Category: amateur radio
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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,…