I thought the MW season was over at the end of March - I was wrong. The others in the KONG Crew persuaded me to keep the 310 beverage antenna up for a bit more, and it certainly did pay off - one new log on the very last day! KCII Washington IA 1380 literally boomed in with their lousy 500-watt daytime rig on April 18th.
A few days before, almost as rare 1-kW KDJS Willmar MN had surfaced through the dominant KVGB on 1590. I've heard them only once before.
But now all beverages are down! And the rather short April log is here.
Last Sunday I had a beautiful drive back to Vadsø from Kongsfjord in clear skies and dry roads. Wednesay morning King Winter announced that he's not quite done yet, as seen on the video below.
It's probably not the last time. But temperatures will rise again soon.
Elad/Microtelecom recently published Perseus and Perseus22 beta drivers for ARM64 PCs. Having recently aquired a Snapdragon-powered Microsoft Surface Laptop, I was eager to find out if I could run those SDRs on the laptop. Earlier ARM64 SDR compatibility tests have been a mixed blessing.
So, the short version is: The Perseus (legacy) ARM64 driver seems to work well except it took a while to open Perseus software v.4.1a, and I could also run the Perseus with SDR Console and Jaguar (presumably also HDSDR although I forgot to try). There are some bugs still to be sorted out with the Perseus22 driver.
Oh, and it doesn't get completely dark at midnight anymore! Nautical twilight is as dark as it gets now, just over three weeks prior to the midnight sun.
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