The date for the exam for my F-license is approaches rapidly. The ‘study-stress’ is building up Yesterday evening I’ve tried to study again, but I was so tired it didn’t worked out… I’ve cleared out my agenda untill the exam, so I still have some evenings.
When I read this article of Team Thunderbox about there experiment with a 2 elements cubical quad for 40m, my brains got spinning again. It reminds me of one of my many projects that never took off: the Skywire Loop Antenna! I immediatly send an email to Sandpiper to get some information about their fiberglass [...]
I’m a sucker for this kind of new initiatives: www.hamradioforum.net! From M0TZO: “We have setup a forum for all aspects of Amateur Radio at www.hamradioforum.net It’s free to join and although only a few days old membership is growing with Amateurs from UK, USA, Scandinavia and more. We are open to suggestion about needed sections [...]
Ever searched for HAM-video’s on YouTube? I did! There are a few good ones, but it’s really scattered around the place. Now there is a solution! CQtube! A really kewl YouTube-like site completely filled with HAM-video’s! I could spend hours watching this stuff, really awesome! The most entertaining video I could find at the time [...]
Last friday, saturday and sunday I went with the XYL to the Ardennen in Belgium. We didn’t expect the weather would be so extreme that we could hike in the snow, but it did! Brought my Kenwood TS-50 with a magnetic balun and some wire which I draped on the roof of the hotel. Heard [...]
Yesterday I went to the National Radio Flea Market in Autotron Rosmalen with Rob, PD2RSW, Rob PA3EQB and Jack, PA3JWC. If anyone thinks HAM radio is dying, a day like this will change your mind! It was very crowdy! A lot to see and I’ve bought piles of components for my shack (which is still [...]
The Amateur Radio balloon SNOX IV which was attempting a transatlantic crossing splashed down in the ocean at 3:00 EDT (1900 UT) a few hundred miles from Ireland. More details will be available on http://spiritofknoxville.com in the coming days. 3360 miles (5400km) travelled, 40 Hours in the air, Landed just 350 miles from Ireland. Thank [...]
The multi-national DXpedition team scheduled to be active as 9X0R this coming weekend between March 16-27th, has added another operator to their team. The new operator is Benard, F9IE. The 9X0R team plans to have at least 3 stations on the air on the following suggested frequencies: CW – 1824, 3504, 7004, 10104, 14024, 18074, [...]
A few years ago I was looking for some good logging software. Because I use a Mac I couldn’t use Ham Radio DeLuxe or some other Windows logging software. Some Googling around brought me to MacLogger DX from DogParkSoftware.MacLogger DX did it a few years for me. It has all kind of cool features in [...]
Tonight I’ll have another class in my course for the ultimate F-license! The exam is approaching fast. The 16th of april I’ll do my tricks at the exam! Last year was my first try. Sadly I failed the exam with only one wrong answer too many. I’m studying pretty hard now to pass this time!