PA0O ham radio

screenshot from  13 August 70.136 MHz  many many reflections  from EI9E-4 in rare IO44   also visible meteoroids seen  this year  10/ 30minutes  strong TV signal 49.750  today  still ES  

 Only  outside EU contacts valid in the WAE contest Low power K3 100W Propagation not as  bad  as expected  20 and 40 m excellent condition Even 28MHz a bit open  to USA  on Sunday Details PA0O K9NW 2016-08-14 11:55:19 10M CW 28.02330 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Details PA0O N3RD 2016-08-14 11:53:12 10M CW 28.02554 Details PA0O AA3B 2016-08-14 11:48:15 10M CW 28.02697 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Details PA0O W1UE 2016-08-14 11:36:22 10M CW 28.00117 Details PA0O K2PLF 2016-08-14 11:33:09 10M CW 28.03665 Details PA0O KD4D 2016-08-14 11:26:02 10M CW 28.02187 Details PA0O N5DX/2 2016-08-14 11:25:14 10M CW 28.02925 Details PA0O N2NT 2016-08-14 11:15:11 10M CW 28.01055 Details PA0O 3W4XX 2016-08-14 11:06:32 15M CW 21.00354 Details PA0O JA7BME 2016-08-14 19:53:05 40M CW 7.03530 JAPAN Details PA0O VR2XAN 2016-08-14 19:44:26 40M CW 7.03297 Details PA0O JE4MHL 2016-08-14 19:42:38 40M CW 7.03056 Details PA0O ZM1A 2016-08-14 19:39:53 40M CW 7.0160...

70MHz 50MHz                                         50MHz RFI  picture of SolarEdge SE8K PVC at 50m distance Finally  i found the noise source that was frustrating weak signal reception here at the high frequencies. I took again my IC706 with a small motor bike battery to investigate better this time. I had to improvise with the rig I have the old but fb IC706 a bit heavy but good. I really need a  selective broad spectrum receiver  that covers the whole HAM radio spectrum. The SDR RTL USB 40-1800MHz receiver is a thing that could do that job. But this RTL stick is only working stable / reliable with W10  I could not use it with W7  and it is  missing the short wave bands below 40MHz The red Pitaya SDR could be the best device a reason more the purchase this miracle  device..  The above 50MHz spectral QRM ...

                                          10 4 6m   QRM    200 kHz  repeated  in direction North  , still searching for the source .  it is 24x7 weak QRM

out of the blue 80m had a top night Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2016-07-20 20:18   PA0O   3.594146   -17   1   JO33hg   5   ZL4LV   RE54ec   18590   61   2016-07-20 23:02   PA0O   3.594148   -14   0   JO33hg   5   VK6XT   OF86   14234   97   2016-07-20 22:54   PA0O   3.594148   -13   0   JO33hg   5   VK6XT   OF86   14234   97   2016-07-20 22:32   PA0O   3.594148   -15   0   JO33hg   5   VK6XT   OF86   14234   97   2016-07-20 22:42   PA0O   3.594148   -15   0   ...

This Thinkpad W510 with Samsung 840EVO 500GB SSD  does pass the W10 compatibiliteit test but then fails to upgrade. Would like to change to W10 since it is an improve over W7    "the system reserved partition can not be updated" must be the 100MB active boot partition that has only 7MB free? The message is unclear but has to do with a partition that can not be altered so it must be the 100MB partition. The W10 test did overlook this. And there seems no way to increase this 100MB partition. Windows disk-manager can free diskspace  at the  upper-side  "right" of the C partition  Win.DM is easy  no need to reboot to apply changes like other DM need. I need free space adjacent to the 100MB to resize it to 200MB f.i. Have not found a disk manager that can do this. I tried:   Minitool Partition Wizzard Free 9.1    (download name:  PWfree91.exe) There  it looks as if it is possible to increase the 100...

Zaterdag  pas laat in de middag QRV  6m was toen open naar  UA en YO  misschien al langere tijd. Wist niet welke contest het was, pas zondag hoorde ik van IS0BSR  de CQWW-VHF dus. PG7V   contest agenda is perfect  maar alleen voor HF. De  CQWW-VHF contest heeft voor VHF de perfecte EXCHange. alleen  CALL  en locator(4)  dus JO33   alleen de echte informatie zonder overbodig rapport en serial. Zeer snelle QSO's zijn zo mogelijk  een korte reflectie is al voldoende. diverse LZ  YO SV E7  UT R7  en TA2AD 29 QSO best DX EA8DBM 3363km  schatter signaal klonk als tropo 529 SV3BSF/B  zondag ochtend haast continue te ontvangen maar toch geen andere signalen uit Griekenland veel CQ zonder response terwijl het SV3 baken steeds goed doorkwam toch werden LZ en SV gespot slechts 11 QSO  zondag waarvan DX EA8DBM IT9RZR IT9CKA IS0BSR IS0WKK antenne HF/6M(5e)  ca 22m bg ...