Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi all, Well, great news for me, I could wor 5T5DC on 12m (QRP 5W !), and at last on 10m !!!! I was listening to them very weak, and in a couple of seconds, their signals really went up to a real 5/9 here. That was impressive !!!!!!!! 1st call, and I...
Yesterday evening, propagation was rather poor just after the sunset. But about 3-4 hours later (at around 22:00z), some nice DX signals were coming here. i managed to QSO with Sergey (EX8KS) and Joey (DU1BP) without too much difficulties on 40m...Those...
Many new ones for me tonight on the noisy 40m band - I heard 3DA0JK working a ukrainian station, and jumped into at the end of the QSO... I did well, less than 1 minute after, the European zoo started !!!!!!!!!!!!!! He gave me a 55 report (he was also...
Hi all, Well, I could finally (and at last) raise the HF2V yesterday, and adjusted the SWR today. That was quite straightforward, and everything went very well ! I started to tune 80m band - original setting gave me a SWR min = 1.7:1 o 3.600MHZ, and I...
Hi again, Most of you (in EU at least) have heard/QSO with Svein who is now JX9JKA in Jan Mayen isl. I couls QSO with him on all bands from 20 to 10m, incl WARC, with even a QRP QSO on 17m. I look for him now on the low bands !!!! Svein will stay there...
That was a fight to get through the big pile-up with my 100W only...!!!! I was listening to Rafiq from the beginning of the week working on 40m at around 20:00z. But each time he was calling EU, there was a BIG BIG mess, zoo, or whatever other words,...
Hi again, Yesterday, I found about 80m of copper cable (domestic electricity), and because the soil was wet, I decided that I could start increasing the number of radials (10m long max....). So I started to bury those 8 radials at 10° from each other,...
Hi all, Long time since I didn't come here to update my blog. Simplte reason : My Internet line was KO, and it took one month for my Internet provider to repare it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! From late April, I got many news...where to start? - 6m openings : Yes,...
Hi, Yesterday, I had some time to finalize the preamplifier... Because I had all the components twice, I decided to place in serie of the first preamp a second one as per the schematics of the first one...Eerything wored fine from the beginning !!!!!...
Hi all, Yesterday, I got VK7GK QSl card for our 40m QSO (I was acutally using the hexbeam tuned on 40m....certainly radiated less than 10W !!!!!!!) This is a new one for me on 40m, and first QSL from Tasmania !!!!!!!!!! I'm really looking forward to raising...
Hi all, OK, my choise has been made after MANY researches on the WEB. My goal, get a nice DX antenna on 40/80m..Vertical antenna was my choice. I'm read a lot a good opinions about this one, and spent my wE calculating how many radials I could put on...
Hi all, Most of you must have read the annoucement that TO4G (FR/G Glorioso) will be on the air next July for almost 3 weeks (9th to 28th of July, including 3 week-ends !!!!!!!) : http://glorieuses2008.free.fr/ This long expected expedidtion was delayed...
Hi all, Well, not so bad so far, although the high bands are very noise here. QSO with 7P8FC on 20, 15 and 12m...That's a new one for me on 20 and 12m ! Still need 7P8 10m, but for a 2nd day of activation, that's not bad. (I already got 7P8 on 17/15m...
Hi all Today I received nice ones to complete my DXCC-WAZ.... LU1DK and HC2AQ on 80m : Both of them are new DXCC and new zones for me (resp 13 and 10) on 80m. Thanks to their QSL manager EA5KB !!!!! I also received PY0FF (Fernandho da Noronha) on 40m...
As for many expeditions, I QSO this one the very last day, on 20m (the only exception was for Clipperton, TX5C, on 17m, HI ). Yesterday was the very first day I heard them so well (peaking 5/5), but all EU stations were shouting a thim in the small +5...
This one is quite rare (never heard EZ-land, Turkmenistan in the past couple or years). I didn't know that Turkmenistan had official operators other than EZ7Z...and that they were not allowed to transmit from there....(Local government seems to be quite...
For the french readers : " Le 18 avril 2008 : A notre grand regret, l'opération Glorieuses 2008 doit être repoussée de quelques semaines. En effet, le commandement des forces armées de la zone Sud de l'océan Indien nous a fait part du fait que d'importants...
Hi all, Today I received YN2N QSL cards for 20/15m QSO's...But he forgot to put our 40 and 17m QSO's !!!! I also received SV9GPV for 80/20/17/15m QSO's, but he forgot the 40m QSO's... I'm sure that I put all my QSO's in the QSL I sent them...I really...
Hi all, The title says all: Just got 5V7PM on 17m, within a big pile-up. He was listening simplex first, no chance with South EU wall. Then he decided to work split, up 5 only...Listening the pile-up scared me, so I put the VFO 10KHz up...When after a...
Hi all, Just contactedNicolas, TN5SN, on 15m (got him already on 20/17m, but that was a new one one 15m, rare these days !!!!) I was helped by a friend of mine, Eric (F4FJH) who lives at about 100km fro me...He is using a 4 el 5-band quad ( A monster,...
Hi all, Just QSO a fw minutes ago with Chris, TL0A, on 12m. I've been looking for him on the high bands (alreazdy got him on 40/20/17/15m) the last few days when he was spotted by south Europe....But not skip to here. This evening, he was peaking 5/7...
That was a good week-end indeed.... Yesterday morning, there was a nice opening to UA/UR on 10m. Working zone 16 was quite easy, when I heard UA9JLL calling without much takers. He was 5/5, and when I realized that would be a new zone on 10m, I jumped...
Hi all, What a pile-up yesterday evening for DX1J on 40m. His signals were peaking to a real S9 here, so I let you imagine the size of the pile-up calling him. I tried a bit when he was listening up 5, then up 10, but CB'ers were still there !!! I was...
Hi all, ALL TIME NEW ONE in the log this week-end (Saturday morning): JD1BIE, 17SSB. He was tremendously strong (up to S7 here), and I could get through at the beginning of the pile-up....I only have JD1/m (not confired yet), but I never had JD1/o, depsite...
Hi all, What a pile-up yesterday evening for DX1J on 40m. His signals were peaking to a real S9 here, so I let you imagine the size of the pile-up calling him. I tried a bit when he was listening up 5, then up 10, but CB'ers were still there !!! I was...
