JOTA 2014 is over. It was a great event. We did not make many QSOs, but we did a fair bit of ATV, managed to just get a glimpse of moon bounce (EME) and won the JOTAcross regional game!

I did not have much time to snap pictures, so here is the very limited collection

update: Scouting Dirk Duyvel has won the regional JOTAcross game, and will be organizing it next year.

update: Scouting Dirk Duyvel heeft de JOTAcross gewonnen, en zal hem dus volgend jaar organiseren. Bedankt aan de organisatie van dit jaar voor een leuke cross, en tot volgend jaar bij PA3WEG/J!

Currently saving bandwidth for the JOTAcross!

I was interviewed at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium. The video has now been released.
My bit is starting around 10 minutes, but the start is also worthwhile.

Its almost this time of year! third weekend of October, the Jamboree On The Air is coming up.
I will be present at Scouting Dirk Duyvel in Alkmaar, as PA3WEG/J.

We will be present on HF, 2m, 70cm, EME and ATV.
When everything goes well, we will be broadcasting on ATV and also streaming to YouTube.
Every once in a while, we will be broadcasting “JOTA news”, a local news bulletin made by club members for fun. This will be in Dutch.

Needless to say, we will win the local “JOTAcross” game ;)

Tune in from 17th to 19th of October.

Streaming will start around 12:00 local time
This event is now over. Below is the archived video

The dish feed was broken. when replaced, we got instant B5 pictures.

And the setup that we used

Thanks to the organizers of this event!
http://www.ballonvossenjacht.nl/

And special thanks to Nils von Storch for helping me track the balloon!

Preparing all equipment for the balloon fox hunt. I will be streaming live ATV from the balloon and audio from the transponder

I have returned from a short holiday in Elspeet, JO22vh

Apart from relaxing, I have worked 36 station. Some of the countries are firsts. Mainly due to the very high noise floor at home and lack of antenna, I am unable to work on HF. But the nice low noise levels in Elspeet allowed some first for me including India, Thailand, Venezuela and the US.

I also worked MW/PE4WJ/P, Wouter Jan, Also on holiday.

QSL card front:

Hi All,

We have decided that due to the weather forecasts and the high danger of big waves at sea, we will not be operating PA25SCH tomorrow.

We had a great day today. Thanks all for your QSOs!

Below: Jeroen PD1ODE at the video mixer and Rody PD2RVK and myself PA3WEG at the upstream location for our WiFi link.

Some of the YouTube statistics for the day, left the total viewers over time, right the viewers through PA25SCH.NL:

Now the only job remaining is to clear out the sea salt from all equipment