a page on photo, amateur radio and projects
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QMX by QRP Labs;
In the course of the weekend I spend 8 hours assebmling the QMX Kit I bought from Hans Summer on HamRadio Fridrichshavenn. Assembly worked fine. First power up with limited current of 250mA revealed a shortcut on the power supply board. It’s a documented issue that could be fixed with hot air and a sight…
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Weather Satellite
Resources Youtube video How To Get Live Satellite Images Directly From Space by safeitforparts Online satellite prediction https://www.n2yo.com/ Online decoder https://apt.open-weather.community/ Experiment Satellite Equipment Result Instand success. IC-705 w/ directional Antenna might be overkill. Manual checking the polarisation and satellite position degrades the image. Reception was quite good down to the horizon, but fluctuating due…
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New CMS
Welcome to my 2023 homepage. The old index can be found at /old.html
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ARDF event on 2023-06-08
Thanks Iris and Peter for organizing an ARDF event for C12 and providing us with well maintained rental equipment (DK0MN is the club call of DARC C12). I could re-create my last result, finding 4 transmitters before returning to base in time. All results can be found on the official results page Paper with good…
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Dipol at DK0MN
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Rotors for Elevation and Azimut
DARC C12 provided me a set of Emotator rotors and control boxes. These have been kept in storage for decade(s) and the grease was sticky, almost like waxe. After some WD-40 and mechanical force, the auto-latching breaks could be cleaned up. The rest of the gear box will be cleaned with benzine and lubricated with…
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LEO ground station
Purpose Radios Make & Model Yaesu FT-857D by DL0RUS Expectation no modifications or known issues CAT control & audio data SignalLink USB from IC-756proIIImake up wire harness, sockets available Microphone MH-31 stock, working Power stock sockets, working Make & Model Yaesu FT-857D by DL1XMW Expectation Mic modulation known bad CAT control & audio data Yaesu…
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Ham activity 2023
This is a partial list of my ham related activities in 2023 On the bands Title Date Bands Log LotW submitted Comment/attribution DARC 10m 2023-01-14 SSB: 10m paperWT4 2023-10-29 w/ DL7MY VHF EU 2023-06-032023-06-04 SSB: 23cm WT4 2023-10-29 tnx DG8MDN IARU R1 VHF 2023-09 SSB: 2m WT4 2023-10-29 tnx DL6NDW BBT paper CQ WW DX…
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Magnet Loop DL5MCC
Build dimmensions Some impressions
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Radio activities
my call time band mode description QSL rx TRX ANT DL1XMW 2020-01-29 09:40 70cm FM via DB0VOX2nd QSO ever DL9NEE DL1XMW 2020-04-27 19:0519:12 10m FT8 DG1HXJDC1LEX DL1XMW 2020-05-20 19:13 10m FT8 LZ1JZ DL1XMW 2020-07-13 17:30 70cm FM DL1XMW 2021-09-04 17:41 2m SSB contest? DA0FF LogPer DL1XMW 2022-02-14 20:01 20m FT8 LZ251MA DL1XMW/p 2022-04-27 14:1914:32 20m…