August 28, 2008

EA2CCG (Joaquin)

Un equipo viajero,más trabajo por delante.

Tras mes y pico,casi dos meses, sin equipo movil ya ha llegado por fin. Qué ganas tenía.

Y mira que ha dado vueltas el pobre pues a pesar de que estaba reparado para el 8 de agosto en ASTEC por obra y gracia de las empresas de paquetería no ha llegado a mis manos, con el consiguiente temor a un daño en los viajes.

He ido personalmente a la capi a recogerlo, sin esperar que me la trajeran a casa no fuera que como en otras ocasiones no pudiera estar y se volviera para atrás.
Como era mediodía he quedado a comer con David y la verdad que lo hemos pasado muy bien comentando muchas cosas mientras le dábamos al diente.

Al salir no podía esperar y me he puesto a abrir la caja para empezar de nuevo el montaje de la estación móvil.

Y...otra vez problemas y más problemas. Hay ROE, con lo cual hay que volver a revisar los latiguillos, y el micrófono manos libres no petetea. ¿ Porque no me extrañará? Menuda temporada llevamos. No se la deseo ni al que peor me quiera, que me consta que hay gente que no quiere ni saludarme pero bueno eso es cosa suya.

Asi que he ido, por si acaso me he hecho con cables nuevos y mañana por la mañana con más tranquilidad volveré a revisar todo. Mi objetivo es subir mañana de nuevo a Irigaray por la noche un ratico.Aunque sea me llevaré el micro de mano.

Y es que la noche es...una gozada. Ayer estuve un ratito nada más en 20 pero nada más ponerme y dar una vuelta y ver las señales que ponía Norteamérica y Sudamérica ( Habia un OA que llegaba a tope) me puse a llamar y enseguida empecé a trabajar USA. Todo estaciones con yagis y con señalones.

Fue de esos ratos que acabas y te quedas satisfecho. Hice media docena de estaciones de la costa Este y del Medio Oeste principalmente.
Con W9JCC hablé un poco de la propa y de sus antenas que pude ver en su web, las de la parte superior son para las WARC.

Aproveché un ratico que mi XYL estaba entretenida viendo la tele y a mi me apetecía más probar en la radio.

Como a la peli le quedaba poco rato cuando calculé ( mal porque como siempre me pasé un poco jeje ) bajé y a dormir muy contento de haber podido disfrutar de unas condiciones excelentes.

Comentando por la mañana con Jose Mari EA2DDG el otro día me dijo que salían bastantes estaciones entre ellas las del Radio Club Talca de Chile con prefijos conmemorativos de su 47 aniversario. Qué ganas tengo de volver a Irigaray. Y que bien escuchar de nuevo el R3 en el coche.

by EA2CCG Joaquín Montoya (noreply@blogger.com) at August 28, 2008 11:23 PM

IW0HK (Andrea)

Piccolo log UTE da Ginevra

Ecco il mio piccolo log utility da mio nuovo qth svizzero di Ginevra. In attesa di capire se posso installare antenne “vere” ho tirato un loop “invisibile” tra due terrazzi della mia casa utilizzando l’accordatore automatico Sgc-237. Sia in trasmissione che in ricezione sembra comportarsi abbastanza bene, non e’ una quadrato ma uno strano rettangolo di 8 x 2 metri montato molto vicino al tetto ma ai segnali arrivano :-) La radio e’ il solito ICOM IC-756 Pro3, ecco il log:

20:32 14670 CHU Canada - Segnali di tempo e freq. campione
23:02 8484  HLG Cq cq de - CW Seul Radio Korea
23:14 5195  DRA5 - Amateur Beacon CW - Solar Forecast
23:15 14996 RWM Mosca Russia - Segnali di tempo e frequenza - Russia
23:30 8424  DE SVO - CW - Olimpia Radio
23:38 8431  UAT - Moscow Radio - Sitor ID & CW
23:52 8418  IAR - Roma Radio - Sitor ID & CW
23:53 13270 New York Volmet - Meteo in E
23:56 13017.5 HEB - Bern Radio - Sitor ID & CW (il trasmettitore e’ qui dietro a Prangins)
23:57 12818 SAB - Goterborg radio - Sitor & Pactor Idle
23:58 12599 UAT - Moscow Radio - Sitor ID & CW
23:59 12649 XSG - Shangai Radio - China CW & Sitor
00:00 12640 TAh - Istambul Radio - Sitor ID & CW

August 28, 2008 10:10 PM

MM0NDX (Colin)

Asia-Pacific DX Convention. Nov 7 - 9

A story of J20RR & J20MM and Sten’s (IK2HKT) super remote-controlled radio station.   DX Adventures with W0GJ   BS7H Scarborough Reef   A story of Olympics special event stations

by MM0NDX at August 28, 2008 06:15 PM

EA5OL (Paco)

2 faros en venta

Por si adquirir una isla en propiedad no es excitante, ¿que te parecería poder comprar un faro?.

Pues si, el U.S. General Services Administration, ha puesto a la venta 2 faros:

El precio ronda los 200.000 dolares, así que si dispones de esa cantidad ya sabes a donde dirigirte.

by noreply@blogger.com (Paco) at August 28, 2008 06:14 PM

60º aniversario de la fundación de esta Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles

Correo informativo recibido de Ure:

ESCRITO ENVIADO AL DIRECTOR DE COMUNICACIÓN E IMAGEN DE LA O.N.C.E.

El próximo año 2009 celebraremos el 60º aniversario de la fundación de esta Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles (URE), que inició su andadura el 1 de abril de 1949.

La URE, como bien sabéis en esa casa, es la asociación principal de radioaficionados existente en España, con 12.000 socios repartidos por toda nuestra geografía, entre los que se encuentran también bastantes radioaficionados ciegos.

La URE es así mismo la asociación de radioaficionados que representa a España en el concierto internacional, formando parte de la sociedad internacional de radioaficionados denominada International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).

Se adjunta un informe más detallado sobre la radioafición, la URE y la IARU.

Con motivo del 60º aniversario de la URE, nos gustaría que en el año 2009 la ONCE nos dedicara la edición de uno de sus sorteos, preferiblemente en el mes de abril de 2009 y, a ser posible, el mismo día 1, fecha del aniversario.

En caso de ser atendida nuestra petición, podríamos proporcionaros algunos bocetos de lo que podría ser el cupón dedicado a la URE.

Saludos cordiales,

Diego Trujillo Cabrera, EA7MK

Presidente

A ver si con esta ocasión nos toca algo.

by noreply@blogger.com (Paco) at August 28, 2008 03:37 PM

IW0HK (Andrea)

Montato il loop HF "stealth"

stamattina sono un caldo sole ginevrino ho montato il mio loop HF “stealth” coiè invisibile ai vicini di casa. Si tratta di un loop teso tra due terrazzini della casa e collegato all’accordatore automatico SGC-237. E’ realizzato con filo smaltato di rame da 1,5 mm e’ lungo circa 4 x 2 metri. Le prime prove sono incoraggianti, in 18 mhz ho collegato Alexey RX9SA  (Russia Asiatica) e EA5EXE usando circa 20 watt. L’accordatore permette di usare il loop dai 7 mhz in su’. A breve le foto

August 28, 2008 11:13 AM

IZ1CRR (Maury)

KM9D on the way to OC-163

The Winlink report received Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UTC locates the Don Henry (with Jan KF4TUG & Mike KM9D on board) at the 13-47.77S / 165-14.44E location, "en passage, bound for Ndende Island, Santa Cruz group" entering Solomon isl. Soon the rare OC-163 ref will hopefully be activated using probably the H40MY callsign. The only previous activity from that ref has been made by Bernhard, DL2GAC as H44MS.

Update 1: Report received Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UTC: Location 11-55.84S / 165-36.83E RH28TB30 aboard 'Don Henry', en passage, 65nm remaining for Ndende Island.

Update 2: Report received Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:15:00 UTC: Location 10-44.22S / 165-49.80E RH29VG90 aboard 'Don Henry', lying to anchor, Luesalo (aka Shaw Pt.) Graciosa Bay, Ndende

by i121171 (noreply@blogger.com) at August 28, 2008 09:50 AM

WD9T (Carlos)

WD9T HamShack Report - August 28, 2008

Special Event Callsign 9V1F1 Southgate Amateur Radio Club - Enfield,England,UK Approval has been given by the iDA for Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (SARTS) members to use the callsign...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 28, 2008 09:43 AM

WD9T HamShack Report - August 27, 2008

Calling All Radio Amateurs Southgate Amateur Radio Club - Enfield,England,UK BWBF fundraiser, Fiona Fountain said: “We are really keen to hear from amateur radio clubs and individuals interested in...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 28, 2008 09:42 AM

WD9T (Carlos)

Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)

Thought some of you guys might find this worth reading. It has to do with KU Band. Chris C West Central Ga http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5666369&page=1

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 28, 2008 09:40 AM

HB9OAE (Maico)

TEAM "info_radio"

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Per ricevere regolarmente il bollettino "info_radio" scrivete a I1SCL Ovidio.

by HB9OAE - N2OAE maico (noreply@blogger.com) at August 28, 2008 07:28 AM

M0KHZ (Kevin)

Cartoon time : Wireless

Engineering content can be a little dry sometimes. To add some spice to this world of precision, Agilent commissioned Rand Kruback to create his artistic view of some common EE terms and phrases. These cartoons should lighten your day!

Brought to you every few days while I’m downunder, remember normal homebrew activities resume mid October.

End of update.

by M0KHZ - Kevin at August 28, 2008 05:00 AM

AB9NN (Jon)

Severe Weather Resource For SkyWarn Types

I am planning a trip and have been checking some of my weather resources that I provide links to on www.HamRadioResources.com . One that I start with gives me a really nice three day overview of severe weather threats. You probably get this information from your local TV weather. But here is probably where THEY get their information from! Click here to view the site. It’s from the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The upper portion of the website gives you plenty of information on current happenings. But scroll down a screen or so. You will see three maps. One for today. One for tomorrow. And one for the next day. Double click the day’s map you are interested in. Then mouse-over the hot links to show the % probabilities for each type of severe weather threat for that time period.

Forecasts generally are not all that accurate more than three days out. I start here to see what is comming a few days ahead of time. Then as the threats get closer I use other tools. I will cover them later.

Enjoy this one and stay safe! You can use these resources for ham radio SkyWarn operations…

Jon Kreski, AB9NN
Owner
www.HamRadioResources.com

by Administrator at August 28, 2008 02:41 AM

August 27, 2008

NQ3X (Bob)

A new meme...

...courtesy of [info]attack_laurel.  Frankly, I am stunned; ask [info]kass_rants - my French is abysmal.

Your result for The Let's Parler French Test...

93% LikelyToSurvive!

 

You scored 93% Likely To Survive in a French-speaking country.


Obviously, you get some negative points if you say 'shit' instead of thank you, or 'fuck off' instead of sorry!



Take The Let's Parler French Test at HelloQuizzy

[info]attack_laurel

August 27, 2008 09:23 PM

M0SCG (Sands Contest Group)

Sprint!

Well tonight was the first SSB leg of the new RSGB CC Sprint contest on 80m. Great fun :) It takes a bit of getting used to as once you have called CQ on a frequency, you have to give away the frequency to the person you worked! It levels the playing field rather nicely. A few of our members took part and the challenges are now set for the next leg!

by noreply@blogger.com (Sands Contest Group.) at August 27, 2008 09:05 PM

W2LJ (Larry)

No controversy today

20 Meters was booming in at lunchtime today. I heard and worked (very briefly) G3RGD, Ray from Birmingham, England. He gave me a 559 and them moved onto W8FU. Ray was loud into NJ. I don't know what he was running; but he was 599+. It's not often that I hear an English station so loud.

I heard a lot of Europeans - this was all around 1700 UTC or so at the lower end of 20 Meters. EA4s, G3s, SM3s, etc. Maybe the sunspots are coming back?

Which has me thinking portable antenna set ups again. Today, I was using the Hamstick and I'm seriously considering using the NorCal Doublet more. I dragged the 20 foot Black Widow crappie pole out of the basement and stuck in the back of the car. Below is what I used to support my Buddipole back in the day when I had one.


As you can see, it's a piece of angle iron, which I sawed off to a point on the earth end. Attached to it with two hose clamps, is a piece of PVC pipe. The Buddipole mast just slipped into the pipe and was held upright. Unfortunately, this pipe isn't a big enough diameter to allow me to slip the Black Widow in. I'm going to have to make a trip to Lowe's or Home Depot for a slightly bigger diameter piece of pipe. I hope I won't have to buy a whole big length of it for just the relatively short piece I need.

Here's another shot of it; but not in the ground. Not that great a photo; but you get the idea.


The only disadvantage that I can foresee is that I'll have to carry a small sledge so I can pound this thing into the ground. But the upside is that a doublet at 20 feet or so (probably set up as an Inverted Vee) should outperform the Hamstick on the car.

73 de Larry W2LJ

by Larry W2LJ (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 08:45 PM

WD9T (Carlos)

Glenn Hauser logs August 20-27, 2008

** CHINA. Firedrake on 9300, Aug 27 at 1329 during brief ramshorn-like respite from crashing and banging, // 11990 et al. Aoki as of same date shows: 9300*Xi Wang Zhi Sheng SOH 0000-2400 Chinese 1 ND...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 07:05 PM

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

ALBANIA Radio Tirana 7425 0335 English 333 Aug 26 Two OMs in a conversation with a noisy background. MacKenzie-CA. BRAZIL China Radio Intl-CRI Relay 9665 0313 Spanish 433 Aug 26 ...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 07:04 PM

Varactor-Tuned Loop Antennas

I finally completed the work that I have been doing on a simple varactor-tuned loop antenna with interchangeable antenna elements. The documentation is available at: http://tinyurl.com/6lht4y ...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 07:03 PM

More SW loggings from the Queen Charlotte Is, BC

TP report from Masset, B.C. for 27 August 2008 A rather anemic morning, it seems. Monitored between 12:20 and about 14:20 before switching over to SW (nice to listen to 4760 AIR Andaman Is, and...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 07:02 PM

Am Tue DX

Brazil, 6080, Radio Anhanguera, (pres), 0921-0945 Noted a male in Portuguese language comments between Bras type music. Every once in awhile a canned sung ID heard. Heard the word "Bras" and...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 06:59 PM

BOLIVIA

Bolivia, 6080.47, Radio San Gabriel, 0945-1015 With continous mixing with HCJB, noted San Gabriel with plenty of canned promos and ID's. Even so, very difficult to pin them down because of fading in...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 06:58 PM

"Rican 44" on 13927 kHz, 10780 kHz, 11175 kHz

13927 kHz USB 1744z: "Rican 44", 50 miles east of Providenciales in Bahamas, erroneously calling "Cape Radio on 13927." (27Aug2008) (ALS) 13927 kHz USB 1748z: "Rican 44", over Grand Turk in...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 06:58 PM

EA5OL (Paco)

La tomatina

Hoy ha sido un día especial, como todos los últimos miércoles del mes de agosto, en la localidad donde resido, Buñol, ha tenido lugar la Tomatina.

Hasta google se ha acordado de Buñol y su Tomatina.

Hoy me he llevado por segunda vez a mi hijo de 8 años, y desde luego que hemos disfrutado.
Creo que es la 1ª vez que publico una foto donde aparezca yo, pero creo que no se me reconocerá mucho.

by noreply@blogger.com (Paco) at August 27, 2008 04:49 PM

IW0HK (Andrea)

Nuovo modo digitale per le HF presentato al meeting TAPR

Da http://www.southgatearc.org: WINMOR, an HF digital protocol designed for use with the Winlink 2000 network, will be unveiled at the upcoming ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference in Chicago, September 26-28.

According to developer Rick Muething, KN6KB, WINMOR will effectively eliminate the need for external PACTOR hardware. “This new protocol is implemented through a Windows application that uses a computer sound card for all the analog-to-digital conversion. It provides error-free ARQ transfers within 200, 500 or 2000 Hz bandwidths,” Muething said.

In terms of throughput, Muething said that the 200-Hz WINMOR mode appears to equal the performance of PACTOR I. In WINMOR’s 2000 Hz mode, its performance rivals PACTOR III.

Read the full ARRL story at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/08/26/10284/?nc=

August 27, 2008 02:07 PM

WD9T (Carlos)

Logs

BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1401-1501*, Aug 27, in English, starts with their usual signature music, "Here is the news from the Bhutan Broadcasting Service", man and woman present the news, "You are...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 12:36 PM

WD9T (Carlos)

ARES E-Letter for August 26, 2008

The ARES E-Letter August 26, 2008 ================= Rick Palm, K1CE, Editor http://www.qrz.com/database?callsign=K1CE>, =================================== ARES reports, other related...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 12:31 PM

Cook County ARES Net WEDNESDAY; Public Service Events 9/07 and 9/21

Dear Cook County ARES Members and Friends: Please join us tonight... Wednesday, 27 August 2008, at 9:00 PM CDT... for the monthly Cook County ARES Net on the SARA Repeater (146.88 MHz, offset...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 12:30 PM

WD9T (Carlos)

HF aero - 27 Aug 2008

2872 kHz USB 0445z: Gander wkg "El Al 001" for position report. (27Aug2008) (ALS). 2872 kHz USB 0452z: Gander wkg "Air India 140" for position report. (27Aug2008) (ALS). 2872 kHz USB 0454z:...

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by WD9T (noreply@blogger.com) at August 27, 2008 12:28 PM