Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi 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, 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...
Lire la suiteHi all, I just finished my holidays and could - put down the HexBeam to clean it and to raise it up again at 35 feet (it was at 20 feet high before....) - Install an inverted-V dipole with the APEX at 25 feet high (so quite omnidirectional)...Goal is...
Lire la suiteAs for many expeditions, I QSO this one the very last day, on 20m (the only exception was for Clipperton, TX5C, on 17m, HI ). Yesterday was the very first day I heard them so well (peaking 5/5), but all EU stations were shouting a thim in the small +5...
Lire la suiteThat was a fight to get through the big pile-up with my 100W only...!!!! I was listening to Rafiq from the beginning of the week working on 40m at around 20:00z. But each time he was calling EU, there was a BIG BIG mess, zoo, or whatever other words,...
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