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 Lauwersoog fishing harbour. Had to park my open boat in the harbour. 5m difference  between hi and low tide was to much to get it out again. The bridge is sloping down but at hi tide it arises. Boat ramp  at hi tide lo

Young Swallows gathering for their DX trip to Africa.

Yesterday  160m had a good greyline opening   also 6m  was open in the evening. Band hopping  6m 160 and 80 is working good with the extra switch those 3 bands are interesting for WSPR  maybe 10m  would be good to have as 4th band. The other bands are crowded enough already. 6m   7 decodes 2011-07-30 17:36   CN8LI   50.294416   -5   -1   IM63nx   5   PA0O   JO33hg   2395  160m 1 decode  very late i switched to 160 late It has been some time ago that VK6 was reported in Europe GW G PA, F  2011-07-30 22:34   PA0O   1.838061   -23   0   JO33hg   5   VK6DZ   OF84ux   14400  many decodes of T61AA 1 decode by A45SWL    80m   2011-07-30 20:28   PA0O   3.594088   -17   0   JO...

After being in Germany for QRL during some weeks. In Schladen in the Hartz area. Last week we stayed in the small beautiful middle-age city Hornburg close to the former Ostgrenze.  Not far from the Brocken 1050m.  I can recommend this pension *** http://www.reinhards-pension.de/    nice place quiet, wlan free. Now finally some time for finishing this. When away i let WSPR running remote i can control it even from the HTC phone but I could not switch to 160m The K3 has ANT1 and ANT2  + some RX TX ports It can handle 2 antenna/bands in WSPR  ANT 1 is connected to 6M 7eleLFA or  160m vertical  through a   manual switch. ANT2 was connected to the 80M  vertical. To be able to switch more antenna's  I made a relay controlled ANT switch. A small professionally made chromium-plated brass box was resting in my junk-box for years. ...

This is partly radio related.. Crash after short fire.  15 Juli 2011 Smilde Tower   An unbelievable crash  Friday 15 July. Same time the 2nd other highest TV Tower had a fire emergency and had to be switched off some time. Almost all Radio services in the northern part of the country where shut down. The  MW transmitter at 747kHz  was suddenly the only way left to transmit Radio1. The emergency radio where citizens have to tune in when a disaster happens..  The level of our emergency  system is perfect demonstrated (in Dutch) by our comedian Freek de Jonge. rampen instructies The MW  had to be powered up again and  I could listen again while travelling in Germany the next week. Once upon a time travelling by car in EU one could receive this MW very good at night. At this almost 300m high  TV tower in Smilde no one is 100% responsible for operating this radio tower.  Our public services for Energy communication hea...

CQ World Wide VHF Contest Lot of activity   this afternoon. Band open to east  and  EA  EA8  CT3 Later in the evening we also could  hear 9Y4D and 9Y4VU then again PV8ABC FJ92  came in  also PV8AZ  PV8AX all FJ92 PV8ABC still did not hear much .    Strange  again only those 3  in FJ92 where heard and only  9Y4D and VU  for long time  2 hours . Strange band 6m... FJ92 is deep inland  why no spots of PZ  or FY? I remember the dxpedition to 8R  few years ago  they where heard every day.  Close to the seashore they where that was the explanation of their extreme good signals.    

In west and south PA JO22 weather emergency warnings  In Groningen JO33 no wind,  nice temperature  no rain all day We had very pleasant quiet evening. Same time in SW Netherlands flights where canceled and streets flooded. Just 200km away. 1 evening 5 decodes by VK7DIK 1 by VK2XN  next day zero.. And yesterday again no dx decode during greyline peak ~19-20UTC at 80m although  my neighboring ham had a decode earlier  2011-07-14 20:14   PA0HCK   3.594029   -27   0   JO33ld   5   VK2XN   QF59ar   16105 But much later  at 22:02   the latest decode I have seen. 2011-07-14 22:02   PA0O   3.594141   -25   0   JO33hg   5   VK7DIK   QE28sf   16731   84 some  propagation disturbance must have been there that recovered later i guess...