Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
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5th of October Well, the 3D2R guys go QRT today at 10:00-11:00, meaning that I'll not get them anymore, being now at the office untill 16:00. My 40m CW QSO is not in the on-line log, I must have dreamt hearing the "F8...." yesterday morning.... Yesterday...
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Hi all, You must have noted this, wherever you are inthe world. High bands (12/10m) were wide open to all parts of the world. Bands were full of exotic call-signs, even a few hours after sunset, and that enabled me to get very nice new ones here and there....
Lire la suiteHi all, Yesterday evening, I could get for the very first time Zone 3 on 10m (VE7SV) with a real 599 report after sunset ! all started before sunset with K6YRA contacted on 12m with 100w only..Al was bomming in, 59 report on the FT-920, simply impressive....
Lire la suiteHi all, While beaming roughly to the West to get those 4W on the LP, I saw VK0KEV spotted on 17m SSB from 06:00, and workign by numbers. Monitoring his frequency just exploded my ears, only noise. I kept monitoring his frequency, trying to listen to the...
Lire la suite21st of September Well, our 17m SSb QSO (20th morning) doesn't appear on the on-line log. Coming back from the office yesterday, they were still on 17SSB, barely readbale but workable, and without too many takers. I took my chance and I think I went through,...
Lire la suiteHi again, When looking at the "last good ones" articles, I do realize I'm late in QSL'ing. Yes s htere were some expeditions QSO's, like for ZS8M and ST0R for which I'm still waiting fro the QSL card. But others I know I've sent htem QSL, and which never...
Lire la suiteHi all, What a DX week-end on the high bands ! I finally reached over 200 DXCC contacted on 10m, I worked 2 new zones on 12m, I made some CW QSO's that brought me new band-slots and hwich wouldn't have been possible in SSB, etc etc.... Her ewe go 10m:...
Lire la suiteHi all, Yesterday was THE evening : I was listening the 40m CW portion to continue my everyday CW training and heard F5LMJ CQ'ing at a very convenient speed for me. I jumped onto my key and decided to call him, although I was a bit scared to "key'" for...
Lire la suiteHi all, Well, I received yesterday the MFJ564 Iambic paddle and made the correct wiring connections to the transceiver (not a big deal, this is a simple 3-wire interface with common wire, dash and dot wire). I immediately started to play with the FT-920...
Lire la suiteA few more weeks of training on LCWO.net. I can decode call signs up to 26-27wpm, and long "aleatory" lettr groups tp to 17-18wpm. I still need to train, because what I noticed is that my limitation is NOT in the character speed (to a certain extent of...
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