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2021 November CW activities.
Nov 7th, Tried do do some DX and worked VK5MAV on 14.027 MHz at UTC 11:23 rst 559/579 fine signals from Andy. Later focussed on 40m and worked VE2CSI UTC 20:40 on 7.024 Nov 12th, T6AA on 7.002, worked, which is my first YA on 40M. Later this evening I joined MRR (Military Radio on the…
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CW October activities
1st of October started with SKCC SSS (Slow Speed Saunter) and I joined for the second time. Activity and or conditions were low, maybe that’s how it goes in the middle of the week. 2 x 20M qso with EA, both non SKCC members, but 1 x QRP. Surprise was WB2SPP John on 30M in…
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IC551
Finally got my Icom IC551 Working on 230V The IC551 is a (in my humble opinion) good, fair priced, Monoband 6 meter transceiver. I,ve bought mine several years ago, on Ebay and it had to come from USA. It was 115V, had no FM unit an no VOX, but it worked. I,ve found a NOS…
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SKCC: June 2020
June 6th: I noticed that SKSE (Straight Key Sprint Europe) was on June 4th but we were invited for a BBQ and I will join next time. Just checked propagation possibilities with VK, and according website https://soundbytes.asia/proppy/radcom this would be from UTC 20:00 hrs on, if one would be QRV, thats +9hrs local time is 5:00 in the morning…
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SKCC: May 2020
Member 18777 since 26th of May 2018 but when going through my logbook I found 8 qso,s only. This month I re-discovered SKCC, made some 20 QSO’s with my two Vibroplex Keys and found the new spirit in making SKCC and rag chew QSO’s. When Looking on the SKCC frequencies I got more and more used…
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PA6VC – Veluwe Contest Team
08-02-2020 PACC Saturday and Sunday, some impressions Left to right Henk PE1BSI, Gerrit PA3AM, Johan, Erik PA1FOL. Not on Picture: John PE1RZU (ICT, Network and N1MM support) and Frits PE1LQQ (thanks for support in antenna materials from Elektrodump.nl) 12:00 UTC, GO! First starting on 15, 2 qso’s CW only. 20M Phone and 40m CW. Around…
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60 Meter band. Recently discovered 60m again, but what is the last status? I Found this on Hamnieuws, dated 28/03/2017 : 60-meter band to 15 kHz and 15 Watt EIRP From April 1 a.s., the allocation of the 60-meter band will be brought into line with what was decided during WRC-15. The Netherlands goes from…
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Straight Key Century Club
Today, May 26th 2018, Received Electron, the monthly Radio magazine of VERON, and I read an interesting article from Joop, PA3JD about SKCC. After reading the article twice, I just had to visit the SKCC website, and after strolling around, I applied for membership. In the request form you can leave your motivation in the…
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PACC 2018
Joined this year “Top Band Only” in recreational CW mode, hoping to meet a lot of CW friends. First QSO in the log was PI4CC at 12:13, he was quite surprised with my 599 GD on such a quiet band. PA18T, almost a local station was nr 2. In the meantime I was fixing my recent…
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Collins TCS-12
I have acquired a TCS transmitter 23rd November 2017. It was an ebay bargain, just a try for a few dollars and bingo! (additionally 110$ shipping costs ;-). It travelled in some 10 days from a reseller in Dyer, Indiana, USA towards my shack. So this is probably the start of my TCS station, as…