YES! Pukapuka OC-098 here!

I've got it! E51LYC, OC-098 Pukapuka arrived today. Nice card as you can see. And my IOTA score is up one more Point.

Thanks Cezar for a nice QSO and QSL.

Here are the back side for you all to look at.

Click on the Pictures and enjoy and don't dribble into the keyboard. You might get a short circuit.

CUL

One in full blooming!

YES!
Finally one of my sunflowers is in full bloom. But I have about 15 plants but only 5 more flower bud. Hope they all will go into blooming soon. But I have already had one frost night with temp about -1,5 C ( 29 F ).

But here it is! Pretty!! But it is small. Only about 2,5 inch in dia.

On the radio front no news. Heard that a lot of my ham colleague's has received E51LYC! I have not. Hopefully it will arive soon as this IOTA ( OC-098 ) is a new one for moi!!

Back to Watch the mail box!! Lock and load!

CUL

New IOTA confirmed.

Yes! Today the QSL from V6J, OC-226 arrived in my mail box. Tanks to JA3AYQ for the QSL.
And here it is!!

So my score at the moment is the fantastic sum of 503 confirmed IOTA's. Wonder where this will end!!!???

But there are still a few out there that I'm waiting for.

Back to chasing IOTA and other stations.

CUL

YES! NA-157 in the log!

Yesterday I was able to get a QSO with NL6/AA7CH from NA-157. Super! And a few hours later Mike had uploaded the log to Club Log and I was in it. QSL on order!!
I also ordered the QSL from RI0LI operating from AS-022. Now I will keep a Close Watch over my mail box.

I have no QSL to show you at the moment. But I have to show you the progress of my sunflower. I don't Think there will be any flower as it is so Cold here. Spring was Cold so the growth was to slow and now time is running out for them.

This is the one that might be able to come into flower. Hope for some warm and sunny Days to come.

I have a family of Crane's on the near by fields. I have tried to get a Picture of them both. But it is hard to get Close to them. This is the best shoot so far.

I will keep on trying. But soon they will leave due to the Winter is just around the corner.

That all for now.

CUL

Wkd a few new IOTA

This morning I managed to work AL3/AA7CH (same guy as VE7ACN) from NA-042 Hinchinbrook Isl. New for moi! Earlier this week I was able to Catch RI0LI from AS-022 Leont'yeva Isl. Also a new one.
R24RRC has loaded up the log from AS-044 operation. Search with R24RRC_AS044. So it is slowly closing up to some of the magic number of achieving Honor Roll!!??

I have no QSL to show you but I have a Picture of a piece of the dirt road from my QTH. Nice road and I like to take my dirt bike for a spin on it.

Nice!?

I also have a Picture of a flower in my garden. Very nice colour.

Hope I don't bore you all to death with this. But I promise that when I get some of the QSL's I have on order ( and there are a few) I will put them on the blog asap!

Go outside and enjoy the rest of the summer.

CUL

Worked a new IOTA

This morning I was able to Catch a new IOTA. It was EU-087 Hogbonden. Operator was SM4DDS/3 and I got a confirmation on SMS! This is quite Close to my QTH and band was 40 m CW. I have seen him spotted on 20 but can't hear him here. 40 and 80 m is best for QSO due to Close proximity.

I have to show you some nice QSL that I have received via buro. Got them into my hand yesterday as I had a visit from SM5DJZ Janne.

Here we go!

Nice spider. Wonder how poisonous this one is?

This bird from Bill qualify as a very nice QSL.

It is fun to collect QSL and I have a quite large Collection. And hopefully it will grow!!!

That's all for now. CUL

Wow! IOTA QSL in the mail box!

Today I received two QSL from quite rare IOTA's (for me any way as most of the IOTA's are rare for me!!).
It was the HD2RRC Russian Robinson Club adventures in Ecuador.

The first HD2RRC from SA-034, Puna Isl I have confirmed via Club Log into RSGB IOTA pages. And also confirmed in LoTW. Here are the proof!!

HD2RRC/4 from SA-033, Salango Isl is a different story. Here I have it confirmed in LoTW but not on Club Log into RSGB IOTA pages. Wonder why. But here is the proof.

I entered the QSL manually into IOTA page and all OK with the usual warnings such as "Only a few has claimed this...bla bla bla.....and so on".
But they are both in the list and I have 502 confirmed at the moment.

A big "THANKS" to the Robinson Team for Quick answer and a nice QSL's.

PLS MORE!!!!!

CUL

IOTA in general!

RI0C was not a success for me. I could not hear a single "pip" here outside Uppsala. But I have worked the team as R24RRC, AS-114 and R24RRC, AS-044. And this was before and after RI0C.

But I found 11 new IOTA's during the IOTA Contest. Worked 16 QSO's (???) in the Contest. Had some issues with N1MM+ and my old computer. But I managed to get it working. Hope all 11 will upload to RSGB IOTA Contest so I can get some new IOTA's confirmed.

I have not received any QSL. But I have about 13 on order via Pay-Pal and a few direct. But nothing so far.

Well, I have to show you a Picture.  So here is a Picture of some flowers that has popped out in my parking lot.

Well, that's all for now. CUL