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My HF2V during winter 2010/2011

August 23, 2016January 28, 2011 by Alexandru Csete

I took a few photos of my Butternut HF2V vertical antenna during my winter holidays 2010/2011. You can click on the images to get higher resolution photos. Enjoy!

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Categories HF2V Tags antenna, butternut, DX, HF, HF2V, multi-band, SW, vertical, winter

Pile-Up on Me

February 22, 2007 by Alexandru Csete

Finally, an evening without any significant QRN on 40! I was doing pretty well, working UA9O, UN9, 4L1, when suddenly there started to be a small pile-up on me.

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Categories HF2V Tags 40m, DX, HF2V, OZ9AEC

Listen Twice as much as You Speak

February 20, 2007 by Alexandru Csete

I am sure there are many biological reason why a human has two ears and only one mouth. However, some poeple chose to interpret this fact as humans are supposed to listen twice as much then they are speaking.

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Categories HF2V Tags 40m, DX, HF2V, OZ9AEC

Great Success with the K1

June 4, 2006 by Alexandru Csete

Today I made some more QSOs using the K1. Here are a few examples:

At 09:05 UTC I called EA6NB, Jim, on 10.108 MHz. He returned my call with 549, but then he lost me. The band was indeed strange with a lots of QSB.

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Categories K1 Tags DX, elecraft, K1, qrp, qso
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