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E107Radio and 2 plugins

pd5dp — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:15:25 +0200

Some weeks ago became two plugins available for the E107 CMS on the E107Radio website which also has been used for this website. There is a newer version of the Logbook plugin. Father Barry made a lot of changes to this plugin. I am using still the old version here.

I made a PSKReporter plugin. When installed you are able to make some statistics visible on the screen. No, no graphics yet, but some statistical data on the screen. The receivers, the stations who heard you, the stations which has been heard by you and the countries you heard the last seven days. This plugin has a link here in the main menu on this website.

Just surf to http://e107radio.org, register and download the plugin. Feedback is always welcome.

Contact with PI9ISS (Andre Kuipers)

pd5dp — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:25:07 +0200

Saturday April 21th. I had a brief radio contact with Andre Kuipers who is an Astronaute on the I(nternational) S(pace) S(tation). I had planned this QSO since his spaceflight was announced.

I had tried to make contact before without any result till now. Was it luck? No. The same day I had a conversation with Cor (PD0RKC) and he told me about the presleep period of every Astronaute. Presleep is just another word for free time before going to sleep.

So... I just called him Saturday the 21th. of April on 20:00 UTC and I had seen that Andre's Presleep period was cheduled from 19:30 - 21:30 UTC.

Just after 4 calls Andre came back from me and I was baffled for a moment. So I had to search for my words at first. Anyway here is the QSO.

Contact with the ISS (PI9ISS - Andre Kuipers)
on April 21th. 2012 20:00 UTC - own recording

PD5DP contact with PI9ISS (Andre Kuipers)
on April 21th. 20:00 UTC - recording made by Cor (PD0RKC)

New SFI record for the new solar cycle

pd5dp — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:05:05 +0200

Today 17th. of November I saw that we have a new record regarding the SFI. The old record for this solar cyle was 91 and at the moment it is 92 !! Let's see what happens. The next couple of days. I will make updates here.

On February 21th. 2011 the SN=103!!!
On March 5th. 2011 the SN=104 and the SFI = 127 !!!

I saw that we have a X-class Flare today (March 10th. 2011). This is the first X-class flare of solar cycle 24 !! On November 4th. 2011 we have the second X-class flare of this solar cycle.

Date	Sunspot Number	Solar Flux Index
Febr. 15th. 2011	90	113
Febr. 16th. 2011	100
Febr. 17th. 2011		114
Febr. 19th. 2011	101	125
Febr. 21th. 2011	103
March 5th. 2011	104	127
March 6th. 2011	114	143
March 7th. 2011	118
March 8th. 2011	122	153
March 9th. 2011	137	155
April 14th. 2011	153
Sept. 16th. 2011	167
Sept. 17th. 2011	173
Sept. 24th. 2011	90	173
Okt. 21th. 2011	195	160
Nov. 6th. 2011	123	176
Nov. 8th. 2011	154	182
Nov. 10th. 2011	208	181

X-Class Solar Flare on August 9th. 2011

pd5dp — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:44:36 +0200

Radio/TV Tower Hooger-Smilde crashes...

pd5dp — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:31:51 +0200

The radio/tv tower in Hooger-Smilde (Netherlands) is collapsed on 13:30 UTC. This tower is about 40 km's from my QTH and it was more than 300 meters high. This videos are showing the event. The top of the tower comes down.

EI9KC

pd5dp — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:10:48 +0200

Just made a QSO with EI9KC on 10 meters. Band conditions were not very well. Reports were 55 from him to me and I gave him 57. Here are some QSL examples of him.

QSO's on 10 meters

pd5dp — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:03:19 +0200

The SporadicE season has begun and I am enjoying making QSO's on 10 meters. Nothing 'earth moving' yet, but some interesting QSO's. Here you see a QSL-card (not send to me, but from QRZ.COM) of SV2MAP who I worked today on 10 meters.

'Super' Moon - Only 356,577 km's

pd5dp — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:26:25 +0100

Today, 19th. of March 2011, a rare occasion will happen: lunaire perigeum. The moon will be very near to our planet. It was 1993 when the moon was so close to our earth for the last time. The sky object will be only 356,577 km's away of us.

Some astrologes think that this 'Super Moon' will cause disaster for our climate. Other scientists have no worries about it.

De Aarde mag zich 19 maart 2011 opmaken voor een vrij zeldzame gebeurtenis: lunaire perigeum. De maan bevindt zich dan zeer dicht bij onze planeet. Sinds 1993 heeft de maan niet zo dicht bij de Aarde gestaan. Het hemellichaam zal op ‘slechts’ 356.577 km van ons verwijderd zijn.

Volgens sommige astrologen zou deze ‘supermaan’ rampzalige gevolgen kunnen hebben voor ons klimaat. Andere wetenschappers maken zich nergens zorgen om.

SDR-14 available for remote use

pd5dp — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:17:57 +0100

I bought a secondhand SDR-14 a couple of weeks ago. This is my first serious SDR-receiver. It is hooked up at the moment with a minibeam for 20/15/10 meters, but also some other bands are suitable to listen too. If I am not using it and my computer is turned on you can access it by remote control. Here is the guide how to do it:

Download SDR-Radio at www.sdr-radio.com
Install the software
Run the software and select by Input Source ->Remote
My URL is pd5dp.no.ip.org , Username is Guest and the password is FortKnox
If the connection is established you have to click on the play button by Input Source

This is all you have to do. After this you can control the radio if it is at your home. It can be that the radio is already in use by me of others. If that is the case the connection will be refused. Be patient.