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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Zulu
 
KX1 Speaker
Speaker

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Today I was at Walgreen's Drug Store and saw an external amplified iPod speaker for $5.99 or two for $10. They had black and white. It's a little bigger than that Macally brand I've used before, which required an outboard audio transformer to get enough volume. This one worked right off. It takes two AAA's instead of one AA, but not having to hack it is worth plenty, and it's a lot cheaper.

It looks similar to a unit I've seen under the Belkin brand for $20.

The brand is "GoStero" UPC 8-19003-00888-9, distributed by Price Point Accessories, LLC.


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Saturday, May 26, 2007 Zulu
 
CQ WW WPX Contest
I worked 15M only in the CQ WW WPX Contest:
PJ2T1016001TIME:1533Z21.004CW
NY6N1322002TIME:1556Z21.014CW
WX5S206003TIME:1940Z21.015CW
KD4D202004TIME:194Z21.031CW
K0FX590005TIME:1947Z21.040CW
KH6LC514006TIME:1949Z21.009CW
LS1D708007TIME:2301Z21.036CW
LR2F708008TIME:230721.021CW

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Zulu
 
XE2S
I heard 10m to 6m was open. When I got home at 8:30J I heard 10M ragchewers, but 12m was quiet. I heard some San Jose hams on 6m SSB but on 50.105 CW I heard XE2S and got a 599 DL49 and sent 599CM87. 5W, FT-817, SteppIR with 6m passive element.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Zulu
 
VK2QV
10M was open today, I heard, so I listened a bit but it was just the tail end of the opening; I could hear some beacons in Utah and the pacific northwest. 20m stayed open and around local midnight (0650Z) I heard VK2QV Chris in the the Blue Mountains 74km west of Sydney. Chris was running 50W from a Yaesu FT-857 to a 80m dipole. He gave me a 469-529-QSB. I got about 90% copy at the best but we had a nice QSO with several reports. SteppIR Yagi at 10m pointed 240 degrees.

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Thursday, May 17, 2007 Zulu
 
WA5ZNU-4 Bike to work
We biked to work today and I put an HTX-202, an OpenTracker and a Garmin eTrex in a bag. It was a bit heavy as I don't have the OpenTracker running off the HT battery yet. Just using the rubber duck I got through packets on the second half of my route, all through W6CX, and none through K6DBG.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007 Zulu
 
RU0LX/mm
I worked RU0LX/mm Victor in the Bering Sea RP50md with my beam pointed 320 degrees. Victor said the seas were moderate and it was cloudy. 599, 599, 5W.

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E51TUG
I worked E51TUG in Northern Cook Islands Norther Cook Islands OC-080 for 5x9 and sent 5x7. YL op was very nice and called me back over QRM. SSB on 18130 with 15W to the SteppIR at 223 degrees.

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Saturday, May 12, 2007 Zulu
 
RW0LM
RW0LM Yuri in Vladivistok gave me 599 on PSK31 14.072.

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RA1QLC
20m PSK31 has been open late these days. I heard RA1QLC Victor from Cherepovec-citi, Russia KO89xd (RDA VO-04) and he gave me 599 and I also gave him 599.

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Friday, May 11, 2007 Zulu
 
UA0CAA
UA0CAA Sergey in Khabarovsk, Russia (PN78ml, RDA HK-01) called CQ and I answered on 14.071. Sergey had a great 599 signal and sent me 599 as well and I had my SteppIR pointed 315 degrees, now that I can. I was running 5W from my K2.

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Friday, May 04, 2007 Zulu
 
K1JT

I came home to find the neighbor's tree crew finishing up tree trimming, and got them to remove one branch that kept my SteppIR from rotating more than 90 degrees. What a difference! Now I can rotate 360!

I worked Joe K1JT on 14.076 JT65a with 5W from the K2 and my now free-to-rotate SteppIR. Joe was -11dB S/N in a 2.5KHz bandwidth for his 10W, and gave me -10dB report as well.

Joe was very patient as I wasn't running the latest release from their Subversion tree and it doesn't give HF operators much time to react -- it expects you have a 2.5s path delay to read the decoded message! So I may have fumbled the protocol and timing a bit. But at least I got it to key my K2.

K1JT JT65a

233600  1   7/9                    CQ K1JT FN20              1   0
233702  Transmitting: JT65A   K1JT WA5ZNU CM87
233800  8   -4  0.1  -22  3 *      WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1  10
233800  1   8/10                   WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1   0
233858  Transmitting: JT65A   K1JT WA5ZNU CM87 OOO
234000  7   -5  0.3  -22  3 *      10W HR RRR                1   0
234000  1   9/11                   WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1   0
234101  Transmitting: JT65A   -11 TNX JOE 7
234200 13   -6  0.3  -22  3 *      TNX 73 GL                 1   0
234200  1  10/12                   WA5ZNU K1JT -10           1   0
234304  Transmitting: JT65A   5W HR RRR 73
234400 11   -1  0.3  -22  3 *      CQ K1JT FN20              1  10

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Thursday, May 03, 2007 Zulu
 
7K1PTT
I had a bit of a frustrating time chasing pileups on 30m and 20m, both the usual DXpedition suspects and a few Finnish and Czech stations. So I tried for an easy Japanese call on 30m (10.126), but 7K1PTT took 5 tries to get my call and gave me a 339 so I decided to call it quits for the night, even though OM was 559.

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