhere leaving a trail of plastic bottles and cans.
The whole CO2 /energy transfer discussion is gone
I hope the climate church will be replaced by common sense and technical developments
to solve our energy needs.
The recent received Hackrf1 works nice with SDR-Console
Ordered in China received within 2 weeks..
This is a low cost SDR device i wanted to use as pan adapter
Tested it at my K3 i.f. port ... no signal at first but found the tmp connector was unpluged at the backpanel since i have build in a 144MHz XVTR i forgot the tiny conection
Also i did the I.F. port buffer mod. R8 1k replaced with 13k ( 8k1+5k2)
Then saw the 8250kHz wide i.f. signals on the Hackrf1
a mirror view use LSB to hear USB signals
the Hackrf1 can cover a wide band to about 20MHz
CAT connection TS2000 protocol worked after i rebooted my PC
at first the SDR-Console reported to be online over virtual comports but did not respond to WSJT-x band changes.
I also can receive 136kHz and 474kHz using external bandfilters made for the Flex1500Althoug the Flex1500 is still decoding t.a. DX at 630m ,i have not seen that with the Hrf1 yet.
The Hackrf1 should als be able to TX but that i could not get to work yet..
CQWWPX PHONE 20m band some signals 30kHz wide a splatter festival.
Some hams will use SDR tranceivers + 1k5 Watt PA or more
SDR is nice but not all signals are clean enough..
YB and E2X at 15m could not even hear me with the ACOM1000 at full output in the 3ele
they keeped calling cq
This nice PC was a unused since we got the iPhone XS fast and high resolution OLED
remarkable good audio
The MacBook air having some problems:
Apple mail did no (longer) work no setting could help this out
TV watching never worked i-TV KPN should work, it works on my Android Huawei
On the mac Always error something with silverline not being the "right version"
of course updating failed ..
I have tried to figure out online what could be wrong but no success.
The MacBook has 8GB ram 120G SSD i5 CPU so not too bad
good audio and bright picture
Original its OS was OS-X Yosemite updating seems not possible!
message: no available update found
but on the other hand updating apps gave the message OS version too old...
So i called the helpdesk after some patience a very helpful Apple specialist responded
I had to update the OS to Mojave ( speak: mohave)
To do that i got a link to update it
Then the Apple account password need to append with a pin-code received from Apple
This number/pin code had to be requested using the setting menu in the phone
i forgot where exactly...
Append the normal Apple account pwd with this number , no space!
Otherwise the message is: "wrong password" without any hints why the normal used password sudden is wrong..
Then i was able to start the download of Mojave.
This took about 3 hours my network speed is 10 to 50 Mb/s using ADSL + extra coupled 4G modem
we have a 7km long telephone line 50 years + ? old
After the Mojave download was complet i could start Install
but... not that easy.. the message now was stop all other programs...
I thought okay go ahead .. but the mac was asking me to stop all other programs..
i am a bit spoiled by windows
Now what other programs ?? i saw no programs running
the only program that must run is the install program itself ... just guessing
again no hint what and how to stop, in Windows ctr alt del gives a menu with the taskmanager
Apple also has this with 3 keys combination using google for this
cmd + alt + ESC
then i could see the processes running and had the stop them manual one by one
some resisted more then others...
finally the install button was released.
and another 2 hours installing followed
Finally Mojave started and it looked good
it seemed the problems where solved
watching our KPN iTV worked as it should have done years... ago also Apple mail worked again
faster connecting to WLAN it was annoying slow "building" the connection we had to reboot the WLAN app..
Strange enough google search never gave a hint about that the outdated OS could be the problem..
Now with Mojave running, updating to the most recent OS Catalina was easy just update and reboot
like windows...
The macBook is working very nice again thanks to the many home resting times...
WSPR tonight greyline
TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmaz 2020-04-03 05:02 PA0O 3.570026 -18 0 JO33hg 5 ZL2BCI RE79nd 18387 37 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570024 -25 0 JO33hg 5 ZL2BCI RE79nd 18387 37 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570025 -27 0 JO33hg 5 ZL2005SWL RE68mx 18315 42 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570026 -19 0 JO33hg 5 VK2EFM QF56oq 16450 66 2020-04-03 20:18 PA0O 1.838026 -26 0 JO33hg 5 VK2KRR QF34mr 16351 73 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570029 -25 0 JO33hg 5 VK5MR PF94gw 15784 81 2020-04-03 18:22 PA0O 3.570029 -26 0 JO33hg 5 VK5MR PF94gw 15784 81 2020-04-03 18:22 PA0O 3.570038 -28 1 JO33hg 5 VK6FR OF78ve 14023 97 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570039 -22 0 JO33hg 5 VK6FR OF78ve 14023 97 2020-04-03 18:42 PA0O 3.570025 -27 0 JO33hg 5 DP0GVN IB59ui 13830 186 2020-04-02 23:50 PA0O 3.570025 -20 0 JO33hg 5 DP0GVN IB59ui 13830 186 2020-04-03 00:36 PA0O 3.570026 -26 0 JO33hg 5 DP0GVN IB59ui 13830 186 2020-04-03 06:20 PA0O 3.570101 -16 0 JE58 0.002 DH2RAL JO41lu 10385 359 2020-04-03 02:22 TI4JWC 3.570128 -20 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 03:22 TI4JWC 3.570127 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 06:02 TI4JWC 3.570128 -27 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 04:42 TI4JWC 3.570128 -23 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 05:22 TI4JWC 3.570128 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 02:02 TI4JWC 3.570128 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 04:22 TI4JWC 3.570127 -20 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 05:42 TI4JWC 3.570128 -26 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 04:02 TI4JWC 3.570128 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 03:42 TI4JWC 3.570127 -20 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 01:22 TI4JWC 3.570128 -26 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570028 -26 0 JO33hg 5 BD7LMD OL51up 9042 65 2020-04-03 17:54 PA0O 3.570028 -27 0 JO33hg 5 BD7LMD OL51up 9042 65 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570025 -25 0 JO33hg 5 BG7IBS OL52xx 8937 64 2020-04-03 04:52 KD6RF 3.570115 -14 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 04:14 KD6RF 1.838120 -24 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 05:06 KD6RF 3.570115 -17 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 04:48 KD6RF 1.838120 -25 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 03:02 KD6RF 3.570115 -16 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 03:20 KD6RF 1.838120 -26 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 05:18 KD6RF 1.838120 -24 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 02:56 KD6RF 3.570115 -15 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 05:36 KD6RF 3.570115 -22 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 03:52 N1FXP 1.837994 -28 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 01:16 N1FXP 1.837994 -32 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 05:26 N1FXP 1.837994 -31 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 05:20 N1FXP 1.837994 -26 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 04:16 N1FXP 1.837994 -27 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 04:48 N1FXP 1.837994 -29 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 02:58 N1FXP 1.837994 -31 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 02:38 N1FXP 1.837994 -33 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 02:42 PA0O 3.570027 -20 0 JO33hg 5 WD4AH EL89rt 7344 288 2020-04-03 01:52 KE0QLX 3.570100 -14 0 EM29sb 100 PA0O JO33hg 7276 40 2020-04-02 23:50 PA0O 3.570028 -25 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295 2020-04-03 02:42 PA0O 3.570027 -25 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295 2020-04-03 00:36 PA0O 3.570027 -24 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295 2020-04-03 03:56 PA0O 3.570029 -22 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295
The streets and sky are empty
Just few weeks ago we where at our contest location PI4GN IARU UHF contest at 23cm already the Airplane scatter was affected. We did not know that this would be our last contest .
Saw Youtube Bill Gates warning. In 2015 he almost exact! pointed out what will happen when a Virus like Corona would spread out over the world.
"We" did not act to this serious warnings .
Health authority's like in Taiwan Germany did act direct in December and January last year
so now when i see our "taskforce" i can't help thinking of that.
Bill Gates said it all I think of my child wood far travelling was only for few people.
Our school organised a 50km day bus trip.
The Greta generation is flying to Bali after having a well deserved ski holiday.
Everywhere leaving a trail of plastic bottles and cans.
The whole CO2 /energy transfer discussion is gone
I hope the climate church will be replaced by common sense and technical developments
to solve our energy needs.
Hackrf one new tool:
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| Quick received no extra custom fee.. |
The recent received Hackrf1 works nice with SDR-Console
Ordered in China received within 2 weeks..
This is a low cost SDR device i wanted to use as pan adapter
Tested it at my K3 i.f. port ... no signal at first but found the tmp connector was unpluged at the backpanel since i have build in a 144MHz XVTR i forgot the tiny conection
Also i did the I.F. port buffer mod. R8 1k replaced with 13k ( 8k1+5k2)
Then saw the 8250kHz wide i.f. signals on the Hackrf1
a mirror view use LSB to hear USB signals
the Hackrf1 can cover a wide band to about 20MHz
CAT connection TS2000 protocol worked after i rebooted my PC
at first the SDR-Console reported to be online over virtual comports but did not respond to WSJT-x band changes.
I also can receive 136kHz and 474kHz using external bandfilters made for the Flex1500Althoug the Flex1500 is still decoding t.a. DX at 630m ,i have not seen that with the Hrf1 yet.
| 2020-03-31 03:34 | K3RWR | 0.475781 | -29 | 0 | FM18qi | 5 | PA0O | JO33hg | 6279 | 45 | 2 |
The Hackrf1 should als be able to TX but that i could not get to work yet..
CQWWPX PHONE 20m band some signals 30kHz wide a splatter festival.
Some hams will use SDR tranceivers + 1k5 Watt PA or more
SDR is nice but not all signals are clean enough..
YB and E2X at 15m could not even hear me with the ACOM1000 at full output in the 3ele
they keeped calling cq
MacBook Air OS upgrade.
Now i took time to look at the Macbook air of the xyl.This nice PC was a unused since we got the iPhone XS fast and high resolution OLED
remarkable good audio
The MacBook air having some problems:
Apple mail did no (longer) work no setting could help this out
TV watching never worked i-TV KPN should work, it works on my Android Huawei
On the mac Always error something with silverline not being the "right version"
of course updating failed ..
I have tried to figure out online what could be wrong but no success.
The MacBook has 8GB ram 120G SSD i5 CPU so not too bad
good audio and bright picture
Original its OS was OS-X Yosemite updating seems not possible!
message: no available update found
but on the other hand updating apps gave the message OS version too old...
So i called the helpdesk after some patience a very helpful Apple specialist responded
I had to update the OS to Mojave ( speak: mohave)
To do that i got a link to update it
Then the Apple account password need to append with a pin-code received from Apple
This number/pin code had to be requested using the setting menu in the phone
i forgot where exactly...
Append the normal Apple account pwd with this number , no space!
Otherwise the message is: "wrong password" without any hints why the normal used password sudden is wrong..
Then i was able to start the download of Mojave.
This took about 3 hours my network speed is 10 to 50 Mb/s using ADSL + extra coupled 4G modem
we have a 7km long telephone line 50 years + ? old
After the Mojave download was complet i could start Install
but... not that easy.. the message now was stop all other programs...
I thought okay go ahead .. but the mac was asking me to stop all other programs..
i am a bit spoiled by windows
Now what other programs ?? i saw no programs running
the only program that must run is the install program itself ... just guessing
again no hint what and how to stop, in Windows ctr alt del gives a menu with the taskmanager
Apple also has this with 3 keys combination using google for this
cmd + alt + ESC
then i could see the processes running and had the stop them manual one by one
some resisted more then others...
finally the install button was released.
and another 2 hours installing followed
Finally Mojave started and it looked good
it seemed the problems where solved
watching our KPN iTV worked as it should have done years... ago also Apple mail worked again
faster connecting to WLAN it was annoying slow "building" the connection we had to reboot the WLAN app..
Strange enough google search never gave a hint about that the outdated OS could be the problem..
Now with Mojave running, updating to the most recent OS Catalina was easy just update and reboot
like windows...
The macBook is working very nice again thanks to the many home resting times...
WSPR tonight greyline
TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmaz 2020-04-03 05:02 PA0O 3.570026 -18 0 JO33hg 5 ZL2BCI RE79nd 18387 37 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570024 -25 0 JO33hg 5 ZL2BCI RE79nd 18387 37 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570025 -27 0 JO33hg 5 ZL2005SWL RE68mx 18315 42 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570026 -19 0 JO33hg 5 VK2EFM QF56oq 16450 66 2020-04-03 20:18 PA0O 1.838026 -26 0 JO33hg 5 VK2KRR QF34mr 16351 73 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570029 -25 0 JO33hg 5 VK5MR PF94gw 15784 81 2020-04-03 18:22 PA0O 3.570029 -26 0 JO33hg 5 VK5MR PF94gw 15784 81 2020-04-03 18:22 PA0O 3.570038 -28 1 JO33hg 5 VK6FR OF78ve 14023 97 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570039 -22 0 JO33hg 5 VK6FR OF78ve 14023 97 2020-04-03 18:42 PA0O 3.570025 -27 0 JO33hg 5 DP0GVN IB59ui 13830 186 2020-04-02 23:50 PA0O 3.570025 -20 0 JO33hg 5 DP0GVN IB59ui 13830 186 2020-04-03 00:36 PA0O 3.570026 -26 0 JO33hg 5 DP0GVN IB59ui 13830 186 2020-04-03 06:20 PA0O 3.570101 -16 0 JE58 0.002 DH2RAL JO41lu 10385 359 2020-04-03 02:22 TI4JWC 3.570128 -20 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 03:22 TI4JWC 3.570127 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 06:02 TI4JWC 3.570128 -27 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 04:42 TI4JWC 3.570128 -23 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 05:22 TI4JWC 3.570128 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 02:02 TI4JWC 3.570128 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 04:22 TI4JWC 3.570127 -20 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 05:42 TI4JWC 3.570128 -26 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 04:02 TI4JWC 3.570128 -21 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 03:42 TI4JWC 3.570127 -20 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 01:22 TI4JWC 3.570128 -26 0 EK70wb 0.5 PA0O JO33hg 9162 37 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570028 -26 0 JO33hg 5 BD7LMD OL51up 9042 65 2020-04-03 17:54 PA0O 3.570028 -27 0 JO33hg 5 BD7LMD OL51up 9042 65 2020-04-03 18:02 PA0O 3.570025 -25 0 JO33hg 5 BG7IBS OL52xx 8937 64 2020-04-03 04:52 KD6RF 3.570115 -14 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 04:14 KD6RF 1.838120 -24 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 05:06 KD6RF 3.570115 -17 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 04:48 KD6RF 1.838120 -25 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 03:02 KD6RF 3.570115 -16 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 03:20 KD6RF 1.838120 -26 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 05:18 KD6RF 1.838120 -24 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 02:56 KD6RF 3.570115 -15 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 05:36 KD6RF 3.570115 -22 0 EM22lr 5 PA0O JO33hg 7854 38 2020-04-03 03:52 N1FXP 1.837994 -28 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 01:16 N1FXP 1.837994 -32 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 05:26 N1FXP 1.837994 -31 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 05:20 N1FXP 1.837994 -26 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 04:16 N1FXP 1.837994 -27 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 04:48 N1FXP 1.837994 -29 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 02:58 N1FXP 1.837994 -31 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 02:38 N1FXP 1.837994 -33 0 EL86xq 5 PA0O JO33hg 7576 40 2020-04-03 02:42 PA0O 3.570027 -20 0 JO33hg 5 WD4AH EL89rt 7344 288 2020-04-03 01:52 KE0QLX 3.570100 -14 0 EM29sb 100 PA0O JO33hg 7276 40 2020-04-02 23:50 PA0O 3.570028 -25 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295 2020-04-03 02:42 PA0O 3.570027 -25 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295 2020-04-03 00:36 PA0O 3.570027 -24 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295 2020-04-03 03:56 PA0O 3.570029 -22 0 JO33hg 5 W3PM EM64or 7195 295
Comments
CQWW heb ik dezelfde ervaring, sommige stations zeer wijd. Op 20m veel stations uit China gehoord, alleen maar roepen geen RX of ze waren wat anders aan het doen. 10m was wel open zaterdag, dat ging heel aardig, dik 50 QSOs kunnen maken op 10.
Tnx QSO 10m
73, Bas