PA0O ham radio

In Japan digimode is allowed 1907.5  to 1912.5 kHz only FUNK FA 11/18 1087 ( posible in future i am thinking of writing in German language since the Brexit  why should we use Englisch ?) JA TX  USB dial  1909kHz or 1907kHz   rx dial 1840kHz EU send 1840kHz  RX  dial 1907 or 1909kHz where ever signals are seen. Tonight i tried with succes for the first time with several JA stations 2-way FT8  heard HL  HL3GOB dial 1907 must say it is some time ago i have seen JA in CW at 160m JA CW is only in the JA -window 1810 to 1825kHz  and that part is mostly occupied for us In contest the only chance is calling S&P normaly and only the big guns can be worked But in FT8 it is easy 100W! i just set my K3 VFO A to   dial 1907kHz   mode DATA A and VFO B to the usual 1840kHz WSJT-x  setup   radio split operation must be none but the K3 must be set to split  TX 1840 rx 1907 kHz thats all ...

 1-3W power in WSPR is enough to be received at DP0GVN ANTARTICA almost daily at 60m and also 160M    excellent receiving  there! also seen at 12m  RI1ANL JB59 (i think this call it was)   Antartica 50 spots: Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2018-10-22 01:50   PA0O   1.838197   -17   0   JO33hg   2   DP0GVN   IB59uh   13835   186   2018-10-23 02:38   PA0O   1.838197   -22   0   JO33hg   2   DP0GVN   IB59uh   13835   186   2018-10-22 03:16   PA0O   1.838197   -28   0   JO33hg   2   DP0GVN   IB59uh   13835   186   2018-10-22 00:20   PA0O   1.838198   -25...

Fttb the S.A.  every evening party is  over at  10 and 12m even 1 morning VK8ZI was decoded 3x at 12m 2m is not too bad as replacement  here QRP 10W  i was busy preparing a small SS PA 2x100W that should be enough for FT8 and occasionally CW /PHONE at 144 

SFI  low 70 a 16 K3  still 10m opened up in afternoon to N-Italy EA5 F JN33 F/PD0OHW/M in JN33 decoded 150mW VP8LP  12m    2-way with GP 7m ag swr 1:3 60m 5,362 open to ZL every? morning

nice opening 28MHz  Sunday evening   FT8 (what else..)

My low power Laptop Dell D420 was running W7 and wspr 2.21 for 2 years 24*7 Then i switched it off for some time, the accu pack died Never did reboot W7 again so need to install new OS I prefer W10 but that will need a faster system Ubuntu was not stable it lost WLAN randomly Good moment to give Linux Mint a try And Mint is nice and stable firefox  had some issues not recovering and cloning tabs maybe i'l try google. Ubuntu also had issues with crashing pages in firefox after reboot I have never seen this with IE or Chrome in W7 or W10 Everything else works  easier in Mint ! Except the choice off apps Installed WSJT-x 1.9.1   the latest Mint version atm Then the first linux-struggle was to get CAT connected to the IC706 relative easy once you know how it goes.. CAT  Hamlibs install  I downloaded and unzipped HAMLIB 3.2 followed the install instructions Then if you do it right the screen will scroll for 5minutes at least w...