Remote DX and Contest Blog

This is a nice contest to test new techniques and equipment. But it requires some band conditions of course to work SA.

I made at 19 years my 1st DX-pedtion to KL7 and visited a lot of KL7s. Unforgettable.

What a surprise with nice 160 and 80 m condx. After 6,40 hours here are the results:

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With only 2 hrs of remote operation we could do some testing with N1MM and new settings (for the upcoming ARRL CW Contest). Good rates for most of the time.

Condx were average with some US stations coming through.

Writelog´s contest simulator is “cool “in the way that it can also produce your Adif file and compare with the CW sent. Then of course it´s band maps can be seen and used for S &P. But that is another story.

Here is a short video seeing CSS with SO2R in action.

 

Here is screenshots for the process after downloading the demo or an actual licsence. Some hints along the way:

1. Always start CSS script before WL and close it after WL is closed.
2. When you start CSS script (after configuring it for your needs) you will se messages in the message window and you can see if it is working.
3.    If you use Flex audio virtual cables (DAX link) it all gets very easy to configure CSS:

Here are the window screens in crinological order as you would see when you configure and start-up i) CSS and finally ii) WL.

Sure is satisfying when training and traning pays off.

To have something on 80 m for Europe is highly desirable. In additon to the 27 m free standing vertical.

Here is the Create 17 m long shortned dipole with about 0.5 dBi of gain compared to a full size dipole.

Here the JK2015 with the 3 element 40 m yagi.