Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi all, What a great propagation on 10m !!!!!!!!!!!!! Full of JA, JT's were very strong, KH2 and KH0's too.... As usually, I do participate in the contest to chase some new ones here and there, but I was bluffed by the conditions on 10m....So estonished...
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Hi all, You must have noted this, wherever you are inthe world. High bands (12/10m) were wide open to all parts of the world. Bands were full of exotic call-signs, even a few hours after sunset, and that enabled me to get very nice new ones here and there....
Lire la suiteHi all, Yesterday evening, I could get for the very first time Zone 3 on 10m (VE7SV) with a real 599 report after sunset ! all started before sunset with K6YRA contacted on 12m with 100w only..Al was bomming in, 59 report on the FT-920, simply impressive....
Lire la suiteHi again, When looking at the "last good ones" articles, I do realize I'm late in QSL'ing. Yes s htere were some expeditions QSO's, like for ZS8M and ST0R for which I'm still waiting fro the QSL card. But others I know I've sent htem QSL, and which never...
Lire la suiteHi all, Yesterday was THE evening : I was listening the 40m CW portion to continue my everyday CW training and heard F5LMJ CQ'ing at a very convenient speed for me. I jumped onto my key and decided to call him, although I was a bit scared to "key'" for...
Lire la suiteHi all, Well, I received yesterday the MFJ564 Iambic paddle and made the correct wiring connections to the transceiver (not a big deal, this is a simple 3-wire interface with common wire, dash and dot wire). I immediately started to play with the FT-920...
Lire la suiteA few more weeks of training on LCWO.net. I can decode call signs up to 26-27wpm, and long "aleatory" lettr groups tp to 17-18wpm. I still need to train, because what I noticed is that my limitation is NOT in the character speed (to a certain extent of...
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hi all, Well, a few radio activities here and there during this summer season with new IOTA's, and above all, 2 new "All Time New Ones" with ST0R from 40 up to 10m, and T32JB on 20m this morning. The zoo was calling him on a 10KHz wide split when he passed...
Lire la suiteHi all, More than 1 month since I re-started CW here. OK, I went 2 weeks in Corsica isl for holidays (that were great by the way), without any radio / CW there. Back home, I re-started my lessons, having finished the 40 lessons at 12wpm. Quite hard, but...
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Some of you may laugh reading this title, but I found a web-site permitting to "learn" CW on-line. http://lcwo.net/courselesson I tried it, and despite I have almost never been active on CW from the day I passed my exam (15 years ago...), I decided to...
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