Author Archives: pa3weg

Today I worked Wouter-Jan PE4WJ who was QRV during a trip to Switzerland (JN36HM) as HB9/PE4WJ/P. We had a sked on AO-51 around 18:00UTC. After a while I could distinguish his callsing from all the usual CQ without ears. Wouter … Continue reading →

The WebSDR now receives part of the 70cm band to be able to receive some of the latest nanosatellites launched by the japanese JAXA. The STARS satellite is received very well. See some of the doppler-shifting signals of STARS here: … Continue reading →

Update:The system is up and running again with a clean install. If the harddisk fails again I’ll replace it with a spare one. Due to file system corruption and possibly a bad hard drive, the WebSDR is down. On Friday … Continue reading →

Wouter-Jan sent me a MP3-recording of SAQ calling CQ, received over the WebSDR. You can listen to it here

So far betatesting the WebSDR has revealed some minor problems. Overall the system performs very well and I will continue to test it during the coming months. Pieter-Tjerk (PA3FWM) has provided me with support and updates for which I’m very … Continue reading →

On the 24th of December, The Alexanderson machine transmitter located at grimeton, Sweden, was received in Delft. For this reception I set up a VLF receiving station consisting of a Nordholt active VLF antenna directly connected to the sound card. … Continue reading →

During the coming months I will be testing the WebSDR software written by Pieter-Tjerk de Boer (PA3FWM). The software will be beta-tested by a select group of individuals before being released to the general public. Wouter Jan Ubbels (PE4WJ) developed … Continue reading →

Pictures of our holiday to Limburg 2008 are here (text in dutch)

  From left to right: Wouter Weggelaar (PA3WEG), Wouter Jan Ubbels (PE4WJ) and Gerard Aalbers (no call yet) (source: Delfi-C3 Photo Weblog) Delfi-C3 received its OSCAR-designator: DO-64! I hope that Delfi-C3 will live a long life and provide many amateur … Continue reading →

On December 19th 2007, there were incredible good DX conditions for VHF/UHF, and so I went to the Delft University of Technology Goundstation to do some DX-ing!. Wouter-Jan Ubbels PE4WJ was already there working a lot of stations. Incredible how … Continue reading →