Journal

Abbreviations used in journaling
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2024-11-30 - Repairment week
Icom IC-7000 repair attempt: soldered arrived transistors. During calibration of driver unit idle current, it has been discovered, that MOSFET does not work. Spare need to be ordered. 
 Elecraft K3 repair attempt: symptoms are better, different messages show up, wrote a letter to support. 
 MAFET PA repair: reduced secondary winding from three to two turns on output transformer after main transistors change (from XXX to MRF). Testing postponed due to lack of laboratory PSU for driving (smaller) PA. 
 Got eventually restored invetory management system and managed to place an advertisement for sale of laboratory shelves. They served since 2020. 
 Assembled voltage devider 100:1 to measure higher voltage with the oscilloscope. 
 Calibrated Power Meter to lower power levels (0-60 W / SWR 1:2) with self-made dummy load (50 and 25 Ohm).

2024-12-29 - Ending the year.
soldered thick cables to 48V PSU (set to 53.7V) for PA 
 laboratory fully packed and getting ready to move 
 spoke to another friend about basic physics regarding vehicle handling, clutch, gearing boxed, sparks and ignition timing 
 attended Finnish Independence Day celebration at the Riyadh Embassy. It was great to see the president of Finnish Republic Mrs. Tarja Halonen in person and listen to her speech. 
 collaborated regarding business management tasks 
 visited outskirts of Riyadh for looking at sunset 
 purchased Thermos made in Japan 
 accomplished long-lasting tasks (specially important before end of the year) 
 enjoyed a litre of fresh carrot juice 
 began to sketch with pencil and purchased sketchbook (A5 size) 
 attended Apple Partner event 
 cleaned wardrobe 
 finished a small housekeeping tasks 
 got through planner and calendar to see results of the year 
 attended four flights 
 purchased a new planner, daily and financial journals (A5 sizes) 
 purchased a lined copybook to continue to work on handwriting improvement

2025-02
горнолыжка “Новый Год 2025” в Архызе 
 горнолыжка “синие уверенно” в Архызе 
 книга “Парадокс долголетия” Стивена Гардни и вытекающея корректировка образа питания 
 Полный марафон в Риаде

2025-03-30
наблюдения о трансфере из МинВод в Ставрополь и обратно (Яндекс Такси, межгородское автобусное сообщение) 
 простые и большие рабочие столы из кухонных столешниц 
 горнолыжка "синие уверенно -2" 
 СГФ - джаз концерт 
 "КВ Чемпионат РФ - телефоном 2025" (ночной тур) R7GU @R7TD 
 рисование в стиле скетчинг 
 "Russian DX Contest 2025" 
 Термальные источники в бассейне "Цунами" 
 штамп "двухнедельный спринт" 
 Теренкур 2б в Кисловодске 
 "CQ WPX SSB 2025" R7GU @R7TD

2025-05-15
attended Generative AI workshop at Google Cloud Excellency center in KAFD, Riyadh 
 developed new way to learn telegraph (Morse Code), practised reception with 95% accuracy on 16 WpM (70 CpM)

2025-07-26 - here and there
Attended Nginx workshop at Arrow in Helsinki 
 Purchased FlexRadio 6400 
 Applied for contest Finnish radioamateur callsigns 
 ISP connected fibre to my QTH! Happy as a boy can be!