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  • IOTA 2026 EU-005

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    Bernard Tyers
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    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…

  • Squirrely band conditions

    Squirrely band conditions

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    bernard
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    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…

  • Still no dice…

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    bernard
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    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,…

  • TIL: Swage nuts

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    bernard
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    Or: How I Stopped Worrying I’d Break My KX3 and Enjoy Radio (again). I found, what I thought was a design problem with my (new to me) KX3 casing thumbscrews. It’s second hand and I thought maybe the thumbscrew was damaged (1 looks a little brown…rust?). In some, hard to replicate, circumstances one of the…