Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
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Hi all, Chasing big expeditions is quite time consuming, but I must say that apart from the A35YZ, there is no major other ones on the air those days. This is a good time to optimize my time behind the transceiver and chase some new slots. That was the...
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Hi all, Even if this DXCC is rather "easy" from Western europe, I was happy to get them on 30m with my so-simlpe set-up on that band. I was looking for my last possible slot (12ssb) untill yesterday evening when coming back from the office at around 17:00z,...
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14th of March, last update (ZD7XF now QRT) What a day yesterday when I could get Nigel on 80cw in the morning (see here below), but as well on 40cw in the evening. He was calling JA on 40cw as he is used to do on their sunrise, and went back to Europe...
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22nd of March : A35YZ now QRT A35YZ is QRT after 41,175 QSOs. Thanks for calling us! We are tired, have to be at the airport at 10 AM local and still have to pack our equipment. A35YZ Continent Breakdown 160m 80m 40m 30m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m Total QSOs...
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We can expect from this massive X5.4 flare (the strongest in the 5 past years) some big radio black-outs and high polar absorption.... That hurts, but remember recently, our sun was too sleepy...I honestly prefer to see it like this, this is a good sign...
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Hi all, It has been a lucky one yesterday evening. I could QSO with Gert, 7P8GF on 40m cw. He had a very good signal, and few takers, since most of 40m'ers were on the A35 pile-up (I didn't hear those A35 there.....so). New One on 40m, and I now miss...
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Hi all, The claimed scores have been published, and for the 10W-category I was participating to, here are the best claimed scores : FORMULA CLASS - 10 watts or less Callsign Countries Zones Score PY4ZO 234 40 274 WG5G 227 40 267 W8QZA 220 40 260 ND0C...
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Here is the source : http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml And the prevision chart : This would be the least active cycle for...100 years. So each QSO opportunity mustn't be missed !!!! But nowadays, there are some activities : Ronan
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Update, 19th of March Logs are now on-line, and all my QSO's are in there (incl 40m CW QSO with 3C0E, the luckiest one) 3C03 log: QSO of F8AFC: 6 10 12 15 17 20 30 40 80 160 CW SSB 3C6A log: QSO of F8AFC: 6 10 12 15 17 20 30 40 80 160 CW SSB The goal...
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