#4m Montenegro worked & #6m Asiatic Russia worked

 

Although I didn't receive the 73 the QSO is valid and in the log. Stupid, I made this screenshot after I returned to 6m. But the QSO is made on 4m for shure.

Legal or not? Work first, worry later...

Inside recently acquired filters

 I couldn't resist to open the filters (low pass and balun) I recently bought at the radiorally. The balun is not really a filter, or is it? It filters common mode radiation from the coax though. 

Not really anything special. A FT240 ferrite ring wound the classic way with 50 Ohm teflon coax. Made something similair myself in the past.  And I think I proved that it worked. Choice of ferrite is important just like the number of windings. The ON7FU filter/choke is well made.

The military low pass filter, or is it a pass band filter, was more difficult to open. I didn't trust this filter because something was rattling inside like something was loose and not right. The casing can not be opened with screws. It looked like a solid iron box but somehow I opened it without damaging the filter.

I really don't know exactly how they made this casing. I estimate that the filter is made around 1950-1960. The loose part was just a piece of solder. It looks like the backside was soldered to the filter compartiments. Not shure how I'm going to close it again, have to think about it.

#4m Italy worked

The question is if it is legal? So far I can only find that Italian HAMs are allowed to transmit on 4m till 31 Dec. 2023. Several Italian HAMs were calling on 4m FT8 today and I worked IZ0TTG on SSB.

6m brought in some Japan and South Korea this morning.

I made 3 QSOs to Japan...