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Today I recieved some help with my antenna assembly. Well she was more intrested of eating grass and chasing other animals. But it is nice with some company! *smile*

OK so maybe I am a bit too much at times, mening I collect far to many projects. But after the adventures at the Scandinavian VHFmeeting where some folks worked 122GHz, I just had to get some gear myself, not primarily for 122GHz but for 24 and 47… So I got these bits and pieces. A new 24 GHz transverter and LO from Kuhne. And a used station from DL7QY with 47,76 and 122GHz (there is a small dish under the opened box so a complete setup).

I bought myself an ICOM 705 to use primarily when going portable with microwve gear. I have only tested with a few QSOs, it seems like a nice rig.

So I read a bit about it from different persons feeding these networks. Apparently some people uses multiple recievers with the same station ID pushing as much info as they can. So I bought 3 more dongles and 3 more antennas. Will set it up asap (even though this is not my prio 1 project).

check my page for “antennas and towers” : My antennas & towers

There you will find some news about my infrastructure projects. It seems like i have completed the digging for this year. As soon as I have the connectivity up and running I can start to become QRV again.

I have been buys lately rebuilding the entire SM7SJR setup on the ground. Burying coax cables, fibre and more stuff…  Take a look at  “My antennas & towers”   for pictures of the “disaster”  , *LOL*

So I finally gathered parts and got the ADS-B reciever going.  ADS-B  is flighttracking, I am feeding to at least one network : opensky. I am sometimes also feeding ADS-B Exchange and Radarbox.  The reason for me to do this is interest in aircrafts but also to feed our “own network” (airscout).

I will later on publish some info of how I did set up my raspberry PI for this. But not now… *smile*

So my boltek pci lightning detector will give way for a blitzortung detector instead.  looking forward to playing around with this one.

It was quite a bit of time since I updated the blog.  Well what is new? I have a 2el for 40m mounted but have not yet used it.  Playing around with the ideas of an antenna mount for my planned 80m vertical. I am still very much thinking of 160m DXing… but I have a few projects I need to finish off first. Like getting QRV with tropo gear for 23cm, 6cm and 3cm.

Playing around with my ANAN-200D and Thetis. Even though I have used these rigs for quite some time now, I get impressed every now and then.