Last Tokio Ham Fair, 22 and 23 august 2009 Kenwood was presenting a new transceiver at their stand. It looks like a refurbished TS-570 but insiders explain that it is a new high-end rig. More like a K3. Very interesting! It will be introduced in 2010. Here I found a short clip of the introduction.
Cable thrue the roof
Since I placed my antennas last year, I just put the coax cables thrue the roofwindow. A pretty fast solution but far from ideal, especially in wintertime since I can’t really close one window. Some time ago I bought an rooftile of lead. I think it is originally destined for some kind of mast. But…
LOTW approved!
A long last to-do on my list: apply for LOTW. Last week I read the instructions on the ARRL-website (also available in Dutch, I might add) and followed the line. I thought I had to upload my driver license and amateur license, but it turn out that I have to send a copy of both…