November 17th weekend was the weekend for the ARRL SSB Sweepstakes. I spent a few hours in the contest and made 140 contacts, missing only 4 zones to have a complete "clean sweep".
It was fun, but the long exchanges required for this competition make you to have to wait for a contact a long time. Unless you work with maximum power and a high gain beam to aim into the direction of the station.
I do not have any of that, I simply work with my 43 ft vertical antenna in the backyard and with the 100W coming out from the HF Rig. With this the contest got sometimes frustrating to try to cut through to a contact which you were still missing.
Since this is my second contest all together, i think for a single operator I did fairly well.
The logs have been submitted, and contest is over. This weekend will be the WW CQ DX contest, but I can't CW, so i will most likely be flying instead.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Second day.
Friday November 11th I had the wspr sitting there all day on 10m. The results were fabulous, see the map propagation map here below. Please note this is done with 5W only:
Note Hawaii on the left side.
Introduction
It is 2012 November. I never blogged before. I thought I will give this a try maybe share some of my experiences with all of you out there. Maybe somebody will read this, maybe somebody will find it useful.
The past few days have been quite exciting, as I started using my HAM rig for more and more things.
It started 2 weeks ago with the installation and configuration of the N1MM logger. Even though that looks like a simple easy to handle program with a small window, in the background there is quite a bit of engineering.
After a few hours of reading, searching for answers I managed to get it working properly with my Kenwood Ts-590s rig.
I even managed to record voice prompts on the radios voice memory banks and use those for outgoing messages. It felt as quite an accomplishment.
Yesterday I got the wspr - spell "whisper" working as well. I let it run all night and by the morning I was heard even in Tasmania with my total 5W output. Let me see how complicated it is to attach a picture here:
Hmmm. I got a whole bunch of HTML code above, I hope this will transtlate into a picture when it was posted. The second picutre shows the contacts in Europe:
Propagation map for North America:
and lastly Tasmania:
During the day I changed bands a few times and got a full map. I think I will stop here for today, I just want to see how this goes and how the pictures will look like in the post. More to follow later.
The past few days have been quite exciting, as I started using my HAM rig for more and more things.
It started 2 weeks ago with the installation and configuration of the N1MM logger. Even though that looks like a simple easy to handle program with a small window, in the background there is quite a bit of engineering.
After a few hours of reading, searching for answers I managed to get it working properly with my Kenwood Ts-590s rig.
I even managed to record voice prompts on the radios voice memory banks and use those for outgoing messages. It felt as quite an accomplishment.
Yesterday I got the wspr - spell "whisper" working as well. I let it run all night and by the morning I was heard even in Tasmania with my total 5W output. Let me see how complicated it is to attach a picture here:
Hmmm. I got a whole bunch of HTML code above, I hope this will transtlate into a picture when it was posted. The second picutre shows the contacts in Europe:
Propagation map for North America:
and lastly Tasmania:
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