May 8th, 2016 And another Contest is over. Again I learned a lot and I am happy with the results: With a count of 82 QSOs I broke my personal record in claimed QSOs in a 23 cm contest. Since October1990 the number has been as high as 78 QSOs. The claimed score is a […]
March 6th, 2016 The contest is over and there are new ideas in my mind, how to improve for the next one. Even though I am using a homebrew KST-client beside the browser based one, arranging skeds in the ON4KST chat is still the bottleneck in operating the contest. I fear, many requests will disappear […]
June 15th, 2015 From Monday, June 22nd to Wednesday, June 24th I will be QRV during the evenings on 23 cm and 13 cm using the special event callsign DL65DARC. Skeds (aircraft scatter, tropo) are welcome via ON4KST, Facebook or email. Rig will be a 3 m dish with 150 W on 23 cm and […]
February 10th, 2015 A brand new version of AirScout can be download. Frank, DL2ALF, has implemented a new source for airplane data as well as a couple of new features. Most spectacular is the ability to track airplanes with the antenna in azimuth and elevation. When enabling tracking, the user can select between several interfaces. […]
January 22nd, 2015 AirScout is not operable at present, due to changes at the data source. Frank, DL2ALF, is active to solve the problem. No planes will currently be shown in the map. If any news available, I will post it here and in the Microwave DX Group on Facebook.
January 15th, 2015On February 21st, 2015 Jan, PA3FXB, and I will give a lecture in Dorsten at the GHz convention. It will be held in german and partly in english and is basing on the former lectures “Let´s Bounce”. We will talk about unusual use of Aircraft Scatter and our experiences using ISCAT. Two years […]
January 6th, 2015 Jan, PA3FXB, and I skeduled a very special ISCAT test on 23 cm for today. The CAMRAS team had planned to operate PI9CAM with the 25 m radiotelescope in Dwingeloo for some astronomical experiments this afternoon. Before starting with that, we used an ISS pass with low elevation to try ISS bounce […]
January 3rd, 2015 Inspired by an article, published by Rex, VK7MO, and David, VK3HZ, in the latest DUBUS [1], Ronald, ON7FLY, and I performed a first test in using ISCAT-B mode (by K1JT) for aircraft scatter on 23 cm. When looking on AirScout it doesn´t seem to be very challenging to have an QSO. But […]
My presentation “Let´s Bounce” will be given on two more dates: October 25th, 2014 on the 4th Hessian GHz Meeting in Fernwald Short version of the lecture with focus on aircraft scatter and ISS bounce. We meet at 15:00 MEST on the car park at the town hall. There will be a flee market for […]
October 5th, 2014 After my complainments about using the ON4KST chat in March Contest and the response I received from Claus, OZ1FDH, and Kjeld, OZ1FF, recommending the KST2ME tool, I added my homebrew prototype of a selective ON4KST client extension to my station control software. It communicates via telnet with the server. While working satisfactorily […]