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2024 blog CW Radio
New start on WordPress. Old (pa3am.tumblr.com/) blog still available, but will not be updated anymore. Tumblr refuses members to use the .com address. So now my Blog/Website address will again be on: pa3am.com Monday November 25th, just after a nice “radio-weekend. On Saturday I visisted the SRS-event (Surplus Radio Society) called “Gekke Dingen dag” (crazy things day). The main goal is, get together while enjoying a snack and talking about the radio hobby with something nice on the table. Bring a project that you have been working on for a long time. Or something that you can’t figure out. A…
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August 2023 CW Radio activities. Adrenalizing Morsecode.
QSL-Admin: Last update on received QSL cards and Honour Roll results were from Januari 2020, so lots of work to do. My Logbook is Excel based from 2008 until today. 1978 – 2007 is a paper Logbook. Status HR January 1st 2020 was 257 CW 9B DXCC. Lots of New Band and 6 new DXCC (VP8, FR, Z6, XZ, XT, JX) until sofar it brings me to 263 DXCC in CW sofar. Pfft… EU HF contest: Last time I joined was 2009! No good condx I noticed, 10 was dead, but 15 – 40 were ok for 101 QSO,s and just…
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May – July 2023 CW Radio activities. Adrenalizing Morsecode.
May: Samos Island Greece, no Radio, just relax & romantic manifesto. June Radio-activities: Antenna-Chorus, (preventive) maintenance on Rotor, Cable-dispatch, Install Antenna Switch in tower, modify feedline Sky-Wire, etc. Get WS-19 ready for Fielddays. (Solar Powered) Unfortunately I had to cancel my attendance at the Fielddays: June 9th to 12th Veron/VRZA A49 in Ommen. Key Test: I was able to lend and test the just acquired ON4MAC-Paddle Keyer from Herman PD0HF, see for more info of this key also https://pa0fri.home.xs4all.nl/Diversen/Paddlekey/paddlekey-eng.htm I did a triple test in order to be able to compare. The MAC (Middle) is the most heavy and stable one, The…
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April 2023 CW Radio activities. Adrenalizing Morsecode.
Seemes to be a busy month with Family obligations and garden chorus. JIDX: 50 QSO’s on 20&10M. It was beautiful weather and lots of other things to do as well. Funny, on the saturday 10&15 were dead here, sunday 10M was open towards JA. Aktio40: Log March is send for 5th sticker (out of 12) for the award. In one month I worked 2 new NTC and 6 new SKCC members, all EU on 40m. WWHC: Holy Land 4X contest: April 15, I joined in CW but this Saturday is crowded with 4 contests: HL/YO/MM/WAPC so it was quite a chellenge to…
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March 2023 CW Radio activities. Adrenalizing Morsecode.
WS-19: combines AM & CW! See my recently aquired MK-II below, ready for smoke-test on the workbench, more news & details soon. I will try to show this beauty in working condition on the coming Fielddays in June. PS, this is an old picture from PA0CX, Digital modes should be added in one or the other way, but I can live with this picture as well as with the old WS-19. Aktio 40: start on 4th of March, due to nice family weekend. Received 4th Sticker for Award. 3B7M: Expedition finished, 6 bands CW, missing 20 meterband. 3,5 and 1,8 were…
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Feb 2023 CW Radio Activities
February is a short month, filled with lots of nice contests and activities, so I decided not to go for Actio40. I filled in the 4th request for the Award, so still 8 months to go. 107 QSO’s, 15 DXCC maily EU, Extra catch of 2 new SKCC and 2 new NTC friends. Although I use my PC for Logging (WiteLog), I make myself a new Logbook every new year on Paper. I Export all QSO’s from WriteLog to Excel and from there I can make all analysys with excel, as that is a tool I know for many years. Every…
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2023 HNY Januari CW & Radio-activity.
December CW-activity was great, wishing all radio friends MRY XMAS es HNY. 101 QSO’s in Actio40 activity, 24 DXCC mainly EU, 2 x DX. Extra catch of 7 new SKCC and 2 new NTC friends. I already applied for third award-sticker. Overall score SKCC is now over130, (since 2018), so I have to analyse my log, exclude some dupes and fill in Basic SKCC Centurion Award. Nice December activity: RSGB Transatlantic Test Centenary Club c/o Radio Society of Great Britain. I worked several stations on several bands, so have to analyse Log as well. Good for a new award. It’s…