In this article, I would like to describe how my amateur radio station is set up at home. Compared to other radio amateurs, I only have a very minimalistic setup 😊
My first POTA activation
Today I did my first POTA (Parks on the Air) activation. There is a POTA location (DE-0238 Wilhelmsbad State Park) just 4 km away from my home so I gave it a try. The conditions were not so well today,
Live is too short for QRP :-)
1 Year, 10 Watts and an endfed wire … I am surprised what you can do with QRP if the band conditions are going up to the sun spot maximum … It is really fun to work only with 10
CQ World Wide DX Contest SSB
Yesterday I took part in one of he biggest radio amateur contests “CQ World Wide DX Contest” which runs for 48h. However I did not take part full time :-). There were some times with high electromagnetic storms so the
Results of the Contests of Last Weekend
I love to participate in radio amateur contests. I never will have a chance to win such a contest, but it is a great chance for a QRP station because there is much activity on the bands and there are
External Microphone for Elecraft KX2
I bought my Elecraft KX2 as a bundle which should have included also an external microphone, the Elecraft MH3. Unfortunately, Elecraft is not able to deliver this microphone for several months now, so I was looking for a replacement. It
Testing my new AlexLoop
Today I was portable QRV on a small hill near my home QTH and was testing my new AlexLoop Magentic Loop Antenna. Unfortunately the band conditions were not very good today due to some magnetic turbulence, so I am not
QSO with FR4KR (Reunion Island) finally confirmed
The QSL card for my connection from Maintal to Reunion Island (9160 km) has finally arrived. It is the furthest distance so far I was able to make a contact to. SSB on 15m with 10 Watts into a random
My ham radio log analysis after 4 weeks of activity
It is now 4 weeks since I got my small Elecraft KX2 shortwave transceiver and I heavily worked with it during that time. Time for a quick analysis of my over 600 contacts I made the last 4 weeks: I
Long time no see …
I couldn’t believe it, but it is almost one year ago, since I posted something on my blog. There was no specific reason for that, I just didn’t have the desire to post anything here. This blog has changed more