DXCC MIXED 250 entities confirmed
Last Updated on Sunday, November 13, 2011 12:23 AM Written by N1WQ Friday, September 16, 2011 10:52 PM
I have just got 250 DXCC countries confirmed in MIXED mode. The card from 7Q7HB arrived in today’s mail, then T6JC confirmed 250th country via LoTW.
Learn MoreTuning the sloper
Last Updated on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:38 PM Written by N1WQ Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:30 PM
Last weekend I spent several hours trying to tune up my antenna for lower bands, Alpha-Delta DX-B quarter wave sloper. It is a quite narrow range antenna, and initially I did not have time to tune it for all bands, so I ended up with DX portion of 160M band (around 1,83MHz), and some rarely used part of 80M band, around 3,65MHz. On 40M the resonant frequency was around 8MHz with some insane VSWR inside amateur band. The 30M was not a problem at all though.
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Last Updated on Monday, December 13, 2010 11:38 PM Written by N1WQ Monday, December 13, 2010 11:36 PM
Last Saturday we got snowstorm again: more than 16 inches (40 cm) of snow, and the winds around 25 mph (11 m/s). Now it’s pretty cold here, about 0 F (-18 C), even less during the nights.
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