Category Archives: Just stuff…
Some inactivity…
Well, I haven’t been writing for a while due to extremely poor conditions, a heavy workload and some business trips. I will, however, try to do some updates during the weekend. A few new QSL’s has arrived and I’ve been testing some *very* portable equipment the last few days. More about all this very soon! Have patience, friends!
Edit 26th of March; Ok, folks… looks like it will take one or two days more before I get time to do my updates, due to some unexpected family matters.
73!
Hans
Now this must be a joke… or..?
Hey! Check this out: Link
The Aerosol Spray Antenna! What’s next? The Aerosol Ferrite Spray? With one spraybox of each you will be able to spray up at least a 20″ FSL anywhere in no time.
Hans
Back to Vardø!
After being away from Vardø since the 28th of November, I’m going back again. If everything works out fine I will have an ETA in Vardø at 13:28 local time tomorrow. I really hope there will be some periods with good conditions in January and beginning of February. I will be in Vardø until the second week in February, when I fly to Stavanger again for yet another three weeks.
From tomorrow, there will be more activity on this site!
Have Faith!
Hans
New policy regarding audio files on this site
Hello all!
My intention with sharing my audio files here in the blog, was to let people listen to the file here on this site, not downloading them. I constantly get messages from box.net telling me that “someone downloaded this” and “someone downloaded that”. I can’t see any reason for anyone anonymous to download any audio files from my site without asking me first. Unfortunately, box.net doesn’t provide any possibility to prohibit downloading, so from now on I will not publish any new audio files containing “goodies” from North America or Asia until I get the station verified myself. If I need to share a file with someone, I will do so by using plain e-mail.
As soon as I get a station verified, I will publish the related audio file. Please note that all files that currently is published in the list is free to download.
Sorry,
Hans
KGO San Francisco, CA-810 gives a lecture in QRM troubleshooting
Time for bed, but before I hit the sack, I would like to share
the following link with you:
To KGO article about noise and static troubleshooting
Anyone knowing a working e-mail adress to KGO, by the way?
Good night!
Hans
Class G2 geomagnetic storm…
The mediumwave band is in pretty bad shape after the class G2 geomagnetic storm that has occured during the last 24 hours. A- and K-indexes are slowly moving down. K-index is currently on a nice 2, but the A-index is still on a high 16. This means that it’s an excellent evening for sorting out the recordings from last weekend and writing some reception reports. When the reception reports are written and sent, I will upload a bunch of audio files for your amusement. Have patience!
Update: and during the late evening, the A-index raised to an even more horrible 28! Ouch…
I’m still waiting for a reply from UNTV in Quezon City regarding the reception of their programme on 1350 KHz. Thanks to helpful information from co-DX:ers in the NorDX Yahoo group, I’m now quite sure that what I heard was an overnight relay of the UNTV programme via DZXQ-1350 Pasig City, Metro Manila.
73,
Hans
Leaving Vardø
I’m leaving Vardø for a while now, and will not be back until October 17. Hope condx is better when I get back here. The last weekend was dominated by a class G1 storm, and at it’s worst the MW-band sounded like a frying-pan up here. So, I’ve spent some time doing other things than radio.
Anyway, I will try to update the blog from time to time also when I’m away. I’ve loaded my USB memory stick with some .mp3-recordings that I haven’t examined yet, so I have definetely some radio-related stuff to spend time with during lonely evenings in boring hotel rooms, hi!
73 for now,
Hans
Beautyful “pre sunset event” in Vardø
This picture was taken at 18:20 local time (16:20 UTC). It’s not top quality, I’m afraid, since it was taken with the lousy camera in my iPhone…
The files section, and some other stuff…
…as some of you most probably have noted already, the section with downloadable files and logs is empty. I know that some of you have downloaded a few of the testfiles that I had uploaded earlier. Just a reminder: these are just test-files. Yes, they are actual log-files, but the logs are not from Vardø – they are from Biri on Østlandet. I´m currently reworking the files-section, that’s why it’s currently empty, and I hope to be finished later this week.
Saturday evening/night to sunday, I went on a “mini pedition” to a QRM-free environment just about 1 km from my home, and did some listening from the car. More about that, and a few pictures from the event, later this week.
Hans
