PE2MC.NL

Plans

DATES and OBJECTIVES

9^th to 25^th February from Tahiti, DXCC entity = French Polynesia, all 9 HF bands, 160-10 m.

With feedback from recent operations from the 2 other FO DXCC entities, we changed our plans and we will stay in this more current country but we will make a strong effort on low bands (160 and 80 m) to try to address the many requests from all continents.

Entries in the WPX RTTY and in the ARRL DX CW contests are also planned as all operators are contesters.

OPERATING MODES AND FREQUENCIES

Note : The CW listening frequency will always be up (except on 160m), starting at just 1kHz or 2kHz up depending on the pile-up size. However on 160m CW where the listening frequency will be down, the actual split will be announced.

QTH place

On this  expedition will take part.

 FO/DL1AWI ,     FO/DL3APO ,     FO/DL5XU

Lateste news…

1.Febr. 20.20 utc  from DL1AWI
Hello HAM’s ! Our activity is now limitet for 80/30m. It’s impossible to rebuild our vertical from station1 temporary for 160m. Very strong wind disable the work.

73 de TX3D-Team

1.Febr. 8.00 utc
very windy there.They can not work 160.Will work80/30 m this night

31.Jan 20.30 utc from DL1AWI
Hi Folks,
since yesterday afternoon we are at 30m. First 1000 contacts in the log. Huge pile ups and good         signals.80m in the early afternoon we heard lot of DL s in a weekend contest. After our dinner we were  start our activity and no answer for our cq.
One hour later the big pile ups came up.
The most important problem is all stations calling at a small frequency range. Please spread out!
Today we will use a switching box for a quick band change (160 and 80m).
73   TX3D team

19.Jan 8.30 Z   Thanks Phil FO8RZ

Team arrive good in Raivavae in their afternoon,but without 50 percent of their baggages.
They have only 2 trcv,1 Pa and little wire(no mast,no coax,no Ant). They will go in the Air
with low signal.Next airplane from Papeete comes wednesday and they hope,the rest of the
baggages comes then.  During the Day they have powerline noise and have to go QRT with the operation

Hope they will be online soon so we can hear them in EU.

Also they are opperation now with the call TX3D from 23th of Jan till the end of the expedition. They are on another island.

**** UPDATE****

I worked TX3D on 40mtr YES!!!!! DXCC 294 ( lets try for more.) propagation is not very good but maybe 30mtr will be a option.

 Last QSO in the Online Log: Jan 30, 2010 17:00 UTC (TX3D)

Tags: FO8RZ, French polynesia, iota, OC114, TX3D

We all know the big Alpha Amplifiers. I checked the new website from Rfconcepts. They are the new owners of the Alpha brand. I really had a hard laugh when i saw the new picture. That’s the way how we treath a Keyer.. Just push it with a brick.. hihi

New models of Alpha

Alpha 8410                    Alpha 9500

Tags: 8410, 9500, alpha, Alphapower, RFconcepts

During the last few days I have been playing around with the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) on 80,40,30,20m seeing who could hear my 10 watts around the world, I was impressed how far you can get with a few watts. A lot of stations outside europa are only recieving signals. You can see that because of there callsign.

WSPR (pronounced “whisper”) stands for “Weak Signal Propagation Reporter.” This program is designed for sending and receiving low-power transmissions to test propagation paths on the MF and HF bands. Users with internet access can watch results in real time at WSPRnet .WSPR 2.0 was introduced on November 19, 2009.

Here a sample of WSPR pointed on Googlemaps. The station you will see could hear me with only 40dBm.
The setup FT9000D 40dBm, Antenna one elm rotary dipole by SteppIr.

Frequencies in use for WSPR

Tags: k1jt, propagation reporter, weak signals, whisper, wspr, wsprnet