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Radios in use by me
QRV on 4m
From today I’m back on 4m after a long time away from this band. Station as before: IC7100 + Power Amp (up to 200 watts) and 5 elements yagi antenna, located about 10 m over ground, 52 m a.s.l.
LA5VHF beacon relocated
Today moved LA5VHF beacon to a new location JO38rb. QTH Mandal,Haugen…about 150 m a.s.l. Days before I did maintanance of the hardware, especially antenna. Now running 10 watts to GP antenna, F1A mode on 70.065 MHz. Thanks to LB2S Tore for helping.
3cm TROPO & ODX QSO
Finally a long awaited tropo condition on 3cm band (Saturday, 29,June). A lot of activities on ON4KST chat so I decided to go portable from JO48ad, Odderøya Island, 85 m asl. Pleasent weather, temperature 23 C, sunshine and calm. The place has a good take off to almost all direction. My portable station is 50cm
New DXCC entity on 23 cm
After a long time a silence on 23 cm finally today I got a twice contact with Marek SP4MPB on 23 cm. QSO in CW and later evening on SSB. It is my first contact with SP and KO03 is a new square.
First Es QSO this season
1st June 2018, 144 MHz, only a one QSO during Es opening with UA3WM Vladimir in KO72qi, QRB=1828 km. Did not heard any other station.
OZ1FF on 3cm
Today manage a QSO with OZ1FF Kjeld on 3cm tropo, QRB 287 km. The station was placed on balcony with very restricted horisont. He had very strong signal up to S9 and I got report 559. This is my new square #8.
Z60A
Finally a new DXCC entity in log. Worked Z60A on 10 & 14 MHz, CW mode.
lb2shf beacon
Today, Tore LB2S, finished installation of the 10GHz beacon. The bacon is placed on the mast at local club, LA9K JO48ad. QRG is 10368.870 MHz, sending CW msg, power about 1 watt and antenna is a horn in direction South. We hope the beacon will help us to be heard down in Europe and they
10 GHz station upgrade
Finally upgraded my portable 10 GHz station with more output power. DB6NT 2 W amp replaced with 8 W amp from DL2AM. Old 2 W amp, will be used later for 3 cm beacon New 8 W amp fit nicely at place.
SP2HMR
Unfortunately, due to unexpected family activities I was not able to be QRV during almost all my stay in SP. But I´m happy to get a contact with Marcel SP2HMR living in Gdansk, JO94HH. During my last two days stay here we tried to get a tropo QSO on 3cm. Marcel has very restricted QTH