On the wall!

Finally I have found a spot where I hanged the 5BDXCC award. Nice, is'n it?! Anyway, the empty spot on the Right Hand Side are reserved for the next one. Challange plaque. Hope I will get that one before X-Mas. I will keep you updated!

In the CQWW CW contest I managed to work 119 DX and  35 Zones on 10 m band. But unfortunally no new ones. Around 1630 Z on both Saturday and Sunday the band almost closed for me up on 60 deg North. I still heard a lot of DX with signals up to S7-9. But I could not get through to them. I was running 1 KW. Reason??!! Bad Antenna? Bad Equipment? Usless operator (meaning me)? Anyway, I had a lot of fun!

I have changed the feeding net's to my 160/80 GP. First QSO was with DS4DBF last night in a light pile from EU. Just one call and he was in the log. The main change was for 160 m.

Thas all for now. Now I will go and try to work some new ones on 12 m.

Take care.

5BDXCC

Well! Today the mailman (actually a woman) arrived with a parcel. It was my 5BDXCC with 30 m endorsment.

Now I have to find a spot on the wall where I can put it up. Hopfully the 160 m, 17 m, 12 m and 6 m endorsment soon will be glued on the placque. But that is up to me to work some new stations. 17 and 12 m is not that far away. But 160 is a different story.

This weekend I will spend with the rest of the world of Ham Radio in CQWW CW.

Take care all of you out there!

Paper version of 5BDXCC!

Yetsrday the Awards arrived including the paper version of 5BDXCC.
Look's OK!!

I also passed 1000 points in Challange. So next year I have to apply for that award!

Take care!

Missing QSL List, and Installed a Glitch Resistor.

Well it's time to list the few QSL I'm missing. All of the following is between 1 year and  6 month since sent from me.

W7W (WC7O) sent 9-AUG-2010!! I give up!!!!!!
9H1XT sent 23-Oct 2010 wkd on 160 m.
OY6FRA sent 28-Apr-2011 wkd on 6 m.

Then there are a long list ( 18 Q's) from July 2011. But I will give them a few more month's.

During my waiting time I just keep myself warm by keeping the fire going. I still have about 5 cubic meters of wood. That should last up to March next year.

Just installed a Glitch Resistor of 10 ohm in serie with a 1A Fuse in the HV Supply of my TL-922. The resistor/fuse is for protection if a flash over occur in one of the 3-500ZG tubes and hopefully protect the Bias Zener Diod and Power Supply.

Thats all for now.

QRP? Why?

Take care!

TU2T QRT

Thanks for a well performed DXpedition. I managed to work them on all bands. From 80 to 10 m band's all CW and once on SSB ( 12 m ). 9 QSO's total. And the aditional radials on my 80 m GP worked just fine. I did catch them on 80 m on the last day of the operation. QSL ordered and a small donation has been issued via Pay-Pal.

Now I have worked T2T on a few bands so far. But they will stay on Tuvalu up to December. So no panic from my side.

3XY1D QSL is also on order.

ZD8ZZ will be QRV until 20 of November. So I will try to work him on some more bands.

Winter is slow in this part of Sweden this year. Temperature is just now around +3 deg C. And no snow yet! But it will come for sure.

Remember that life is still to short for QRP.

Take care!

Approved!

YES!

Acording to LoTW my 5 Bands DXCC (including endorsement for 30 m) is approved.
Now it is a long waiting time for the Award.
Hopefully SM5DJZ will update the Swedish DXCC listing so I can see my "big" improvement!!??

Otherwise I had worked 7Q7GM on 12 and 28 m band but I was not in the On Line Log so I worked them again on 12 m. Better luck this time.

I have added a lot of radials for my 80 m GP for improvement to the south. Vill try to test the antenna this night.

There are still a lot of missing direct QSL. The list is getting longer. Wonder how long it is normal to wait? Soon there will be an e-mail to some QSL managers asking for the reason for this long delay.

Tomorrow I have to visit the local vampyre center for blod test. And next week it is time for a check up of the pump system.

Well that's all for today.

Take care!

CQWW SSB

Fantastic conditions! 10 m was a real thrill to work. I operated SOSB 10 HIGH POWER. But next contest I will connect the cluster into N1MM and operate in ASSISTED. Found out that I missed a lot due to the fact that I started at 28200 and slowly turned the VFO up to 28800 when a lot of FM stations appared on the band. Then back to 28200 and search the band again for new stations.
Did this for 7 hrs on Saturday and 6 hrs on Sunday. Managed to get 371 Q's and 31 Z and 90 DX.
But when compare to a station running ASSISTED I was totaly lost!

WHAT HAPPENED????

Well after the contest I have worked TX7M on 15 m and TU2T on 20 m band.

TX7M was alone on 15 m calling CQ and no takers. I gave him just one call and he was in the log.

He was strong. About S7 in the peaks.

Take care!