Tuesday, October 30, 2007

GAME OVER

The Game is Over... CQWW DX SSB my best contest is over for this year, now we have to wait till 25 Oct 2008 for the next CQWW.

Anyhow it was big fun we had great time all the guys was great, every thing went as expected no hardware problem what so ever, anyhow we made around 5,000 qso and a score of 10.5M which looks fine for the current propagation status (Bottom of the solar cycle) .

as promised in my earlier post i have recorded the whole contest in to mp3 format files each 41mb in size to download them go to http://www.9k2hn.com and click on audio recording link.


Please let me what do you think, and also you can find your qso with me and see hos you sounded in the side, this recording was only in the Run station so if the qso is made from the mult station it is not recorded.


Enjoy

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Audio Recording (whole contest)

Yesterday I spent few hours looking in the internet for software enable me to record the whole CQWW contest in audio format and store it (or share it) in my pc, finally I found a great software which can record very easily and the audio file will not take much space on the HD and it is recording directly in MP3 format, the software name is RecAll-pro.

I have connected my radio IC-756 pro III from the rear audio jack and i found out that it is not recording my own voice... UMM i want to know what I have said also this is the main idea, so i had to buy a Y connector and plugged it in the front jack and in this way I can record both the transmitted audio plus the received one, by doing so the project is completed the most important thing is to press the record button in the beginning of the contest otherwise it will be waste of time and effort.


So when i'm done i will post a link where you can download the audio clip.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Getting ready for CQWW DX SSB

Time is really passing very fast i remember we have just finished from last year contest and we wear unhappy with the conditions, and here another year with bad conditions and in this time we are in the bottom of the solar cycle , so we have to keep in mind very low activity on 10m..... But this does not mean not to try 10m from time to time.

Both stations (Running + Mult) are ready, and this time there is a big improvement by adding the new 2 element monobander for 80m by optibeam this monster will boost our qso number AND Mult on 80m compared with a rotatable dipole in the previous years.

One more thing to add here is we are a guest operator coming all the way from Miami to Kuwait City just to participate in this event he is Marko N5ZO, we welcome him to the team and happy to accept him as a new friend.

Looking forward to work you all, Please give us a call when ever you hear us.

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