PE8T

Author: PE8T

  • Horsterwold

    Horsterwold

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    Took a long time to find an appropriate location as it was pretty busy due to the weather. Also most entrances are marked as “Stille Hart” (silent heart) and it didn’t feel right to set up shop there when most of what I’ll be doing is talking. Got a QSO with PA4PA in the log…

  • Kuinderbos

    Kuinderbos

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    Took a long time to find a location here as well, most of the inroads were already taken by people walking their dogs. After some driving around, I found this little inroad that had plenty of parking space and even a little bench to sit on in the old harbour, before this was all land.…

  • Roggebotzand

    Roggebotzand

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    Setting up was a piece of cake, being able to strap the fiber pole to a wooden pole marker and lifting the antenna wire up in the air. Unfortunately I was positioned about 5m behind a sign that designated a quiet zone so I stayed in the car for most of the activation — leaving…

  • First manual QSO

    First manual QSO

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    PE8T

    Hooking up the computer to my Xiegu G90 is not very hard with the accompanying DE-19 kit and I’ve used it to get some FT8 QSOs around Europe and get a feel for the kind of range available with only 5W. I know the rig can go up to 20W (ie 6dB), but most other…