PA0O ham radio

After return from Konya Istanbul back home. WSPR was still running  10 80 160  band hopping shown that the low bands  160 80 are in a deep recession last week(s).  Almost no DX was reported. Most days/ night the max DX was  2000km on 80m  exception was VK6ZT 80m  and A45SWL on 160  K1JT and some east coast copies on the K9AY ( in the not optimal direction)   2011-10-14 22:10   PA0O   3.594163   -26   0   JO33hg   5   VK6ZT   OF78sq   13966   96 Propagation swapped to the high bands.  28MHz is wide open. Late night to W6 7 0 . Unseen propagation for long long years.  Managed to get in the log of T32C  17 and 20m in the late evening  Friday signals weak QTF  almost over the north-pole. Saturday lots of JA 28 RTTY  in the JARTS contest.  Had a short run but not much time for r...

Goodbye 3D2R  T32C YJ0VK    have fun and work all of Italy ! I was expecting to get them in the log easier using the STEPPIR and PA if "needed"  but even when the signals where a good copy  they did not respond. Propagation was not favourable in North-West EU. Signals sounded AURORAL.  They seem to have difficulties to copy us (me) between all the South and east EU's  but of course we have to go right over the north pole while Italians f.i. seem to have a path more south ?? Anyway I reconnected  my 160/80m antenna to the WSPR ANT-switchbox  to be QRV again in WSPR 10m 80m and 160m leaving for TA-land tomorrow. Dat viel niet mee  3D2R op 30M kunnen werken. Op 80 en 160 zou het nog nieuw zijn maar geen signalen gehoord  ik heb  80m phone maar niet geprobeerd  chaos en veel QRI  vooral op 80m daar is de storing al of niet opzettelijk maximaal. YJ0VK  goed signaal in Phone 14.184  Maar helaas by numbers...

CQWWRTTY  I choose for radio. Skipped the Sunday morning  cycle round and the very nice late summer weekend. Propagation looked very promising  with the high solar flux and good results on 28 WSPR the days before. Al-dough that's no guaranty for the next days but! 28 wide open to USA  and Japan the Friday evening late 20UTC  28 open to N-Texas rare! In the CQWWRTTY   not real my preferred mode but  DX-wise interesting. Lot of radioactivity from JA on 28   and  in between  some extra goodies KG6DX  DV1/JO7KMB   W6HGF/KH0    KH2    and   FIJI  3D2EG heard in a giant pile but he was covered to much could only work some more Italians.  Later on 21093 same story.  Those  Pacific area's are very touch to get.  Once there is propagation  we are behind everyone to get there... I was running LP 100W but tried with PA for this occasion to work once Fiji  it did not h...

Later  in CW 28.034 KH0/NH2B  simplex(..)  heard but went QRT before I was ready to call 28.008 KH2/N2NL fb operator good signal but worked before. Then 28031 heard 5W1SA  Samoa NNE  almost over the north-pole  signal sounded a bit Auroral not strong 539 but good Q5   I called many times  at the right uplink although he never mentioned he was listening up. But no response  I guess full power from an ACOM1000  is not enough? Then 28.021   4W6A  East Timor     559 569 auroral sound (all signals)     up 5-10  called 500 times  I felt a bit like an idiot. If he can not hear this signal full power  in the 3 ele StepIR   he must be deaf or running hi power in a noisy place?  Even when calling at the right uplink freq. no response. Possible East Timor is not allowed to work PA? Big pile of course  a bit behind the usual wall here but never the less one time...

Why do networks always resist till the very last bit to work properly ? De raadselachtige wereld van het netwerk. Gisteren werkte N1MM  met 2 users prima vanavond zelfde configuratie netwerk naam lijsten identiek  zelfde prog versie  zelfde contest hoewel gisteren met verschillende "contest"werkte het toch  met waarschuwing nu willlen de logs niet synchroon.   de K3  als master  192.168.2.101 de IC706  user 1  ip 192.168.2.104 beiden kunnen elkaar pingen  zelfde router / subnet maar: connection failed tja misschien morgen beter je weet het maar nooit met die netwerken  soms hebben ze er gewoon geen zin in. achteraf  Restart N1MM van user1 toen werkte het weer ok.. Afterwards restarting N1MM at user2  did fix the problem. propagation WSPR 160 en 80m  de laatste dagen zo dood als een deur  amper 2000km haalbaar 28MHz vandaag iets hersteld  VK4ABW/8 Darwin  vele de...

Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2011-09-11 07:04   PA0O   28.126012   -11   0   JO33hg   5   VK2KRR   QF34mr   16351   73   2011-09-06 07:38   VK2KRR   28.126154   -24   0   QF34mr   20   PA0O   JO33hg   16351   316   2011-09-11 07:02   VK2KRR   28.126157   -14   0   QF34mr   20   PA0O   JO33hg   16351   316   2011-09-11 06:56   VK2KRR   28.126157   -18   0   QF34mr   20   PA0O   JO33hg   16351   316   2011-09-11 07:28   PA0O   28.126036   -25   -4   JO33hg  ...

2011-09-10 18:34   PA0O   1.838058   -20   0   JO33hg   5   VK7DIK   QE28sf   16731   84   2011-09-10 18:20   PA0O   1.838054   -29   0   JO33hg   5   VK2KRR   QF34mr   16351   73   2011-09-10 18:34   PA0O   1.838054   -27   0   JO33hg   5   VK2KRR   QF34mr   16351   73   2011-09-10 18:20   PA0O   1.838056   -22   0   JO33hg   5   VK5AKK   PF94ix   15791   81   2011-09-10 18:34   PA0O   1.838056   -25   0   JO33hg   5   VK5AKK   PF94ix   15791   81...