We (the ON4KB/p-team) had a good feeling after this years SSB-fieldday. As in the last few years we competed in the ‘restricted’ category: 40-80-160m.
The claimed scores also showed us on top with a few thousand points more than our next competitor ON6CK/p (our clubstation).
The day before yesterday the final scores were published on the uba-website and indeed showed us on the first rank above ON6CK/p: Continue reading We won the 2010 SSB-fieldday, or not?
One of the most important things on my todo-list before the next contest was to finally get that shack cleaned up! So here you can see some pictures of this work in progress.
The ON4KB/P fieldday team made the newspaper again, the full online article can be found at Het Nieuwsblad. The title says: ‘Radioamateurs have a successful training – ready for an emergency’
Then don’t try to understand our country 🙂
Normally my next contest should haven been the ON-contest 80m SSB on sunday october 3. But, my YL and I received a (short) helicopter flight for that morning and that’s something I don’t want to miss.
So my next contest will be the EU PSK63 QSO Party on november 21.
Okay, there’s a little over 2 months left but I still have a huge todo-list (more or less in order of importance):
As the frequent readers of this blog know I don’t own an amplifier and I like to contest. So what’s the solution to still be competitive a contest? Yes, enter the low power (100W) or the QRP-class (10W).
Every year the UBA-section DST of Diest organises the UBA Spring contest in 4 parts (each on a different sunday morning 0800-1200 local time) : 80m SSB, 80m CW, 6m and 2m.
In the UBA Spring contest there is no LP-class so I went for the 10W-class in the 80m SSB-part.
During the contest I had a pretty good feeling, not too much trouble to keep a run frequency for some time Continue reading I won my first contest 🙂
Those who know me know I’m not very good at morse code. But I still have great respect for those using it regularly.
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We made the newspaper even before the fieldday 🙂
At least we’re on the local webpage of a national newspaper: Radioamateurs oefenen op noodsituatie (in dutch only sorry)
Look for us on the 40, 80 and 160m bands in SSB this weekend (saturday 1300 UTC to sunday 1300 UTC)!
As Jan seems to be a far better writer than I am, I copied his text from the ON4KB page at QRZ.com:
ANNUAL ON4KB/P FIELDDAY OPERATIONS …
Over the last 4 years, the callsign ON4KB/P stands for a state-of-the-art SSB Fieldday operation each first weekend of September. This emergency exercise is an initiative of a team of great and competent fellow hams, mostly living in the area. In 2010 these are Hugo ON7FU, Luc ON7KZ, Jurgen ON5MF, Tim ON5HC, Geert ON7USB, Francis ON8AZ and myself, who all share the work of preparing, building the station, operating and logging. We’re also grateful to Sofie ON3SC (qrp on7kz) for the occasional help.
The team takes a fieldday quite seriously, keeping in mind the original philosophy behind the event :
I’m still working to get the station up and running for some SO2R in phone and digi. I started by looking for a way to switch audio and PTT for my 2 (oldtimer) transceivers (TS-50S and FT-990).
As a commercial controller seems to expensive to me for the moment I found a way to homebrew a *basic* switchbox myself. The layout is based on this one made by DL1IAO but with a few enhancements: