#shortwave

An old Cold War communicaitons tactic comes alive in the 21st century

Tomorrow (on 2023.09.14) I will come down from the mountain, and I will go back to my brother in Tiszasüly to celebrate my upcoming 31st birthday, which will be on 2023.09.17. We will celebrate it in Szolnok.

I am making QSOs (radioamateur contacts) again after a long time. The last time I made a QSO was on 2023.03.03. Today (on 2023.09.02) evening I made a QSO with M0MNM Paul from Stockport (IO83vk), England

The last time I made a QSO (two-way radioamateur contact) was 11 days ago (on 2022.12.27). Today afternoon I made the first in 2023 with a Spanish special radioamateur station (EF2WRTC) on 21.245 MHz.

As a Hungarian, it is a real delight for me to hear kind Hungarian words from foreign people. Today evening I made a two-way radioamateur contact with a French radioamateur (F4ESO Fred) from France on

GB100BBC is a special radioamateur callsign. It is to celebrate the 100 years of the BBC. I am happy that I was in front of the radio, and the propagation was good, so I was able to make a QSO (two-way

This blue wire is my antenna. It is 30 meters long. Currently its highest part is around four meters or five meters above the ground. The built-in automatic antenna tuner of my Yaesu FT-450D transceiver

The propagation was good, but my current antenna is not ideal on the 12 meters (24 MHz) band. This is why I heard him just above the noise level, while he gave me 59, and 55 to 59 signal reports with QSB

My 30 meters long wire antenna is still approximately four or five meters above the ground in the garden. It is not ideal on 24 MHz, but it works. Today afternoon I made a QSO (two-way radioamateur contact)

The propagation was not very good today evening, but we successfully finished the contact. His signal was mostly around 52. He gave me a 57 signal report. My 30 meters long wire antenna is still approximately

Today I put my 30 meters long wire antenna a little bit higher (from approximately two-three meters above the ground to approximately four-five meters above the ground) in the garden, and it works very

Today I made a QSO (a two-way radio contact) with MI0AIH David from Cookstown, Northern Ireland on 14.260 MHz. The distance is 2047 km. At first, I barely heard him calling CQ (general call), just above

Sometimes I like to experiment. Today I put up a 30 meters long wire in the garden approximately two meters above the ground between two trees. I used this wire as an antenna. The built-in automatic antenna

Yesterday and today were mostly uneventful days. Usual workdays. Not that hot (in temperatures), but it is still hot. Around 30-33 °C. According to the weather forecast, the peak will be around 35 °C in

Today I uploaded my 100th video to my radioamateur YouTube channel (HA5KZO). I achieved this approximately in 10 years. I created this YouTube channel on 2012.04.19. I upload videos mostly for myself,

This is the second upload. Hopefully the video will be properly encoded this time. I decided to upload this video on my 3Speak (Threespeak) channel first. I will upload the video to my YouTube channel

Today (on 2022.04.21) I made a QSO (two-way radio contact) with OR100RCBE on 14.160 MHz, and I recorded it on video. This is what you can see and hear below (on my YouTube video). OR100RCBE is in Verviers,

This (down below) is a little bit older video of mine on YouTube. I recorded it in the previous year on 2021.12.16, 13:28 CET (so this was before the Christmas of 2021), and I decided to upload it today.

3月13日にベトナムの声という、ベトナムからのラジオ国際放送を聴いてベリカードを頂きました。ベリカードというのはおそらく和製英語で、英語ではVerification Cardと言います。ラジオを聞く→受信報告書を送る→放送局の人が内容を確認してベリカードを送る→ベリカードGet!という流れです。 受信報告書なんて送ったのは何十年ぶりでしょうか。