PA0O ham radio

Old rigs of s.k. Eltje PA3CEE  here for check and repair The rig's looked like they have been working in a brown cafe for years He was a real smoker ... the "tank"  FT902DM  very heavy rig permeability tuning  very well build equipment. Plug-in modules.  The standard twin 6146 PA seen in most most older transceivers until 30 years or so ago shown under power with filaments on. Dangerous  be aware !  950V  and 350V are also present at the ACC  backside socket for external use  In the age of SSPA used to low voltages where  touching a working circuit is safe. Working with high voltages is extra dangerous nowadays. The socket board of the PA the brown C looks high-quality is a known issue of the FT902. This 100pf /1kV is to separate 350V  12BY7 driver ANODE  from the delicate  6146 grids -100 150 !  practical a wire direct from the driver anode is leadingto this C1   If shor...

over 7 days remarkable number of ZL decodes. Most in the evening N-E greyline path but also in the morning over South America path .  Although for both paths the same DX is calculated .. 50 spots: Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az # Spots  2020-04-25 18:22   PA0O   3.570169   -20   0   JO33hg   20   ZL2BCI   RE79nd   18387   37   18   2020-04-26 04:54   PA0O   3.570170   -24   0   JO33hg   5   ZL2005SWL   RE68mx   18315   42   10   2020-04-28 19:00   PA0O   3.570171   -27   0   JO33hg   5   ZL1AVO   RF73fd   17961   32   1   2020-04-24 17:34   PA0O   3.570169  ...

N1MM does offer a Spectrum Display  that can display a panoramic view some  newer radio's support band data from the first broad m.f.  like the IC7300 Radios that connect to the PC using USB or WAN can offer a data stream to N1MM Spectrum Display so older types need an other solution. My K3 is connected with rs232 for CAT for low speed serial data  like frequency mode T/R CW keying  The Hackrf1 i recently got can be used  if your K3  has the Xverter I/O option. Hrf1 should already be working okay with SDR-console or SDR# before trying to connect with N1MM Spectrum Display Download ExtIO_HackRF.DLL  https://github.com/jocover/ExtIO_HackRF/releases This ExtIO_HackRF.dll   must be copied to the N1MM  program directory.    C:\Program Files (x86)\N1MM Logger+ Connect the  Hackrf1 with the IF out. Hrf1 USB should be pluged in , no other  SDR program must be running with it. Start N1MM like used to  t...

Now we are locked up in our houses as in a horror S.F. film The streets and sky are empty Just few weeks ago we where at our contest location PI4GN  IARU UHF contest at 23cm already the Airplane scatter was affected. We did not know that this would be our last contest . Saw Youtube Bill Gates warning. In 2015 he almost exact! pointed out what will happen when a Virus like Corona would spread out over the world.  "We" did not act to this serious warnings . Health authority's like in Taiwan Germany  did act direct in December and January last year so now when i see our "taskforce" i can't help thinking of that. Bill Gates said it all  I think of my child wood far travelling was only for few people. Our school organised a 50km day bus trip. The Greta generation is flying to Bali after having a well deserved ski holiday. Everywhere leaving a trail of plastic bottles and cans. The whole CO2 /energy transfer discussion is gone I hope the climate ch...

TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmaz# Spots 2020-03-19 15:50  ZP9CTS  28.126089  -20  -4  GG22ew  0.5  PA0O  JO33hg  10753  32  4  2020-03-16 10:30  EK6FA  28.126075  -23  2  LN20  0.01  PA0O  JO33hg  3192  309  1  2020-03-20 13:02  PA0O  28.126031  -5  0  JO33hg  5  YO3IBZ  KN34bj  1726  117  1  2020-03-14 12:00  OH5XO  28.126093  -22  0  KP41ca  0.2  PA0O  JO33hg  1550  246  5  2020-03-16 14:36  EU7FBB  28.126073  -24  -2  KO43  1 ...

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A very good  night at 630m the W-EU 630m ODX seem limited to 8000 - 9000 km VK4YB is never decoded in EU  wrong tx timing for EU? Freq: 475kHz nr reporter reportergrid callsign grid distance power version num. records 1 PA0O JO33hg KB5NJD EM12mp 7972 5.012 2.1.2 3 2 PA0O JO33hg KB8U EN71sw 6470 5.012 2.1.2 2 3 PA0O JO33hg K3RWR FM18qi 6279 5.012 2.1.2 16 4 PA0O JO33hg WB3AVN FM19og 6218 5.012 2.1.2 5 5 PA0O JO33hg K3MF FM19sr 6162 5.012 2.1.2 4 6 PA0O JO33hg WA3U FM29co 6130 5.012 2.1.2 1 7 PA0O JO33hg W1IR FN34lp 5587 5.012 2.1.2 4 8 PA0O JO33hg EB8ARZ/1 IL18uk 3336 0.200 2.1.2 1 9 PA0O JO33hg EA5ZL IM99uu 1581 0.501 2.1.2 3 10 PA0O JO33hg EA4GHB IN80hu 1571 1.000 2.1.2 20 11 PA0O JO33hg OH2JEE KP20 1365 0.501 2.1.2 27 12 PA0O JO33hg IZ3QQG JN54rw 991 1.000 2.1.2 2 13 PA0O JO33hg G3WCB IO80ei 775 0.001 2.1.2 1 14 PA0O JO33hg LA8AV JO59cs 755 1.000 2.1.2 44 15 PA0O JO33hg G8HUH IO81mg 688 1.000 2.1.2 2 16 PA0O JO33hg M1LCR IO82od 646 1.995 2.1.2 7 17 P...