Mar 042013
 

Its is march so the VHF contest season has started.  Pater PA4PS, Johan PE9DX and myself made 630 qso’s. The  total distance was 224482 km with EA2DR/P  in IN83FE  (1352 km ) as best dx. We had no real problems. The only thing happene d was that the sound card of the pc would not play the WAV. files. I repaired that at night, so that we at the much slower sunday could use it.

Left Picture:  Johan PE9DX at the controls. In April 2013 he will be active as 9G5EME with PA3CEE and PE!L
Right picture: the single 10 meter l0ng M2 yagi is used instead of the eme array. This yagi will move to one of the versatowers in near future.

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Mar 012013
 

Normally we are using the eme array for the vhf contest. But the array is not in use at this moment. The small tower is still there. Today I took one off the old 10m long 144mhz yagis from M2 that I still have in stock, put it together and mounted one in the small eme tower as system nr 4 for the contest. Peter PA4PS and Jan PA0VAJ were here to help erect the small mast..

 

Feb 282013
 

Today I cranked on of the versatowers down and tilted it over. I replced a broken coax cable from 144mhz relay to the power coupler of the o f the two meter arrays.
I removed some other cables witch where broken and not in use any more.
The cable of the 23cm dish was one off them. So no 23cm for a while.

 

 

Feb 252013
 

K3it has written a program that will record your contest qso’s when using N1MM.
You can find the program here.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsorder/
follow the instructions.

make a dir Contest-qso’s in the ham files directory. Copy the program there.

In the N1MM configurer put Contest-qso’s at files at tab record
qso.

In N1MM.ini you have to add

[ExternalBroadcast]
DestinationIPs=127.0.0.1
DestinationPort=12060
IsBroadcastContact=True

The line [externalNroadcast] is mostly already there.

To test start qso recorder. Start N1MM. Make a qso.
Wait 30 seconds and in qso recorder you see a line.
Go to the logwindow in N1MM and with right mouse use play contact.

 

 

 

Feb 182013
 

Was a active for a few housr in ARRL DX CW.

Made 368 qso’s.