HB9EGA

niedziela, 14 czerwca 2026

poniedziałek, 27 kwietnia 2026

Every Monday at 20:45, we have a scheduled contact with our colleagues from the club HB9LU. Since we also had a bike trip planned for today with my wife, I decided to take my antenna and radio with me and try to connect with them from a portable station.

The antenna turned out to be very quick and easy to set up. I was a bit worried whether the 3 watts available from the QMX would be enough to make the contact, but it turned out to be possible. The reports were not particularly good but 3w and 5 meters high antenna on 80m is not a "dream station".

poniedziałek, 9 lutego 2026

My first POTA activation

Together with Mateusz, HB9HCZ, we activated a park for the POTA program (CH-0107). This type of activation seems much easier than SOTA, as all the gear can be brought by car instead of being carried on your back. Furthermore, the availability of larger power sources, such as a generator or high-capacity batteries, allows for using significantly higher power.

poniedziałek, 8 września 2025

HB9LU Field Day SSB 2025

As every year in the first weekend of September our club HB9LU makes a field station participating in Field day contest.

The shack is in the car. On Saturday we build spiderbeam on 15m mast with rotator and 160-80-40 dipoles on another military 15m mast.

This year we had also a snake antenna for 160m - around 160 meters wire in the shape of square laying directly on the grass. This antenna was not a "game changer" as expected but we will work on it ;)

The team was exceptional. They're a group of people who really want to do something, and we had a great time together. Thank you all so much, and I'm so glad we did it together! A really fantastic team!

Urs HB9MYH, Mark HB9DBM, Andy HB9YMR, Marco HB9FLD (with Mateo :), Wolfgang HB9RYZ, Rene HB9BQI, Christine HB9BQW, Oliver HB9IJS, Bernard HB9ALH, Beat HB9THJ, Cedric, Mike HB9MBS, Hans-Peter HB9BXE, and remotely Yvonne HB9ENY and Guido HB9CQZ (thanks for the QSO!!!)