Lx1max  to the Luxembourg amateur radio station: Lx1max

 

 My name is Fred and i was born in jul.1958, i have the ham (amateur radio) licence since feb. 2004, but i was enthusiastic short wave listener (swl) since +/-1968 and 5 years later i do first cb (citizen band) local experiences + later dx activations. After 'phone' (am, fm, ssb), digital modes (psk, rtty...) are now my favorites, soon also cw (keyboard key & paddle) .

 

 Please have a look below for more info about amateur-radio: I.A.R.U. (International Amateur Radio Union) here: ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and here: ERO (European Radio communication Office), DX Century Club DXCC-List. Here you can read the Amateur's code written by Paul M. Segal W9eaa (†sk), in 1928.     ...A request for Ham-spirit (10 recommendations).

 

 My antenna's are all vertical, ground plane-type, GPA-50, V2000 & discone, mounted with telescopic mat on a metallic roof @ my city qth (more family house), in a "restaurant-street", and i can received most time only QRM.(man-made interference-noise) with S8-9 (&more) on all ham frequencies. I have not enough place to mount other antenna's, like dipole or beam. Many qrm's coming also from two electric arc furnace's in 3km distance of my qth. (Esch/Belval [dc] & Schifflange [ac]). That is the reason why i have found with a handful friends the Lx5b-group. Now i can work under better conditions in group from different qth's in Lx or from my garden. Here is my equipment-list, [includes a sales-list], written as 'pdf' (adobe reader is needed). For more info, (ham-spirit) price's, manual's & schematic's, write to me. Please, have a look in my Magix photo-album below).

 

  I'm manager for Lx5b (C.F.R.G. 'Camp and Field day Radio Group'). I'm member of RLX (Luxembourg amateur radio association), DARC (Deutscher amateur radio club), Ref-union (Réseau des émetteurs français), UBA (Union Royale Belge des Amateurs émetteurs), EPC (European psk club) lx1max-epc#0390 / lx5b-epc#0391, 30MDG (30meter digital group), 30MDG#0388.

  

  All radio-activations from Lx5b and mine, primary on short-waves dx'ing, are published here and on QRZ.com, under the call's: lx1max, lx5b and for lx1cf (my cw call). Here is the activity-calendar 2008/10. My home cluster is: db0spc-7, but also lx0prg, connectable via packet-radio and web. Info's also via my APRS-relay: lx1max-3 (my position). I am lx-aprs (automatic position reporting system) object-manager . My software for packet is Paxon by Dg1faz (sri, website is only in German) and for aprs i use UI-view by G4ide (†sk).   ...soon my aprs maps online here.

 

  My primary multi mode de/en-coder software is: Mixw.(sri, is not free) On my Mio digi-walker pocket-pc with navigator, i use Ok1iak's Pocket-digi to read & write the digital signals. I use also the all-round software DX-Lab-suite for log, cluster, propagation view, cat-control, etc etc...  For audio spectrum analyzing, i work with Dl4yhf's Spectrum Lab.

 

  After many test's in 2007, for 2008/09 the lx5b group come back. Our camp-activations will be continued, after successfully years 2005/06, at the Europacamping Nommerlayen in Nommern at ca. 310m ASL (JN39bs) and more activations with my solar-portable-station in my (Schreber)-garden in Esch/Alzette (Bouwenaacker) at 340m ASL (JN29xl).

  My home locator (maidenhead system): JN29xl  // (WGS84) 5° 58' 43.392"E / 49° 29' 28.284"N (sexagesimal).  My qth (Map) is at 300m ASL (antenna-base at 320m). My city (Esch-sur-Alzette) lies in south of the LX-country near the French border (town-part: Brill). The capital (Luxembourg-city) is roughly 16km to the north/east. (IARU-Region:1 / CQ 14 / ITU 27) My country was one of the former states in 1957 (EEC) and later the European Union (EU).

  My Log's and this from our club station here, at Eqsl.cc (and/or at LoTW).

Lx5b log from easter-weekend 2008 here.(xls) Lx5b log from 22to25june08 here.(xls)

 

  The Qsl card for Lx5b and Lx1max, is preferred via QSL-bureau. (Eqsl.cc, are welcome, but only in answering mode). For direct Qsl please don't forget SAE (self addressed envelope) & valid IRC or 2$,  mny TNX in advance! My post address:    Fred Casagranda jr.   //   25, rue du Brill   //   L-4041-Esch/Alzette  //   Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. My qsl card printer is: Ux5uo-print. The qso is often short, but the qsl is forever! Here a preview of qsl card's, Lx5b, Lx1max.

  Local time (cet): (= utc +1, by winter & +2h in summer-time, from 30th march to 26th october) and Lx-weather: rlx-webcam-weather. (at this link, the weather is doing by ham's, hi) I wish you all a good radio propagation ! The new (24th) solar-cycle has started the 4th January 2008, but the 23th cycle as not finished (! ! ??). 

  My second hobby is photographic. My, not only, 'radio-related' photo-album here: Magix. (continuous updated!) I am member of PCE (Photo-Club-Esch). I work with analog & digital camera's. Here my photographic material-list, [includes a sales-list]. If you need info, prices or manuals, please write to me. Occasionally i will upload photos @ following site: Photogen. (sorry, the site is only in Luxembourgish, but you can see beautiful pictures!)

  Please subscribe you in my Guestbook.

  Contact: email:or 'maxonair' in Skype.(voip-phone), Packet radio (my home BBS): lx1max@lx0pac.lux.eu, Aprs-digi, Lx1max-3, Pse have also a look in echolink for a voip-"qso". (temporary EL gateway test's on 432,875MHz).

   Most time, i am Qrv on following local frequency's: fm-repeaters: 145,700 (lx0lu) and 145,725 (lx0hi) MHz (shift -0,6), 438,750 (lx0ru, with echolink connection) and 439,075 (db0sab) MHz (shift -7,6), 430,050 (f5zdi) MHz (shift +1,6) or fm-simplex 145,475MHz. (F3E). A few Lx-OM's and YL's meet all day's (+/-9-11h am utc) on 14,330MHz usb / J3E (+/-10KHz, depends qrm) or on 145,475MHz fm. All visitors are welcome!

   Here is an 'pdf'-List, with detailed data's from voice-repeaters, digi-'peaters (packet/bbs/cluster), aprs-digi's, aprs-igate's, beacon's, echolink-nodes, etc., in DL, F, ON and LX, reachable around my qth, not only in normal conditions. If you (sysop's and/or other OM's/YL's) have information's about changes, or details to complete this list, please write to me(tnx)

73' de Fred,  gl, es hpe cuagn. 

73 de fred gl es hpe cuagn     ( please download morse-code fonts [radios in motion] for windows at: http://www.k8zt.com/zero.html , to read/see this message as dit's & dah's )

 

   Greetings in hexadecimal: 37 33 27 0 64 65 0 46 72 65 64 0 4C 58 31 4D 41 58 & all the same in binary: 00110111 00110011 00100111 00100000 01100100 01100101 00100000 01000110 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01001100 01011000 00110001 01001101 01000001 01011000.

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