HI All
Concurring with others on here, great weekend, even though the XYL dragged me away last night and so I couldn't join in the real fun
I made 3 QSO's so not a huge haul but my first proper Dx QSO's on 474.
G3XIZ
G3KEV
DF1VB
XIZ tells me that others we're calling me but my Rx system was via the same ant/amp assembly as Tx and it's not optimised for Rx at all.
I got some strong stations but they were 10dB or so down on where they are with WSPR so anyone who was around -20dB I couldn't pick up. I'm setting up a separate RX system to over come this.
G7NKS approach tends to be "lash it up and hope for the best"!!! That's why I'm not an engineer but a biochemist!
I'm still struggling to get to grips with driving JT9, it's a great software but my old "grey firmware" isn't what it was!!
I'm looking forward to the QRSS weekend at end of Nov and then CW in December.
A very kind friend and "Elmer" has built me a repalcement "interstage" amp to replace the one I blew up and so I can start back on my
LF works too, pending the arrival from China of two new ones.
I managed to blow the input pi attenuator (the 150ohm resistor) nearest the SMA and I think that when that "went" it took the amp chip
with it. I replaced the chip resistors with carbon ones (ugly mess at the end!) but to no avail!
With best regards
Jim
Dr. Jim Cowburn G7NKS IO92ub
It was a most interesting and enjoyable few days of MF JT9 activity.
I made 18 contacts with 14 stations:
DD2UJ
DF1VB (2)
DF6NM
DG0RG (2)
DK2CH
DK6XY (2)
DK7FC
DL3ZID
DL6II (2)
G6AVK
G7NKS
IW4DXW
LA3EQ
ON5TA
I also spotted but never managed to work:
G3KEV
SV3DVO
YO21S
My apologies for the mistakes which I made but my entirely home brew station is quite complicated to use, especially when I'm tired - HI !
I'm looking forward to the forthcoming QRSS and CW activity periods and hope to work you all then.
73
Chris G3XIZ
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:03 AM, John Langridge <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for your "heard" list. I will include them in my report tomorrow.
>Pskreporter spots
indicate remarkable Pacific crossings, from Guam to North America in daylight:
>WG2XSV 600m JT9 5671 miles 02:13:50
>VE6JY 600m JT9 5955 miles 02:13:50
>VE7CNF 600m JT9 5609 miles 02:13:50
>WG2XIQ 600m JT9 7259 miles 02:03:50
>Wonder if those are real?
No these were all bogus, some kind of problem that the pskreporter website was experiencing. For some reason
WH2XGP was displayed in guam instead of Washington
State. He indicates that he does not have PSKreporter enabled in his wsjtx program so it was some kind of bug.
73!
John KB5NJD / WG2XIQ..
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Markus Vester <[email protected]> wrote:
Last night, JT9 signals from 14 stations were received in Nuremberg:
SV8CS 1506 km
SV3DVO 1501 km
IZ7SLZ 1059 km
LA3EQ 1055 km
G7NKS 855 km
G3XIZ 855 km
F4DTL 637 km
IW4DXW 501 km
DK6XY 500 km
DL3ZID 467 km
DG0RG 406 km
DF1VB 340 km
DL6II 334 km
DD2UJ 272 km
Pskreporter spots indicate remarkable Pacific crossings, from Guam to North America in daylight:
WG2XSV 600m JT9 5671 miles 02:13:50
VE6JY 600m JT9 5955 miles 02:13:50
VE7CNF 600m JT9 5609 miles 02:13:50
WG2XIQ 600m JT9 7259 miles 02:03:50
Wonder if those are real?
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)
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