Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi 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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hi all, Well, a few radio activities here and there during this summer season with new IOTA's, and above all, 2 new "All Time New Ones" with ST0R from 40 up to 10m, and T32JB on 20m this morning. The zoo was calling him on a 10KHz wide split when he passed...
Lire la suiteHi all, More than 1 month since I re-started CW here. OK, I went 2 weeks in Corsica isl for holidays (that were great by the way), without any radio / CW there. Back home, I re-started my lessons, having finished the 40 lessons at 12wpm. Quite hard, but...
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Some of you may laugh reading this title, but I found a web-site permitting to "learn" CW on-line. http://lcwo.net/courselesson I tried it, and despite I have almost never been active on CW from the day I passed my exam (15 years ago...), I decided to...
Lire la suiteHi all, FO/F6CTL QSO this morning on 20m LP. He is on Marquesas islands (OC027), starting a FO IOTA tour including this FO/m activity. And this is an All Time New One for me, actually, my last FO DX entity. He was peaking S6-S7 here, and gave me the same...
Lire la suiteHi all, Very nice double-folded QSL cam ein the mail box yesterday. Actually, a couple of ones, with VP8ORK confirmed on 80/40/20/17/15m VP8ORK confirmed as QRP 5W on 20m (with hand-written QSO data + nice little word form th emanager !) This is an ALL...
Lire la suiteHi all, 3 QSL's were waiting for me in the letter box today S9DX for our 80/40/20/17/15/12m QSO's (with QSL for our QRP QSO on 20/17m !) 4A4A for our 80/40/17/15m QSO's 4K9W for our 12m QSO could be worse isn't it ? 73 (and tnx again to all for QSL'ing...
Lire la suiteHi all, I got yesterday a very nice QSL from Terry, WL7SJ, for our QSO's on both 17 and 15m. I was more than happy for those QSO's, since Alaska, akka Zone 1, was my very last zone on both 17 and 15m bands. Now, this zone is also confirmed there, MANY...
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