Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi all, The title says all: Just got 5V7PM on 17m, within a big pile-up. He was listening simplex first, no chance with South EU wall. Then he decided to work split, up 5 only...Listening the pile-up scared me, so I put the VFO 10KHz up...When after a...
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Hi all Impressive skip to Central Africa on 10m : After one week looking for him (most of the time within my noise level), the today's opening enabled me to get him without much effort on 10m (he was peaking 5/9 here !). I was lucky enough to be there...
Lire la suiteHi all, Just QSO a fw minutes ago with Chris, TL0A, on 12m. I've been looking for him on the high bands (alreazdy got him on 40/20/17/15m) the last few days when he was spotted by south Europe....But not skip to here. This evening, he was peaking 5/7...
Lire la suiteHi all, Nice sporadic E today on both 12/10m....Lots of south Europe (as well as a bit of Central EU, but not strong), with F/B reports, despite of the QSB. 2 new ones on 12m today: CN8NK, and SV9CVY. I now have CN and SV9 contacted on ALL bands, just...
Lire la suiteHi all, Most of you must have noticed it : The 20m band was open very laterly yesterday (I QRT'd at around 23:00z), and very well !!!!!!!!! Few QSo's in the log - VK2GWK on the long path (very rare at that time of the day !!!!!) - N0ARI/m (mobile station...
Lire la suiteHi all, Just contactedNicolas, TN5SN, on 15m (got him already on 20/17m, but that was a new one one 15m, rare these days !!!!) I was helped by a friend of mine, Eric (F4FJH) who lives at about 100km fro me...He is using a 4 el 5-band quad ( A monster,...
Lire la suiteHi all, What a pile-up yesterday evening for DX1J on 40m. His signals were peaking to a real S9 here, so I let you imagine the size of the pile-up calling him. I tried a bit when he was listening up 5, then up 10, but CB'ers were still there !!! I was...
Lire la suiteHi all, What a pile-up yesterday evening for DX1J on 40m. His signals were peaking to a real S9 here, so I let you imagine the size of the pile-up calling him. I tried a bit when he was listening up 5, then up 10, but CB'ers were still there !!! I was...
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Hi all, That was a great QSO yesterday evening on 20m with Jari, OH1JO. I was calling CQ with QRP power while beaming to SA, and he replied to me at 20:30z. Then started one of the longest QSO I've ever had on the air (more than 1 hour), speaking about...
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Very interesting chart indeed..... 80% of possibility for each path, the first line being the frequency of interest. Good DX, Ronan
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