Aldo Memorial 2025

   On November 1st, and 2nd, 2025, the annual Aldo Memorial, organized by the AT DX group, took place. This time, propagation on the 11-meter band wasn't quite good, and there were some very challenging long-range QSOs in my QTH. Nevertheless, I managed to conduct 35 QSOs from 17 countries. I would like to note the QSOs with such SES as 172AT001, 5AT001, 153AT001, 91AT001/A, 91AT001/L and 91AT001/O. In this case, I consider this a good result for me. Regardless, the 2025 Aldo Memorial took place, and now we will eagerly await the next Aldo Memorial in 2026.

My receiving SSTV

    Today, as a personal experiment, I decided to try receiving a SSTV signal on the 11-meter band at 27.700 MHz. I used an Android Tablet with the Robot36 app from the Play Store installed. I connected the Tablet to a simple External Sound Card via a Type-C to USB 3.0 adapter, then connected it to the transceiver's audio output via a 3.5 mm AUX cable. In a short time, I was able to receive images from the USA, Canada, France, and Italy. Image quality depends heavily on the signal path and input signal level. You can see some of the images below. I consider my first experiment with receiving a SSTV signal quite successful.

WAZ My new award.

   Today I received my latest WAZ diploma, issued by Romeo Charlie International DX Group. The diploma required me to conduct a QSO with at least 30 CQ zones out of a possible 40. I managed to confirm a QSO with 38 CQ zones, excluding the first, and second. Overall, this is a good result for me. I hope, that in the future I will be able to conduct a QSO with the missing zones.