PE8T

Author: PE8T

  • 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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    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…