New on 80 m!

QSL keep on coming!!
Today I received the card from Christmas Island. Worked them on one of my missing slots. And that was 80 m. Now I have just 160 to go for VK9X. Nice card from the team of G2NF, G3SVL, G3WGN, G3WPH and the famous Nigel G3TXF. All good operators and good ears. Just called a few times and I was in the log. Nice work of my vertical.

Thanks for cfm via LoTW and the card to my Collection.

CUL

One more IOTA cfm!

They are slowly entering my log. Yesterday I've got a quite rare IOTA confirmed. It was AS-065, Idlidlya Island in the Chukotka Group. Call used was RT65KI and operators was UA0KBG, UA3AKO and RA3AW. This Group is only claimed by 14% of the IOTA chasers. And now I have it!!!

Nice card! Thanks to the team.

Wx here in Sweden is a bit colder now. We have gone below freezing and at the moment it is 0 C ( 32 F ) and overcast. But no snow in the near future.

CUL

Latvija is 100 years old!

Latvia is celebrating 100 years as a Nation. They have issued some special call's for the event. YL100K, -R, -L, -V, -Z. To get the top First Class Award you have to have a QSO on 4 different bands with all of then. And I did that. The most difficult one to get a QSO with was -R and -Z. But here are the proof of my achievement.

A First Class Diploma after 30 QSO's. But if you are clever (don't apply on moi) you only need 20 QSO's to get the same result. You can use any modes. Lots of fun and predictions on higher bands between YL and SM5 is difficult. But low bands was generally S9+20 db.
So you have to the 18 of Nov to get it! So go for it!!

CUL

Some new band slots from 9X0T

A very nice QSL fell down into my mail box yesterday. It was from the Italian DXpedition Team with I2YSB, Silvano as Team Leader. Worked them on a few missing slots and on all modes. But the card is something over the normal. Or what do you all Think of this?

Wow!!! I like this. And as Always the QSL from Silvano's team the quality is super.

WX is upside down here in Sweden. It is very warm for the season. Temp outside is 8 C ( 46 F ) and overcast. So I still haven't put on the stud tires on my car. I keep Close Watch over the WX progress and have the Tools ready!!??

CUL

VP6D on 80 m!

Finally on the last day of the VP6D operation I managed to get into the log on 80 m. Puh!! This was a challenge for me. Reason that I do not have so good take-off towards 300 deg is a dirt road and a fence in that direction. So my radials in direction 270 - 350 deg is only about 7 to 10 m in length. And I can't extract them further. Compare the QSO's with YJ0GC and VK9XG where I just called a few times to get QSO. And the soil here is not so good. About 1 Feet Deep there are primitive rock and that don't help much. But here are a screen shoot as proof.

QSO with VP6D on 80, 40, 30 m CW and 30 m FT-8. I didn't make any big effort to Catch them on any further slots.

Wx here in Sweden is very warm for the season. Temp at the moment is 3 C ( 38 F ) and clear sky. During the day with the help of the sun we will reach around 10 C. And that is warm.

CUL