Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
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Here is the source : http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml And the prevision chart : This would be the least active cycle for...100 years. So each QSO opportunity mustn't be missed !!!! But nowadays, there are some activities : Ronan
Lire la suiteHi all, You may have not noticed, but for several weeks, some annying spots are made at my intention : ON6RZ 10107.0 F8AFC DX cluster not ur LOG ! 0755 28 Feb France ON6RZ 18073.0 F8AFC Cluster not ur LOG ! 1001 25 Feb France ON8RD 18083.0 F8AFC Why write...
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Hi all, I've been analyzing the stats of the last FW0NAR activity, in order to try to understand what happened in particular with Zone 14. First thng to be noticed Sunset in FW # 06:13z and Sunrise in West_Europe # 07:10z --> almost 1 hour of common darkness...
Lire la suite3rd of February Hi all, Well, my HK0NA chase officially ended yesterday with this 30m CW QSO !!!!!! I knew they were QRV on the morning with still good reports from Eu. But with my super-simple set-up ("tuned" 80/40 vertical and barefoot), I also knew...
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Hi all, 80m conditions will be more than low this evening (and tomorrow morning), due to a big Solar flare : Result of this : More than 35dB of absorption on 80m : Hopefully those HK0NA will be on 20m..If not, this evening wil be very quiet on the air...
Lire la suiteHi all, It is time to look at a bit behind and make some stats on 2011 DX activities here. 80m 40m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m Total 2009 140 193 285 255 244 161 139 1417 2010 161 219 291 266 261 199 177 1574 2011 183 247 304 285 281 249 248 1801 DXCC 2009 293...
Lire la suiteHi all, What an evening, while waiting for some propagation/activity from JD1/o on 40m, I did a bit of 80m and heard DU1IST on 3.512 MHz. Few guys were calling simplex, which was clearly covering him. Then, heard the hord 1 Kc up and in the clear, DU1IST...
Lire la suiteDecember, 28th Well, that was as unexpected as you could imagine but from my small city lot, I could get my 2nd station from zone 27 on 80m with JD1BLY in the log on 80m CW !!!!!! This is my 2nd new band for Ogasawara this year thanks to CW (1st one being...
Lire la suiteAll is in the title. I remember T6JC QSO very well ! Conditiosn were tough, but that was my 1st DX in CW on 40m :-) I also got the good surprise to QSO with EA1CYK/p from a Spanish Antarctica base, on South Shetlands islands, for a new one on 10m. Apart...
Lire la suiteHi all, I'm on holidays for 2 weeks starting from today. And what I can say is that they started well : I got 3D2R QSL for 20/17/15m (SSB + CW) QSO's, all time new one confirmed. I aslo got YJ0ANR for our...12m CW QSO !!!!!!! I remember the pile-up on...
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