Last day of 2017

Last day of 2017 and a whole new year in front of us. And I hope I will get the 160 m DXCC this year. This morning I worked a new one. It was JW2US from Bear Island Svalbard. Hope he will upload to LoTW.

I will show you a Picture taken in the fly (!!??) so to speak. It was very dark and I had to use high ISO setting. Think I used 3200 and this caused the Picture to get a bit noisy. Here we go!

He is on the run towards 2018, or.........?? He/She is on the way to safety as I probably scared him away with the camera.

HNY to you all and I hope to see you in 2018.

New IOTA!

Yes! Today I received QSL from LU3XX SA-008 Tierra del Fuego. And it was on 160 m!!
So this is a new IOTA and a new DXCC entry for moi!!!!! Super thanks to EA5KB manager for LU3XX. This puts a new standard for "direct". QSO was 20 Dec 2017. QSL in my hand 29 Dec 2017. Wow! This is fast!!! And here are the proof.

Super fine. But than the fun start. I was going into RSGB IOTA home page to register SA-008. But that was not possible!!!??? Reason is that the QSO must be older than 30 Days to be Abel to get it registered!!!! What the f..k!!. Here you have a QSL manager that really understand the meaning of "direct". But some administer f..k up at RSGB stop me to enter it.

Well, I will wait until 20 Jan 2018 and I will try again! BS!

Well, HNY to you all and hope there will be a lot of DX in 2018.

CUL

Cold and clear!

Marry X-Mas to you all. Here it is a Cold morning. It is -10 C ( 14 F ) and almost a clear sky. And I've got CT3 confirmed on 160 m via LoTW. And as I told you Before I have got 4 new on 160 m this weekend. Super! I have 5 to go!

The birds outside is having a feast on peanuts. And they like it as you can see on the Picture.

I'm still chasing new ones on 160 m. And it is fun to observe propagation on TB. Some times I can call my head of and no QSO. This morning I have been Calling a lot of stations in US. But they don't hear moi!!?? I Think they should get a receiving antenna!!!! I have a K9AY and it works just fine.

HNY to you all and back to radio!

YES! Two new confirmed on 160!

Yes! Today I've got two new confirmed on 160 m. It was LU3XX (also a new IOTA) and YV4DYJ. I'm getting Close to my DXCC Award for 160.
Big THANKS to both for response and upload to LoTW. Super!!!!
IOTA was SA-008 Tierra Del Fuego.

Have to have a Picture. What about this one of my QTH in full Winter dress! Nice eh..........??!!

Well, have to wish you all a Happy X-MAS and HNY 2018.

CUL

New one on 160 and still no phone!

I made a new DXCC entry on 160 m yesterday. And I also got it confirmed on LoTW! It was Zone 6 and call was XE1H, Tony in GUADALAJARA, MEXICO!!! On 160!! Wow!!!! And I got it confirmed!! As you can see I'm quite excited about this. It is not that easy to  get Zone 6 here. But conditions was super for Mexico yesterday morning. QSO was around 06:00 Z and he was strong. I'm closing in to get my DXCC Award for 160 m. Then I have 6 m to chase. A lot to do there.

Will show you all a Picture of the other side of the phone Cable that I have coiled up at my mailbox. The ground has frozen and they will have a problem to get a new pole in place.

There are a few ( ? ) meters of Cable coiled up here. Well there are still a few working Days to the promised dead line for the repair (2018-01-05). Exciting!!

WX at the moment is Cold and a clear sky. Temp at the moment is -2 C (28 F) and it is getting colder by the minute. Prediction say about -10 C (14 F) tonight. And it might get colder.

Take care all of you and CUL

Still no Phone and a new IOTA QSL!

Now I have two dates when the phone should be fixed. 2 of Jan 2018 from my phone provider and 5 Jan 2018 from EL-Tel who is the repair Agency???!!! I'm getting very tired due to this lack of efficiency. And I still have to pay the bills. And I can request some refund after it is fixed??!!

Just received the QSL from AS-127 St Martin Island, Bangladesh. Call used was S21ZAS and QSL from SM6CVX. Thanks Hans.

So now my IOTA score has taken a big steep. And this is because the IOTA Contest confirmation was also added. My IOTA score is at the fantastic sum of 528 islands!!! Super cool!

Tomorrow we will be hit by a snow blizzard. Prediction say about one feet of the hated White fluff will fall down on us!!! We will see what will happened.

CUL

New IOTA and no phone!

Well, nothing happened yesterday on the repair of my phone line. And no new information either. Wonder what is going on??? I have been without phone and ADSL since 25 Oct 2017!!!!!!!

Some good news. I've got QSL from Craig. It was from his operation from North Island OC-198. And as usual a nice QSL card as you all can see here!

Now I have 516 IOTA's confirmed. Wow! Wonder when this will stop??!! Any way thanks Craig for Quick response and a new IOTA.
Worked him also when he and some friends used VK9AR from Ashmore OC-216. Hope QSL is on the way. And Yes, I've got GW0KRL confirmed on 160 via LoTW. Super thanks Ian.

Cold outside this morning. -6 C ( 21 F ) and some white fluff predicted this afternoon.

Well I will keep you posted on the on-going phone incident! CUL

Today is the day I will get my phone back??!!

Well, today is the dead line from my phone provider to get it fixed! But I have some thoughts. No one have been here to check the extent of the fault so they knew what Tools to bring!!?? I have some Pictures to show you the present status.

This is one side of the wire. The other side looks the same.

This Picture will test your Eye sharpness. You might click on it to get it bigger. But the Picture show the support wire has unhooked it self from the hook on the pole and all load and strain is on the Cables. And that is not good.
It will be an interesting day to see what will happen with my ADSL and phone.

On the radio! I have put in an order for the OC-175 operation. Call was DU9/RZ3FW. Worked Wales on FT8 160 m this morning. Call was GW0KRL. And this is a new one for moi on 160. Have worked a few before but no QSL. So I hope Ian will upload to LoTW ASAP!!

CUL