Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all Ham Friends.

I'll be as more I can QRV from my alternative QTH as SV5BYR/5.

Grid Locator is KM36VC.

4m 3 elements tests...

Yesterday afternoon we make some test from SV5KJR's QTH assembling the 3 el "DX Signal" 4m antenna and make some adjustments for the lowest SWR. 

In less of an hour and over coffee all gone well and the next picture of this antenna will be in short time on my tower..hi hi

Here is the foto with SV5KJR Gregory at front of his "mobile shack"

Bicycle QRP....!!!!

The incredible Leo.....!!!!

See also the QSO with me and Leo:

New "5-9 Report" new volume (No 120) is on-line...!!!

With this issue (No 120) a circle of 10 years of hard work with my ham friends around Greece is close and we continue as the first day....

Looking back I stiil heard the voices who told me that my  idea for an electronic publication for the Greek Ham Radio activities will be a big fiasko. Some of them they return me back some of the very first issues that I send to all known Greek ham E-mails as unwanted (!).

After 10 yeard Im proud for my ideas (5-9 Report and AEGEAN VHF Contest) and my ham friends who support them.

Working SV ...LONG PATH..!!!

It happened today with SV2DCD and SV8CS...  here is the video:

The most recent visitor...

 

 This weekend all family assist at home prepares for Christmas. We spent many hours on painting, cleaning and shack changes... Late the Sunday afternoon my youngest son comes (as usual) to relax into the shack in back yard. As you see he likes the constructions more than DX...

Total Antenna test...

Spending my last 5 days at my alternative QTH with very bad weather I have the chance to make an big continue antenna test for my 9 Band Windom that I modify for 160-10m operation around April this year. With lot of time for operation (due to rain and strong winds) I decide to make a detailed long test to antenna to check for efficiency at all bands. I have to say that the antenna is free of RFI because Im use 10 toroidal rings near feed point.  I make 1.476 QSOs from 160 to 10m bands mostly on CW and RTTY. Few QSOs are made at SSB on 12m band. The power was 100w on CW, SSB and 50w on RTTY. Radio used TS-2000.

The antenna efficiency behavior is the follow:

160m: Poor

  80m: Good

  40m: Very Good

  30m: Poor (QRM on Wi-FI !!!)

  20m: Very Good

  17m: Very Good

  15m: Good

  12m: Very good

  10m: Very good

Unfortunately I'm about to build a new antenna for 160m because the poor results of the modified windom. Of course the antenna height is not the optimal this time (8m AGL), but I was expecting more than 22 QSOs in 2 hours of trying...!!!

"5-9 Report" magazine new volume on-line...

CQ WW RTTY Contest check log...

Japan pileups on 10m....

After long time this morning i turn my antennas to Japan.

I work mostly on 10m CW, SSB and RTTY. Great signals on big pileups at all modes with Japanese operators to respect the game of DX.

I really enjoy it....

Here is a video with the pileup on 10m CW...

10m FM...

10m traffic was incredible last afternoon. Loads of signal comes across the Atlantic Ocean and after long time I try a shot to FM mode. Europeans sounds like local 2m stations and many stations of United States comes with signals around S-9. Her is the QSO video with K0JY...

Weekend RTTY activity...

Last week end my RTTY activity is not focused at JARTS RTTY Contest but to those who "hate" (?) the QRM of contest activity on bands and they try to make regular QSOs at WARC bands. The conditions was great and more than 300 QSOs made on 12, 17 and 30m bands.

Specialy on 12m (where the most QSOs made) this period offer nice openings to NA and big signals.

Remote HF station

My first attempt with remoting was using the Ham Radio Deluxe software and a 24 hours working PC at remote site at SV5KJR ham shack back to 2006. Searching thru the Internet for equipment that can make my remote site working without a PC I found several equipment with high prices and lot of hours of programming e.t.c In a forum of this equipment a guy fro Norway advice me the new (at that time) http://www.remoterig.com

I surprised (almost shocked) seeing that I was looking for and more than I expected... So I decide to buy a pair of a RRC-1258 Version I that cost as a good VHF-UHF base station and it offers to me more ...."ham adrenaline"... hi hi

The project is a standalone pair of interfaces that pass thru Internet the commands to radio and bidirectional audio. If your radio have removable head the "human interface" gets more ...friendly.

After my firsts tests for 6 about six months I leave the project due to non Internet connectivity at my alternative QTH where I was planed to make the remote installation. Two months later I decide to sell the RRC-1258 Version I to a good ham friend.

When the Internet comes to my alternative QTH I decide to make it again this time with the newer version of RemoteRig the RRC-1258MkIIs  with Dual RX capability that is "compatible" with my Kenwood TS-2000. Having the knowledge from the previous attempt was a snap to put it working. 

This time Im on tests specially on lower bands where I have antennas to play at my remote site and trying to improve the audio codecs decision for easy work. 

A short description of command station at the next video:

 If you have problems with urban amateur radio installations or you want to have one more setup available to your shack for many reasons then the RemoteRig is for you. 

* My remote installation is made for personal educational reasons.  For more info visit the RemoteRig web page.