QSL arrived.

I've got a QSL from Spratly Layang Layang Isl AS-051.Not a new one but I added SSB to my old Spratly adventures. Nice card. An Island with a Runway or a Runway with an Island.

Weather is getting cold again. The weather man has predicted temperatures below freezing and eventually small risk for some Cumulus Nimbus (CB) with some lighting. Well we have to wait and see.

Hope I will receive more QSL tomorrow. Still missing the Robinson Club adventures on Cuba. I knew that A lot of SM hams have received the cards. Wonder when I will see them in my mail box.

I will keep you all posted.

CUL

A few IOTA worked during the weekend.

What about the following IOTA's.
VA7AQ/7 and VE7ACN/7 from NA-091. One on SSB and the other on CW.
TM0SI from EU-068.
NL8F from NA.059 Fox Isl (Dutch Harbour?)
DU1/R6AF/P from OC-090
TR0A/P from AF-089-

So I'm pleased with the outcome of this last weekend.

I was cleaning a drawer last night and I found my medal from the Army. It is a 125 cpm in sending and receiving Morse code using a hand pump for transmitting.

This was back in the late 1960. Wow! Times run fast. This was when I was young and handsome. Now I'm just handsome!!??

Well that's all for now. Take care and beware of the wolf!

End of Low Band!

Well the Sun is going up so early now and I also have to fix the lawn. So today I rolled up the extra radials for 160 m that I had over the lawn. But they will be rolled out in the autumn again.

Here you can see the 5 extra radials for 160 m. ready to roll out when the darkness is over us in about 5 month's!!??

Well, I've got a QSL today. It was VK9/OH1VR from Lord Howe Is. So you can have a look at it here below!

Wonder if I ever will have the opportunity to go to a place like this. I don't think so. Thanks to all of you out there that have this fortunate to give us the rare ones, and of cuase to keep the QRM:ers alive!

Well that all for now! CUL

ZK3N worked on SSB.

I've got ZK3N confirmed on 20 m Phone. And now I have Tokelau on all modes and four band slots. I have worked Tokelau on a few bands in an earlier life. Tried to work them on 17 m yesterday but the pile was from 2 up to 20 up. So I Went out and prepared my Off-Road Motor Bike for the season. That was more fun than sitting in front of the radio and Calling and Calling and.......!!! The Picture is borrowed from ZK3N home page and show the nice Place they are running radio from. I would like to be there to!!

But now I have fixed one of my Bikes. It is a Suzuki DR650SE. But I have one more. A DL1000 that I have to get in order for the season. Both of them has to go to a yearly inspection ( actually every second year) in the beginning of May. So I have some work to do on them.

Well back to radio for a while.

CUL

Put it to the test!

I put the new mikroHAM DIGI KEYER II to the test last day. I heard ZK3N on RTTY on 30 m.
Called a few times and he was in my log. The Digi keyer works so fine with my TS-590S and the ACOM 1010. But the QSO on 30 was barefoot. And I also managed to get the fans in the TS-590S to start to run. They where very noiseless.

It's nice to have an interface that just work. Also nice with ZK3N, Tokelau Isl on RTTY in the log. Got it confirmed in their On-Line Log.

Yesterday I've got almost 30 mm of rain. And wind was gusting up to over 30 kt. We have so much of water all over as the ground is still frozen. But to day the wind is still blowing around 10 to 15 kt in the gusts. And it is drying up most of the water.

Well that's all for now. CUL!

A very rare occurrence!

Yes!
It  just happened. I received a QSL from a new DXCC entry and also a new IOTA at the same time!!??
It was JG8NQJ/JD1 operating from Minami Tori-Shima (Marcus Isl). For some reason I had not worked any station from JD1. So this will push both DXCC and IOTA up one point. Thanks to TAKE the operator for a quick reply. Here is the proof! IOTA No is OC-073.

Amazing to get a new one. And also so quick. We had our QSO on 8 April 2013. He understand the meaning of QSL direct!!

Now over to some other happenings. I suffered a loss of two of three phases on my main power line yesterday. Two 63 Ampere fuses was blown. Reason was damaged cable and a broken pole. My supplier of electrical power. Vattenfall, was here and replaced the pole and fixed the broken cable within 5 hours. And they managed to get the three phases in correct order so my water pump was running in correct order. Hopefully I will have a more stable power grid for a while!

Spring is in progress. At the moment I have a temperature of 15 C (59 F) but the wind is strong. Gusts up to 30 kt and sustained around 12 to 15 kt.

CUL!

QSL for new IOTA arrived today.

Worked YB6N operating from OC-161 Nias Isl North Sumatra. And today I've got confirmation for that Isl. So now I'm in the neighbourhood of 300 confirmed IOTA. Team leader for this IOTA DXpedition was YB6VK.

Click on the picture to see it little larger.

It has start raining outside. First rain this year. Hopefully lots of snow will melt and go away!

Worked DX8DX from OC-174 and C98RF from AF-072. So there are some new IOTA's out there for me to catch.

So I keep on hunting!!

CUL!

QSL from Burundi

I received QSL from Burundi, 9U4U today. Worked them from 40 m all the way up to 10 m including all modes.

It was the Rockall DX Group. QSL was via M0URX. This pushed my RTTY score up one more point- So next goal for me is to archive a DXCC for RTTY and also the two band DXCC that I miss. Top Band and the Magic Band. 160 m and 6 m in normal language!!.
I've start to monitor 6 m but not much so far. 160 m is more or less ended for the season due to the light has returned to this part of the world.

Spring is pushing hard at the moment. We are promised temperatures around 10 to 15 C this weekend and week to follow. I believe when I see it. Temp this morning was minus -7!!

Well that's all for now.

CUL!

QLS arrived!!!

Today I received a QSL from the Uganda DXpdition by the French team under the supervision of F6KOP. Worked them on 5 slots and all modes. So now I have 5X confirmed from 160 to 10 m all modes.

Nice card. And thanks for fast delivery of QSL!

My new toy arrived for a couple of hour's ago. It was a DigiKEYER II from MicroHAM. Easy to configure and the first QSO on RTTY was with PJ4/SP6AXW. Nice to have an interface that is transmitting with real FSK.

Here you can see it on top of the Power Supply to the TS-590S. Very easy to configure. So if you hear me on RTTY please give me a call.

CUL!

Lots of IOTA and DX on the bands.

I have been slow to write in my blogg. Sorry for this. But now I'm back.
Worked the Samoa DXpedition on several missing band slots. Remaining bands is 40 m, 80 m and 160 m. On 40 I have Heard them. But the QRM:ers made it impossible to get a QSO. Thanks to all idiot's. Well done!

Any way I have had fun working them on all other bands. Yesterday I worked them on the finale mode. RY. So 7 QSO's and 6 Points to my Challenge Award. I'm closing in on 1500 DX worked.

I also worked V31MV sitting on IOTA NA-180. A new one foe me. I also worked the guys from DX8DX. This is a team of ham's activating OC-174. Also a new one for me.
So my score on both Challenge and on IOTA is going in the right direction.

On LoTW I'v got confirmation from the Robinson Gang operating from various Islands around Cuba as T4(X)RRC. I have ordered the QSL via PayPal. So this will push my IOTA score up to new limits!!??

Today I'm hoping I will get a delivery from UPS. I have ordered a DigiKEYER II from Mikroham. I will use this as interface to my new toy TS-590S so I can use this rig on RY Contests. I will keep you posted.

CUL!

New bandslots from Burkina Faso.

Today I received a QSL from the Italian DX gang. QSL was from I2YSB. And as usual he is very quick to answer. I worked them in the missing slots I had on my DXCC list including RTTY.

The quality of the QSL is also as usual, very good. so feel free to click on the picture to see it in a large scale.

Worked a new DXCC today! It was Minami Torishima JD1. Station worked was JG8NQJ/JD1 on 24 MHz. So now I have only 31 to go!!??

Still no real spring. Temperature at the moment is 9 C ( ! ). But during nights the temperature drops down to around minus -6 to minus -10. I guess we go from winter direct to summer.

CUL

SH3Y in WPX Contest!

During WPX contest this weekend a team of youngsters from all over Europe participated In the Multi-Mulit class. There where 14 operators. And they came from Estonia, Belgium, Holland, Finland and Sweden. The record in SSB MM in Sweden was around 7,2 million points. During our start of the contest our friend the Sun played some tricks on us trying to spoiled our chance to break the record. But as the contest proceed the piles grow in strength and the points started to raise. So at the end of the contest the claimed score was over 12 million points. Amazing job from the youngsters aged from 12 to 25 years old. Fantastic job.
Here are a picture of very happy contesters after the contest.

Two operators are missing in the picture as they had to leave at the end of the contest. That's the reason for only 12 operators in the picture. Click on the picture and enjoy and hopefully you recognise some of them!

You can also check out a clip on you tube to see the moment when we break the old record and hear the joy from the operators.

The organiser and the one that made this happened was Johan, SA5BJM who had made a lot of work to get all together and made sure the logistic's worked. Great Job Johan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHO8DQV_OI

The host of this event was Gunnar, SM3SGP who is the owner of the contest station SK3W. We had almost 5 operators in the air all the time. The 10 m station was changed during night to 160 m. Best bands was 20 and 80 m with 15 and 40 not far behind. So a BIG THANK YOU for letting the youngsters use your fine station with top of the line equipment.

Check out the clip and enjoy.

My part in this is very limited. I worked as a ground crew together with SM5DZB (most of the food was prepared by him together with Johan SA5BJM girl friend) SM5EPO and SM5SGP to make sure there was food on the table, all set -up in the radios was correct. Also made sure all power amplifiers worked during the whole time and transport to a near by facility for sleeping.

Now it is time for sleep!!!


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