PA0O ham radio

Spotty signals deep QSB signals seen to midnight . The first  serious opening to USA for me this season. Next day  zero propagation and temperature drop from 33C to 19 !

At present G6HSM is the only? regular wspr transmitting station at 70.151 tx schedule xx:x6 Occasional i am also at 70.151MHz tx and rx. 70.151 seems to be the agreed wspr dial frequency and FT8 = 70.154 this fit's in the DL 4m band I was uncertain about receiving performance since the last DX event with the 2 Kazakhstan ham i saw "everyone" working hearing UN7MBH and UN3M here only 2 very weak decodes my antenna seems broken?? 124700 -21 0.4 1105 ~ M0UKR UN7MBH R-23 130300 -15 0.2 1654 ~ CQ UN3M LO61 CQ Zone 17 Good to have a beacon with a weak stable signal within reasonable distance. So i compared with an other 4m HAM  receiving G6HSM and concluded nothing wrong here technical Just i am in JO33HG north and ES tends to be staying more south... Saved a session G6HSM that failed to decode however the trace looked fine to me to decode. Checked save all, don't forget to uncheck it. Every receive wav file takes 352k this one took 2813 k bytes. 8x more i...

Midzomernacht spectacle over my QTH Bijschrift toevoegen Next day morning 6m open to Japan 

1700-2100 UTC 23cm activity Strong radar S9 QTF N - NE 1296.860MHz  LA1UHG  JO59FB heard first time this year 20 QSO  G4ASR just out of our DAC time . Should have been more but almost all QSO have to be arranged by KST2ME and the network was very slow responding. The cluster will not help as there are no RBN spots as used on shortwave just a few  are spotting the cluster and almost no UHF ham use LOTW  almost 460km / QSO  very high average DX Now my 23cm transverter front-end is in an aluminium box with better cooling 30W direct at the 1m2 dish with SKY67151 vhf design preamp band pass stayed stable with the strong radar pulses. N1MM logger Program upload needs assistance , N1MM does shut no longer shut down automatic before install of upload. I need to close the instance with the task manager to continue update. On both PC's W10 and this W7-64. Strange enough not mentioned in the update report.

124700 -21 0.4 1105 ~ M0UKR UN7MBH R-23 130300 -15 0.2 1654 ~ CQ UN3M LO61       CQ Zone 17 the only 2 decodes in JO33hg. The propagation stopped 150km south of me as usual  4m 5ele DK7ZB free radio horizon 22mag i hear al non DX very well on it.. I left the radio frustrated an enjoyed the fine summer weather outside with dinner. later PA3ECU called me thanks Ruud . 5T5PA Johannes was at 50323 FT8 fox mode copied 5T5PA -4 -6 2 channels  and after E31A the 2nd Africa'n DX with Johannes 5T5PA in IL20   great activity our 6m radio hope for Africa.

Arrived home at the tail of the opening we had  to go out i could not work remote teamviewer licence is outdated. Now switched to Chrome remote desktop 144174 MHz FT8   EA1NL heard and called but no reply saw some more EA at the FT8 screen  picked up by the PC mike the audio to the set was not connected.. N1MM recent issue it blocks program update the running program does not shut down. Have to close it manual with task manager and then update. Tuesday lot of ES 6m 4m 4m best DX    EA8DBM and S01WS  again In evening TR8CA  JJ40QS  Alain  was long time good copy at 50.300 easy to work abt 50W in FT8 F/H 50323 later in FT4 very easy  respond direct   this was my first FT4 contact FT4 sounds like a singing saw Next Call sign Worked Date/Time Band Mode Freq QSL Details PA0O TR8CA 2019-05-28 18:12:18 6M FT4 50.32886 GABON Details PA0O TR8CA 2019-05-28 17:57:10 6M FT8 50.32300 GABON Details PA0O S01WS...

Monday morning                          E31A   6M  50323 F/H  and later  50110 in antique mode: USB split up 5 FB operation i had some struggle in hound mode:  signal lost sudden and decoding stopped.  (it was on Monday morning  6m DX happens  traditional not in the weekend ;-) long time with good signal maximum about S6 here in JO33HG on 7 ele also worked 160 and 60m E31A 50.110 MHz