Day 14 February QSO Challenge

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Tonight I spent a couple of hours down on the 40m band as I called CQ PSK31 on 7.038MHz. I called longer than usual before I could complete my fourteenth QSO of the challenge. After a while I was answered and I made my first QSO of the day.

The first station that I worked tonight on 40m PSK31 was Jordi - EB3JT at 21.52 utc (See below the QSO with reports and QTH information). Our two stations are located 871 miles apart and when I looked Jordi - EB3JT up on QRZ.com, I noticed he had a nice looking station.  I also found out that Jordi was also a Satellite chaser. Perhaps I will work him again on VHF via an amateur satellite. In the meantime its another great QSO in the February challenge log.

Below is a screen shot of the QSO decoded using PSK31 Deluxe.

I Copied the text from the PSK31 Deluxe window and pasted it here for anyone who might be interested!
RX> 2Ø:33:26 UTC

TX> 21:5Ø:48 UTC
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS pse k
RX> 21:51:17 UTC

TX> 21:52:11 UTC
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS pse k
RX> 21:52:4Ø UTC
8.2EØHTS de eb3jt eb3jt eb3jt pse K
TX> 21:53:Ø7 UTC
EB3JT EB3JT de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
Nice to meet you on the band. thanks for coming back, Your RST is 599 599. My name is Simon Simon, QTH is BAILDON BAILDON in IO93CU IO93CU. How copy? BTU EB3JT de 2EØHTS k
RX> 21:53:56 UTC
..2eØhts de eb3jt eb3jtrsq 599 599name jordi jordi 38qth vilafranca vilafrancaloc jnØ1ui jnØ1uibtu simon, 2eØhts de eb3jt pse k
TX> 21:54:5Ø UTC
All Rcvd 1ØØ% Jordi good Copy, its been a pleasure making this QSO...

I hope to catch you agn soon maybe on another band...

Good DX and BTU dear OM, EB3JT de 2EØHTS k
RX> 21:55:29 UTC
...2EØHTS de eb3jttnx for nice qso, 73 and good dx2EØHTS de eb3jt sk 
TX> 21:55:52 UTC
EB3JT de 2EØHTS 73 to Jordi You and thanks for the QSO hope to See U AGN Soon. GOOD DX GL & GOOD NIGHT..
EB3JT de 2EØHTS Sk Sk
RX> 21:56:23 UTC
.bye bye de eb3jt 73 skh 
TX> 22:Ø1:13 UTC
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS
CQ CQ CQ de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS 2EØHTS pse k
RX> 22:Ø1:43 UTC


Comments

PE4BAS, Bas said…
Not many use PSK deluxe anymore since there is the new DM780. But it was not a bad program. I still got it somewhere. Still have an eye on digital SSTV (not the analog MMSSTV). There seem to be a program called easypal. Would you be interested to test it and make a sked some time? 73, Bas
11:56 am
MØYKS Simon said…
Hi Bas tnx for your comment.

I tried DM780 a couple of year back when I was running ham radio deluxe but didnt get on with it hi hi. I will give it another go (just lazy and have to set up templates properly etc) The same thing for the digital SSTV as the programme I tried from the same software did not auto recognise the type of data it was RXing. I had to select the scottie mode etc manually. I will check out easypal and see if I like it and let you know about a sked.

Many thanks for all your comments and keep up the hard work on your site. 73 Simon
8:10 pm
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