Pixie CW transceiver

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UPDATE:

I ran a Pixie for a couple of hours this afternoon.

Antenna was a simple low-strung wire, and sound out from the Pixie was plugged into an old laptop running win 3.2 and a morse deciphering software package called CW Skimmer.

twenty stations were logged at ranges from 30km out to 1400km and with fairly regular steps in between. This was achieved using NVIS and single bounce propagation.

At times the software was picking-up 20 odd simultaneous transmissions all in close proximity to the Pixie's fixed 7.023 Megaherz operating frequency.

the only additional kit I used was an antenna matcher which is a physical device to match the antenna's impedance to that required by the Pixie's transmitter output circuit (50ohms). This somewhat reduced the amount of commercial broadcast station bleed-through / interference.

My log for the session is as follows:
PIXIE Log 31 Oct 2015 simple wire antenna
Callsign Location 30km 1400km
oe7gj Austria
oe6rdd Austria
9a2wj Croatia
9a5to Croatia
ok1yr Czech Republic
ok4itga Czech Republic
g4hzv England
dl3rah Germany
dl1dxl Germany
dl4me Germany
dl1bug Germany
dl5ym Germany
dj8sw Germany
df7gg Germany
dl1dgs Germany
dl1rem Germany
dl6lbi Germany
df5lw Germany
dj6tk Germany
hg6lh Hungary
ha5ov Hungary
hg6e Hungary
hg6l Hungary
ha8rc /qrp Hungary (this was a low power 5w station)
iz5cpk Italy
ik5tbi Italy
ly2mm lithuania
pa3cvi Netherlands
pa3dbs Netherlands
pa5wt Netherlands
sp9dba Poland
sp8lep Poland
r4lo Russia
gm3job Scotland
gm4isl Scotland
gm3jks Scotland
yu1ea Serbia
sm0aig Sweden
sm3omo Sweden
m0aig UK