RDRC JT9 Activity Days «Make haste slowly» 2020

Organized by: Russian Digital Radio Club Date: 22 August 2020 – 23 August 2020 Band: HF Mode: JT9 Link: Here The RDRC published a rank list of the final results of these activity days. In the ‘Total Distance’ rank list, I hold the 134th place with 41 QSOs on 20M, 9 on 40M and 2 …
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Daiwa CNA-1001 Automatic Antenna Tuner

The built-in tuner of my Icom IC-7300 can only tune up to an SWR of 3:1 without enabling the emergency mode, this emergency mode will limit the power to 50W average power. As I want to have the possibility to use more power if I need to, an external tuner is the only way to …
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FT8DMC Anniversary weeks 2020

Organized by: FT8 Digital Mode Club Date: 01 July 2020 – 31 July 2020 Band: HF Mode: FT8 Link: Here On the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club, they will organise the FT8DMC Activity Days between 1 and 31 July 2020. All participating stations have the suffix FTDMC or FTDM, …
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10/20/40m End-Fed antenna

I don’t have the luxury of being able to place a high antenna mast, therefore I started looking for an easy to place and yet good to use HF antenna. The End-Fed antenna seems to be a good choice so this is my main antenna currently (since summer 2020), an End-Fed designed for 10, 20 …
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Icom IC-7300

My first HF/6m/4m transceiver is the popular Icom IC-7300. I think it is one of the best selling HF sets of the last few years (as of 2020). The IC-7300 employs an RF direct sampling system, where RF signals are directly convert to digital data. This digital data is then processed in the FPGA (Field-Programmable …
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Creating profiles on Ham websites

Right after I got the conformation my call sign registration was approved I created basic profiles on some of the well-known Ham related websites. Some of these profiles are QRZ.com, HamQTH.com and QRZCQ.com. It is wise to have a profile on the QRZ.com and QRZCQ.com websites as these two websites are often used as a …
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Full licence exam

After a short period of putting my nose in the course book almost every available evening, today I have successfully passed the exam for a Dutch ‘F registratie’, the official name of the full license here in The Netherlands. The full license, as issued by The Netherlands government is a CEPT Full license (covered by …
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