PA0O ham radio

The Beverage 340m antenna to West is back in the field partly laying on the ground.  The first night 474.2kHz rx results are very promising. Using Flex-1500 port XVTX/c + external active band filter and Beverage antenna 23 spots: Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az # Spots  2019-11-08 00:40   K3MF   0.475797   -28   0   FM19sr   5   PA0O   JO33hg   6162   46   11   2019-11-08 04:16   WA3U   0.475642   -29   0   FM29co   5   PA0O   JO33hg   6130   46   2   2019-11-07 22:52   AA1A   0.475674   -30   0   FN42pb   1   PA0O   JO33hg   5630   49   3   2019-11-08 04:14   W1IR  ...

Sunday morning 28.1246 WSPR USB dial  using FLEX1500 P-SDR 2.8.0.133    dipole    24*7 The combination P-SDR .133  Voicemeeter VAC works much more stable as the VBcable VAC and the earlier P-SDR version. Saturday i missed VK3KCX the flex was at wrong freq. 3 day in a row EU  to VK3KCX  propagation This morning decoded VK3KCX with some power long time not seen 10m WSPR   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA5NNwpO2wc  De Lubach van de natuurkunde

1 week in Jordan short vacation with the U3S lent to me by PD0OHW   1 night stay in the dessert Wilson 10m mobile antenna on a metal pole. The other location was the Hotel in Petra at the balcon At the dead-sea shore hotel location antenna on the balcony  those locations where spotted by FY5GE and EA8BFK!  The hotel in Aqaba KL79 had a good high roof terrace to put the antenna on the fire steps... but i did not dear to put is there unmanned with the GPS blinking LED's .. One could get wrong thoughts about it...                              34 spots: Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2019-10-08 16:20   PA0O/M   28.126153   -28   0   KM70rh   0.1   FY5KE   GJ35   9557   274   2019-10-08 16:22   PA0O/M   28.126153  ...

In the past years we tried to find one clear frequency in the 430 440 MHz range for a local standby frequency Not a single FM channel can be found clear of junk al kind of data pulses every where pop up Or  repeater outputs in DMR data show up after a few days on a new  found clear channel Simply the whole 10MHz is overpopulated ! now i listen 434.000  unidentified pulses Why do  HAM's  have identify  obligation? Maybe we should also use DMR encrypted and let the software fight it out... Then the SOLAR EDGE SE6k  QRM Machine Was installed 3 year ago at my neighbors 50m north of me It makes my radio deaf for weak signals on all frequencies  specially at 2 4 6 10  12 meters with  a noise band 10 20 dB  and digi trash carriers from MW till UHF Our Agentschap Telecom say once it it installed those systems do not have to comply to any rules?  Last weekend good tropo with inversion duct over the North Sea  i hea...

This season my 2m station was ready for ES with some more power. Spectaculair ES openings but happening else where in EU to EA8 and even D41CV In my QTH at sea level it was a poor ES and tropo season.  Except end of June 2m tropo  to EA1 and 23cm heard EA2TM 1296855  SK1UHF ES0SHF  beacon´s We suffered unusual 3 heath waves. Temperature went up to 40C in PA no serious rain in months. Last week of August spent in EA6 Costa de la Calma JM19FM It is very beautiful in EA6 but my timing was not brilliant we left  at the start of a 10 day heath wave, the third this year. And missed the EA8 ES 28 August opening to  I guess only south PA...  Warm also near Palma but Tuesday a morning heavy rainstorm  and elsewhere in Spain heavy flooding's reported while in normally cool Groningen the temperature was up to 31 again But it went over without damage here and in afternoon back to 28-30C Took the U3S with me and a Wilson mobile magnet base ...

28MHz  5/8 wave base  6m a.g.  vertical aluminium tube 20mm 2m50 and a fishing rod with shunted 1.5mm2 wire total length 6,4meter = 0.64 x wave   Base of former CB 1/2wave or  5/8wave used with external coil 3 wgd  ( 1 wdg in the socket) The original coil is removed ( 5+3 wdg 32mm close wound) 3wdg gave best matching using 2 radial wires 1:1.6   got 1:1.2 when 1 radial hanging vertical down... results are very good in compare with the higher h-dipole although the groundwave of DB0PBS at 50km only is received on the dipole. Other signals over iono Es gave comparable snr sometimes even better      The impedance of a 5/8 wave vertical is given as (75 -425j) Ω    needed is XL  +425j to balance out the capacitive -425 Rothammel  say  2.3uH for D/d=4000  the ratio of lenght and conductor diameter does have influence on the inductance the thinner the conductor the higher th...

Trying to find any sign of Perseid shower again this year    Until now 12 August just random reflections nothing above normal 1 or 2  DX reflections  / hour only over the last days  hrd R5WM KO72QI 1928km   few time's  1/2 QSO +17 / +17  but thunderstorm QRT UR3EE KN88 2186km few times decoded LY2CG  OH1DX  UA3AVY KO95  2100  1 CQ.. RX1AS  few times seen few other with just 1 decode over the night i left 144.360 monitoring almost no reflections seen monitoring Graves 143.050  very few pings sofar  no signs of Perseiden shower  just random reflections high activity makes the illusion  like some shower is going on maybe it has to come yet... but only high power hams can make "QSO"  that take many endless repeating steps most one time good strong reflection and then nothing heard i the next 30 minutes no QSO complete here i was more listening and trying to get over 2000k...