Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Same group of russians going to the Fidji ! UT7L team members UT5UY, UX0LL and three other hams (UR3HR, UR7HTX, UR7HTZ) will be active as: 3D2AP, 3D2TZ, 3D2UY - IOTA OC-016 Taveuni Island, Fiji. April, 27 - May, 03 2007; 3D2RI - IOTA OC-189 Yanuca Island,...
Hi all, Good surprise today in the mail : I got V8FZA very nice QSL for our 17m QSO (Thanks to DL3FZA !) and HC8N for our 10m QSO (that was an unforgettable QSO last autumn, band was dead, he was the only signal on 10m at 19:17z after sunset !!!!!!!)....
Hi folks, I was never expected to QSO VP6DX on so many bands, with so small conditions (100W, and a 5-bander beam from 20-10m). Finally, I got them on 5 bands :: 80/40/20/17/15m (+17m QRP QSO). Really amazing. I wish next TX5C on Clipperton will be like...
Nothing special, except that I QSO with 9X0R tonight on 20m.. My week "rythm" prevents me from being active before 19:00z, but I had a good suprise to hear loudly the spanish team now on 9X land. That was quite a big fight to go through the NA pile-up...
Hi all, Today, QSO with VP6DX on 17m. I'm 100% sure of the QSO, although the conditions were not so good (he was really 5/3 with QSB here). And 17m is the band my transceiver outputs less power (50W PEP max !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) A few minutes after,...
Hi all Just QSO with VP6DX on 20m. I was impressed by the pile-up, everybody was calling him up 5 to up 10. The pb, he was listening between 14205 and 14210 (while tx on 14191, that is to say up 14 to up 19). I got him on 14210 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lucky,...
Hi all, From the last few days, some French op and a scottish one are on Jersey isl (GJ) untill the 6th of January. Jersey is not that difficult, except that for me, the distance is about 150-200km only...This means that when skip is open, I can hear...
Hi all Great surprise this morning with this science expedition from Fernando de Noronha island by Ville, signing as PW0F. He had a great signal (579 at sunrise) on 80m, band on which I was looking at PY0/f for years !!!!!!!!!!! Quite an easy one with...
Hi guys, Being busy this afternoon/night as most of us, here is a short summary of my 2014 DX activities compared to 2012 and 2013. A general chart "DXCC versus band" is also given from the day I started those stats (2009 !) As we can see - Solar activitiy...
Hi guys Just to share my experience on my old and sometimes trusty AL811H After transmitting, I noticed more and more some signal drop when back to RX. When the amp is OFF or in stand-by mode : No issue, after each transmission, the receiver strength...
Update, 23rd November evening VU4KV log update, the prefect one for me !!!! (No RTTY here) F8AFC has worked VU4KV on 8 out of 22 band slots 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW No QSO with France on 160m, this will be "mission impossible" for me....
November, 10th Expedition is over, log is online, and I must say I missed 40m, despite of...30 hours on this band. Am I disappointed? Sure Is it dramatic? No, of course. I remember when I was used to miss big expeditions, or when I was making only 1QSO....
Update 2nd of Nov Final log for this VK9XSP expedition : F8AFC has worked VK9XSP on 12 out of 23 band slots 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW I can not complain, even the missing 17ssb is not that "important". My main goal was to work them on...
Hi all, 26th of October Log updated : Still missing 20m QSO !!!!!! But apart from this, this chase is done for me 160M 80M 40M 30M 20M 17M 15M 12M 10M SSB √ √ √ √ CW √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 73 Ronan, F8AFC 23rd of October I actually stayed at home today as I'm...
26th of October F8AFC has worked VK9DLX on 12 out of 25 band slots 6m 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW I worked them this morning as VK9LM on 10m SSB....This is now complete on my side. Maybe a 40m SSB could be possible, but I already did all...
Hi all, Here it is, XR0YY QSL arrived following our 80m QSO last November. Easter island on 80m is very nice for sure. But this one is even more special for me since it is my 200th zone to complete 5-band WAZ !!!!!!!!! I do need to get motivated for 160m...
Hi all, Nice X-mas present with a new one logged on 30m : H40TA. Fair signal (559 in the peaks here), but hard to work until propagation closes in Central/East Europe. Then it was "easier" but it took me one good hour to make it. n°240 on 30m, the 250's...
Hi all, Nice new one (#302 on 15m) this morning with Take-san worked from Minami Torishima on the long Path. Take-san has a simple dipole, but propagation was good and his signal peaked at about S5 here. This is my 2nd band for JD1/m (previous and only...
Hi all, Another great QSL package received super-quickly from Tim, M0URX, with TX5RV (Austral isl) on 30cw OY1OF on 160 SSB (!) MS0OXE (Scotland) on 160/30m : I now have Scotland on all 9 bands KH2/G3ZEM on 30cw (What a pile-up that was !) 5U9AMO on 40cw...
Hi all, I hadn't much free time recently (end of the year....), but here I am, on holidays !!!! Unfortunately, those holidays start quite badly, with high winds forecast this night : I'm located right in the dark-red, and strongest are planned for 01AM,...
Hi guys, Totally unexpected new-one on 40m yesterday evening with Abubaker (5A1AL) logged with difficuties (simplex usual QRM...). N°271 on 40m (same score as on 12m), this is becoming harder and harder to get new ones on those bands My ultimum target...
Hi all, Nice new band for Norfolk isl yesterday evening on 30m with VK9NT logged at around 19:00z. From the beginning, I was chasing them as usually on my missing bands (I have VK9N on the classical 20/17/15m already), so I was interested in either 40/30m...
Hi all, As you must have noticed, 5W0M started a few days ago and my goal was to get them on CW (new mode) and on new bands (5W is already confirmed on 20 & 17m). I could get them on 20 and 17m CW (and 17ssb when he was just starting), so already a new...
Saturday, 19:30z Following the 7 new DXCC done this morning, I worked 2 new ones this evening with S51V and EF8S in the log on 160m. 9 new slots in one day, I love contests, HI. But I admit that I'm starting from almost scratch on this band See you later...
Nice ones recently made on 30m CW (actually, during the last week). I can't complain, although sometimes I can not break the pile-up but at least, I try and occosionally succeed Next step will be to go back to lower bands when I'll get my new amp repaired....
