Ham radio, HF propagation, DXCC/WAZ/IOTA, Antarctica
Hi all, Nice QSO this evening on 40m : OR4TN from Princess Elisabeth Base, Antarctica. 5/5 rpt this evening at 21:12z, but good QSO into a quite "quiet" band despite local EU QRM. New base for me, and new "DXCC base" too. Antarctica sesaon has started...
Hi all, Here is a short summary of my WAZ "score" on different bands 80m: 32 zones 40m: 39 Zones (I miss only zone 19 there !!!!!!!) 20m: 40 Zones 17m: 38 zones (I miss zone 31 and 1) 15m: 37 zones (I miss zone 1, 19, 31) 12/10m: 27 zones on each... This...
Hi all, Interesting QSL in the mail today: KP4S for our 17m QSO. This was my last band missing to get Puerto Rico ocnfirmed on ALL bands, YES ! No more need to jump into NP4A pile-up on 80m like the other day...I can now listen while hearing other trying...
Hi all, Nice package of QSL received this morning: 5B4MF on 80 and 10m, I needed Cypruson 10m to get this entitiy confimed on ALL bands. Now this is done Also got YS1MAE on 40m (new one confirmed on 40m) and UA0AV on 17m (New Zone 18 confirmed on 17m),...
Hi all This is BIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got Trinidade (PY0T) on 20/15/10m (All Time New One, on 3 bands) 20m before the pile-up 15m 15min later with a S2 signal ! 10m 1 hour later after 2 calls (he is peaking S7 here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...
Hi all, As I told, I've been on the low bands yesterday night after some friend's party. I did call FT5GA on 40m even if he was VERY weak, but not sure he got my call 100%. I put a remark in my log "to check on-line log"...And today, after the 2nd update...
Hi all, I must have been VERYYYYYYYYYYYYY lucky tonight, but I got FT5GA (Glorioso) on 20m SSB during a HUGE split...(very wide split). Everybody was TX'ing from +5KHz up to +25KHz, the operator never said its split range....I decided to try +30KHz, called...
Hi all, This is what we call a long path opening on 80m, and also a short one (1 hour of possible opening from here). But this morning, I QSO'd with TX5SPA on 80m. They were coming in with a real S5 sgnal, without to many callers. I was first surprised...
Hi all, For those who are waiting my QSL via buro, I just want to inform that I sent today to the REF (The French buro) around 500 QSL for the QSO made in the last 3 months (roughly). This is the period at which I do sned QSL through the buro. In this...
Hi all, This may be the easiest DXCC to be made from my QTH, but I still need confirmation on 80 and 15m.... So after the WE (I should have tried 12/10 duriong the IOTA contest...), I decided to go for TK9X on all bands in SSB mode. So far, I got them...
Hi all, Now VK9NI is over, we can make a short analysis of the on-line log (mostly on 40m SSB QSO's). From France, only 3 QSO's have been made on 40m SSB....F5BZB, F4FJH and F8CMF, congrats guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!! From UK (incl G/GM/GI/EI/GD/GM), only 1 QSO...
Hi all, Not much to say this morning...No activity yesterday evening nor this morning on 40m SSB. They are now spotted indeed on 7085, but more than 2 hours after our sunrise..By far too late. I'm starting to think this one is not for me for any reasons......
But dawn, they were so weak here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was about 05:00GMT, half an hour after my sunrise, and they could be herd here for 30min... Barely readable, right on my noise level, sometimes above, somtimes below, but they were there (and...
Hi all, Despite my unfruitfull chasing for VK9NI on 40m, I nevertheless contacted my DXCC #131 on 80m yesterday evening, with TK9X. --> This was the first time I hear Corsica island on 80m, thanks to the entire team, this is my mast band for Corsica....
Hi all, Well, they were spotted by S/W european stations (CT/EA) on 40m SSB at 06:29 this morning, exactly 2 hours after my sunrise. With a A factor of 22, needless to say that I didn't hear them... 1 hour earlier would have make it, let's see tomorrow,...
Hi all, A long expected QSL has arrived today: S04R (S zero 4 R), from Western Sahara. I received in fact 3 QSL cards 2 for "full power" QSO's on ALL bands from 80 up to 10m, incl WARC (80/40/20/17/15/12/10m) 1 for our 3 QRP QSO's on 12/15/20m. I was...
Hi all, I know, I'm definitely not an expert in designing Blog, in IT in general, but I found a nice feature to be added: A world map of the visitors of my blog site. Now, I'd like to find something like a counter to be added just below this world map,...
Hi all, I found how to do this...Now, you can see a scrolling bar to indicate you the number of visitors on the blog at the same time, as well as a flag counter to know where the visitors are from (which is somehow redundant with the map, but I like this...
Hi all, I have been chasing ZY0F this week-end (a bit, not that much time behind the radio), since I only have PY0F confirmed on 40/20m. I could get them on 15m quite easily (definitely, calling by numbers is the way to go for small pistols like me)....
Hi all, New IOTA this morning on 20m : KL7RRC/P on NA233 (Delarof group, in Aleutian achipelago, new IOTA !), my very first QSO with aleutian islands He was not that strong, up to S3-S5 here with some QSB, and listening up 5. Too many people calling him...
Hi all, Nice opening yesterday evening just before our sunset on 10m : I QSO'd with CU6AY (IOTA EU175 on 10m)..Nothing special there, except that this was my very last band for Azores isl !!!!!! I also got ZP6DEM in quite good conditions (up to S5 here),...
Hi all, Nice DX week-end on the high band indeed ET3AA, 5Z4/RW1AU and EY8MM on 10m --> 3 "new ones" on that band (My last new one on 10m happened long time ago, at least a couple of months....) UA9FAR on 12m (new DXCC and new zone, zone 17, there !!!!)....
Hi all, I received about 200QSL yesterday through the French buro, with about 50% of which were answers to my buro QSL (9Y4W, A45WD, etc etc). Lots of new EU countries are now confirmed on most bands, as for example OH on all bands except 12m (I still...
Hi all, Yesterday evening, I was carefully listening to 5V7PM on 10m, hoping for the propagation to go a bit higher than South Europe. That was the case, not loud, but he was there...Peaking S5 during 1 minute, then nothing during 10min....I stayed about...
Hi all, I was lucky this evening...I saw 5V7PM spotted on 10m, but he was nil here....As usual, South Europe (and Central EU) was having fun, but I didn't hear him at all, even after 30 minutes listening to noise and some crashes Just after dinner, I...
