Nov 26

Moonbounce from DL0SHF

After a long absence from anything to do with moonbounce I took the chance to activate the big dish antenna at DL0SHF in Kiel which can operate on 1296 MHz. I had some free time on the 24 November and I drove over to Per DK7LJ. Everything ran perfectly and after 4 hours and some 36 contacts in CW I was tired and I drove home. I had fun with working a lot of guys I met on the radio via the moon years ago last time. Signals were strong and listening to all this was real fun. I only worked CW (morse code) and allthough there was a lot of "digital" activity I stayed with CW.
Years ago - when being younger - I was able to stay up a whole night for this... no not anymore ;-) But from time to time I hope to activate this big station a bring some fun to others as well.

Posted by Christoph Petermann

Nov 26

CQWW Contest in CW

Every year suddenly we have this CQ WorldWide contest on shortwave at the end of November and every year I try do make at least a few contacts. This year I wanted my amplifier with some 400 watts behind my transceiver, but for an unknown reason so far it refused to operate properly and I put it aside. The transceiver ran "barefoot" with 95 watts into my little dipole. From time to time I sat down at the desk and I made a few CW (morse) contacts. I came out with 127 QSOs with 52 countries in five continents. Only South America is missing. Alltogether not bad for my little station ...

Posted by Christoph Petermann