PA0O ham radio

Had a strange problem with N1MM  at the start of this contest. The  incremental #  was out of control.. It incremented double.  The auto-serial number started at 5 not 1  and in 10 QSO  it was already at  50 . I could not find any fault in N1MM  configuring. But my Notepad was also running N1MM  in general logging. Had to switch N1MM off then al was normal again.  n=n+1 every QSO.. But the first 10-20 contacts will be marked as invalid by the contest robot.. Strange, N1MM normal did report that the contest types do not match in multi user network mode. But  have not seen this behaviour before.   28 was again wide open to VK1 2 3 4 5 6 7   even 200mW copied by VK7AB again. But no DX worked or heard in the contest !

 2011-11-05 06:58   PA0O   28.126024   -23   0   JO33hg   5   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:02   PA0O   28.126023   -16   0   JO33hg   1   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:14   PA0O   28.126023   -23   0   JO33hg   0.5   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:26   PA0O   28.126022   -29   0   JO33hg   0.2   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905   84   2011-11-05 07:38   PA0O   28.126022   -28   0   JO33hg   0.2   VK7AB   QE37ne   16905 ...

7Q7GM with K8EJ     1827.5     operated by GM0GAV Gavin  and GM3YTS good signals KH2/N2NL 3506 kHz earlier evening

total Q 273    including 20 and 15 some  40 80 1 W on 160m 28MHz  super propagation   KL7 KH7 via longpath, AH0 ZL VK etc etc WAZ  28MHz    completed  Sunday afternoon with zone 2 VE2IM KL7RA zone1  giant pileup hard to break,   good signal 59 over the pole.  Some other KL7 heard  and  again KH7 long path S9  QTF 160 Could complete  zone  1 2 19 40  39  5R8A  38 V51A  Sunday   WAZ 21Mhz and 14MHz  could also been possible in this weekend but 28MHz kept me busy enough already. Some 80m W big guns could be worked with Lowpower Sunday evening late.  W3LPL KC1XX W2PV  zone 5 was the only worked on 6 bands. My setup  K3 ACOM1000 3ele Steppir seems to be marginal in the CQWWSSB  world where every extra  kW does help. Calling CQ did not rase pileups. The bands overloaded...

YC0LOW/1  Jo good signal from his /1 location  preparing CQWW Test this whole weekend... very promising Had high QRN level as always  but  he gave 599! TL0CW  2nd QSO   I had him on 80/160 but uncertain due to tuning and QSB  this afternoon & evening WSPR 28 screen filled with W including W6 and 7 's !  This morning as usual VK1-6 .. Propagation seems to be recovered. Yesterday heard South Cook on 28  but too weak and simplex. My old IC2E 2m FM porto did stop working after 30 years. I bought that one in 1980....  No receive no tx just noise seems PLL part. This is an analoge technic design very low standby power just few miliamps... it had 2W  

TX7M 3527kHz   nice greyline peak this morning first time heard anything  at 80m. And they have good ears for W-EU too. 0830 local time sometimes vy clear 559 Also 40m CW  could be added  now 10 slots I could  be QRV at the best SR-SS time  between 8-9 local time in the morning. Thats normal the time you will be @ QRL ... But I had worked  some overtime last evening.. The best time for the high bands is in our evening time 12 hours later.  QTF is about  W  N-W   The super 10m propagation  is  reset after the aurora we had 2 days ago. Last evening 160m  C50C very strong just 1 call at the right freq. TL0CW on 80m heard good big pile no QSO. Heard  weak  1817kHz just under a strong fishing beacon. High bands party is a bit over after the aurora  no more USA heard but VK1,2,3,4,5,6 still decoded in WSPR @ 28MHz in the morning

Getting used to good propagation is a quicker process then getting used to poor bands.. Again this morning/day 28MHz is complete filled with stations from 28.0 to 29.7  and even higher it is buzzing. Only was listening 29.650 FM.  USA and JY4NE TA etc etc The Steppir is doing fine but SWR is high at 29MHz and I could not tune it yet. Tried long with TX7M on 40m but they could not hear EU  working JA and W's  559 signal good copy long time. TX7M  now worked on 10/12/15/17/20/30 TX3T    4 slots 3XY1D   160m open T32C  17 slots  not hrd on 80/160 Used DELL LATITUDE D420  notepad where offered 135€ at the "Dag van de radioamateur" radio market Saturday.  Could not resist to purchase one. A low power/weight PC for WSPR intalled W7-pro. I fact I like the screen 1280X800  is better readable then the 1980x1080 ... WSPR 2.21 works okay using the internal s...