Fisrt time this season my JT65 signal was being received in US, NA. The band I made QSO’s was 80 m. That shows how the propagation is being improving during the winter season. What’s more on the WSPR’s webpage we can observe receptions between for instace European stations and Australian. Despite these “long” reports, I think the lower bands will not be fully opened. Good propagation goes to 12 m and 10 m. Anyway wish all of You good contacts on lowers bands and of course on highers ones
25 is the number of next solar cycle. Currently the solar got 24th cycle. One cycle lasts for about 11 years. The maximum of 24th should be observed on the higher radio radio frenquencies in 2012/2013. But the “performance” will not shock us because the Sun is very calm. Simply our Star has not so many spots on its ground. 24th Sun cycle will end in 2020 and after that year will start the next one – 25th. But there is some problem with 25th. It will be extremly low or even it will not start. Take a look on the solar activity prediction graph which is included below.
The Jan. 1st in 2020 is not included activity. There is very low numbers or nil. I wish I could make radio contacts in early 90′s. But now I have to take a full time in current cycle and enjoy making contacts on higher bands. We will see what about the 2020. Scientist don’t know exactly what will happen with Sun. If it’s low or totaly nil we will work on lower bands like 160m, 80m or 40m.
Header of this webpage has a new widget. This shows the recent SSTV image which was received by my station. The HRD software, especially Digital Master 780 uploads received pictures into webserver. But there’s no automatic refresh. So the images are not changing in real time.
Hope to see Your picture during listen SSTV frenquencies.
JT65A mode is getting more and more popular digital mode. I have been using it for one year. I worked many DX countries located outside Europe. In 2010 JA’s, VK’s, LU’s, K’s, VE’s lands were achieved without problems by WSJT software. To addition to this information it’s my first Argentina station appeared on 15m band decoded by WSJT software. I don’t have antenna for this 21MHz, don’t have even antenna tuner. I worked with Armando LU8WAG only with 15W power output, inverted “V” for 20m band and the SWR near to 3. So not good conditions. It shows that propagation connected with good and effective digital mode can do unbelieveable results For instance last few days on 80m. First of all my signal was received in Florida and secondly successful QSO with Arthur UA0NL tonight. You got some screenshots below.
When I looked up the cluster especially in the 6m section I found some spots made by EU stations. In comments they put the name of the mode. It was JT6M which is included into WSJT7 software created by K1JT. So I turned my rig on, VFO dial was set on 50,230MHz, software started and I started to listen/decode some kind of signals as well. It was some rubbish. Only random, not important characters sequence. That’s why I decided to start making CQ. I was CQing and CQing when I got big signal coming from Sweden. It was shock. I din’t know what to do So I tried to send some report 26. But I had never got my report back. That was my first step in MS…I don’t really know if the signal from SM7FJE is bouncing from meteor It’s a new experience for me. Maybe in future I will be able to provide succesfull QSO’s via this interesting mode. More about that kind of way of making QSO’s You can find under this link: http://www.jt6m.org/home.php
Finally the DX season on lower frenquencies are on. Few good days showed us good results of making QSOs on 80m. First of all JT65A signal coming from VK land was heard on 3576kHz. There was no trouble to receive it because of high quality and strong signal which was on -18dB level. This achievement I’ve registered with a PSKReporter website. The screenshot is shown under.
And second picture shows received station from US. It was JT65A signal as well.
Yesterday the propagation was being examined by WSPR. Antenna Inverted V was suplied with 10W power from RIG. After 6 minutes my signal could be received by US stations located in the east coast (grayline). The results are shown on the screenshot made from WSPRnet website.
So that shows how the winter can be beautiful. 80m will take your time during waiting for summer
I got up this day very early and I switched the radio on. As always I would like to see what’s going on on the radio waves. Especially the higher bands which are always on my target in this season when the days are getting shorter and shorter. Today on 12m JT65A mode was on. My decoder was able to decode station from OE. Exactly it was OE1DXA. Despite not so strong signal I could decode him very well. I tried to call him but the station didn’t reply. So the marker in JT65-HF had been moved to another frenquency. I called CQ on JT65A mode with 5W nad INVV from 20m band and my signal was received by the Japanese station. He heard me with -21dB. That means my signal was quite weak but I think it was readable and workable Under this post You got a picture printed from PSKReporter site. 12m worked very good.
Finally! SPDXC results are now available on http://www.spdxcontest.info/res/2010/index.php. I was waiting for them a lot of time. That was my first contest I have ever taken part. Despite not so good result of my station I feel very happy that my callsign is on the list and it’s not on the last place in category
96th position in SO AB PHONE LP. I made 53 QSO’s and my score is 2125 pts.
I came back home few days ago. To this day the logbook You saw was so old with no up-to-date QSO’s. Also all e-qsls were sent to those who make a radio contact with me.
What a suprise! I heard crowded 6m band for the first time this year. It was 15 UTC when I turned on the radio. The frenquencies was being checked as usual when 50MHz was tuned I stopped there Despite I don’t have antenna for this band, stations were extremly loud and clear. Of course I tried to shout to them using inv V dipole from 80m band and my power 100W coming out from my rig. I made a few contacts on magic with good results. One of these QSOs was recorded and You can watch it.
I hope to see this kind of display as often as it possible
In the end of this story I would like to add that this conditions last for about 2 hours. At 17 UTC – sad moment- everything was disapeared and it went calm and quiet once again.
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