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Many thanks to 9m2zak for recording this video for my audio set up..until now, still fine tune what the best audio for my set up..anyway, happy watching this video..& really appreciated if have any stations can record my audio & send to my email for my collections..

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2 Nights

Experience 2 nights worked with Africa (ZS) stations, really nice because band really open between West Malaysia & Africa..sometimes penetrate to PY stations also..have no idea because Sunspot (SSN) doesn't show any activities but it's work..band changing very fast plus sometime coming with high noise..anyway, it really nice to make contact with Africa & Brazil station on 20m band..thanks also for nice QSO..

	Station	Flags	Start Time	Band	Mode	RST s/r
9M2ODY	RI1ANC/A		2010-12-19 16:31	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS6VOL		2010-12-19 16:03	20m	USB	59 58
9M2ODY	ZS5GB		2010-12-19 15:58	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS6AGC		2010-12-19 15:56	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS4PJ		2010-12-19 15:51	20m	USB	59 57
9M2ODY	ZS1WE		2010-12-19 15:49	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS4PP		2010-12-19 15:47	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS4LD		2010-12-19 15:42	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZR4FM/M		2010-12-19 15:39	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS8M		2010-12-18 16:39	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS5CD		2010-12-18 16:31	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS1DDK		2010-12-18 16:29	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	V5/DK2WH		2010-12-18 16:24	20m	USB	59 58
9M2ODY	FR1LB		2010-12-18 16:12	20m	USB	59 55
9M2ODY	ZD9GI		2010-12-18 16:06	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS6TAF		2010-12-18 16:01	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS4S		2010-12-18 15:58	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS4L		2010-12-18 15:55	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS6DAY		2010-12-18 15:52	20m	USB	59 58
9M2ODY	ZS5LG		2010-12-18 15:49	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	5R8UI		2010-12-18 15:46	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS5RH		2010-12-18 15:39	20m	USB	59 58
9M2ODY	ZS5DM		2010-12-18 15:28	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS5JY		2010-12-18 15:24	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	PY2WO		2010-12-18 15:19	20m	USB	59 57
9M2ODY	ZS1D		2010-12-18 15:14	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	ZS1TBS		2010-12-18 15:09	20m	USB	59 59

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ESSB??

ESSB stand for Extended for SSB mode..normally, the audio will be at range 2.0khz - 2.5khz..but with ESSB, can be more wide..like example up to 5.0khz & all this must be comply with rules by ITU..see table below :

STANDARD SSB MODES (Subjective Descriptions)	BANDWIDTH	FREQUENCY RESPONSE @ -6dB Points	ITU DESIGNATOR (Technical Descriptions)
Standard SSB (Narrow)	2 kHz	400 Hz ~ 2.4 kHz	2K00J3E
Standard SSB (Medium)	2.4 kHz	300 Hz ~ 2.7 kHz	2K40J3E
Standard SSB (Wide-1)	2.7 kHz	200 Hz ~ 2.9 kHz	2K70J3E
Standard SSB (Wide-2)	2.9 kHz	100 Hz ~ 3.0 kHz	2K90J3E
EXTENDED SSB MODES (Subjective Descriptions)	BANDWIDTH	FREQUENCY RESPONSE @ -6dB Points	ITU DESIGNATOR (Technical Descriptions)
eSSB (Narrow-1)	3 kHz	100 Hz ~ 3.1 kHz	3K00J3E
eSSB (Narrow-2)	3.5 kHz	80 Hz ~ 3.58 kHz	3K50J3E
eSSB (Medium-1)	4 kHz	50 Hz ~ 4.05 kHz	4K00J3E
eSSB (Medium-2)	4.5 kHz	50 Hz ~ 4.55 kHz	4K50J3E
eSSB (Wide-1)	5 kHz	50 Hz ~ 5.05 kHz	5K00J3E
eSSB (Wide-2)	6 kHz	50 Hz ~ 6.05 kHz	6K00J3E
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Logically, all sound/audio equipment have humming..& how to cut this humming from going to the transceiver while TX..in this case, i have made one box, we called 'iBox'..all humming will be cut by some electronics inside the box..at the first i read at manual Equalizer, its will produce about +/-18db humming..& i was thinking how to make this noise not coming to my transceiver..have a very nice iBox done by W2IHY..it's so great ibox but i think another way how to homebrew it..with some idea given from somebody..i go to electronic shop to buy the thing..lucky they have it..i done the iBox about 1 hour..then i try..fuhhh!!! the is no humming/RF coming..this iBox cut about +/-23db..very happy & finally try to get 9M2ZAK to assist me to setting the audio..thanks ZAK for help..hehe..i will upload here some audio recorded done by ZAK soon..

4ch Mixer, 31 Band Equalizer & Audio Balancer

iBox - cut +/-23db

View inside iBox

iBox by W2IHY

iBox by 9M2ODY..hi hi

Overall view

Antenna farm

Some DX Reports

DX at early evening (MST time)..lately, band changing very fast..started 1200z, band very nice open to EU & i think can stand only 3hours..after that, can't hear anything..try & try to continue CQ DX again but no feedback..so, just rechew to find another stations..unfortunately, no body reply..below are some reports & the working conditions :

TRX : IC-718Dsp
Power : 70w
Antenna : DalBeam 6ele. Duo Monobander - 15m above ground

	Station	Flags	Start Time	Band	Mode	RST s/r
9M2ODY	A65BC		2010-12-12 15:11	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	A41LD		2010-12-12 15:03	20m	USB	59 58
9M2ODY	YB2IQ		2010-12-12 14:54	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	DK3EE		2010-12-12 14:32	20m	USB	59 55
9M2ODY	S52V		2010-12-12 14:13	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	SV3AQR		2010-12-12 14:00	20m	USB	59 53
9M2ODY	EA5/GM0OPK		2010-12-12 13:52	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	VU2MIK		2010-12-12 13:08	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	VU3BTP		2010-12-12 13:03	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	R3GG		2010-12-12 12:58	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	VU2PT		2010-12-12 12:56	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	UA3ZNO		2010-12-12 12:54	20m	USB	59 53
9M2ODY	F6HQP		2010-12-12 12:51	20m	USB	59 54
9M2ODY	LX1AX		2010-12-12 12:45	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	HB9RDE		2010-12-12 12:37	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	UT5IF		2010-12-12 12:35	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	SV7CFC		2010-12-12 12:33	20m	USB	59 55
9M2ODY	DL1GDS		2010-12-12 12:31	20m	USB	59 57
9M2ODY	RW3XW		2010-12-12 12:26	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	DL1LKR		2010-12-12 11:59	20m	USB	59 59
9M2ODY	VK4LDX/P		2010-12-12 05:51	15m	USB	59 59

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