Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Officially now : The ARRL DXCC Desk is pleased to announce the addition of St Barthelemy (FJ) to the DXCC List, making the island entity number 338 with an effective date of 14 December, 2007. Cards with contacts dated December 14, 2007 or after will...
My hexbeam is definitely very surprising sometimes... With the internal tuner, I already succeeded on QSO'ing with VP6DX on 40/80m (100W only !). Well, just a few minutes before, I heard Gerry, VK7GK, CQ'ing alone at the beg of the SSB portion. I answered...
Yes, an all time new one tonight on 20m (at 20:43z...rather late !) I just QSO with 5J0E on San Andres isl, HK0/a, with 5J0E call-sign. An all time new one, that's a BIG surprise !!!!!!!!!!! (Heard them during ARRL contest, but they were logically working...
Yep, 2 more QSL today in the mail: 9Y4W (QSO from the 11th of Nov !), new one for me on 17m 5R8RJ, IOTA AF057, for my 20/17/15 and 12m QSO 's (new one on 12m !) Both QSL cards are very nice too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to their respective...
Hi all, Very spordaic reception of QSL these days, but all of them come from...Antarctica QSO's, HI! Today, this is R1AND arriving here, for a 20m SSB QSO (thanks for the new base Wally !!!!!!) I'll re-send a direct letter to RU1ZC for 2 reasons: - 1...
It is possible !!!!!!! I got VP6DX on 17m yesterday late afternoon with 5W PEP on 17 m !!!!!!!!!! He was 5/5 here, and was calling without many takers. So I decided to call him with low power, and he answered !!!!!!! try to find me on their in-line log...
Well, what's new after this week-end (Monday was an OFF day in France, and I had no time to update my blog so far...) Well, 5T5DC on 12m on Monday late afternoon...4th band, making the same band number as 9X0R (20/17/15/12m). 9X0R being QRT tomorrow,...
Nothing exceptional, except that Everett, N0AIE, from Nebraska. sent me a direct QSL for our QSO. I was working QRP (5W PEP), which gives another dimension to this QSO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So it a new state for me (still looking for North and South Dakota...
Same as for the 40m QSO.... Using TS450SAT + 20-10m hexbeam "tuned" and 100W... They were 5/5 on 3781, lsn up 9...I tried to tune the antenna, that was OK. I called them once, and THEY ANSWERED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing,...
For those who missed Vlad (9U0VB) from Burundi on some bands/modes, an new chance with this DL expedition. From September 26th to October 9th, Sigi, DL7DF and his crew will be on tour to his next DXpedition to Burundi with the call 9U0A. The equipment...
Hi all, Just a question for those who are reading this blog (I hope there are a few of you that find it interesting...) I've noticed a high level of static noise on most of the HF bands, increasing slightly in the evening time during the sunset, up to...
Some of them with QRP power (5W, all others with barefoot 100W. Skip is very good between EU and Africa, with VERY NICE OPENINGS on 12 and 10...I'm now looking for C91R on 12 and 10m, nothing heard yet. For C52C, 12m QSO today, but in their on-line log,...
As you must have been noticing on the air, a new expedition has started from the Gambia until the 30th of October. As for now, QSO with QRP power only (5W) on 20/17/15m. I decided to run this one with only QRP power. I've already got C5 confirmed on all...
Hi all, Tonight I decided to transmit only with QRP power : 5 W PEP into my hexbeam... Believe it r not, I made the following QSO HC2FN Ecuador N0AIE Nebraska (new state for me in QRP) V21RW Antigua PJ4/PA3CNX ZF2DF J6/DL7AFS VE3CNX, AK8V and W8CNL All...
Hi all, AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is the short story: Yesterday morning, I heard them on my hexbeam on 40m with a S5 to S7 signal at 09:00z. But my pb for me is that I don't have any low band antennas.... I was so impressed that I tried to tune the...
Hi all, This is becoming more and more rare for me that it's worth a few lines in my blog. I did QSO with a "All time new one" today. That was 3C7Y, equatorial Guinea, on 15m SSB, from Bioko Island AF-010. That is my 272 DXCC.....in 18 months :-) , and...
That's possible !!!!!!! This afternoon, on 17m, I QSO with both of them using 5 W PEP and of course, the hexbeam ! What a nice surprise to get 3C7Y (which creates huge pile-up with "strange" operators, to stay polite...). 5L2MS was easier, but told me...
Well, not so bad for those fiurst days of exepdition. QSO with them on 20 and 15m with only my 100W and the HexBeam...But that's amasingly difficult (slow op, italian/greek walls....). I missed them on 17m, and didn't hear them yet on the higher bands...
"DAGOE" stands for "Dutch Amateurs Going On Expedition". The club members Arie Kleingeld,PA3A (EL2AK), Ad van Ginneken,PA8AD (EL2AG), Arie Noordzij,PA3AN (EL2AN), and Henk van Oosterhout, PA3AWW (EL2AO), are planning a major activity from Liberia from...
Ed, N1UR, who was recently active from Bhutan as A52UR, will be active as 9M6AAC from the Hillview Gardens ARC station in East Malaysia for the CQ World Wide DX CW Contest (November 24-25th) as a Single-Op/All-Band/Low-Power entry. QSL via N2OO . He also...
Hi all, Quite a long time I haven't been updating my blog... Well, as 3VERYBODY must have noticed, there was a huge contest last WE...The kind of contest that totally fills in 20m band with 5/9+ signals almost all day long. As usually, I only worked selectively,...
In the log as QRP (5 Watts) during the last couple of days 9U0A on 20m 8R1XT Martin on 20m ZD7X on 17m 3DA0TM Andy on 20m KE0L in Minnesotta on 20m CT3MD madeira on 20m J6/DL7AFC Babs on 20m Not so bad within the low part of the cycle, with 5 watts. Definitely,...
Hi all, Today's really feezing here, no more than 5C in the afternoon, and below freezing point in the morning... Wonder what, wbut in these cold days some nice Antacrtica QSL are reaching my home. Today, I got VK0JLX very nice QSL card from Paul the...
Made by SV team, AS186 will be on the air next November from Arwad Isl from the 1st to 13th of November 2007. 2 or 3 stations running at the same time, made by experimented SV operators, that will be fun : New IOTA and semi-rare DXCC, pile-up will be...
Not so bad here KG4WV on 15m (new one on 15m..And QSO tonight on 20m) P43A on 12m (new one there) HH2FYD on 17m (new one there) and TI9KK on 20m yesterday evening (19:30z), ALL TIME NEW ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope TI9 on 17m (too weak here tonight),...
