Ham radio blog by OZ1BXM

When I began EME operation, I decided to confirm QSOs with a QSL-card related to Moonbounce. I had a picture of my EME-antennas pointing at ...

I worked my first initial yesterday morning. I answered the CQ of EA8DBM, and he came back to me right away! It was a wonderful feeling gett...

I've tried different antennas for EME on 144 MHz without much success. The antenna gain was 11-12 dBd. Sometimes an antenna received few...

My elevation rotor KR-550 was repaired and remounted last month. So far, so good. My next step was replacing the 2 x 6 vertical yagis with...

My Kenpro KR-550 rotator was "frozen" and could not move in any direction. I searched for advice (Google is your friend) and found...

Some weeks ago, my elevation rotor KR-550 "froze". It does not move, and the elevation is fixed at 45 degrees. The elevation rot...

Last evening, just before midnight, the Moon was high in the sky, and the Sun had set more than 1 hour ago. The degradation was about 2.0 wh...