Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi all, A new French antenna manufacturer was born recently and he's just starting his activity. No doubt, when looking at the quality of the materials, the result obtained and the super low prices, he will have a great success. This is all I hope for...
Great greyline effect at my sunrise here : I could get K7ZV Rich on 160cw, a miracle. He was 559 but without any callers. I took my chance, despite of the QSB, and heard most of my call sign (actually, I got my full call thanks to his repetition). Zone...
Hi all, Here are my statistics for 2012. It looks obvious that 2011 propagation helped a LOT for improving 12m and 10m scores, so 2012 didn't bring that much improvement there. 160m : From 0 up to 49 DXCC (+49) --> next target = 100 DXCC (+51 to be wkd...
Hi guys, I very recently succeeded in reaching the 2100 slots for the DXCC challenge, mostly thanks to my last 30m (Sept 2012) and even more recently 160m (Oct 2012) addition, and regardless of the mode used. DXCC challenge was, untill now, not something...
Hi all, And Happy New Year to all. Sorry to have been so silent, but this Christmas period is generally very calm from Radio point of view, but very busy from holidays/family/kid side, HI ! I just got 7O6T QSL for our QRP QSO on 20/17/15m, all time new...
Update 14th of October Final log uploaded, with 10m CW corrected Nice with 100W isn't it ? 3D2C Log Search Results for F8AFC CW SSB RTTY PSK JT65 160m - - - - - 80m - - - - - 40m - - - - - 30m - - - - - 20m X - - - - 17m X X - - - 15m X X - - - 12m X...
Hi all, Nice one received today : 3D2C QSL for our 5-band QSO's from 20 up to 10m !!!!!!!!!!!!!! New one on 4 bands now confirmed, tnx !!!!!!! Jolie QSL reçu aujourd'hui : La carte QSL de 3D2C est arrivée pour nos QSO sur 5 bandes du 20 au 10m !!!!!!!...
Bonjour à tous, Comme vous le savez peut-être, je suis l'intermédiaire français d'Emil, LZ3HI, imprimeur de QSL de son état (Je fais office de "boite de traduction", ça le désengorge de pas mal de requêtes et c'est plus facile pour les opérateurs francophones...
Update, 11th of Dec Final log updated : F8AFC has worked ZL9HR on 3 out of 24 band slots 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW 40m QSO (the most difficult one !) well in the log !!!!! With 100w, I would have never expected this (3 band !), great...
Hi all, Nice one on 160 this evening with A45XR logged there with 100w (a bit less, since on the frequency he was, I had to use the internal tuner of the transceiver). Lucky one for sure, and if we add our 80/30m QSO's, this will enable me to get Oman...
28th of Nov Final log updated ! F8AFC has worked PT0S on 9 out of 22 band slots 6m 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW YES ! Not bad with 100w 21st of November Log updated : F8AFC has worked PT0S on 7 out of 21 band slots 6m 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m...
Here is an exhaustive list of BAD QSL managers that I have/had to dela with. Criteria to enter into this "sad" category are: - QSL direct sent with either IRC or 2 GS (as per their QSL instructions) - QSL NOT received back, then emails sent +/- periodically,...
Epilogue 3 QSO have been made here on 20 ssb+cw and 17cw, this means 1 new band. Rather good for a 100w station, HI. What could we conclude on this T30PY? - it could have been worse for sure, but it could have been better. They missed a lot of openings...
Hi guys, This evening, I decided to go on 160m to make my first QSO's on that band if possible. Band was not overwhelmed by stations, but while monitoring it, I heard TK/DL4FF just starting to call CQ on 1.822. I decided to take my chance to see if a...
Update 15th of Sept Well, the guys went QRT this morning (04:00z) as per their web-site. It looks like conditions there have bene awful, bad WX, injuries, sickness. Clearly a good decision, even if we were still waiting for the last days to get them on...
Just for everybody's information....all those prices deal with normal letters (< 20g), and take into account today's exchange rate between Euro and USD (1 Euro # 1.26$) France - France : 0.6 Euros ($0.76) France - Europe : 0.77 Euros ($0.97) France -...
Hi all, There are some nice DX to work apart from the NH8S....Always keeping an ear on 30cw, I could work RD0CD at 17:00z (1.5 hour before my sunset) with a decent 579 report, as well as R0FA a bit later with a real booming 599 report. This is my 3rd...
This is where RI0K is active from those days. A bit a geography is never bad, and thanks to ham radio, we can learn a lot ! There are 2 islands actually, right in the middle of the Beiring strait, that is to say in one of the most difficult area to go...
31st of July Well, CY9M operation ended earlier due to bad WX forecast (this is a safe decision). I heard them quite well on 12m SSB the nigt before, but couldn't get through....I thought my chance would have come yesterday evening but due to QRT, that...
F8AFC has worked 7O6T on 13 out of 22 band slots 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW RTTY Update 17th of May, Well, this is the end of this non-expected expedition to Yemen. As a bonus, I also could get them on 30cw with my poor conditions, just...
Hi all, Chasing big expeditions is quite time consuming, but I must say that apart from the A35YZ, there is no major other ones on the air those days. This is a good time to optimize my time behind the transceiver and chase some new slots. That was the...
F8AFC has worked 9M0L on 9 out of 23 band slots 6m 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m PH CW RTTY 23rd of April Got Nigel on 12cw last Friday evening quite easily (!!!!) But the 10cw QSO was hard : I spent all my saturday playing with split/QSB, etc...
Hi all, Even if this DXCC is rather "easy" from Western europe, I was happy to get them on 30m with my so-simlpe set-up on that band. I was looking for my last possible slot (12ssb) untill yesterday evening when coming back from the office at around 17:00z,...
Hi all, Humm, hard one, but already confirmed from 40m up to 15m thanks to Bill, E51MAN. This time, my focus would be on the remaining bands, that is to say 80/12/10m, but due to actual propagation conditions, that looks almost impossible. Nevertheless,...
14th of March, last update (ZD7XF now QRT) What a day yesterday when I could get Nigel on 80cw in the morning (see here below), but as well on 40cw in the evening. He was calling JA on 40cw as he is used to do on their sunrise, and went back to Europe...
