My activity from San Marino in June 2022 had left its mark and I had a great desire to start another activity directly. I still had a week’s holiday available and was looking for a suitable destination. The time period was already fixed, because due to work, these times always are set well in advance.
After some research, the 59 division Dodecanese seemed an interesting destination. Later it turned out that this destination would probably not have been chosen if more research had been done. In retrospect, however, it was a good thing, otherwise I would have been deprived of some experiences.
36/13AT031 San Marino
During our summer vacation 2022 my YL & me where heading from Berlin once more to the south, this time in a camper van. We had no final destination, but it was more of a round trip.
Continue reading “36/13AT031 San Marino”13AT031/p DLFF-0275 Flutgrabenaue Waltersdorf
I was bored last Friday (18-Jun-21), so I decided short hand to backpack my equipment and to cycle to a nearby nature reserve.
Equipment used: FT-891, Wire Dipole (mounted in 45° angle directing to S-W), 40AH car battery.
Continue reading “13AT031/p DLFF-0275 Flutgrabenaue Waltersdorf”11DX.net 11m DX Cluster
Fairly 4 months have passed since I was asked by some radio friends, whether I would have time and will to re-design and re-code an 11m DX Cluster.
Jan, 153AT777 (former 19IR001/ 153IR101) owned the IRDX Cluster and came up with the idea to take this as starting point for something new and group independent. 11DX.net (https://11dx.net/) was born.
While re-coding and re-designing the cluster from scratch, the old version continued to exist in parallel until 21st of March, when we launched “Version 2” silently.
11DX.net is part of the CRX node network, being connected to several other cluster.
You can connect to 11DX.net with YaLog as well, means you can send spots from your 11m logging software to 11DX.net.
On top 11DX.net offers a Telegram bot, to which you can connect with the Telegram messenger app and which will push spots to your cellular phone based on your filter settings.
On 11DX.net itself you can chat with other users, submit and get 11m DX spots, maintain your logbook and get more radio related information (propagation figures, activation information, distance and bearing, …).
11DX.net is free to use and doesn’t charge anything for any service, so feel free to join the community!
Vy 73s de Martin #031
New project: Raspberry Pi as Transceiver/ Rig Control
With the solar minimum ahead things get boring more and more on 11 meter. So, what we gonna do with the time? Start a new project!
Did you miss an activation lately due to short openings caused by poor radio conditions? Well that’s history now.
A little budget and some reading to dig into Debian is enough to build your TRX remote control and to have QSOs with your home rig from wherever you are.
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13AT/BE039 QSL RXed from Printer
Exploring IOTA EU-016 Dalmatia South Group
From left to right in front:
CI-201 Pijavica
CI-202 Piscena / Kluda Gornja
CI-177 Kluda / Vela Kluda
At the horizon:
CI-017 Drvenik Veliki/ Veli
All of them have never been on 11! But, I have no radio with me, so only dreaming of activating those nice spots 🙂
Vy 73s de
Martin #031
13AT/BE039 IWI Schloss-Insel (Castle-Island) & COTA Schloss Köpenick (Castle Köpenick) – proof & log – 21-July-2018
This was a short excursion today :-(.
I went on air at about 11:30 UTC. First 10 minutes were quiet. I managed to get 15 stations in the log until at about 12:15 UTC park officers came along and asked me to remove the dipole, which I had mounted solely with light sailing cords between 2 trees in approximately 2.50m height. I tried to make them change opinion, but the insisted on removing it, telling me a small antenna on the ground would be ok, but my dipole would be way far to big!?! I am pretty sure some other park visitor must have complained about it, since last time I haven’t seen any park officer at all and lots of people passed by. However I logged 2 more stations – 18MU128 and 14DX019, since both of them already tried to catch me the other day and ended this days activity very disappointed.
13AT/BE039 IWI Schloss-Insel (Castle-Island) & COTA Schloss Köpenick (Castle Köpenick) – proof, QSL preview & log – 07-July-2018
This beautiful day has an end. Logs been digitalised, video proof has been compiled and QSLs been designed.
82 unique QSOs were established into 13 different divisions within 4 hours 50 minutes (10:30 – 15:20 UTC). The battery (34Ah) did an excellent job. I could have been on air a little longer, however propagation dropped and the park closes at 16:00 UTC, although the latter seems flexible.
13AT/BE039 Schloss-Insel on air
Dear radio-friends,
today I am airing as 13AT/BE039 from IWI Schloss-Insel (Castle Island) in Berlin.
As the islands name suggests, there is a castle located on this spot. So for you COTA hunters out there, this activation is valid for COTA BLB-010 (WCA D03914) as well. Great deal, eh? 😉
13AT031, Martins Blog 