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Meteorites or SpaceJunk – Seen by a Weather cam
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…
40m L-o-G
My remote location is a little challenging what comes to the long-wire antennas, especially if the antenna needs to be string in straight line from the feed point. At the moment I have one long-wire antenna, a 43 meter long CityWindom hanging from the mast to a tree about 7 meters above the ground. As…
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…
Sporadic E – FM stations from “Far Far Away”
It is summer and Sporadic E (Es) is again visiting us. At the moment I have a maintenance going on on my remote site so only a Discone is available for FM listening, so no directional FM Yagi or anything, just a whip. Today was good conditions from my remote site to Ireland and indeed…
QRZ logbook
After I got my HAM license I registered to QRZ and got my OnLine Logbook from their service. You can find me from the QRZ by using my call OH1MAC. Below are the latest 15 QSO’s I have.
FM monitoring Perseid meteor shower
2020 Perseid meteor shower was easy for me to monitor as I just finished both the antenna installations and software installations at my remote site. 3-element FM Yagi antenna pointing 230 degrees from my KP01tn location (towards UK) and then just recording what ever comes. I selected center tuning of 96MHz as it has the…
UPS RF shield – quick test results
Yesterday I wrote a post about my latest try to level down the interference caused by computers, power supplies and other peripherals using simple Faraday’s cage. The UPS is huge noise generator – or it should I say, it was! In picture below, on the left hand side this is the noise generated by the…