It started in a museum shop in Sweden. It is one of my favorite things in a musuem to visit. I hardly ever buy anything, but I like to look at the stuff they sell there.

We were at Moderna Museet in Stockholm - Sweden. I went into the museum shop before I went into the museum itself. On one of the shelves I saw a few Lomography simple use reloadable film camera's.

Contact 6 ADXC-member amatures, you get the award. Since this is an Amsterdam award, if you live in or near Amsterdam it would become a lot easier to contact AXDC-members. Amatures in the Dutch regions 02 and 04 need to work 10 ADXC-members to get the certificate.

So I got this new radio, the Xiegu X6100. It is a nice little thing that can do a lot! It can do 5W on battery power, SSB, CW, FM, AM, and of course Digital. One of the best things is that it has a built-in sound card. This means that you can hook it up to your laptop via USB-C without the need for additional interfaces.

TimeTagger is an app that lets you track the time you spend on stuff. I use it mainly for work stuff where I want to keep track of how much time I spend on various aspects of my work. When I start reading and answering e-mail, I start a TimeTagger activity. When I switch to writing some code I start a new activity. This allows me to record all my spent time during the day.

1. Enter the menu with Fun
2. Use V/M and Main as up and down keys to browse through the menu
3. When you reach the setting, use Mon to enter the setting
4. Now you can use Up and Down to set the value
5. When all settings have been set correctly, use Fun to go back to the main screen

1. On the mic press A/Fun and then the UP key on the mic
2. This puts you in "store" mode
3. Use Up and Down on the mic to select the memory bank you want to store
4. Now long press */Mon on the mic to store the preset in the memory bank

Through the menu you can set the repeater offset. However, there is no option to set the repeater shift (+, -, off) through the menu. You have to use A/Fun + 9/Rpt to cycle through +, -, and off.

Zaterdag 2 september 2023 was het zo ver. Eindelijk was het weer velddag. Voor mij was het de allereerste keer dat ik erbij was. Voor anderen was het alweer de zoveelste keer. Aanwezig waren leden van Veron afdeling a04 - Amsterdam. De locatie was een stukje terrein van de golfclub in Zaandam. Zo ver buiten de stad zouden we nauwelijks last moeten hebben van QRM.

We verzamelden om 10 uur om op te bouwen. Er werd een legertent opgebouwd, een drie-elements yagi in elkaar gezet, en nog diverse draadantennes opgespannen.

This year I partook in the PACC Contest. I even wrote a post about it. The final results were posted in Electron this month.

My claimed score of my submitted log was 1830 points with 61 QSOs. After the logs were checked against all other submissions it appeared I had a few wrongly logged QSOs. My end score was: 1537 points. With that score I reached place 116 in the category Single Operator SSB Low Power (<100W).

This year I cleared my schedule entirely for the second weekend of Februari so that I could partake in the Dutch PACC contest. 24 hours where all antennas of the world are pointed in my direction! This was my chance to make some QSOs.

I’m not a hard-core contester. My goal wasn’t to make as many contacts as possible. I just wanted to take advantage of being a wanted station and get the opportunity to finally contact some other stations. I have partaken in the contest a few times before. The first time by accident, a few years ago because I had some free time that weekend. This year I held off all other activities and appointments.

So, I have this Xiegu X6100. It is basically a GNU/Linux machine running a dedicated radio application. I wanted to connect it to my WiFi network, but I could not manage to get it to connect.

I tried some different networks, and found out that it cannot connect to the WiFi if you have a space in the password. It just doesn’t want to connect. I got it to work from the command line. Here is what I did with my Macbook Pro and the radio.

Today the Xiegu X6100 arrived on my doorstep. Of course I had to play with it and try some of the features. I was able to make a short QSO with EG3HAM.

My plan is to go outdoors with it this weekend, and see what it can do.