On January 12, 2024 I became a member of the Amsterdam DX Certificate (ADXC). This is an award for contacting Amsterdam HAM operators. If you work an ADXC amature you get one point. If you have 6 points, you are eligible for the award. Rules 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.

How to setup FT-8 on an Xiegu X6100 and Apple Mac 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.

Since 2011 I have been running my own server. I use it to send and receive e-mail, host my website, do some programming. You know, the basic stuff. Recently I was looking for a self-hosted calendar server and came across the awesome selfhosted Git repository. Among the calendar servers were some other nifty web applications you can host yourself. TimeTagger TimeTagger is an app that lets you track the time you spend on stuff.

Recently I wanted to add some repeaters to my CRT Electro UV. It is quite a cumbersome procedure. Changing settings Enter the menu with Fun Use V/M and Main as up and down keys to browse through the menu When you reach the setting, use Mon to enter the setting Now you can use Up and Down to set the value When all settings have been set correctly, use Fun to go back to the main screen Storing the preset On the mic press A/Fun and then the UP key on the mic This puts you in "store" mode Use Up and Down on the mic to select the memory bank you want to store Now long press */Mon on the mic to store the preset in the memory bank Setting repeater shift Through the menu you can set the repeater offset.

Opbouw 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.

PACC 2023 results 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).

PACC contest 2023 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.

WiFi on the Xiegu X6100 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.

Xiegu X6100 has arrived 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.

CW vs. Morse CW and Morse (or Morse Code) are often used interchangeably within the HAM community. They are related, certainly, but they are not synonyms. It bothers me when they are used as though they were. What is CW? CW stands for Continuous Wave. It is a method of transmitting radio signals by switching the carrier on and off in certain patterns. It uses a constant frequency and a constant amplitude.