Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
I now officially miss OY on 40 and 80m only (worked recently there, but not yet confirmed). I got yesterday OY4TN QSL card for our 6m QSO...Tnx !!!!!!!!!! Now, I got OY/DL stn, OY/LA stn on both 40/80m, and OY9R (Otto) and OY3JE (Jan, yesterday evening),...
Lire la suiteHi all, Yesterday evening, I succeeded to QSO with Svein, JX9JKA, on 40m...This is my 6th band with Svein (10/12/15/17/20 already "done"). I just miss him on 6m (too late in the year now I guess), and 80m. But this is the first time time I see him on...
Lire la suiteHi all, This morning, I had a QSO with Norberto, TI2TL on 40m at around 06:30 UTC. That was a new one for me on 40m, and I'm now approaching the 100 DXCC from the date I installed the HF2V (3 months ago). I also contacted YC6NE and YC6BRS yesterday evening...Billy...
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Desperately flat....this is the SSN (sunspot) curve from the last month.... This kind of non-activity didn't happen in the past century !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really think it can not be worse... Ronan, F8AFC
Lire la suiteHi again, Yesterday, I found about 80m of copper cable (domestic electricity), and because the soil was wet, I decided that I could start increasing the number of radials (10m long max....). So I started to bury those 8 radials at 10° from each other,...
Lire la suiteHi, Yesterday, I had some time to finalize the preamplifier... Because I had all the components twice, I decided to place in serie of the first preamp a second one as per the schematics of the first one...Eerything wored fine from the beginning !!!!!...
Lire la suiteHi, Again, a new one on 40m yesterday evening with V55V/P QSO. He was rather week (5/5), and the band was quite crowdy with both field-day and All Asian contest, but I succeeded in going through the DL small pile-up... 5 is my #90 DXCC on 40m, from the...
Lire la suiteMany new ones for me tonight on the noisy 40m band - I heard 3DA0JK working a ukrainian station, and jumped into at the end of the QSO... I did well, less than 1 minute after, the European zoo started !!!!!!!!!!!!!! He gave me a 55 report (he was also...
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Today, thanks to CT3FQ QSL for our 12/10 and 6m QSO's, I got now CT3 confirmed on ALL bands from 80 to 6m, including WARC bands. That's the first time that happens to me, and this will stay as an excellent memory in my DX life of course. Many thanks to...
Lire la suiteDuring the past week, despite on the averagely poor conditions, I could make some new ones on 40m using 100W only (even going through pile-ups, HI !) OY9R otto JA5CJZ Aki-san (with his big 4 elements mono-bander !) ZL4IR Ed I also missed ZL3GS that I...
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