My first PSK31 award

Today, I received my first EPC PSK31 Award.

The CW operators Club 

"Our goal is to bring together Amateur Radio operators who enjoy communicating by Morse Code (CW).  CWops encourages the use of CW in Amateur communications, and it supports CW activity through planned events.  CWops promotes goodwill among Amateurs throughout the world, and it fosters the education of young people and others in matters related to Amateur Radio."

More information on    CW operator club site

RF signal recognition

Sometimes it is difficult to recognize or RF signals, so this site may help you a little bit more. Signal Identification Guide

Gezellig QSO op de 40 meter 

2e Pinksterdag waren de condities op 40 meter tijdelijk weer een stuk beter dan de afgelopen dagen.

PD7DX , Raymond, als ronde leider met een goed signaal van 5 9+10.

Cleaning the Shack

It was time to clean the shack, so I decided to change the setup and play with some other log software. DXLab is a very nice free software. Not so easy to configure,  but if you take some time, you will discover that it is very good software with a lot of options. Below a screenshot with on the left the spot collector, dxview  and the commander and dx keeper for logging the QSO's.

Today I made a contact with 7Y7WTD from Algeria on 14.251khz. Special Call that celebrate the World Telecommunication Day

Propagation conditions on 20 mtr according VOACAP

Today I had a nice contact on 14.240khz with Khalid A41OO from Oman.

Mills on the Air 2016

Today 14th of May I started listening on 20 en 40 meter. I also checked the VOACAP online to find out the propagation predictions.

I started with running the spotcollector of DXlab and saw several stations on air in the 20 meter band.
But as you can see the local propagation was not very well to make some QSO making use of the ground wave. Alle blue around the red spot.

So, I decided to switch to 40 mtr. Local propagation on 40 is often not to bad to make contacts in a range of 500 km . But today heavy QSB and it was very difficult to make contact with Dutch and British Amateur Radio stations


What I worked so far until 12:00 hour UTC

 Callsign GB2GW 

Gleaston Watermill

GB2WWM

Golf Bravo 2 Wymondham Wind Mill

Propagation stuff

Today an interesting URL that I got from a friend  PA0RDA (Adri) He suggest to read the propagation info to understand how to DX Carl Luetzelschwab K9LA

QSO with YV1KK

Yesterdayevening I made a nice contact with YV1KK Julio, QTH Trujillo Venzuela. The band was open to South America and the signal reports where big.