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QSO Night


 

Heard and QSO'd tonight QSB at times

I'm using a new BITX40 tonight shake down cruse seems all OK <5watts for now. ?same trap dipole up 9 feet E/W orientation.
RG8x from my shack to dipole about 70 feet. ?

I have plans to erect a 80 meter square loop before winter and match box it for 40 etc.

I have played around receiving (WSJT-X) JT65 on BITX.? Removed C91 and C92... USB like a new radio great improvement for USB.


Heard VE3MLM 59+

Heard N8DAH 55

QSO w/ w0PWE Jerry Iowa 59

W1LY Willy 59 ? If I don't hear W1LY then my radio an't work'in right HI


 

Worked some new bitx guys tonight?
VE3IDS Don
KC9YAV David
W0PWE Jerry?
VE7GDH Keith 2536 miles
and the regulars VE3THR,VE3MLM,N8DAH,WA9DOH
?5 to 6 watts and an inverted V @ 50 feet
73, Willy

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Larry Smith <815cpu@...> wrote:
Heard and QSO'd tonight QSB at times

I'm using a new BITX40 tonight shake down cruse seems all OK <5watts for now. ?same trap dipole up 9 feet E/W orientation.
RG8x from my shack to dipole about 70 feet. ?

I have plans to erect a 80 meter square loop before winter and match box it for 40 etc.

I have played around receiving (WSJT-X) JT65 on BITX.? Removed C91 and C92... USB like a new radio great improvement for USB.


Heard VE3MLM 59+

Heard N8DAH 55

QSO w/ w0PWE Jerry Iowa 59

W1LY Willy 59 ? If I don't hear W1LY then my radio an't work'in right HI



 

Another good night, worked a few new ones. Fairly good band conditions right up to about 0330 Z then just died! Very fast QSB though during my grey line...
worked Willy W1LY, Jack VE3RDQ, Kevin K4NAAG and Keith VE7GDH in BC again - all bitx to bitx 5watts. Heard VE3MLM but too close to work. Didn't get much radio time in tonight because of company but did make a few qso's.?
Look forward to working some more during the week on 7.277MHz.
73 Tom


 

Willy W1LY wrote...

Worked some new BITX guys tonight...
You were my 2nd BITX-to-BITX contact, at about 4081 km.
Tom VE3THR at about 3338 km (who was also my first a
couple of weeks ago) was my 3rd. This is getting to be
habit forming!

I gave the two of you 2x2 and 3x3 reports. However,
both of you came up better than that for at least one
transmission each, but faded a bit at the end. Some
of the time, I had QRM from a station just below us.

PS - my BITX is still limping along at about 2W. I'll
get it sorted out one of these days!

--
73 Keith VE7GDH