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Designing and building a Manned Beacon or MEPT, part 1 of many

Joost — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:53:05 +0000

I came acros the site of IK0VVE with a wonderfull description of a MEPT. MEPT stands for Manned Experimental Propagation Transmitter and is usually very low power. He uses a crystal oscilator but I find them pretty expensive. So I Looked around the net for programmable oscillators. Those are even more expensive and in the most cases you [...]

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WebSDR from Twente University temporarily with six bands

Joost — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:23:18 +0000

I noticed today that the Software Defined Radio from Twente University now has six bands to play with : 0-150 kHz, 1790-1930 kHz, 3500-3760 kHz, 6990-7135 kHz, 10030-10175 khz, 14000-14290 kHz. But it lasts only a few days, so enjoy : http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fon3jt.byze.be%2Fwebsdr-from-twente-university-temporarily-with-six-bands'; addthis_title = 'WebSDR+from+Twente+University+temporarily+with+six+bands'; addthis_pub [...]

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My first qso into the USA using psk31 on 20m

Joost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:12:41 +0000

It has been a while that I posted something on my blog here. Don’t panic, I’ll try to do it more frequent. I’ve been busy with all kind non-ham related things. But yesterday I managed to find a free moment and put the transceiver on the 20m psk band. Around 20:40 UTC I noticed a qso that [...]

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BITX20 status

Joost — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:44:08 +0000

From left to right : The kit has just arrived. The PCB, nice and clean job. What I did in january. Where I stopped in march. More to come. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fon3jt.byze.be%2Fbitx20-status'; addthis_title = 'BITX20+status'; addthis_pub = 'on3jt'; BITX20 status is a blogpost from: ON3JT

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PSK125 qso with Argentina

Joost — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:07:52 +0000

Today, I saw Daniel LU3DXI calling cq in PSK125. PSK125 is faster than PSK31, so you have to speed up yourself to read and write the qso LU3DXI LU3Ds nN3JT My fHing Ur RST is 599, 599By age 51 year My QTH is CARAPACHAY CARAPACHAY Ubicated into a 15 Km away of the North of Buenos Aires ARGENTINA My [...]

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My first PSK31 qso with Brazil (PY2VA)

Joost — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:51:02 +0000

I was monitoring the 20m PSK31 band and saw this guy calling CQ : CQ CQ DE PY2VA iVA PY2VA CQ CQ CQ PY2VA PY2VA ttY2VA PSE K I replied and hoped that he will pick up my signal with the 10 watt limitation. PY2VA de ON3JT ON3JT pse kn And yes he did MN3JT MN3JT HELLO !! OM DE [...]

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CQtube, the YouTube for the Ham Radio Community

Joost — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:45:59 +0000

You all know YouTube but it has now a competitor focussing on ham radio and it’s called CQtube. There are 59 videos to watch at the moment of this writing. So pay them a visit on http://www.cqtube.com addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fon3jt.byze.be%2Fcqtube-the-youtube-for-the-ham-radio-community'; addthis_title = 'CQtube%2C+the+YouTube+for+the+Ham+Radio+Community'; addthis_pub = 'on3jt'; CQtube, the [...]

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