Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
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Hi all, Nice opening yesterday evening just before our sunset on 10m : I QSO'd with CU6AY (IOTA EU175 on 10m)..Nothing special there, except that this was my very last band for Azores isl !!!!!! I also got ZP6DEM in quite good conditions (up to S5 here),...
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Hi all, Nice DX week-end on the high band indeed ET3AA, 5Z4/RW1AU and EY8MM on 10m --> 3 "new ones" on that band (My last new one on 10m happened long time ago, at least a couple of months....) UA9FAR on 12m (new DXCC and new zone, zone 17, there !!!!)....
Lire la suiteHi all, Yesterday evening, the sporadic was not there on 12/10m, so I decided to go on "lower bands" to see what was happening. Andre, C56YK was arriving very well at S7 here, calling by numbers. I already have C5 on all bands except 80m, so I decidede...
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Hi all, I received about 200QSL yesterday through the French buro, with about 50% of which were answers to my buro QSL (9Y4W, A45WD, etc etc). Lots of new EU countries are now confirmed on most bands, as for example OH on all bands except 12m (I still...
Lire la suiteHi all, Actually, friday evening showed a GREAT opening on the high bands for the West Indies. QSO in the log PJ4NX on 12m --> New one (and last band for PJ4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) FM1II on 12m (I just need FM on 10m now) 9Z4CT on 15m (just need 9Y on 12/10m...
Lire la suiteHi all, 3 new ones confirmed on 80m today : A92GR, JY4CI and MU0GSY. I now have 101 DXCC confirmed on 80m, YES !!!!!!! One new one on 40m, as well as a new Zone: JT1CO (Zone 23). I now have 36 zones confirmed on 40m (still waiting NL7Z QSL for zone 1....)...
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Hi all, Yesterday evening, I was carefully listening to 5V7PM on 10m, hoping for the propagation to go a bit higher than South Europe. That was the case, not loud, but he was there...Peaking S5 during 1 minute, then nothing during 10min....I stayed about...
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Hi all, I was lucky this evening...I saw 5V7PM spotted on 10m, but he was nil here....As usual, South Europe (and Central EU) was having fun, but I didn't hear him at all, even after 30 minutes listening to noise and some crashes Just after dinner, I...
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Hi again, Yes, this week-end was great for European QSo's indeed. Sporadic E propagation was strong, for signel and also double bounce skip !!!!!! I could comlpete a bit more my DXCC, because during the winter time, I took some time to note which EU countries...
Lire la suiteThat was a good week-end indeed.... Yesterday morning, there was a nice opening to UA/UR on 10m. Working zone 16 was quite easy, when I heard UA9JLL calling without much takers. He was 5/5, and when I realized that would be a new zone on 10m, I jumped...
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