New Zooooooo!!!

Well, We just finished of 4W6A when a new victim appeared on the bands. 3D2R!!!
And have the UP UP:ers loaded their batteries? You Bet!!! When will this nonsens stop?
There was a well written article in October issue of CQ Magazine. It is written by W4NL and labeled "A DXer's Challenge: Stay on the Air and Behave!"
In my opinion every DXer should read this article and pay special attention to the part "Getting the DX in your Log with the Proper Ethics".

Back to 3D2R. Big pile and up to 15 KHz UP. I have not managed to get in the Log of 3D2R yet, but I will be there for sure. I'm at the moment monitoring 3503. But only QRM:ers so far.

Take care all of you out there.

NA-083 confirmed!

Worked W4T before and in the IOTA Contest. Received QSL yesterday so now I have added one more point to my IOTA score. I'm now up to 178 total (!). Long way to go.

I also received a bunch of QSL from Buro. 3D2A, 4K9W, 6W1RW, 8R1PY, CN8KD, FO5RH, JD1BLY, JW7QIA, JW8DW, PJ5/SP6EQZ, XU7UFT, YJ0HA and XX9TLX. So there are still QSL arriving via Buro!!!!???

Take care all of you.

4W6A QRT!

4W6A went QRT around 02:00 Z on the 25 Sep. So now, all of the QRM.ers is out serching for new victims. They are all reloading their batteries and serching on all of the DX forums trying to find someone new to create QRM for.
I managed in the last days to work 4W6A on 20 and 30 m. Making a total of 5 QSO's all on CW.

During this DXpedition I have built an antenna switch 2 X 6. I will be able to select between one antenna and one of my tranceivers. When the power is off all connect to GND. I purchased the circuit board's and relay's from SJ2W, Mikael, and put both in a sealed box with a wall between the switches for maximum isolation. Se picture. Now I will build a control box so I can start to use the switch..

Yesterday eavning I was lsn on 80 CW when I heard a pile with lots of stations from EU calling someone. Lsn down I found T8XX working the pile. Staretd my TL-922 and called once ( 1 ). And I got a QSO with T8XX, Palau. QSL via Hans DL5AXX. Unfortunally no stores was open at this hour of the night so I could not throw myself into my 4WD SUV and drive out to by a lottery ticket!!

Take care out there until next time.

4W6A Zooo!

I have managed to work 4W6A on 10, 12 and 15 m band without any effort and hrs spent at the radio. I have also lsn on 3,5, 7, and 14 Mhz at the normally zoo making QSO almost impossible.
It seams to me that it starts with someone tuning on DX QRG or putting out some meaningless CW that trigger all the UP UP:ers, 99:ers, LID:ers, FUK:ers, PIG:ers, IDIOT:ers, QSY:ers, GM:ers and so on. So until the fog has settled, there is hard to hear the DX. That might be the purpose of the QRM:ers, or..............................?!
I think this behavour will never change. It does not matter how many DX Conduct manifest that will be written. These QRM:ers do not have enough braincells to read and understand these documents, or.............?

Now I will leave this subject for this time.

Still no QSL from the long list I have. Still in top is W7W followed by 9H1XT worked on 1,8, A71A (via A71AN), and XE3RT. All of these was requested by SAE and 2$$$ and all are more than a year old!! But I hope I will get a nice suprice one day when I walk out to my mail box and make a suprising discovery and find some QSL! I will let you all knew as soon this happened.

I was on the finale training at the hospitale last eavning after my heartattac. Now it is up to me alone to keep the wight and the sytem and return (systolic and diastolic) prssure within limits. And also to keep on exercise as I have been doing every day so far. I will take a walk today for at least 6 km.

Take care and remember that life is always to short for QRP??!!

QSL Received!!!!

Got confirmation from K6VVA/KL7 from IOTA NA-242. Point Lay Barrier Isl.
Operator was K9AJ wiith fine sigs into SM.
So this pushed my IOTA up 1 point (!) and as this isl was a first-time activation I got warnig from IOTA home page when I register the QSO.

This weekend it is SAC Contest where all the world shall work us up in Scandinavia and Finland and hopefully I will participate with the call SM5C.

Take care all of you out there

Thinking of creating a "Black List"!!

I'm thinking of creating a "Black List" of stations that I have sent QSL, SAE and normally 2 $$$ and no replay within 6 Months??!!
Top of the list is W7W, Mt St Helen Memorial. QSL sent 17 May 2010! And also 2 e-mail to manager but no replay from e-mail or letter!!

There are more stations but they are not out from the 6 mounth window yet. CN8KD, OY6FRA are close. Very close!!!!!!!

I have to show you all the Keyer for my C-Line. The old MFJ-484 that is back and on top of C-Line Speaker.

Works just fine.

Take care!! CUL!

First QSO's with the old Drake C-Line

I got my old MFJ Keyer, Grandmaster MFJ-484 back yesterday. So now I can key my Drake C-Line. For all new hams out there the old Drake C-Line use grid block keying and the voltage is negative and require a special circuit or a relay to work. MFJ-484 was manufactured in those days when grid-block keying was more or less standard.

So how did I do during an hour of lsn? Well, I managed to work 4K6FO, RA9UO, CT9/RW9JZ, 5N6/YL2SW and finally FG8AR. I was running about 150 W out and the band was 20 m. Some of the worked stations had a pretty good pile. So the old rig is still up and running.
 I can also tell you all out there, that the reason for this old buty to be capable of near 200 W out, according to my LP-100A Power Meter, is that the Power transformer has been replaced. The black baked 60 Hz US type has been replaced with a large toroid type made for 50 Hz mains. So you have to make the tuning process very short to spare the final tubes.

QRP???!!! No way!!!!