This year, I decided rather impulsively to participate in the CQ WW SSB-contest. I was actually ill-prepared; only in the first few hours of participating, I installed the contest software, Not1MM. I also quickly recorded the audio samples for the voice keyer on the radio itself. All far from ideal, but I still felt like…
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Radio weekend planned in April
A few weeks ago Karel, PE2KDK send an e-mail to a few friends with the idea to spend a weekend in a rental house somewhere remote in the woods. All these guys are HAM’s so you can imagine this will be a full blown Radio Weekend! Attending: Karel PE2KDK, Marco PH4M, Henk PE1PEX and me,…
Double quad antennas for 23cm compared
With the 23cm transceiver still in development, I need a 23cm antenna. I got interested in a double quad for 23cm. Advantage of a double quad for 23cm over other designs is a great front/back-ratio and a large opening angle. I will use the 23cm transceiver mainly for chatting on a local repeater PI6NOS. There…