Final adjustment of 2xK9AY phased RX system

I mentioned my 2xK9AY receiving phased system many times here. It has been installed during last winter. All cables were installed temporarily and I didn´t care much about them. I slightly sorted them out during the March but it was still temporary installation. Some time I achieved to ride with grass-cutter among the cables without any problem. But accident came without any notice and one coax cable got direct cut. So right moment occured to make the final installation.


The following pictures show how the final installation gone:

1. hard work on southern K9AY - the intrenchment of control cables and koax










2. hard work on northern K9AY





3. control and phased unit

4. inside view

5. phasing cable

6. view to southern antenna. Only N-S loop is installed.

How it probably started II.

My first entry to this blog was my photo from 1970, where I and my father were sitting next to some undefined equipment which provided curious sounds. In addition to this my father very often spoke to it and repeated unintelligible words sounding like "sííkjů sííkjů".

Authentic witness (my mother :-) ) confirmed that this words (means "sííkjů sííkjů") sound very often during my "job" on chamber-pot.


I have found another photos so they are here::


As I remember well it is hard job on Christmas present (medium wave receiver ). Please watch the absorption!




Here is something more interesting. Experts can recognize the Russian army receiver R-250.
On the right side you can see the TX module "made in my Father".



The miniaturisation was coming to countryside as well. In front of me is another father´s homebrew TRX.

Award - EU HF Contest 2008

I received award for 12th place in EUHFC 2008 a couple weeks ago. So it is here. You can find my comments concerning this contest here.

CQ 160m Contest 2009

Please find the copy of 3830 report and the list of countries sorted by quantity of QSO:

Call: OK6Y
Operator(s): OK2PTZ
Station: OK6Y

Class: Single Op LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 695  State/Prov = 16  Countries = 59
Total Score = 267,675

Club:

Comments:

Very nice contest! My first serious participation. I did
not believe I can made 700 QSO on one band from the centre
of the town.

I spent 2 weeks before contest to prepare new RX antennas
- 2x K9AY end-fire/broadband array. It "improved" my ears
for sure. :-)

So thanks for all contacts.

73!
Tom
OK2PTZ/OK6Y
http://ok6y-eng.blogspot.com/

Total QSO :701

#	Country	QSO
1	Fed. Rep. of Germany	122
2	Czech Republic	68
3	European Russia	53
4	Ukraine	51
5	Poland	43
6	Slovenia	32
7	United States	28
8	Hungary	24
9	Lithuania	24
10	Slovakia	20
11	Serbia & Montenegro	17
12	Finland (OH1)	16
13	Netherlands	16
14	Romania (YO7)	16
15	Sweden (SM5)	15
16	England	13
17	European Italy	13
18	Asiatic Russia	12
19	Belarus (EU7)	11
20	Latvia	10
21	Croatia	9
22	Norway	8
23	Bulgaria	7
24	Denmark	6
25	Estonia	5
26	Switzerland	5
27	Belgium	5
28	Canada	5
29	Spain (EA5)	4
30	Moldova	4
31	Austria (OE3)	3
32	Kaliningradsk	3
33	Portugal	2
34	Azores	2
35	France	2
36	Cyprus	2
37	Greece	2
38	Kazakhstan	2
39	Qatar	1
40	Morocco	1
41	Madeira Is.	1
42	Canary Is.	1
43	Ireland	1
44	Israel	1
45	Georgia	1
46	Tajikistan	1
47	Isle of Man	1
48	Northern Ireland	1
49	Scotland	1
50	Shetlands	1
51	Wales	1
52	Japan	1
53	Luxembourg	1
54	Aland Is.	1
55	Faroe Is.	1
56	Turkey	1
57	Iceland	1
58	Macedonia	1
59	UK Bases on Cyprus	1

IOTA Contest 2008 - results

3rd place in Dx-expedition Mixed unassisted 24 hours category.

Detailed results you can find here

EU HF Contest 2008 - results

I came across EU HF Contest 2008 results during my browsing on internet. I have been surpriced by very fast contest evaluation. My congratulations to contest commitee.

Brief commentary on my result. I haven´t achieved TOP 10 in MIX LP category again.
Small comfort for me is the move forward for 1 position to 12th place in MIX LP category in comparison with last year. I can achieve TOP 10 by this progress in 2 years. :-)

Nice result has been achieved by Peter OL6P in CW LP category - 5th place.

Other nice results of Czech stations in this unofficial European Championship:
OL8M - 5th place in CW HP
OL3Z - 6th place in CW LP

In national competition the Czech republic moved forward to 8th place. It´s a pity that lower amount of Czech stations participated in this contest. For instance I have been only one station in MIX LP from OK!

Complete results you can find here.

SO2R station - installation of Master units

I have decided to improve my SO2R station after the WW DX contest. I have focused to automatic switching of antennas and BPFs. This feature is provided by 2 pieces of Master Station units from Microham.

I have to say that the options of this unit are really wide. You can:
- configure RX/TX antennas for each band
- configure virtual rotator for 4 square
- control SteppIR
- many other features that you can find on Microham web pages

It is really significant improvement of my SO2R station.

I only have to exploit it during the contest! :-)