Chrisus blog

I had to order a camera for a friend of mine, especially the Fuji E900. In all austrian shops it was sold out. Then I found it in Europe, in Paris. So I ordered the camera in Paris, and it should be here within 2 or 3 days. The world becomes a village!

As amateur radio operator you have to log each and every use of the frequencies. So I had a look at my log and saw my last entry at 14.10.1988. Today I tried for the first time to make a call, to see if my transmitter works. And it does. So after 17 years and 6 month I was on air again. Amazing, that batteries still are alive after recharging after that time. Unfortunately none of the person I know are radio amateurs. So I will see, what I will do with this.
For interested people: First I tried 3 Watt to reach the Patscherkofel relais OE7XTI. There were no problems. Then I tried 0,1 Watt to reach it, also no problems. That means: I can reach the Patscherkofel relais as I would use a small pocket lamp over this distance. And the Patscherkofel relais sends with 10 W the recieved signal. So it is no problem to talk to people from Kufstein to Landeck and sometimes Munich.

After a lot of searching in my cellar I found my old hand held transceiver for 2m FM, an ALINCO 203 E. The last recharge of the batterys was 1987. So I wondered, if this thing still works. I charged the batteries for 15 hours and then started it. Well. There were the frequencies, I stored in 1987 still there. Today, I switched it on for the whole evening, no problems to listen to the recievers on Grünberg OE7XWH and Patscherkofel OE7XTI. My amateur radio sign is OE7JAJ. I listened to a talk between Mieminger Plateau and Sydney/Australia. Quite nice. Amateur radio is back again. :-)
The ALINCO

Yesterday I had the first games evening where I went to by train and bus, it was in Aldrans near Innsbruck at Ursls home. And it works. We had a very very good dinner with salad and Kasspatzln. Afterwards we played "Kuhhandel". It was a very nice evening with Ursl, Philipp, Gudrun and David.

Obsteig is at an altitude of 1000m. Today this was the hight of the deepest clouds. I was wearing shorts and t-shirts. The temperature was falling to 5 degrees C. The air was wet from the clouds. Sight was about 100 m. So I thought by myself: A warm November day with daylight until 9 p.m. is quite good. Unfortunately it is August, 16th. Even the cold beer after the work (helping to make a horce-fence) was not that refreshing.