Aurora 2024-11-04

 Beautiful aurora tonight.

Antenna mast broken.

On Monday January 16, the antenna mast in which I have a double discone antenna suddenly broke. I was out taking the rubbish to the bin when I heard a strange noise, and I saw what happened. The next day I dismantled the mast and antenna. The mast was repairable, I took the angle grinder and cut off the damaged part of the section about 50 - 60 cm. Drilled some new holes and it was usable again, just a little shorter. The Discone antenna was in bad shape so I bought a new antenna. Assembled everything and up with new antenna on Wednesday January 25th. I took some photos of the event with my cell phone.

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Antenna mast broken.

Repaired mast and new antenna up in the air.
Moonraker Scanking wideband vertical 25 - 2000 MHz.

Thursday 7/10

1623  UNID  at 2251 UTC, Van Halen - Jump, SINPO 25222

1638  R Bluebird  at 2254 UTC, Dutch-mx, SINPO 35333

4870  Mystery 21  at 2259 UTC, ID at 2302 UTC, SINPO 35233

Monday 27/9

1638  R Bluebird  at 2153 UTC, Dutch-mx, polka, SINPO 35333

Wednesday 10/2

 1638  UNID  at 2336 UTC, Dutch-mx, SINPO 35323

Monday 8/2

 3920  R Piepzender  at 1720 UTC, ID, SINPO 25222

Saturday 7/2

 3920  R Piepzender  at 0117 UTC, Metallico, Guns & Roses, ID at 0122, SINPO 35333

Sunday 13/12

 3920  R Piepzender  at 0205 UTC, Dutch German-mx, ID at 0214 UTC, SINPO 35333

Tuesday 8/12

 1625  R Bluebird  at 2339 UTC, polka, ID, SINPO 35433, c/d 2343 UTC

Wednesday 2/12

 1625  UNID  at 0022 UTC, instrumental-mx, SINPO 25332, c/d 0028 UTC

Tuesday 24/11

 1638  UNID  at 2322 UTC, oldies, SINPO 35232

Wednesday 18/11

 1625  R Pandora  at 0017 UTC, instrumental-mx, SINPO 34323, ID just before c/d at 0025 UTC

Saturday 11/10

 3919,9  UNID  at 2303 UTC, mx by U2 and Modern Talking, SINPO 23322

Saturday 20/9

 1612  UNID  at 2233 UTC, Dutch-mx and talk, SINPO 34333

Saturday 13/9

 1616  R Bluebird  at 2159 UTC, Dutch-mx, ID at 2200, SINPO 35443, c/d at 2201 UTC

SAQ Grimeton Sunday 5/7

Reception of SAQ Grimeton in Kalix

 

Saturday 15/8

6334  R Joey  at 1843 UTC, pop-mx, Nazareth - Love hurts, SINPO 35222

Wednesday 15/7

 3920  UNID  at 2155 UTC, Dutch-mx, SINPO 35433

4700  UNID  at 2201 UTC pop-mx, SINPO 35333

Tuesday 28/4

1647  UNID  at 2232 UTC, polka, SINPO 34222

1656  UNID  at 2246 UTC, weak music, SINPO 24221

1660  UNID  at 2247 UTC, weak music, SINPO 24221. c/d 2248 UTC

Sunday 19/4

1650  UNID  at 2334 UTC, Greek, folk-mx, SINPO 24222

1660  UNID  instrumental-mx, SINPO 24222