Sunday, January 6, 2013

Time for some raido time.........

Just before the New Year my PC had what seems to be a software problem and I ended up losing all my data on my PC and had to start from scratch with a reformatted hard drive. I did not realize how much junk I had on my computer and that does explain why it was getting rather slow. Now that the hard drive is re-formatted and most (but not all) of my software is loaded back on I am able to get on the radio and have some fun!!! I still have some computer to radio and radio to computer communications to sort out but I felt it was time to take a break and just hobby.
Some of E77DX's antennas!!!
I had a look at the propagation and it looks not to bad at all I have not had that much time to really be paying attention to band conditions with all the "making the shack computer happy" again. Flux at 145 and sunspot in the 180's I thought WOW things are looking up! It was now time to turn on the K3 pump the power to a top end of 5 watts and let-r-go............
I was able to make a fast DX 599 and go report to E77DX in Bosnia and I check on QRZ.COM and he sure does have a wild setup!! Emir was coming in around an S3 and I had to use my APF to really pic him out of a rising noise floor. This was on 30m's and I seem to find this a really go to band for me. I then for some reason jumped down to 10m's and VA7WW was calling CQ and he was in around an S2 to S3 here
Now that is some great looking landscape!!
at VE3WDM. Bill had a good copy on me and we exchanged info and then conditions changed and we had
to cut the QSO short but it was nice to have a CW conversation as to the 599 and move on. At this moment I am on 10m's again with VFO A in my right ear listening to QX3XR and KR7Q in my left ear on another spot on 10m's. Well I just contacted Peter OX3XR in Greenland he gave me a 559.......radio is so much more fun than farting around with the computer....

4 comments:

Paul Stam PAØK said...

Hi Mike, a computer is like a car, it should work properly. Yes, nice work with Bosnia and Greenland. Greenland is not very often on air. So a good job to have him in the log. 73 Paul

VE9KK said...

Good morning Paul, I was surprised to hear him on the air and it was only a matter of 2 tries to get him in the log.
Mike

Jspiker said...

Hello Mike,

A great catch in Greenland, and one that I need. Glad to hear you've got the bugs lined out and you're back to having fun.

VE9KK said...

Good evening John, I checked out my log and had seen that I also had contacted Peter in 2012 as well. Yes the PC is working good but I am going to give it a workout this weekend in the NAQP CW contest.
Mike