I have a small remote controlled weather cam installed to balcony. Few days ago it was reported a quite bright “fireball” was seen on the east sky. I checked the recordings from my cam and found out that there have been several trails of something almost at the same time for several days. At the…
Remote HAM Shack with camouflage
A short story about metamorphosis from SWL DX’er to a HAM Radio Amateur. After I got bitten by the SDR Bug back in -12 I updated and upgraded my SDR equipment every year. Normally this meant that I bought and built new SDR receivers, computers, antennas etc and upgraded my SDR system from one single…
1000th QSO
I got my HAM license 25.01.2021, this is also the 100th Anniversary of the Finnish Radio Amateur League (SRAL) and I got my 1000th QSO (FT8, SSTV, JS8Call). I’d say this has been very interesting and educational year for me to learn “HAM’ng”. Year -22 will be more learning, not only with digital modes but…
MORE SSTV from SURA
Saturday, 21st of August 2021 town of Nizhny Novgorod celebrated it’s 800th anniversary. In honor of this event, SURA station sent several SSTV images using their huge transmitter site. SURA is similar system as USA based HAARP. I got all the pictures sent from the SURA, but due to local thunder and lightning some of…