2015 February walks

11 February

Not a fieldday but starting the third day of the flue I got bored like hell and although all the muscle pain, coughing and sneezing , I dropped a coax connected to my endfed through my bedroom window and hooked it up to my FT817nd. now listing in bed to various hamstation rounds in 40m. much better then TV.

8 February

On 8 February I went to the birthday in Winsum JO23td (small vilage in Friesland northen part of the Netherlands) and after siting a few hours there, the kids and I headed to the outskirts of the village having a field day setup. Made a few nice qrp contacts with my FT817ND. 2.5W 20/40m diy endfed with Z817. Qso's with : SV5BYR, RW3DSR, VK6IA, RA3RMG, RA3RQF, DG2RON/P. And heard VK6IA 58 Clear but couldn't break the pile up.

News

Yaesu FRG-7

06 Dec Posted by: lex Category: General

For a few years I have been hunting to get a Yaesu FRG-7 (in a reassemble state and for a reassemble price) and because of the Wadley Loop system and the absolute great vintage design.

New CMS

26 Nov Posted by: lex Category: General

I have been staling it for many years, but this month it just has to happen. My hosting provider send me a e-mail that within a month they will be migrating there servers and due to a few platform updates (PHP, MySQL, etc) the (very old but stable) version of CMS isn't supported any more.

3D printing and 0 Gauge content added

22 Jul Posted by: lex Category: General

Today I took a few hours to do some re-organizing my website (dumped a few old pages and merged a few) and adding content about 3D printing and my 0 gauge to it.

THE BACKBONE OF VHF AMATEUR RADIO MAY BE UNDER THREAT

03 Jul Posted by: lex Category: General

This small piece of the frequency spectrum (144.0 to 146.0Mhz) is a lot more then just a local chat channel for licensed radio enthusiasts.

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