20 June 2012

23cm activity

These heard stations on 23cm SSB are some of the local big guns. Well, not so local given the DX distance of 136 km and my antenna consisting of an indoor dipole! But the HB9's were using 200W or more...

HB9BCD at 136 km

I1NDP and another QSO at 1'296'250 kHz

HB9SV at 136 km.


I do not like those aliasing products (or intermod?! or receiver overload?!), which then disappeared when I fiddled with SDR# settings. That effect requires further investigation.

My RX setup was not QRP either, since the i5 core laptop eats up a good deal of energy too (50W or so). I have already shaped up a biquad antenna. Now it needs a reflector and a support, then I am ready for the next 23cm event. Unless I manage to get a signal out of that SAT-TV PLL...