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Vendredi 10 juillet 2009
Hi all,

Today, I completed Creta isl on all bands thanks to Mike, SV9CVY (I already got SV9 on 80/20m with SV9GPV).
I remember having chasing him on 12m during 1 week, which was my last band missing, and I coudl get through finally (at the very beginning of Sporadic E season !)

A new one confirmed on all bands, tnx Mike !!!!!!!!

Ronan, F8AFC
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Jeudi 9 juillet 2009
Hi all,

Nice opening yesterday evening on 20m (maybe thanks to the good SSN number we have for the last couple of days..)
I coumd get Ken, ZL3OZ, on the long path at around 21:30GMT, from OC134. Really before the pile-up. We had a nice QSO (he was peaking S7 here !) around antennas, conditiosn were defeinitely good.
I also got a few minutes before ZX8A on IOTA SA016 (I got Orlando on IOTA SA041 the day before), thnaks for the 2 new IOTA's Orlando !!!!!

As a bonus, I also QSO'd with "Booming" Joe, KP2/AA1BU on 15m. A real 5/9 report, at the very first call, at 21:45GMT, he was the ONLY signal on the band. I really look for him on 10m, my last band for KP2 !!!!!!

Good DX to all
Ronan, F8AFC
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Lundi 6 juillet 2009
Hi all,

Summer propagation is a good manner to fullfill one's DXCC with close-countries.

This was the case for me with EA9IB on 15m (QSO's also on 12 and 6m, I'll send Pedro my direct QSL to finalize EA9 on all bands !)
I also got Jouko, OH3GBS, on 12m, my very last (and longly expected) band for Finland.

Thanks to both of you !

Ronan, F8AFC
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Samedi 4 juillet 2009
Hi all,

A long expected QSL has arrived today: S04R (S zero 4 R), from Western Sahara.

I received in fact 3 QSL cards
2 for "full power" QSO's on ALL bands from 80 up to 10m, incl WARC (80/40/20/17/15/12/10m)
1 for our 3 QRP QSO's on 12/15/20m.

I was missing Western Sahara on 10/80m, now this is done. And this is also a new one in QRP 5W !

MANY THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ronan, F8AFC

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Vendredi 3 juillet 2009
New IOTA confirmed today : HK1AT from IOTA SA078, tnx for the new one !
Ronan, F8AFC

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Vendredi 3 juillet 2009
Hi all,

I found how to do this...Now, you can see a scrolling bar to indicate you the number of visitors on the blog at the same time, as well as a flag counter to know where the visitors are from (which is somehow redundant with the map, but I like this way too...)

I'll try to improve the look & feel of the blog, now I know how to do, HI !
Ronan, F8AFC
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Vendredi 3 juillet 2009
Hi all,

I know, I'm definitely not an expert in designing Blog, in IT in general, but I found a nice feature to be added: A world map of the visitors of my blog site.
Now, I'd like to find something like a counter to be added just below this world map, but I already find this quite nice and interesting.

Keep tuned,
Ronan, F8AFC
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Mercredi 1 juillet 2009
Hi all,

Yesterday, I received C56KRfor our 40m QSO, new band.....I just miss C5 on 80m now, as quite a lot of DXCC by the way,
Thanks Niels !!!!!!

73
Ronan, F8AFC
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Lundi 29 juin 2009
Hi all,

Today it makes exactly 1 year that I first started to use the HF2V on both 40/80 (with 40 radials, buried, of 10m long each, with the help of an simple AL811H with around 500 to 600W PEP).

As a result, I've been making lots of QSO on all continents on all bands (except Antarctica on 80m, just VP8 Falklands isl....)

80m
DXCC wkd = 130  /Cfm = 80
WAZ wkd = 30 / Cfm = 29

40m
DXCC wkd = 171 / cfm = 126
WAZ wkd = 37 / Cfm = 36

Not bad isn't it ??????

So what is next year target...DXCC over 200 on 40m, over 150 on 80m. WAZ 40 on 40m, and 35 on 80m ?

See you next year !!!!
Ronan, F8AFC

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Lundi 29 juin 2009
Hi all,

Here it is, my last QSL from Mehdi's Antarctica tour...My very first peruvian base !!!!!!



Ronan
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A few words about me...

  1. Born in 1975 in Brittany, NW France, where I still live. Ham since 1999.
  2. Graduated PhD Electronics & radio-com systems (1998), I've early and luckely been influenced by my SK dad (F5CKM).
  3. Now working in consumer electronics market ( mobile phone) and episodically  travelling abroad (VU/BV/BY/HL/K, etc...).
  4. Married and happy father of 3 kids, I still find spare time to be on the air, experimenting few things, homebrewing some small things.to continuously improve the station (Tnx to my lovely XYL's comprehension !)
  5. Kind on DX'ing, IOTA's, I'm also chasing WAZ and WAS.. and I'm active from 80 up to 6m.

Equipment:

- FT-920 Yaesu fitted with all filters (1.8 / 2.1 KHz IF for SSB)  &  TS-450SAT as back-up

- HexBeam antenna for 20/17/15/125/10 & 6m (6m with FT-920 ATU) , 10m AGL.

- HF2V for 80/40m with 48 buried radials of 10m plus 4 grounds rods of 1.5m (4.5 feet) long
- Ameritron AL811H (4 * 811a, running at 500W PEP max, no need to push it at max 800W PEP !))
- Testing RX antennas for the low bands (even if living in a small 40 * 30m city lot......)

C U on the air
Ronan, F8AFC

 


 

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