Archive for the ‘Contest’ Category

Not on time : Using an GPS as time source for an NTP server and starting contest at 14:00:000000Z !

09:55 AM

During the last contest someone pretended we started a minute to early ! So during the winter I got a Garmin GPS LVC 18 and turned the 144mhz loging computer into a stratum 0 NTP server. Now we will always start on time !   f8kth@144mhz:~$ ntpq -p remote ...

Voice Keyer LogiTalker

06:26 PM

I had been looking for a voicekeyer for some time. To be honnest there is no much choice if you want something you can use without a computer. MFJ products are hard to get in europe and overpriced once the price was converted into euros so the MFJ-434B was not ...

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06:55 PM

On the trip back from HamExpo

IARU UHF 2010 and FA-SDR transceiver

06:29 AM

The FA-SDR is working and we plan to test it over the weekend during the IARU UHF 2010 contest ! We will be QRV on the following bands: IC910H + 4CX250 and 4x21 F9FT on 432 MHz K2 +Transverter DB6NT + 60W + ATF5414 and 2m dish with a OE9PMJ illumination on 1296 ...

IARU VHF 2010 Contest

03:22 PM

Hello, We will be QRV over the weekend using the call TM2A from our new location in JN18RN. The WX forecast for the weekend is perfect ! We are planning to use the usual equipement made of 4 6elements DK7ZB stacks. We will use Tucnak under Linux as our logging solution. Looking foreward ...