Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
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Hi all, From 30th of October to the 10th of November, a group of French hams will activate Tromelin isl (9th most wanted). Web site : http://www.tromelin2014.com/ This will make noise on the bands !!!!! Ronan, F8AFC
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Hi all, Nice new one (#302 on 15m) this morning with Take-san worked from Minami Torishima on the long Path. Take-san has a simple dipole, but propagation was good and his signal peaked at about S5 here. This is my 2nd band for JD1/m (previous and only...
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Hi all, Another great QSL package received super-quickly from Tim, M0URX, with TX5RV (Austral isl) on 30cw OY1OF on 160 SSB (!) MS0OXE (Scotland) on 160/30m : I now have Scotland on all 9 bands KH2/G3ZEM on 30cw (What a pile-up that was !) 5U9AMO on 40cw...
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Hi all, I hadn't much free time recently (end of the year....), but here I am, on holidays !!!! Unfortunately, those holidays start quite badly, with high winds forecast this night : I'm located right in the dark-red, and strongest are planned for 01AM,...
Lire la suiteHi all, This is what I call a real focus on low bands !!!!!! Radio Arkala announced their trip to South Sudan with a dedication to low bands activitiy. I was, until this WE, missing Z8 on 160/80/30m, as well as on CW mode. I was lucky enough to work ST0R...
Lire la suiteHi all, What a great day today !!!! All started with K9W logged on 15ssb this morning, followed this midday by XR0ZR, still on 15ssb. Then , I had a sked with Carson, ZS8C, who kindly proposed me to try on 15m first at the beggining of the afternoon,...
Lire la suiteHi all, Very busy indeed chasing those K9W, T33, XR0ZR, so quite a short post on the past XR0YY from Easter isl. XR0YY put his log on line today, and before saying "Victory", I wanted t be sure of it. Now this is done, my 80cw is well in the log, officially...
Lire la suiteHi all, November was announced as being a very busy month with many expeditions planned, including some potential new ones. In this moment, there is (to my interest) XR0YY to be chased on 12m and above all on 80m (zone 12, my last zone) 5J0R that I was...
Lire la suiteHi all, It's quite a while since my last update, I've been actually busy on the professional side and at home. I could log some nice ones recently, including TX5D and TO2TT from 80 up to 10 (TO2TT being my 200th on 80m !) 9L1JT/E51NOU on 30m (and C82DX...
Lire la suiteHi all, What a signal last night on 80m : Real 599 at 23:30z, and only a few calls were necessary to get my DXCC n°200 on 80m with TO2TT logged. This expedition from Mayotte isl enables me 3 new bands (80/40/30m), and new mode (CW), great one indeed !...
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