Our second SOTA activation for 2018 is done. Monika (DL6SCF) and I activated the "Michelsberg" DM/BW-855. Beautiful weather - very sunny but not too warm. The CONDX where horrible. Deep QSB from S0 up to S9 from Spain und into the UK - very frustrating.

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 The first SOTA activation for 2018 is done. Monika (DL6SCF) and I activated the "Kaltes Feld" DM/BW-659. 

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As described here, I've build an RF Powermeter.

After aquiring an HF signal generator, a used HP 8647A, I started to do some testing regarding the precision of the RF powermeter.

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FM bandstop

RF preamp

 

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Logbook for basic setup of Raspberry Pi 3

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I was able to get a used 40dB power attenuator from a fellow ham. It is a 250W version in a very good condition. The attenuator should be usable up to 6GHz.

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I've bought a cheap chinese DC-block on eBay for my spectrum analyser.

Here some measurements using the miniVNAtiny with vna/J:

SMA DC Block Detailed

 

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I've bought some 30dB SMA pads from Huber&Suhner. 

Here some measurements using the miniVNAtiny with vna/J:

HuberSuhnerSMA30dB Detailed

 

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Ich habe von **** eine gebrauchte, schaltbare Eichleitung gekauft. Laut Aufschrift stammt sie von **RE Instruments** aus Jülich. Sie dürfe aus der Zeit vor der Jahrtausendwende stammen und ist wohl aus einem HF-Signalgenerator ausgebaut worden.

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Based on the work of Makis, SV1AFN i've build a small, stand-alone power meter with a "nice" GUI. This is the second RF head I've received from Makis. Data about the first one can be found here. MainScreen

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Here you can find the last spots for DL2SBA on each band within the last day and the all time farest spots.

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Here I've collected some configuration stuff for my KiwiSDR.

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Today we had a meeting in our local amateur radio club ESSLINGEN P02.The topic for this meeting was WSPR.

Bernd DK9BH was the organizer of this meeting. He has ordered about 10 WSPRlites from SOTABEAMS. 

I had the chance, to do same basic measurements on one of the WSPRlite units.

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Last year I've build the cheap Frog Sounds QRP Transceiver. This transceiver has a pretty basic audio section - a simple LM386 audio amplifier with some LC/RC filtering.

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Here are the first pictures of my KiwiSDR setup ...

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I've build the original QRP-labs U3S from stock. Means the supplied crystal on the PLL-based synthesiser-board.

This configuration is basically working up to 20m with a lot amount of drift, but you will get many decodes on wsprnet.org. On 6m you can also get spots - once a day :-/

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I've finished my second U3s.

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Check out my new KiwiSDR running:

 

http://dl2sba.ddns.net:8073

 

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Ich habe das Leistungsmessmodul von Oliver, DG7XO nachgebaut. Es wurde in zwei Versionen in der cqDL vorgestellt. Oliver hat mir freundlicherweise eine Platine geätzt und den AVR programmiert, so dass nur noch Löten und Mechanik angesagt war...

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  1. WSPR - QRP-Labs low pass filters
  2. WSPR - QRP-Labs U3S signal quality
  3. WSPR - QRP-Labs U3S
  4. WSPR - QRP-Labs U3S bad power supply
  5. RF Powermeter - Unstable reading - Reloaded
  6. hamware AT-515 Firmware
  7. hamware AT-615B Firmware
  8. hamware AT-502 Firmware - Erweiterung für 160m und 80m
  9. hamware AT-502 Firmware - Update CI-V Schnittstelle
  10. hamware AT-502 Firmware - IRB P02
  11. hamware AT-502 Firmware - K2+RUMLOG
  12. hamware AT-502 Firmware - Kenwood erweitert
  13. GPSDO - Distribution Amplifier
  14. GPSDO - Commandline interface
  15. GPSDO - Some Measurements
  16. GPSDO - GPS Disciplined Oscillator
  17. RF Powermeter - Firmware 1.8.0
  18. RF Powermeter - Firmware 1.7.2
  19. RF Powermeter - Unstable readings
  20. RF Powermeter - Firmware 1.7.1
  21. RF Powermeter - Firmware 1.5.0
  22. RF Powermeter - Adopted Nextion library
  23. RF Powermeter - Precision
  24. SOTA - Flight deck for KX3
  25. SOTA - DM/BW-094 - Kornberg
  26. SOTA - DM/BM-344 - Kleiner Kulm - My first activation is done
  27. SOTA - Working conditions
  28. Switch-mode DC-DC converter
  29. Frog Sounds - Spurious emissions
  30. Frog sounds - The frog has arrived

2014 CW (Morse Telegraphy) was added to the German Nationwide Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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