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- New Beta testing worked squares 09/2010 (F1VEO) for 6m 10m and 2m

Update 13.05.2012
Back from France. Had my dad's car last 3 weeks. A Mercedes B-class.
Had my Kenwood Pro Mobile installed:

Update 20.04.2012
Well well , a good while since I wrote the last time over here. The reason is simple. End of october last year I broke my left arm so no radio, a bit of PC but no big typing till January
2012 :/

The news since:
- I'm well satisfied with my Kenwood TM-V71
- I got some Kenwood Pro Radios to play with - but it's not really ideal for Ham Radio use. Its a mobile 2m Rig and a UHF Handheld.

- Was several times in EA1 for work with only a little HT, becaus FT-817ND is out of price actually.
- bought some new battery holders for my Hora's - the original ones broke down
after 15 year. ( Look for the packs of ALAN-42 - they fit)

Update 25.09.2011
- My FT-7800 died a few weeks ago. I bought a Kenwood TM-V71E instead :-)

Update 25.01.2011
- New QSL cards ordered

Update 30.12.2010
- Finally finished my two DH8BQA Voicekeyers
The black one is for the TS-480, The more stylish one for the Yaesu FT-897D & my IC-271

Update 9.12.2010

=> Having some ideas for my french QTH
- Going satellite from base station :-) Till now only made handheld QSO's.
As most passes (70%) are below 60° elevation and above 10° a shorter slightly inclinated
crossyagi (2m/70cm combined) would be fine to use with an AZ-Rotator only.
I'm thinking of a combination of 2 DK7ZB designs , 4EL VHF and 5-9 el UHF with suitable SWR curves for satellite operations.
My friend F0FFY had many contacts also with northamerican OM's from IN77 with
his 4el VHF/9el UHF crossyagi.

Update 1.12.2010
- New car mount for my IC-706

- Replaced the balun housing of my 11el 2m Yagi.

- News & Comments
  - I'm still waiting for my GlobalQSL card I send to myself @ March 2010 .... Hope you got my card
  - Attention all direct QSL senders - Need to order new cards at Xmas
  - Got a new toy, an Android Phone (HTC Wildfire) - will soon write about some useful Ham app's here
  - I'm actually building two voice keyers for my rigs - contest & normal CQ'ing
  - QRV from Germany again on HF Bands with a half size G5RV (results are not so good)

Update 20.09.2010
- IARU VHF September Contest from IN77UT
Not any big chance for a good placement from over here but I like participating

Equippement
- FT-897D ~40W and the following Antenna Config.
- 5el DK7ZB Yagi on the House with rotator
- 9el Tonna direction EA with the IC-271E conntected
- 11el Yagi torwards UK ( no success with it HI ) - it was far too low abve ground

Worked Gridsquares

Older Updates I had no time to mention before:

- Build a FT-Meter for my Yaesu FT-897D with old Components I hab laying around
- Headset for Contest for my Yaesu FT-897D

- Now equipped for UHF @ IN77UT with my 9el DK7ZB Yagi ( actually found nobody for testing over here HI
- HB9CV for 6m now working (Diamond did a mistake while glueing the element color stickers)
But it' is still a bit outperfomrmed by my 5/8L homebrew 6m vertical

- Had my first MS QSO in SSB with S56P , Bostjan from Slovenia IN77UT<=>JN76PO

- Participated at the August VHF/UHF Microwave Contest for some hours only
results:
2x EA8 (IL18BL & IL18SK ), heard CT etc but first my rotator failed then , IC-271E failed ( RF regulation stage failure :-(
btw only 2m , no success on 70cm :-(

(EA8 not on Map)

Update 01.07.2010
- DL0UDS Clubstation ready for upcoming VHF/UHF Contest
Additional antennas are up and results are good.
The team will be composed of the regular members of DL0UDS

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Last Update 20.04.2012