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1. Rumlogng contest serial#
2. Rumlogng contest software#
3. Rumlogng contest plus#
4. Rumlogng contest windows#

At 11z, the antenna is still pointing towards South America, VR2XAN is suddenly 599+20! Antenna turned to Asia, only s6.

Without openings like this within Europe things quickly get boring, there’s just not enough DX. Keep picking mults if they rise above the noise.Īround half past nine Zulu there is Sporadic-E to Spain and France, the opening is quite long and also allows QSOs to South America from time to time via F2 extension. 3B8M is a good signal, shortly after 9z 3B8BAP comes back to my CQ. In between also Thailand and various Europeans via scatter. After 7:30z the band opens for the first time for DX, a few UA9/0 and VKs come into the log, signals all pretty thin. Around 6:30z the first scatter signals from the Balkans, somehow that always works. Saturday morning 6z at the station, band still closed. So decision made, another 10 m SOSB entry. It’s always exciting in terms of propagation even or especially in such conditions and I’m a 10 m addict anyway as you know. If 15 m doesn’t really work then I can stay on 10 m as well. Difficult decision … Lowbands no, not enough sleep. 15 m also looked pretty meager, a few very weak stations from W9, but the typical East Coast not much louder either. Next check Friday afternoon: a few South Americans, no USA. Checked the 10 m condx on Thursday morning: a few reasonably loud VKs, but nothing from Asia. 😉 Here are a few screenshots of the dashboards available now:Īnother WWDX-CW is in the books.

The KPA500 flow still has some potential for optimization (a few ideas in my head already, hi) but it will do as is for the moment.Īs always lots more ideas for additional stuff, lets see when I’ll have time again to dig a little deeper.

Rumlogng contest serial#

I found flows to control the Elecraft KPA500 and KAT500 as well so connected both with their serial interfaces to the RPi, too. Likewise for our NETIO power controllers. But after I recognized how all that stuff works it was no problem to implement. I had to reverse engineer a few things as there were no existing flows for our use case (our rotators are network connected and use TCP/IP instead of the more common serial interface for remote control).

Rumlogng contest windows#

being able to control everything no matter if using a Windows computer, a Mac, a tablet or even a smartphone.Īvailable stuff from other hams was a useful start (there’s a very active NODERED Ham Radio group on the groups.io forums). Furthermore PSTRotator only works on Windows and my approach to the remote setup is to make it OS independent, i.e. Drawback was: only one connection at a time making coordinating between operators almost impossible and inconvenient (starting/stopping software, trying to avoid blocking each other).

Rumlogng contest software#

We’ve been able to rotate computer-based using the superb PSTRotator software for over 10 years already. I had set up a Raspberry Pi as a NODERED server and now programmed a few dashboards to make it possible to remotely rotate all our antennas just using a web browser. I spent most of the time not on the radio but rather programming NODERED. Made about 250 QSOs, people had difficulties with the call even if we were CQing. Again not too motivated to operate but brought the special event call DM60UEA (60 years of Amateur Radio in Angermünde) onto the air on 2 m & 70 cm. around 15:30z providing EN91, FM17, FM19 squares.Īnother VHF contest.

Some more 4 m in between (EI, GM, OH) and a short 6 m opening to the U.S.

Rumlogng contest plus#

Have been heard in UA3 and IT9, too! While the latter might well have been ES (the band was open to the South) I suppose the first was rather MS.Ĭarribean on 6 m with ZF1EJ as a new one around 13:30z, plus HI8 (FK58) added to the mix. TIME CALLSIGN LOCATOR TX RX BAND MODE PROP. A bit later we had another brief opening, this time to UA6:. Two opened to Greece around 9:30z and I was very lucky to catch Erwin, DK5EW, on his DXpedition for a rare new square (unfortunately I missed him in the other ones). I doubt that the latter is legal but as always: WFWL – work first, worry later. Beaming East 6 m provided interesting QSOs and new squares with UN7DAT/NO00 and RD6AK/KN85. Early start this morning with the first QSO on 4 m at 7:30z into the Balkans.