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.

My QSO with 202DA/0.

    From September 1 to September 10, 2025, another expedition of Giovanni 41DA981 is being held, to one of the most inaccessible DXCC places in the Asian region - Bhutan, with the call sign 202DA/0. In the morning at 05:58, September 04, I was very lucky with a loud signal on the frequency of 27.590 MHz to hear, and establish a QSO with Giovanni, which brought me a new 172 DXCC country, to my collection. Many thanks to Giovanni for such an interesting QSO!