Monday 29 June 2015

Wallis & Futuna confirmed.

On Friday I received QSL from Jean-Jacques FW5JJ after QSO on 12, 15,17, 20 m CW and RTTY. According to QRZ.com he will be there a year so hopefully some low band QSO's will take Place during coming dark season!!??


Nice card. And hope Jean-Jacques will trim his low band antennas.

Regarding weather it looks like summer is coming. Temp outside at the moment is around 20 C (68 F). There are some rain showers to pass over today but after that a high pressure system will park over Sweden and hopefully it will stay for a while.

That's all for now. CUL

Wednesday 17 June 2015

Some mode and band slots added.

Got the QSL from C21EU today. And a new band slot (15 m) and SSB and RTTY confirmed. Thanks Guenter (DL2AWG).


No new IOTA as I have Nauru Before. But a nice card and thanks for the new modes.

Midsummer is approaching fast. After that it is down hill towards darkness again. And 160 and 80 m DX season starts again!!!.
But let us enjoy the light as for now.

CUL and best Midsummer celebration!

Monday 15 June 2015

Wow! This is fast!!!

Worked YB4IR/7 on 24 May 2015 and QSL in my hand 15 June 2015. Imam, I'm impressed!!!! This is how IOTA should work. So now I've got OC-268, Marabutan Island confirmed. Thanks again Imam.


Take lesson all other IOTA operators!? I'm now at the sum of 298 ( ! ) confirmed islands. WOW!

If you see some traces of sarcasm in this you are correct. But not against YB4IR. He is a super QSL:er. The sarcasm is to all other out there. I still have 30 QLS's on order via Buro and direct and OQRS. Nothing so far. But I will keep on checking my mail box every day as long as I can transport myself the 200 meters to it!!!!

Something fun. I was having an exam as a brakeman on the museum train yesterday. And I'm now an approved certified  brakeman! Reason for the use of a brakeman is that the small steam Engine has just locomotive brake and nothing on the carriage's. So I actually stops the whole train at stations with a hand brake. So it is nice to be able to stop 45 to 50 tonnes within a few yards!!



Here you have a Picture of the train from Internet.

That's all for now. CUL

Wednesday 10 June 2015

QSL from E30FB arrived today!

Today I've got the QSL from Asmara, Eritrea. Worked them on 8 slots. CW, SSB and RTTY. Missed them only on 80 and 160. My GP and 1 KW was not enough to get through their local QRM and the wall of Southern EU!!??


Nice Camel (dromedary). A bit sleepy. Anyway nice to get the card into my collection. I've got it confirmed via LoTW a while ago. But I'm still a bit sad about missing them on 160 and 80.

I have started to paint my house. Colour is red and after a few tiles I got tired and had to get a cup of coffee!!

That's all for now. CUL