This weekend I had a visit from SM3WMU and SM3RAB that worked some in the ARRL DX SSB contest. SM3WMU worked SB 20 while Ulf, SM3RAB tried to do 40m. The propagations were not very good on Saturday, especially 40 just brought about 30 qsos but on Sunday morning the propagations were a lot better and Ulf ended up with about 230 qsos. Tomas, SM3WMU did 1200 qsos on 20m but since they both left on Sunday during the day a lot of hours were missed with the best propagations of the weekend. So I did join the contest with the SM2WMV callsign and had my best high rate hour ever, 270 qsos! I worked 630 qsos during about 3.5 hours, 600 of them on 20m.
Today I put together a new server for SJ2W. The old one is a 650 MHz with 512 MB RAM which has been working well, but I want to try having all the remote software on the server instead of having another computer on the whole time. So I upgraded to an Athlon X2 3 GHz with 4 GB RAM, which makes it possible to run Ubuntu as a root system while being able to boot up Windows XP in virtualbox.
I also did some amp work today, I soldered some control cables and added the two power supplies, one for 5V and the other for 24V. I need to build a step down converter for 12V as well from the 24v power supply.
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