Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Some of them with QRP power (5W, all others with barefoot 100W. Skip is very good between EU and Africa, with VERY NICE OPENINGS on 12 and 10...I'm now looking for C91R on 12 and 10m, nothing heard yet. For C52C, 12m QSO today, but in their on-line log,...
Lire la suiteHi guys, Tonight I've been working my nearly last state on 20m for the WAS : North Dakota. Alex, W0ZTL, had tremendous signal here, very often over the not-generous 5/9 of my FT-920. I really fighted to to get in, but he heard me !!!!! It was almost as...
Lire la suiteHi all, This is becoming more and more rare for me that it's worth a few lines in my blog. I did QSO with a "All time new one" today. That was 3C7Y, equatorial Guinea, on 15m SSB, from Bioko Island AF-010. That is my 272 DXCC.....in 18 months :-) , and...
Lire la suiteWhat a great expedition...Over 125K QSO, !!!!!!!!! I stil miss them on 10m, but what can we do without any propagation ! Special thanks to all the team, and lokking fwd to the next FSDXA trip !!!!
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What a pleasure to find a F/B signal report from the state of Idaho (New state for me, just miss ND now.....) Thanks to Ed, NX7TT, was a real 5/7 report here. I already looking forward to getting his QSL card ! Of course, I worked him barefoot !!!!! More...
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Today, I feel quite sad. The propagation is very poor, although we are in equinox period (susceptible to be a good period for DX QSO's....). One more thing, next solar cycle is planned to begin.......next March.....This hurts. Maybe good enough for VP6DX...
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A brief chart to well show what SFI/Kp/A index mean in terms of HF propagation... Hope that could be useful for some of us... Detailled explanation here : www.qsl.net/w2vtm/hf_solar.html Ronan
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Today, the solar flux went below 66...That's what I call a minimum... The only good point is that my static noise went down now to S1-S2, with a very clear 20m band starting from 20:00z.. Really don't know what happened. Let's be optimistic, the propagation...
Lire la suiteHi all, Well, today has been dedicated to "hunting" 3B7C on the high bands. Cool, a good opening on 12m enabled me to QSO them (S5 max here, but enough, even with my 100W !) So as for now, I'm exactly in the same status as for 3B7SP : 20/17/15 and 12m.......
Lire la suiteHi all, Just a question for those who are reading this blog (I hope there are a few of you that find it interesting...) I've noticed a high level of static noise on most of the HF bands, increasing slightly in the evening time during the sunset, up to...
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