IF YOU PLANNING CONTEST ANTENNAS - Hi Hi

FOR SALE !!!!!

Sackville shortwave transmission farm of Radio Canada International FOR SALE (last day of operations Oct 31, 2012). In case your planning the new contest location and antennas, here we are !!. You can buy the building, the land, the transmitters and antennas !

There are 7 Thomson 250KW and 2 Harris 100KW sort waves transmitters and running within factory specifications, switched between large curtain array antennas located on 250 acress close to the Atlantic Ocean. By the way we have also in Greece some locations like this by the ex VOA in Serres, Kavalla, Crete etc if you ... interested to buy !
Info from  RADIO WORLD international edition magazine :

Good Luck !
73, Spiros SV8CS

LDE X Flare In Progress - Sunspot 1520 - July 12, 2012

We have a LDE (long duration event) X flare in progress. Starting at a C4.7 @ 16:11 UTC, The X ray flux peaked at a X1.4 @ 16:52 UTC. .This LDE X flare is from Sunspot 1520. Sunspot region 1520 is directly Earth facing today.

http://mysolaralerts.blogspot.dk/2012/07/lde-x-flare-in-progress-sunspot-1520.html

A CME can now be seen on STEREO B. This CME does appear to be earth directed. STEREO A has not updated since 14:24 UTC today.
73 de Spiros- SV8CS

6m QSO with W7EW

50Mhz qso with West coast (Salem Oregon) from Zante Island, Greece.
On 29 of June 2012  at 17:54z, I made an impressive QSO with Lew, W7EW from Salem Oregon on 6m (50.091 CW). Lew's signal was loud here at the peak level 539 on my QTH (Zante Island, KM07JS).
Here, I am using a single 7 elements LFA antenna http://www.g0ksc.co.uk/ with my TS-480.
I was on my second QTH  about 7Km West from main QTH, that is at 560m a.s.l.
W7EW has an impressive antenna instalation using also LFA antennas. He has 6 X 7  WOS LFA Yagis http://www.g0ksc.co.uk/ stacked upon a 175' fully rotating tower.
Here is the W7EW's antenna Foto:

And this my antenna for 6m at the second QTH. Station powered by solar panels - wind generator and Bateries :

SV8CS second QTH at 560m a.s.l.

Thank you Lew for this Long distance 6m QSO (not via the moon) and hope to see you again on 6m.
73, and mny DX on 6m band.
Spiros, SV8CS

2m EME QSO with KH7Y

KH7Y confirm QSO 2m EME in JT65B mode

17 June 2012 I had a very nice 2m EME qso with Fred KH7Y in digital mode JT65B (WSJT-K1JT).
FRED, has a single 17 elements antenna without elevation. From my side using 4X16 elements by I0JXX. In the next future Fred will upgrade his system to 4 antennas with AZ and EL. and the EME qso's will be easyer with KH7Y. I would like to thank Fred for his patience to copmlete the QSO with me.
73, see you of the Moon de Spiros, SV8CS

MY 1st QSO with SP9HWY on 4m, FSK441

LFA antennas: 6m and 4m at SV8CS's 2nd QTH.

My 1st QSO with Poland on 4m band.
Today 01/06/2012 at 03:06 complete a 4m QSO via M/S using FSK441 with Jurek, SP9HWY.
Jurek's set-up was a 6 elements YU7EF antenna and 20W.
From my side used 6 elements antenna LFA http://www.g0ksc.co.uk/ and the Kenwood TS-480 with OZ2M's modified by HA1YA, ( ME4-T transverter).
http://ha1ya.config.hu/htmkepek/4mtransverterspec.htm
From 01/06/2012 Polish Radio amateurs have access to the 4m band.
http://dziennikustaw.gov.pl/du/2012/537/1
Here a screen shot of Yurek's transmitions.
024630 1.7 180 3 26 -88 Q SV8CS SP9HWY SV8CS SP,HS
030630 2.5 2770 3 36 111 6 SV8CS SP9HWY R26 R26 SV8CS SP9HWY R26
Thank you Jurek. I hope to see you also via Es on 4m.
73, Spiros - SV8CS

SV5/DJ6SI arrested as SPY!! INCREDIBLE.

My self with DJ6SI in Friedrichshafen 2003.

He was TXing "mysterious signals with Computer"!!!!!

Mysterious signals = CW and RTTY.

News copyed from SV2DCD's blog.

http://sv2dcd.blogspot.de/2012/05/what-shame-for-greek-authorities.html

What a shame !!
DJ6SI Baldur was having vacations on the Island of Kos when the Greek authorities thought that he was a spy will he was transmiting from his radio !!!!!!
WHAT A SHAME !!! THIS CAN HAPPEN ONLY IN GREECE !!
I HAVE NO WORDS TO SAY !!

Look where DJ6SI have been all those years from 1962 till today http://www.pileup.de.com/

70 countries all over the world and only in Greece the "smart " authorities thought that he was a spy ?????
SHAME on the Greek authorities !!

SV8CS's 2nd QTH (Field day ECO pwr).

6M, VHF, UHF 2nd QTH

SV8CS-Spiros , SV8KOS-Thomas, SV8NAC-Anna

Solar and wind energy powered SV8CS' 2nd QTH

West View from 2nd QTH at (KM07JR) at 560m a.s.l.

Hope to see you this season in Es or M/S

73, Spiros - SV8CS

EY8ZF 2m EME digital QSO

Rene, PE1L and Frank, DL8YHR was active for only 2,5 moonpasses (27-04-2012 to 29-04-2012) in 2m EME (144.134) from Tajikistan with the call EY8ZF (locator MM48jn). The antennas was a 2X9 el. DF7KF  for 2m and 38 el. M2 single antenna for 432 Mhz.
They had a very good signal off the Moon and I would like to thank you both for the QSO and NEW ONE on 2m via EME.
The most important is that they slept only 1 hour after the 24 hours trip and start to build the antennas to be active as soon as posible.
Congratulations once again for nice job and for patience to stay every day from moonrise to moonset there on the radio.
Check the link below for foto colection from EY8ZF.
http://www.ey8mm.com/pictures/view-album/57
For more info about this EME dxpedition and new coming is here:
http://www.emelogger.com/
The Team gives BIG thanks to Nodir EY8MM for the great host of their activity.
The complete antenna set-up (inclunding power dividers and all cables) stays at EY8MM station for future activity.
73, Spiros SV8CS

NASA: A BIG BLAST

Big Blast - April 16th 2012. FLARE and CME.
Look the video in YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7brf0OG6P0&feature=player_embedded

On Monday, April 16 - 2012, NASA captured a huge eruption from the sun, accompanied by a solar flare and Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). Known as a prominence, such eruptions can extend many miles into space. Since this eruption was pointed away from Earth, the blast and accompanying mass ejection -- a cloud of charged particles often responsible for aurorae on Earth -- won't affect the home planet's atmosphere.
The sunspot continued to circle toward Earth though, with the potential for further eruptions, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center said Wednesday that the several eruptions pointing away from Earth may have put the sunspot region into a state of decay, making subsequent eruptions less likely.
This prominence eruption reached about 198,000 miles off the "surface" of the sun. The Earth is around 98 million miles away, so it wasn't even close. The frames were taken 36 seconds apart from each other; the actual event lasted several hours. The Solar Dynamics Observatory collected the images and they are in extreme ultraviolet. This red-colored wavelength is 304 angstroms, which shows plasma at around 50,000 Kelvin. You can't see this with the naked eye.
73,Spiros -SV8CS

4U1ITU-J52EME-3W4TC, 2m EME new one.

4U1ITU - J52EME - 3W4TC 144 Mhz QSO via EME digital mode.

I worked last days, 3 new one on 2m via EME digital mode (WSJT by K1JT - JT65B).
1) 4U1ITU dxpedition to ITU by Chris PA2CHR, Johan PA3FPQ, Jurgen PE1LWT  and Rene PE1L.
http://www.emelogger.com/

Foto: ITU building roof.
Video YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BB9686597143823&feature=mh_lolz
2) J52EME DXPedition by Verona Italy DX Team.
http://www.ari.verona.it/veronadxteam/en/

Foto : IK3VVD,I3VJW,IK3RBE,I3LDP,IZ3BUR,IK3ESB from Guinea Bissau making the first EME digital QSO. Antenna 2X8 el X pol.

3) 3W4TC DXpedition by Herman DL2NUD and Peter DJ4TC in Vietnam (XV4HP & 3W4TC).

http://www.mmmonvhf.de/latest.php?id=4125

Foto 3W4TC 2m antenna 17 elem.
73 de Spiros, SV8CS

TRIATHLON DX CONTEST

It all started in August of 2011. That was about when it occurred to Mike, SV5BYR that a big Greek Contest was missing from international Ham Radio Contest Calendar. By the end of September this idea became mature and so the "Triathlon" was born! A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. And as you have already guessed, it is a Greek word. We had to change a bit the name to Triathlon Dx Contest to match our activity. Actually, trying here to simulate the original Triathlon athletic event, we involved three major ham radio modes, SSB, CW, RTTY. It will be a 24 hour non-stop event divided in three sections, each one devoted to a different mode. There are some tentative rules of the contest that you can take a look. It will take place every Saturday, the 1st full weekend of February, debuting on 02-02-2013.In this point we have to mention all the Greek amateurs who are working to make this event alive: SV1DPI, SV1NK, SV2AGW, SV2DCD, SV5BYR, SV7JAR, SV8CS, SV8RX, SV9GPV, SV9DJO…

There is still a lot of work to be done and more details to be announced. Stay tuned! Of course there too many contests already but they are not all the same!

Till the show begins keep your eye on:

http://triathlon-dx-contest.blogspot.com/

IQ2MI Beacon QRSS 501.36 Khz

The IQ2MI qrss beacon as received here on my QTH (Zakynthos island KM07JS)  date 22/11/2011, with Yaesu FT2000 and 200m long beverage antenna. The IQ2MI beacon is a QRP transmitter with about 0.4 Watt output. The estimated ERP power is at about 0.025 Watt.Beacon send CW ID in QRSS mode flowed by fast CW.The IQ2MI locator is JN45NL and the antenna is a toploaded capacitive 60 meters long with 3 spaced wires and a vertical section of 16 meters.Used the spectrum lab program by DL4YHF http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/spectra1.html

IQ2MI beacon antenna.

IQ2MI beacon location at JN45NL, near Milano (Sezione ARI Milano).
http://lnx.arimi.it/?page_id=788
73, de Spiros SV8CS (22/11/2011).

70.200 Mhz TEP qso (SSB & Digital) with ZS6WAB

FOTO: My second QTH powered with GREEN energy (Solar panels and Wind Generator).
Antenna for 4m band: LFA 6 elements. RIG: TS480 with transverter  ME4-T by HA1YA.
http://ha1ya.config.hu/transverters.htm
21 September 2011, at 18:15z, I had a very nice TEP qso with ZS6WAB in SSB (signal 52 clear) on 70.200 Mhz and digital using ISCAT mode, (look WSJT program by K1JT).
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/
The decoded lines in ISCAT mode are here:
182330   -13   -43   SV8CS   ZS6WAB   R-15   R-15
182330   -17   -43   73 ZS6WAB
I hope to see you on 70 Mhz (4m band soon).
73 Spiros - SV8CS

6M Marathon contest 2011

I like to thanks all 6m Marathoners making qso's with them and help me to touch the first place world wide in the 8th 6m Marathon 2011.Many thanks also to the Finland very nice organization of this 6m Marathon contest.More info you can see at : http://6m.dy.fi

The 6m 2011 Marathon was started at 7 May and ended 7 August 2011. Thank you and I hope to see all of you next year in the 9th 6m Marathon. 73 de Spiros SV8CS.

6m EME qso with W7GJ, with 12v bateries

5 July 2011 at 20:03 I had an EME qso with Lance W7GJ.This was not my first but I made this QSO from my remote 2nd QTH with my Ecological- Green powered station.

I am using a Kenwood TS-480 (without external preamplifier), Linear amplifier TE-Systems at 150W in (JT65a mode), and 7 elements LFA-2 WOS antenna, without elevation.

This set-up is powered by solar and wind enegy (ECO station), using 4 bateries 12v- 200A/h each (totaly 800A/h).That was my 1st 6m EME with Green power station and 12v bateries.

TNX to Lance and 73 to all de Spiros, SV8CS

QSO details:

194800 4 -19 1.9 57 1 # SV8CS W7GJ DN27 OOO 1 0

195000 0 -29 1.8 54 39

195200 6 -23 1.9 78 1 # SV8CS W7GJ DN27 OOO 1 10

195359 1 -31 64 0 RRR

195559 0 -29 1.6 48 25

195759 2 -30 41 2 73