Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Indonesian Tsunami IARU report

Link to the report

Field Day

A field day was held on saturday 15/12/2018 Somewhere in G.Gaube near  the beach. .

Participants were BAL,BAN,DM,FO.

BAL tested successfully his homebrewed 5/8 40m antenna while BAN had successful contacts using his mini G5RV for the first Time.

As for FO,he could not perform his data tests as his laptop had some issues with recognising the com ports to talk to his radio and audio interface.The laptop has not been used for ham communication for a long time and FO might have fiddled with the software configurations.Lessons learnt,be well prepared before the event and always have a ready backup equipment as havoc can occur at any time.

A picture of the day can be seen at https://rrts630515025.wordpress.com/photos/

Saturday, 8 December 2018

Propagation tests with WSPR

Getting very good  propagation on 40,30,20m  while 80m is almost dead.

I am now using inverted L monopoles on all these bands instead on my original inclined monopoles.

The new antenna setup performance is much better that the previous one.

Some screenshots of  wspr results can be seen at  wspr tests