ON3JT

Like many amateurs I have more than one project that needs attention. Here’s a list what is keeping me busy :

• Cantenna for 23cm
• Short 40m inverted V dipole
• BITX20 tranceiver kit
• 23cm ATV biquad antenna
• Antenna switch box 1×6
• Pic programming for the BITX20
• Make cables for a small LCD panel
• …

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This is what I call Maritime Mobile

Picture taken from http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-w/cc2.htm 

ON0VRT is a repeaterplatform installed at the VRT tower, located in Sint Pieters Leeuw, near Brussels.
The platform will house a 6m, 2m, 70cm and a 23cm repeater. To see the range, I thought that displaying the various reception reports on a map is usefull. So after a couple of days playing with Google Maps and some XML files the current beta site is alive.

To see it in action go to http://report.on4aob.be/

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 Grid locator GF05RL [228.6° 11,349.3km] GF05IA [228.9° 11,430.4km] BUREAU I PREFER .No e-QSL please Date QRZ.COM OK
HW Copy ? DR OM
ON3JT to LU3DXI Pse KN

The distance is a personal record at the moment : 11349 km (the locator is GF05RL, not GF05IA probably some QSB).
QSL card is heading Argentina.

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

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It started yesterday. A small mail arrives from my blog with a comment to moderate.  Oh nice a comment, let’s read it :
Comment:
<strong>ekibastos…</strong>

ekibastos…

Not what I was expecting, so deleted it.
This morning, 5 mails to moderate some comments. What do you think ?
All spam from some spambot.  Time to prepare my blog for future spam attacks.
So I’m now testing out a new plugin. Hope this helps.

My homebrew HF multiband antenna tipped over during a storm in december 2007. Not a real surprise because the mount was too small to handle the antenna, despite the weight of 8 concrete tiles. I remember that during that evening I was listening to some PSK31 signals on 20m and suddenly they disappeared. A quick SWR check learned me that the antenna was no longer in a vertical position.

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