Monday 28 October 2019

No progress and some thought about the future.

In the last spring I come to a conclusion to make some changes in my life situation and this will involve a move of me and all equipment.
Until I find a new acceptable QTH the setup will remain the same and as its still in good operating order I do work from time to time.
It may take some time to find a new QTH ss my wish list is quite large but it will happen eventually and I am actually not in any big hurry.

Worked Gene KB7Q in all 3 of his expedition states with good signals using the V array all the time.
Polarization was locked for very long time and those Europeans able to use V pol worked him easy but without V it was struggle for most.

The A21EME dxpedition was also worked and very strong and often audible in the speaker.
I went up early Monday morning before work and called them only once before they answered me.
So a quick QSO and back to bed again :)

ARRL EME contest part 1 I worked some but not that seriously and only a few hours each morning.
Total so far 27 QSO's and a few new stations in the log but will hopefully be more active the second part.

Have finalized the JFL controller but not yet put it in use on the array but will do so before the second part.
Besides from that most of the time is spent finalizing the garage and workshop as the plan is to keep that for a few years after I move until I been able to build one at the new QTH.