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Click for more detail... tnx for visiting folks For ORION 2 , FLEX 5000C Test Reports use link or scroll down . http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5564 http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6627
Autom., remote, symm. Ant. Tuner (1.5KW??-160 to 10m) AT-515 http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/8035
------General Info/News: --Lookup Counter now, add 20 000 from external QRZ system reset 15. Oct. 07. ==================================== QRMers, Call sign misuse, busted calls and not very many people seem to really care about it !? It is incredible, but sad reality and not limited to DXpeditions: Witnessed, frequent QRMing and Call Faking QRG-Terror against me and others. This includes badmouthing, faking DX-Cluster entries and misusing my call (e.g. 14.+ 12. May 09 http://www.dxsummit.fi/Search.aspx ). --Call sign (HB9CVQ) misused on HF, e.g. on 80m in RUDX CW Contest 16. March 08 early morning, by ruthless, suspected, long history, notorious QRMer. Several, partly simultaneously operated, remote controlled internet based amateur radio stations seem involved too in EU (e.g. often bearing from LX NW, from Munich SE) and even NA. In addition this guy sweeps the HAM Bands (and outside!!) with noise/carriers and is jamming the DX windows. This is mainly on 40/80/30m. Often rare DX is faked. For further info please check DX Cluster, e.g. http://www.ve3sun.com/ DX Monitor announcements or scroll down. There is, almost daily, malicious QSO Radio Stalking (CW,SSB) by the suspect to HB9CVQ and others. Recently in QSO (17.Jan 09, SSB, 3780.2MHz at 02:19Z) with PA3CRC, there was suspected evidence of simultaneously, faked retransmission of my call , with distorted modulation (splatter) of my signal about 20kHz below. My measurement with a spectrum analyzer, done right away, proved my TX and Amp. 100% ok. These are just two of many mean misuses. In CQ-M CW Contest (10./11. May 2009) HB9CVQ was over a long period of time bugged with an unusually high number of reissued dupes from my log. --Almost daily Pirating, Call Faking, e.g. HB9CVQ de W2AN "Bill" , CW, 3.521MHz, 0149Z, Jan/07/2009. Email + phone contact with Ed K2MP proved again faking! International Investigations are ongoing. Good things sometimes take very long time. --Since Sept. 2007 HB9CVQ no longer operates HB9Z - no QSLs please. I left that club after 25 years, unpleasant HAM Spirit there now. Almost nobody here cared about good CW activities anymore. ==================================== ------QTH:
------History/present Activity: QRV since 1969 (DK2VQ) + HB9CVQ since 1983 (JN47EI) QRV from 160m to 10m, CW and in SSB. (HSC 643 >25Wpm, CTC #1.039, VHSC 394 > 40Wpm) http://www.fmcnet.de/hsc http://www.morsecode.nl/hscindex.html
Main activity HF: 160m-10m, mostly CW some SSB, including Contesting: e.g. CQ WW CW 2006 1. place Single Op assisted Switzerland, 1. place HB9 high CW SO 2007 WPX, 6. place WORLDWIDE CW ARRL 2006 Single Op assisted, 3. place HSC Contest 2/2007, 2. place BUG Party Feb.07 AGCW DL, ALL Asian DX CW 2007 (1.place HB9) etc. Guest Op of TA1EMC 5/2003. Also active in SSB as RRDXA-Team-CQWW (M/M) and Guest-Op from 2004 under HB0/HB9AON ( www.rn-soft.de/new/?Amateurfunk:HB0_-_Liechtenstein_-_Expeditionen )and 2007 CW under LX7I (M/2)( http://www.lx2a.com ). Guest-Op in 2008 CQ WPX-CW under DR1A (M/M) ( http://www.df0cg.de/de/ ) also Guest-Op 2007/2008 at DL1A ( http://www.qrz.com/db/dl1a ) Also frequently using W4MQ http://www.w4mq.com and other Internet Remote Stations for condx/ant. testing.
------Shack: Orion 2 ------Technical: antennas: 160/80/40/30/20m Doublet (Dipole 2x 25m -300 Ohm rugged window line feeder 12m) 12m high, horizontal Vee configuration with ATU. 40m dipole at 26m up in sloping horiz. Vee shape to east Experimenting with small shielded loops and preamps for 160/80/40m 6el (3 active) Trap Yagi Beam: 10 MHz to 30 MHz one system for WARC, one for the classical bands, one boom,16m off the ground, 5m above the roof, two 50 Ohm coax feeder cables station: TX max Pwr:1kW out ORION 2, mod. Flex 5000C, (mod IC761, IC-735; spare); ACOM 2000A, (mod. TL922, spare) CW-Keys: Schurr Profi 2, Black Bencher, Vibroplex SUPER De LUXE (1962), Junkers straight Key and in Contests Computer Keyboard
------QSLing: Uploaded all logs (>100.000) under HB9CVQ to e-QSLs (Status AG) http://www.eqsl.cc/qslcard/Index.cfm and LOTW http://www.arrl.org/lotw/. Regarding QSL-Info, incl. HB0/HB9CVQ, DL/HB9CVQ and others, as well as Contests, my priority is always LOTW/eqsl + answering direct cards. QSO-UPLOAD normally at the end of each month. I stopped working on my "QSL via bureau" response. Experience showed this may typically take more than one year,if started prudently! The choice is yours.
------ Tnx. Anyway enjoy DXing, Contesting and/or Rag Chewing, 73 hpe cuagn.------ ++++++Never the less fairness and HAM-SPIRIT will prevail, no question!++++++
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Test Report Flex 5000C 14. Jan 2009 see eham http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6627 In the following you find recent technical updates and experimental results regarding my Flex 5000C Tansceiver. The F5KC performed very well in ARRLCW DX 09 contest. The focus screen ( PowerSDR/Logging Program) problem in S&P mode and logging will hopefully be solved soon. ====================== (updated March 2009) The proposed fix with five ferrites on a longer ribbon cable works very well on all bands. Almost ( 60ms) QSK, using RX1, works ok, practically no hick-ups, but relay chatter acoustic noise. On using RX 2, there is still RF coupling (Rx2 only audio muting) , mostly from the 3 thin coax cables coming from the RFIO board. Ferrites will be installed here soon too. Additional improvement was made by grounding the external cable shields ( e.g. key, PTT) to the thin galvanized ground plane under the Flex and Power Supply. No ESD effects on touching the key anymore. After the grounding the cable shield goes through a CM cable choke and internally 100uH and 4.7nF per pin. Generally speaking , the EMI Chassis protection principle of Zoning (separation barrier in/outside) is broken by having RCA connectors, Key or Firewire not 360 deg. terminated to the conductive rear panel at cable entry. The connectors are grounded on the inside of the Flex for easy manufacturing, unsuitable for EMC. Work on the thermal issues in contests: presently solved by taking off the side covers of the chassis and using an external fan , blowing into the CPU compartment. Accoustic noise will have to be reduced here too in the future. ====================== (update April 2009) Ferrite loading of the thin coax cables from the RFIO board (RX1, RX2) further reduced coupling. The fact that RX2 is only audio muted requires more experiments, sniffing for uncontrolled RF internally in the Flex on the board to board cabling. The Rx BC Ghost stations effect (spurious) mainly on 17 and to some extent on 40m is temporarily solved by using individual band pass filters ( http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/wx0bbpf6.htm#200W ) ( http://www.arraysolutions.com/Hamation/bandpassfilters.htm#top%20of%20page ). On some bands depending on selectivity of the antenna used, this effect can be demonstrated. An automated filter band pass selection version is under consideration by Flex , may be somewhere in 2010. ===================== (update Nov. 2009) SW PowerSDR V 1.18.0 Flex 5000C is now fitted with a functional set of band pass filters (200W, Contesting 160 to 10m) plus individual WARC BP filters (almost 1500$US). The result is very impressive. No Rx BC Ghost stations anywhere and some Rx noisefloor reductions on some bands of over 10 dB! Bad luck: Second time I had to replace a failed RFIO board (1: ESD, 2: CW QSK problem with el.-mech. relays?). Both RX are ok again. One more, unsolved problem however is with additional PA failure. Output is now max 7 W above 17m ( increasing with higher bands). The good news: Service and support by Klaus from FLEX HQ EU, Germany, is excellent!. Present status: Compared to my Orion 2 TT, QSK (QRQ 30 to 40Wpm) and CW feeling are much better here. Bandscope of F5KC is however much better. Flex Software mouse focus problem ( TRX operating surface or logging program ) on the other hand is very difficult to handle in contests. Still fighting some occasional Break-in CW hick-ups of the Flex 5KC. Additionally the imperfect RX2 muting on TX is causing trouble mainly in CW Break-in with less than 200ms. There is a very disturbing audio bang and S-Meter signals (RX2), way above S9+40. Some investigations still point to another EMC problem, a very time consuming search effort. RF seems to leak through PA100 connector SV1 HTRX onto the PS 13.8V of HTRX and further into RX2. Ferrite might help again. More to come, stay tuned. ================================== Annex--unpleasant stuff:
Some HB9CVQ Monitoring of HF Bands QRMer and Call Faker (DX Cluster Announcements)
limited time period: 16. Feb. to 14. May 2009 09-02-16 2130 HB9CVQ QRMer Remote? bad CW, QRS,Broadband QRM, up, idiot, faker, 09-05-05 2105 HB9CVQ QRMer Faker on 21280 very weak 09-05-07 2149 HB9CVQ 7024.3 QRMer Faker hats QRQ 09-05-10 1643 HB9CVQ 28.228 QRMerFaker??!! 20 Khz sig. broad partly , IQ8CZ/B 10 ... -.-
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