Another Morning Tropo on 1296MHz.

This morning around 0500 (0300UTC).

SR1KOL , again. It has been there until now, with some QSB.

LA1UHG, it was gpone when I checked later.

Morning tropo is definitely a thing.

Early Morning Beacons on 1296.

This morning around 5AM local time, I woke up and made a check of the beacons on 23cm. 

The Polsh one was there again (no surprise), and also the two Swedish ones near Gothenburg were just audible, along with OZ1UHF in Northern Jutland.

The best signal was LA1UHG in JO59.

Yes, morning tropo is a thing on 23cm, for sure.

This afternoon the Polish beacon has been up and down, at some time stronger than the local OZ7IGY, only 26km from here.

More Beacon reports on 1296MHz

 The other day I heard the German beacon DM0UB in JO62KK at 360km. This was at a nightly check at 4 AM. The signal was easily readable and quite visible on the spectrum display of the 9700. This is still with the vertical antenna, so the signal must have been very strong. Distance: 360km.

Last night between midnight and 1 AM, LA1UHG in JO59FB came through, also with a visible trace on the spectrum display, at a distance of 394km.

Yes, the Polish beacon SR1KOL has been coming through several times during these hot days, and I am not surprised any more. I wonder how often I can hear it with horizontal polarization. 

Impressive signals with the vertical, I am guessing they would have been near S9 with a small horizontal yagi.

1296MHz. Beacons, Beacons, Beacons.

 This morning at around 7 - 7:30 (5:00 - 5:30) I heard a plethora of beacons up to about 400km away:

Two beacons near Gothenburg, the one on 1296.800 I heard, cut could not catch. The other one, 

SK6UHI in JO57TX was up to 559

LA1UHG in JO59FB was fading in and out, up to 539

OZ1UHF in JO57FJ was quite weak, but audible.

SR1KOL in JO74TE was as strong as the local OZ7IGY.

All this with a monoband vertical. Yes, I do have a preamplifier at the antenna, that helps a lot.

I am impressed, and looking forward to getting a horizontal yagi up.

10GHz Failed. There's Always Another Time.

 I went to the place of the previous test and tried again.

Things went worse than the previous time. We couldn't make contact on 5760MHz. and still no signals on 10GHz.

Well, well. We will try again.

With microwaves there is always room for improvement. In my case, a lot of improvement.

Tomorrow: 10GHZ Test?

 If weather permits, I will make another go at making a contact on 10GHz tomorrow afternoon. The weather forcast looks pretty good at the moment.

A local amateur has finished a setup with a transverter for 10GHz, and wants to test it, so the plan is going a bit up in the landscape and make a second attempt at a QSO with my IC-905. Yes, I need to get the setup tested again, so I know if it's ready to go.

My New Website.

 It's good to have a blog. 

This one is specialized  with respect to radio.

As I have other interests, I am building a website. It will be quite simple, but with a more "modern" look than the web pages of 20-30 years ago, that I made.

The building of this will be slow, as I need time and energy to build and write. For now there are only a few pages, there will be more as I rebuild the site. It is built on my own domain, originally dubbed oz9qv.dk , but it will have content for my other interests, too, in different sections.

I may post stuff from this blog there, and may post some of the new material in both places, where it fits in.

You are invited to take a look, if you like. There is not much there yet, but give it time, there will be more.