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.

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.

Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2022 was de Dag van de Radioamateur. Dit jaar vond het wederom plaats in de IJsselhallen in Zwolle. In tegenstelling tot voorgaande jaren waren er nu twee zalen in gebruik.

De achterste zaal stond vol met de gebruikelijke kraampjes met onderdelen en tweedehands spullen. Hier stonden ook de deelnemers van de zelfbouwtentoonstelling.

In de voorste zaal kon je de QRP-club, VERON, VRZA, EMC-commissie, Agentschap Telecom, defensie en andere clubs vinden. Naast deze verenigingen en clubs kon je ook een paar grote handelaren vinden.