[Moon-net] 6 mtr activity PE1BTX

[Gerard van den Berg]

Hello All,

After some problems with my RX on 6 mtr last couple of weeks everything is working OK again.
Writing the following story with a red colour of shame till behind my ears ;-))
Changed my 4-way coupler and (water and some damaged conectors) and found water in one of the connectors near a dipole.
Measured everything I could measure, SWR near dipoles, resistance of Allu - CU at the DE blocks etc. etc.  SWR is perfect now.
Still no good RX but than David MM0AMW did his Christmas deed and asked if there maybe was an attunator (by accidant) switched on?
As a real ham in never have red any manual on my TS690S and coming out of the Semco Terzo/IC202 decade i have never had a radio with so many little knobs b4 :-)
That's also the reason why a 756PROII is still untouched on the shelf here ;-), tjeeezz, how many little knobs can you put on a front?
But after looking again with my reading glases on I found this little knob saying [att]  and putting me down about 20db !!!
Tnx indeed David for this wunderfull remark ;-)
Now all is ok again and probably working with the best serviced 6 mtr array ever.
Worked the following in the last week (month on 2 mtr), somethimes using the special call PF30FRG

6 mtr:
17-12-2007    W7GJ    Lance  at -27 with 20db attunation, so Lance was actually -7db !!!!!
24-12-2007    G4IGO   Ken 
26-12-2007    ZL3TY    Bob
26-12-2007    VK7JG   Joe
27-12-2007    W5UWB JohnB
28-12-2007    LA4ANA Robert  5 el short boom / 100W  real EME QRP init # 56   -26db
28-12-2007    AA4SC   Ric only heard him, NC :-( 

Working Robert was a real thrill, heard him b4 in november with his QRP setup with -28db
So it was worth puting some time in a test because he did see me already several times.
Robert is now my smallest station worked on 6 off the moon

2 mtr:
01-12-2007   DL9MS, AO6VQ, RU1AA, I2RV, LY2BAW, DK5WL, SM5CFS, K7MI, K9KNW, YU7XL, EB5EEO
24-12-2007   LZ1OA, RA4HCN, DG0OPK, G4EZP, 9A3GE, G4ZFJ, S52LM, F8DO, EA3XU, K3IB
27-12-2007   OM3BC

Tonight again I will be QRV from Moonrise on 6 mtr and maybe a bit on 2 mtr depending on activity on 6
A single yagi and a few hundred watt's can be enough, so please call.
You will find me on the N0UK logger and the KST 50MHz. chat 

VY 73's Gerard PE1BTX

2 mtr  4 x 12DK7ZB / QRO
6 mtr  4 x 6M7JHV  / QRO

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8 x 6M11JKV on a 22 mtr / 20 tons mobile crane