Category: Station Diary

I use Javascript to retrieve the totals of my QSOs logged in Wavelog, write them to an io.Broker data point and display them on an Awtrix pixel clock.

To install my 2m/70cm FTM-500 in the Defender, I opted for an installation variant from PowerfulUK. I had the corresponding panel for the Yaesu made by HEIKO Metallbau.

I had set up a search request for the Yaesu FT-736R on kleinanzeigen.de. In July 2024, the alarm went off: In Soltau, a device in unknown condition was offered from an estate for €200. I could see from the pictures that it even had the 23cm module installed. I went for it. But would the device work?

My DL8DF common mode chocke and my cable distribution setup got a new housing. From now on I can switch between my large Endfed-antenna or my 6m dipole and can send the signal either in my office during the summer months or in the attic for operation during winter.

I didn’t need my old 10m dipole any longer, although it has really been a great first HF antenna to me.I connected my NanoVNA, shortened the ends to match the …

Some time ago I stumbled across the construction plan for a transportable and lightweight quarter-wave vertical telescopic antenna in my local club.

DL8DF came up with a common mode choke design, which combines both W1JR and DG0SA chokes in one housing. Together with DL8DF I build this choke for my Endfed antenna.

23m long endfed multiband for 10m, 15m, 20m, 40m, 80m with a height of 6,5m over ground running along our house.

10m monoband dipole, mounted underroof, reached Chile with only 100W in a distance of 13.168 km in USB and Tierra del Fuego in FT8 in a distance of 13.752 km.

Got it from a silent key operator from Gronau the day before Silvester ’23.