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My first CW lesson
Antenne at PI4AMF
Thursday, September 22, I took my first lesson CW. Classes are held at the club station PI4AMF in Amersfoort. After a warm welcome and a cup of coffee told the teacher Koos us what was going to do it next year. The group consists of seven HAM radio operators, some of them have already passed the CW examination this year. It was a pleasant evening, which ended at 22: 30h
In Dutch
Old movie
Monday, 22 August 2016
International Lighthouse weekend
Every year in August there will be a special event where HAM's try to make contact from a lighthouse or lightship. During this event stations will acknowledge a QSO with a special QSL card.
So I tried to make some contacts on 40 and 20 meter, but the conditions where bad . It was not possible to work some local Dutch stations an 40, so I decided to try 20 meter.
During Saturday and Sunday morning I heard some Scottish en German stations and in the afternoon I worked a Italian station.
II1L is located on a rock at western end of the Port of Genova, "La Lanterna" the Lighthouse (ref A.R.L.H.S. ITA-177, D.C.I GE033 W.AI.L. LI 005) is the symbol of the city. From 117 meters above the sea level it radiates light up 36 miles. The actual tower, destroyed after siege, was rebuilt in 1543.
GB2GNL GIRDLENESS LIGHTHOUSE - This lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of the writer - Robert Louis Stevenson, has been since being built in 1833 by James Gibb and is still an important navigation mark for ships entering Aberdeen harbour.
Location Latitude 57° 08'.342N., Longitude 02° 02'.914W. Public DGPS Service frequency: 297.0 kHz.
The foghorn which is now disused was known locally as the "Torry Coo" saved from demolition by Aberdeen City Council, it now forms part of the local heritage of the Greyhope Bay peninsula.
Girdleness Lighthouse was automated in 1991 & the keepers houses are now private dwelling houses.
For Inernational Lighthouse Weekend the reference numbers for GB2GNLare:-
UK0037 and SC0089
GB2LMG (LIGHTHOUSE MULL OF GALLOWAY)
The most Southerly point in Scotland
To be activated for the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend,
20-21 August 2016
by the Wigtownshire Amateur Radio Club (GM4RIV).
Please do not send QSL cards.
If you require a card, please check back here after the Lighthouse Weekend.
ILLW No: UK0086 ARLHS No: SCO144
Loc: IO74np WAB: NX13 CQ Zone: 14 ITU Zone: 27
GB1BPL is a special event station run by Llanelli Amateur Radio Society (GC0EZQ) to promote the International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend on 20th and 21st August 2016 from Burry Port Harbour Lighthouse (ILLW Ref: UK0044).
With its attractive lighthouse and stunning location, Burry Port Harbour has long been a favourite place to take a stroll and get some sea air. Initially designed by marine engineer Sir Joseph Banks. The harbour was built between 1830 and 1836, and was originally built to export coal from the Gwendraeth Valley, and replaced the ageing 170 year old Pembrey Harbour which lies less than half a mile along the coast.
Burry Port Lighthouse is a harbour light with a reflector, and is situated on the west breakwater of the outer harbour. It was built in 1842 and the light consists of a 24ft white painted, stone, circular tower with a black gallery and red lantern. This lighthouse now enables the harbour to accommodate up to 260 boats to be moored safely on floating berths at all states of the tide. Burry Port Harbour Lighthouse also makes up part of the much larger Millennium Coastal Park network in Wales.
Also on June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart departed from Trepassy, Newfoundland as a passenger with co-pilots Wilmer "Bill" Stultz and Louis "Slim" Gordon. It took 20 hours and 40 minutes for the plane, a Fokker F7 named Friendship, to cross the Atlantic Ocean. On June 18, the plane landed safely in Burry Port, South Wales. Amelia Earhart had become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
We plan to be active on Phone on various HF bands, and possibly CW and BPSK-31 from time to time. Our station consists of the following:
TX/Rx: Icom IC-7000 (Output 100W)
Antenna: Inverted-L (Multiband) - Club Made & Hustler 5-BTV (40 - 10m)
Carndonagh Amateur Radio Club
We are the most northerly amateur radio club in Ireland
EI0CAR/P
Dunree Head Lighthouse
International Lighthouse Weekend 2016
Entry Number = IE0016
Locator = IO65FE
DM5C Germany flag Germany
DARC OV Calenberg, DOK H63, c/o Carlo Struß, DL7CSX
Johannes-Kepler-Straße 3
30947 Wennigsen
Germany
GB1CFL (Carraig Fhada Lighthouse) is a special callsign used for the International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend in 2016. Hopefully we ( Steve, Gav or me) will have a QSO with you!
JTDX brings you the distant HAM stations into the shack.
Igor (UA3DJY) has create a special source version of Joe Taylor's (K1JT) WSJT-X. This version decode a lot more stations than the standard version. I compiled the source code and install the win32 exe on my PC
Its funny to see a lot of decodes in a short period of time . below a screenshot of the JTDX version 16.4
More information about JTDX on this website or on facebook search for "JTDX-HF evaluation"
Sunday, 31 July 2016
First steps to join a HF contest
For the first time I tried out my new headset during the IOTA contest. For the logging I used Log4OM, but this is not the most ideal program for contest logging. In order to log rapidly stations, there are apparently other programs that are more suitable. Incidentally LOG4OM is a simple, but good program for the novice HAM radio operators. It was fun to join the IOTA contest experience, where you can especially train your speed. Because LOG4OM does not support cabrillo format, so I've had to use another program to convert the ADIF2 format to Cabrillo.
Below you will find my logging, not to much but it was rather an experiment for me instead of a contest.
