PA0O ham radio

High activity at 23cm  3rd Tuesday evening during the DAC My guess DAC stands for Dutch Activity Contest organised by the VERON But EU wide activity every month 3rd Tuesday evening starting 17:00 After the May IARU contest this was the next good opportunity to test my 1296 GHz station. And it was a success this monthly evening activity contest is very popular. remarkable strong signal from SK7MW real 599 CQ-ing My 23cm setup 120cm dish with  frontend transverter.  On top DK7ZB 642 VHF  below 5e6m +HF                                             attempt to make a night picture  of the digital readout top-light.                            The front end transverter DB6NT  + PA 30-40W ,  preamp eBay SPF5189z           ...

 Thunder storm   nice spring weather temperatures  20C                                                  80M still the  West Beverage is in the field last night was not bad but missed sunset gray line due t-storm Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2017-05-14 04:02   K7ZT   3.594152   -17   0   EM10bn   5   PA0O   JO33hg   8209   37   2017-05-14 03:22   KD5DFL   3.594082   -15   1   EM31sh   5   PA0O   JO33hg   7825   39   2017-05-14 02:58   K2LYV   3.594099   -18   0   EL88rb   5   PA0O   JO33hg  ...

test with Jorgen OZ7IT was success even ON5KTO was received  over 651km

zaterdag gast operator bij PI4GN op 70 23 13 9 6 3 1,5 zondag  vanuit huis op 23cm hoge verwachtingen voor mijn 23cm station maar uiteindelijk slechts 9 QSO behalve PI4GN 9++  en DF0MU geen signalen te horen De dagen ervoor sterke WSPR signalen van o.a. ON5KTO en PA0JME Maar geen spoor van al die PA's en ON's die ik verwachte waar zijn toch al die om's  met die Bulgaarse  23cm transverters ? 20170507 0633  1296229,7 USB  PA0O          59  001  PI4GN         59  065  JO33II    11 20170507 0645  1296179,9 USB  PA0O          59  002  DF0MU       59  063  JO32PC   138 20170507 0652    433250,1 USB  PA0O          59  003  PI4GN         59  144  JO33II    11 20170507 0852  1296214,1 USB  PA0O   ...

50MHz  OY es 2017-05-04 06:40   PA0O   50.294598   -19   0   JO33hg   2   OY1OF   IP62oa   1254 23cm: 2 local QSO's PA0T  and PA3EKM 4 beacons copied every day G3MHZ  1296.830    JO02pb OZ7IGY  1296.930    JO33wm       CW and IP  ID DB0VC    1296.920   JO54if PI7ALK    1296.916   JO22ip    fsk  cw id  tjirpy  no yet at  http://www.mmmonvhf.de/bcn_map.php 23cm   WSPR  ON5KTO  first decode ever at 1296.500 USB lots of Doppler airplane reflections Have to isolate the PLL 1050MHz pll Now it is drifting a bit and 100Hz lower then at room temperature the IC706 reports the 146.501500 MHz i.f. at WSPRnet.org WSJT-X can report the 23cm TX frequency if the i.f. offset in my XVTR  -1.150 is set nice feature  this is not possible in N1MM+ ...

"mast head" placed close behind 1m2 dish in plastic box (ACTION 1€50)  XVTR  1.5W , PLL 1150 DF9NP ,   PA PE1CMO  30-40W rF ( hoping) pre-amp  SPF5189z eBay  lowered to 2V7 still draws 160mA ! I replaced the original SPF5189z because it almost looked like short circuit  at 5V an UA78L05 could not supply it! needed a UA7805 200mA+  PCB heath up  need a better quality SMA - N  adapter   first QSO with  local PA0T very loud 9++  After 30 years  back on 23                                              yesterday evening in nice temperature and no wind finally.  A good time to place the disc + XVTR up The modified DB6NT with PLL 1050MHz l.o. that was prepared last year up in the mast for the real test. In JO33HG  could copy  4 beacons reasonable almost 100% 419 ...

last 12 hours  474.2 kHz   had TX on 10%  again 80 unique spots and 1 goody!  again EL96pd decoded Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2017-04-16 04:12   WI2XRM   0.475708   -28   0   EL98pd   1   PA0O   JO33hg   7368   41   2017-04-15 23:08   PA0O   0.475626   -27   0   JO33hg   0.5   SV8RV   KM07ks   2042   142   2017-04-15 23:20   PA0O   0.475626   -24   0   JO33hg   0.5   SV8RV/1   KM07ks   2042   142   2017-04-15 23:42   PA0O   0.475627   -31   0   JO33hg   0.5   EA5DOM-1   IM98xn   1713   200  ...