Welcome to SV9OFO 's Web Site - Links for Hams and DXers around the globe.

Rebuild of my 3cm (10.368 GHz) equipment is underway. Initial tests were very encouraging - stable and powerful. Now, I am searching for a coaxial relay able to switch 2W on 10 GHz to use as a TX-RX switch!

I am getting more fun out of it that I ever hoped for!

I got a new Alinco DJ-G7 for use as a signal source for my 10GHz transverter.

SV9 land has a repeater (RS-11) out@ 1298.275, -28MHz, and QSO's are frequent up there.

Are sunspots dissapearing?

Το forum του hamradio.gr. Ραδιοερασιτεχνικά νέα, συζητήσεις, και βήμα ερωτήσεων για ο'τι θα θέλατε να μάθετε γύρω απο τον ραδιοερασιτεχνισμο..

Latest ICOM all mode - all band DC to daylight tranceiver IC9100 announced as of 23rd of August, 2009, in Japan.Prerelease Brochure available here.

IC-706 ceased production after being produced for considerable fraction of a century! (near 1/6th)!

About me

My home city is Iraklion (but could be found spelled "Heraklion" as well), In the island of Crete, SV9 land, southern (and hotter) part of Greece.

My HF Antenna is usually either my 135ft (41,5m) OCF dipole

(some sort of evolution of Windom Antenna)
accompanied by my trusty, hand - made, Antenna tuner,
Or my 20m band dipole antenna (I like to check and compare).

For VHF, I use a twin antenna stacked array,

8 element log periodics 2m.

I have no antenna yet for 6 meters or 4 meters,

so if you heard me shouting there I must have had the antenna and transmitter pushed up to their limits.....

my OCF side lobes are heading to Western Europe, Patagonia, Australia and Russia on 20 meters and 40 meters band.

I also do some satellite work from time to time, for which I use the SV9ABL's Log Periodic V-U ham bands design, not that bad at all.

My rigs are

a cute Icom 706MKIIG,

an old but trusty Yaesu FT-480R VHF all mode,

a Yaesu FT-90 V-U FM mobile for repeater work,

a Kenwood TH225 HT

a 10m "President Lincoln" or Uniden TRX

Several VHF PMR's (the Taxi type)

two of which are set-up as a repeater.

I am looking at making a 70MHz transverter and scanning the internet for schematics, as the band was given to Hams here in SV-land on a secondary experimental - temporary basis (50KHz, 70.200 - 70.250).

I usually am into 2 meter Es openings, whenever they happen, directing my antennas at Europe.

Active on 2m simplex ragchewing when Es is non-existent.

Active on 6 meters when I can hear you

Active on 10 meters on sunspot high

Active on 20 meters on special events

Active on 40 and 80 meters, really late at some nights

Active on satellites when propagation is below zero and boredom peaks high.

Got in QSO with me? My QSL is good for these awards:

DXCC=SV9

Grid Loc= KM25nh

IOTA=EU-015

CQ zone=20

ITU zone = 28.

HF PROPAGATION TOOLS

These are propagation tools from various sources.

They include Solar radiation indicies, solar wind strenght and polarisation, trend charts for F2 MUF and more.

Their role is to tell you who is expected to be met on air now.

Data is valid up to the last hour, so please look ahead a bit (current data will have a "drift" following the sun, 1/24th of the global map below, to the left of the map).

Clicking the edge right and center right image below will pop up IPS australia website,

enabling you to select your region. Currently displayed info is centered on SV Land.

Current foF2 courtesy of http://www.ips.gov.au . To QSO the required region of the world you have to select the lowest F layer frequency between required points.

Example. You need to QSO with a region which is petrol on the map but you are in a yellow area - The best frequency to use is what is defined by the colour reffering to the lowest frequency, that is your colour, Yellow, near 2 MHz. (160m ham band, 1.8MHz).

Beware that it is truly hard to make the QSO between bright red & yellow located stations and stations in blue and dark red regions, due to enormous daily D layer absorption. Click on this link for an example.

You can use the K1TTT tool for real time MUF - LOF calculations at N0NBH web page. Click this link!

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SV9OFO

John Makris

107, Ierolohiton Str.

71305 Iraklion, Crete

GREECE

Direct, eQSL.cc

latest update: 18th of January, 2010 - N0NBH 's sun & prop - even more info added

A page to start every time you turn on your shack computer.

Hello and welcome to my Radio amateur links page.

This page is my attempt to design and implement a start point in the internet with info valuable to all amateurs. Most ham-wise important websites are gathered here, and when you click a link, a new window always pops up to that website.

I understand that every ham has his/her personality and likes different arrangements of tools or website colours, I took the most generic (sky blue, black) and a blog-like layout with links on both sides and some gadgets on the right, as a good layout to start.

This page is ever-evolving, so who knows what will end up to look like later on... better than you do!

Please, make it global, i.e. hams all around the world should be interested in it to make it to the web page.

a few headlines follow:

I got Paul N0NBH's licence (thanks Paul!!!) to translate his "table for solar data panel" (black panel on the left side) to Greek. Here is the link to it!

Do your QRP operations on 14285 suffer QRM from SV stations? Tell them to QSY to the official GreekNet frequency, 14340! est. 1969 by RAAG ! (EER)

Pse mail their callsigns with a relevant report (time, date, offensive language)

to "raag-hq .--.-. raag.org" with message title

"Deliberate QRM on QRP calling frequency 14.285 by SV#XXX - complaint"

(where SV#XXX pse enter actual callsign)

pse, do this only if you have their SV callsign to report, and keep the complaints honest - do not complain if they agree to QSY!

We together can stop this mess on QRP calling frequency!

About me

My home city is Iraklion (but could be found spelled "Heraklion" as well), In the island of Crete, SV9 land, southern (and hotter) part of Greece. My HF Antenna is usually either my 135ft (41,5m) OCF dipole

(some sort of evolution of Windom Antenna) accompanied by my trusty, hand - made, Antenna tuner, Or my 20m band dipole antenna (I like to check and compare).

HF PROPAGATION TOOLS

ES & MUF
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My home city is Iraklion (but could be found spelled "Heraklion" as well), In the island of Crete, SV9 land, southern (and hotter) part of Greece.

My HF Antenna is usually either my 135ft (41,5m) OCF dipole

(some sort of evolution of Windom Antenna)
accompanied by my trusty, hand - made, Antenna tuner,
Or my 20m band dipole antenna (I like to check and compare).