I've got a letter!

Today I received a letter from Tromelin!!!

Inside was the QSL for the FT4TA operation. I managed to Catch them on all bands except 80 and 40 m. And, YES I got them on 160!! I guess that compensate a bit for the missing 80 and 40 m. And I also got them on CW, SSB and RTTY.
And here are the QSL!

Nice!
And I didn't do anything to get the QSL!!!?? Yes I did sponsor them a bit with a few $$$. And it was fun to get the QSL direct from Tromelin with the stamps and propitiate postmarked from Tromelin.
And this also put my IOTA score up one Point as Tromelin is AF-031.

Click and enjoy!

CUL

Very rare IOTA arrived!!!!!

Today I received a very rare, never Before activated, IOTA. It was OC-294, Sandy Island in Western Australia. It was an operation with a team of 4 hams. Cezar, VE3LYC, Craig, VK5CE (Always with his arms stretched out on his QSL's as on this one when he is holding shoulders of Cezar and Bob), Johan, PA3EXX and finally Bob, KD1CT.

Proof of never Before activated is found in IOTA Directory- OC-294 has a "P" after the number (see page 127 in the last issue of the Directory)!!?? Any way, a nice card and all it took was one call and done!!!

Click on it and enjoy (be careful not to dribble to much into the keyboard, you might get a short circuit)!

CUL!

One new IOTA received via Buro

Yesterday I've received a few cards from Buro. And one was a new IOTA. It was EU-006, Inishmore Island in Ireland. The call that was used was EJ0PL and I worked them on 20 m SSB.

Nice card. And the team was quite big. 9 hams from Ireland and Poland. The operation was in July 2013. But this adds one more to my IOTA score. We getting there but very slow. RSGB has to come up with some new means to get IOTA confirmed just to keep the program alive.

Well that's all for now. CUL

QSL from EP6T

Yesterday I received the QSL from the DXpedition  EP6T, Iran. Worked them on all modes but not on 160 and 80 m. Impossible to get through the Southern EU wall of constant callers! Wonder how they work DX as they just keep on Calling. When do they lsn????? Any way, the card arrived and they where Quick to confirm via LoTW. And a new IOTA as well (AS-166 Kish Island). Thanks to the team and their QSL mgr M0URX.

So this push my IOTA score up one Point!?

Today we have been promised a weather draw back. Winter should be back for the weekend with some snow. Totally unnecessary!!!

Back to the radio. CUL

E30FB QRT!

The operation from Eritrea, E30FB, is now QRT. I finally managed to work them on RTTY on 15 m on the 16th of March.at 11:59 Z.
So the total result was as follows:

Band	CW	Phone	Data
40	1
30	1
20	1
17	1
15		1	1
12	1
10		1

7 Challenge and CW, SSB and RTTY to my DXCC record. I did not try on 160 and 80 m. The pile on 15 m RTTY was Amazing so late into the Dxpedition. But to my surprise I got a QSO. I was only using about 500 W to save the traps on my Tet Emtron TE56 antenna (I have blown up one set of traps on the 10, 15, 20 m antenna using 1 KW RTTY).

I'm still a bit pissed of that I didn't make a QSO with TI9. Was very surprised to hear them on a list operation with a master in SP land. Why???  Well that's Life. Some you work and some you don't!!!

CUL!

Disaster in YJ Vanuatu

The Cyclone (Hurricane) Pam has hit the Islands of Vanuatu very hard. The images we have seen here in Swedish TV is terrible. I was complaining about wind gusts up to 40 kt. Well, I think they have had some more Heavy gusts than that!

I got this QSL via Buro last week. Wonder how it looks today.

I can tell you that I have worked E30FB on 30 m CW. But I'm still missing them on RTTY. I will keep on trying.

CUL

E30FB so far.

I have managed to get into the log of E30FB 6 times. They are not easy and the piles are big!
This is the result so far. And my hat is off for RA9USU, Dmitri one of the ops. His CW is just super! It is a pleasure to hear him working the pile!!!

Band	CW	Phone	Data
40	1
20	1
17	1
15		1
12	1
10		1

I hope I will get them in RTTY Before the end of the DXpedition. And I guess that this will be a struggle! But I will continue to lsn and also I might Catch them  on 30 m.

The WX was very windy yesterday. Wind was blowing with 10-20 kt with gusts above 40  kt. I was worried about my antennas. But all is fine and all of my aluminium is still standing (puh). Temp is very warm for this time of the year. Around 10 C ( 50 F ) and no rain.

Well, back to radio! CUL

Waiting for the next DX!

As you all can see I'm ready for the next one to show up. Hopefully it will be E3, Eritrea.

The cup is filled with java and some milk..Just hope all of the QRM:ers in EU has had some rest so they can try to kill this DXpedition as they have done with the previous!!!??? Also all you multi "green spot" chasers are ready to occupy the piles!

Wx here in Sweden is very warm for this time of the year. Temp at the moment is around 4 C ( 39 F ) and some rain. Almost all of the White fluff has gone fishing and the lawn is getting green.

CUL