Category: amateur radio
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IOTA 2026 EU-005
I wasn’t able to be in EU-004 land, and I wasn’t able to operate at EI7M in EU-115 land for IOTA 2026, so I had to make do with my KX3 with 15W, a loaded vertical antenna in the park opposite our house in EU-005 land. I did however get to use my new-ish G7UFO…
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Wall of FT8 Sound
That Wall of Sound is the sound of most of Europe calling the 3Y0K DX’pedition on 10M FT8. No chance of getting picked out of that din!
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Squirrely band conditions
The bands were busy today. I recently picked up an ex-display Chameleon MPAS Lite antenna and today was the first chance I had to try it out. I was in my usual east London park. I managed to set up the antenna, and KX3 quickly. No throwing wires into the trees, and hoping I didn’t…
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6028 km on 15 Watts (POTA activation ES-2126)
This is my report from POTA activation ES-2126. During a visit to Mallorca, I activated a new park, ES-2126 Puig de Ses Fites Natura. I activated it from the walking route. The walk-in was a 1 hour easy walk along the track. Set-up was very quick and I was QRV in approx. 5-6 minutes. After…
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Fusing your mobile radios for portable operation.
I’ve gotten more and more active in mobile and portable radio activities over the last few months. I started off with my KX3 and the internal 8 x AA battery compartment. With this option transmit power is limited to 10W, and transmit time is greatly reduced. I then moved onto a LiFePo4 battery (7Ah) which…
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Pota park-to-park!
This time I was able to set up my station, enjoy sandwich (Ham! Coleslaw! Wholemeal bread!) sitting at a park bench. Better day today! Lots of activity, but lots of QSB. A lot of loud, clear stations running beams, 100W. 20M conditions were good, but signals fading a lot again. Stations from Germany (DL4VER field…
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Still no dice…
This is the third day experimenting with my KX3. I’m getting faster at the SOTABEAMS endfed antenna setup and teardown (about 5mins and 3mins). Today there was a lot of QSB. Across 20M and 40M, I heard France (TM16FF, TM14JO, TM14IR), Italy (IQ0RU), Spain (EA7HTE), and Russian language stations. At times they were S +9,…