Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi 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...
Hi all, The luckiest QSO of my entire ham-life, by far !!!!!!!!!!!! For more than 1 month, my amp is under reparation, so I'm just running barefoot. Needless to say this means for this kind of expedition lots of patience, and a miracle ! From the beginning...
Hi all, Very nice double-folded QSL cam ein the mail box yesterday. Actually, a couple of ones, with VP8ORK confirmed on 80/40/20/17/15m VP8ORK confirmed as QRP 5W on 20m (with hand-written QSO data + nice little word form th emanager !) This is an ALL...
Hi all, YES, I could get Kevin (VK0KEV) from Macquarie isl this morning on 20m. Spotted at 06:.30 on 14.178, he went QRT a few minutes after, but another spot from a VK7 said "back in 1 hour on the same frequency". I was there, but with tons of QRM on...
Hi all, nice trio arrived today in the mail: VK0KEV (Macquarie isl !) on 17m...2nd band confirmed after 20m ZL1BYZ, John, on 10cw and 12m CW+SSB : Now I have zone 32 confirmed on ALL bands (tnx John !!!!) VE7SV on 40/10m CW, also new zone (z3) now confirmed...
10th of December Hi guys, Almost 1 month has passed, and clearly, conditions have changed in our sunset time, which now occurs a lot earlier !!!!!!!!! Openings are rare, simply because the happen when it is very dark here, so we need special conditions....
21st of September Well, our 17m SSb QSO (20th morning) doesn't appear on the on-line log. Coming back from the office yesterday, they were still on 17SSB, barely readbale but workable, and without too many takers. I took my chance and I think I went through,...
Update 04th of April DU9RG in the log on 15m with 5W, this is simply my very last Zone in QRP, I now have completed the 40 zones with 5W, cool !!!!! Let's increase the DXCC list wkd in QRP, my first objective being reached :-) Ronan Update 29th of March...
A 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...
Hi all, As described in a dedicated page on this blog, I've started the CQ DX marathon in Formula Class 1 (10W max). From the 1st of January, I've worked so far 19 zones and 21DXCC , all with 5 or 10W, including so hard ones: ZL1BD on the long path on...
Hi all In addtion to the ARRL contest with an excellent propagation on 15 and 10m (Colorado on 10m !), the WE has been rich in DXing... I could get Pierre, ZS8M on my 4th band, on 10m, with a good S5 report here And this morning, T30AQ on 20m, LP, before...
Hi all, Some thoughts about this CQWW SSB 2010 in which I participated as usually only for chasing new band slots, new ones and/or new zones. I've been quite active, even in the night time, but not that much in the day time: Propagation on 10m has been...
Update 4th of May Here we are, 200 points so far thanks to HB10K and PA3GGB on 40m, and to 7X4AN and S79DF on 20m yesterday evening. My list of missing ones is very useful so that I can concentrate on them only.... For the S79DF QSO, I was lucky: He was...
Hi all, First time from a long time I haven't been calling "CQ", but in the last couple of days, I've listened to some nice JA signals on th elong path. This is indeed a long haul, more than 30.000 km from my QTH ! JA7ND, JQ1QKK and a 3rd one (my apologizes,...
3rd 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...
Hi all, Wouaouh, what a great week-end !!!!!!!!! Amazing skip on 12/10m to Pacific (except for the T32 on SSB...), Far-East, West-Coast, etc.... Many very exotic call-signs in the log, among which several enabled me to get the 40 zones on both 12/10m...
Hi 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...
10m full of potential new DXCC on 10m, this is exceptional. Contacting with 100W all that was heard, this is also exceptional. But that was happened this evening at my sunset on 10m HR2DMR, CO8LY, J3/PE1IGM, HH2/PY1ZV and 6Y5/KJ4YDW in the log, with 100W...
4th of November TX7M log corrected, my 40SSB QSO is well in it. 13 band-slots, all bands from 80 up to 10m, new zone on 80m....Guys, you did a GREAT JOB !!!!!! Where are you going next ????? Ronan 2nd of November : TX7M has now QRT And a lst slot has...
Hi all, What a DX week-end on the high bands ! I finally reached over 200 DXCC contacted on 10m, I worked 2 new zones on 12m, I made some CW QSO's that brought me new band-slots and hwich wouldn't have been possible in SSB, etc etc.... Her ewe go 10m:...
Hi all, This is definitely the best season for polar paths, including some extremely good conditions on 20m past sunset. I could get NL7HH in th elog with 5W only (he was using 100W and was S7 here !), this is of course a new one in QRP. I immediately...
Hi all, 2 nice QSL arrived today, with A52VB from Bhutan on 15m sSB and 12m CW (new one confirmed on 12m), as well as VP2V/N3DXX on 80 and 10m CW (new one confirmed on 10m). I miss VP2V on 12m to finish this DXCC, as well as A5 on 10m (waiting for QSL)...
Hi all, Today is a special day for me: I got T6MB QSL for our 10m QSO, new one confirmed there. But above all, I have now the 40 zones confirmed on 40m with RT0C QSL !!!!!!!!!! This is my 2nd band where I have those 40 zones (the first one being the classical...
Hi all, Very nice QSL received today in the mail: XE1KK for our 12m QSO last October: New DXCC + new zone confirmed on 12m (last band for Zone 6 !!!!) FK1TK on 17m and 15m : New Caledonia is quite rare on the air, and I now have FK from 40 up to 15m,...
Hi all, Nice QSO this evening too, following yesterday's QSO with 8Q7VR on 80m. I could get D2AM on 40m, working simplex but by numbers. My skip on 40m at that time is longer than EU, so I didn't hear many people calling, but I'm sure to passed through...
