Monday 23 October 2017

CQ WW contest PH

This weekend I'll be in CQ WWcontest PH.
QRV from 40m to 10m mainly 15m.
please turn your beam to South Pacific.
see you in the contest
Hiro
A31MM

Thursday 5 October 2017

QRM on 40m

We have lot of QRM of illegal stations in Asia and pacific on 40m band.
This morning we had a QRM who was speaking Malaysia so it was difficult to copy EU stations.
I try again QRV on 40m tomorrow morning.
A31MM

Possible to QRV from 40m to 10m

Still FT-991 has a lack of TX power.
80m band is driving maxim 1.0 watt as QRP.......
40m band is 30 watt.
However from 40m to 10m getting around 500 watt helping by SPE Expert 1.3k-FA.
Unfortunately I can not QRV this season on 160m and 80m.

Before this FT-991 had same problem of lack power and repaired by Yaesu service, Moreover you can found same problem of FT-991 on Blogs. I don't recommend to use FT-991 on your important DX- pedition, losing pile up. 
I not sure but maybe FT-991A would be improved it.
A31MM
 

Wednesday 4 October 2017

FT-991 has a problem

FT-991 does not work well with TX power down,
on 40m 30 watt, 20m 80 watt.
However fortunately SPE Expert 1.3-FA work with small driving power to gain rated power.
A31MM

 

Monday 2 October 2017

40m QRV

Recently We have good propagation with EU on 40m around my sunrise time 17:30 UTC.
However weekday I can not QRV after 18:00 UTC, 07:00 local time, leaving office.
So before 18:00 I will QRV every day as much as possible.
A31MM

Sunday 1 October 2017

The season for DXer,s

We are going to summer season in south pacific ocean, starting the season of DX. Winter season in Northern hemisphere.

In the morning time the signals from North America and Caribbean sea are reaching to South Pacific and improving on 20m,15m and 10m.
Around sunrise and sunset time the signal from Europe also improving on 40m.
I will setup an antenna for 80m soon. I'm not sure construct an antenna for 160m yet.

This weekend I' be on OC DX contest SSB and next week CW.
However in JA this weekend ACAG domestic contest is held by JARL which is one of the major contests for JA contestors.

I will finish QRV from Tonga the end of year 2017.
and I'll be on CQ WW PH/CW and JIDX on November.

See you next contest
A31MM