Two in a row!!

I need to make one of these!

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A look around the antenna field …

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Apologies again, Carl M0ICR

I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked with this contest with almost all my operation focused on the Sunday. A total of just 260 QSO of which exactly half were on 15m (the band I had decided to focus on) with rest split: 80m (7), 40m (35), 20m (88). 36 US States/Canadian Provinces worked on 15m.

Ionogram Information from the UK Solar System Data Centre at Chilton (RAL). Critical frequency is currently 3.1MHz (ie. foF2) and Maximum Usable Frequency MUF(D) is 8.13MHz. https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ionosondes/view_latest.html. Registration is required to access the data after which login just requires an email address (leave the password blank.

The RAL is the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: https://stfc.ukri.org/about-us/where-we-work/rutherford-appleton-laboratory/

My (tr)uSDX kit by DL2MAN has just arrived 🙂 This kit is derived from DL2MAN’s kit and obtained from a UK Group buy kindly arranged by Ian MM0GYX. Here are the two PCBs, part assembled and as received from Ian this morning.

Time to watch DL2MAN’s Youtube assembly video a couple of time and then warm up the soldering iron!

This video shows DL1DN operating his (tr)uSDX

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Interesting conditions on 40m, unusual to work Brazil on 40m at this time in the morning:

Nice 10000Km plus QSO!

There were two contests I wanted to take part in this weekend but other commitments prevented a serious entry into either, consequently I didn’t use my special contest call G2k but my normal callsign M0ICR.

The first was the BARTG RTTY Sprint, I’m sad not to have managed a proper entry this year as it’s a contest I’ve enjoyed in the mast. In the end I managed a few minutes here and there with a total of just 50 QSO, mostly on 15m. Highlights were India, Chile and Brazil with most of the rest being QSO with USA stations.

Likewise, I couldn’t manage a full entry for the RSGB 80m/40m AFS, just 40mins operating (all on 80m) so I was pleased to rack up 110 QSO (actually 111 in the log but one is a duplicate) in the short time.