{"id":4270,"date":"2021-01-26T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2021-02-09T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:37:13","slug":"year-2020-review-and-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=4270","title":{"rendered":"Year 2020 review and statistic."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why, but for almost a year I haven’t updated my page.<\/span>
\nWhile many interesting events have taken place, I would like to highlight a few of them.<\/span>
\nOf course, this is only about amateur radio.<\/span>
\nSo, first of all, these are year statistics.<\/span><\/span>
\nTotal (HF + VHF and UP):  2654 QSO, <\/strong>
\nincluding:
\nVHF<\/strong> (50, 144, 432 and 1296 MHz) terrestrial + EME:  912 QSO,<\/strong>
\nSatellite<\/strong> (QO-100) : 530 QSO.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 “DXCC Progress Report 32-Dec-2020”<\/strong> from my DSKeeper logging software:<\/p>\n

           Mix Ph CW  DIG  160m 80m 40m 30m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m 6m 2m<\/strong>
\nWkd:<\/strong> 311  210  289  234    125      148     191     187    219     196   206  176    203  116   187<\/span>
\nCfm:<\/strong>  296  179   267  225   110      128     158    157     190     167   187   141    166  101    185<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I decided to back to satellite, especially  to QO-100.<\/strong>
\nSo much talking about this satellite! And I ordered all necessary converters, LNB and PA from DXPatrol (CT1FFU). Antenna  – 1.5 meter prime focus dish with dual band feed. Other detail of my setup on the pictures are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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dual band feed<\/p><\/div>\n

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QO-100 dish<\/p><\/div>\n

Easy and Quck decision.<\/p>\n

I started on QO-100 on March, 2020 and was very satisfied of a big pile-up! Probably, not many stations from Estonia, espesially from KO29 were before on satellite. But after about 10 days the pile-up passed and normal work began.<\/span> And ffter about half a year, working via this satellite became so routine and uninteresting that I stopped (hopefully temporarily) to work via this satellite.<\/span> 530 QSO, 56 new grids (797 total via SAT) and 9 new DXCC (total 128 via SAT). 
\n\u0420owever, if \u0435\u0449 count only \u0435\u0449 QO-100, then total worked 63 DXCC and 226 squares .
\nNot bad!<\/span> I think, I will be back on QO-100 soon. As a target – to get 150 confirmed DXCC via satellites and get lapel to my DXCC Satellite Award.
\nAfter all, my main goal was to investigate the 13 and 3 cm bands for  EME on these bands. 
\nUnfortunately, not so much knowledge I’ve got…
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also, in 2020 I intensely<\/span><\/span> worked EME on 23 cm (76 initials, 8 new DXCC, total 51). This band is still new for me on EME. Also starting preparing for 13 cm band EME . But no one knows, how long time we can use this band for amateur purposes…<\/p>\n

The most bad thing – the 2 meter band become noisy and noisy! Sometimes, the noise level  rise up to S9 +5 db from some azimuth. Hard to work MS and EME, even tropo\/ES is a problem! I am very close totally stop any operation on this band! Thanks, stil 70 and 23 cm bands are clear enough. Pity…<\/p>\n

So, as far as I am mainly VHF and UP – man, look the summary results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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