A letter has arrived!

Found this envelope in my mailbox!

Click on it and look at the stamps and the postmarks. Super nice. And the content of the envelope was this!

Top is front side and bottom is rear side. Worked them on 80 to 10 m and managed to get them on CW, SSB and RTTY. And they have already confirmed the QSO's on LoTW. Super operation and nice with the envelope. They did the same with Tromelin, FT4TA. Hope they will become collectors item's.

Well, I have been in Varberg this weekend visiting my daughter. We vent down to a Place called Tvååker and looked at an K9 (dog) Exhibition with more than 7000 (!!!!) thousands K9 of all kind of breeds. And the weather was just super nice with temp around 20 C and sunny.

That's all for now. CUL

Flower opens up and BREXIT is truth!

The flower in my last blog has opened up. Nice!

And as I'm a descended from UK I had to put this up on my  house as a tribute to the UK. I wonder if the people in UK have made the right choice. Future will tell!!

Well, 50 MHz is, at the moment, more or less dead here at my QTH. I sit and lsn to the noise and no stations is Heard at the moment.
Weather man/woman has put out some possibility for TS in this region. Hope they are wrong!!

CUL

Low Activity and soon Midsummer!

Tomorrow it is midsummer celebration here in Sweden. During this coming weekend about 90 % of the population is drunk!! Have been low activity on my blog. Worked a few new ones on 50 MHz. But most of the time the activity is South of me.
Belgum beat us out of the UEFA Europe Soccer Championship. And Marcus Ericsson in Sauber F1 Team is not doing so well. So there is not much to be happy about.
But the flowers in my garden is doing just fine. What about this big red one? It is a peony. Very nice indeed!

We have passed the summer solstice. So from now on the Days will be shorter and we are going in to the dark times!!!??? Well, not so bad as the low band will be opening again and my stack of firewood is full so I can keep me warm during this dark time.
Sounds depressing, isn't it!!. Well, it is not! This is the cyckle of Life here at 60 Deg North.

Take care and CUL

YES! I've got some QSL's!!

I've got two QSL's today. First out is EP2A, Iran. I only needed 160 and 80 m to fill my score for Challenge Award. And this was an easy task. So 160 and 80 is confirmed and all is fine.

And here are proof of a nice QSL. Thanks to all operators for some fun time at the radio.

Next out is a very rare DX. Heard Island and here I had just one QSO before and that was with VK0CW DXpedition from 1983. So here I was in need of many QSO's and SSB and RTTY as well. And this turned out to be a relative easy task (!!!). I worked them 11 times and got it all!!! From 160 to 10 m except 20 m all on CW. SSB was on 20 m and RTTY was 15 m. So I don't need Heard any more (sad to say). And I guess this is due to the very skilled operators in the team.

Nice QSL. Wonder what the Penguin's are thinking?! In which direction is the food?? Or, how do we get home???

There have been quite a few memorial DXpeditions this spring. What about K5P Palmyra, VP8 from South Sandwich and South Georgia, FT4JA Juan de Nova (no QSL yet) and EP2A and VK0EK just to mention a few. So there have been some nice times spent at the radio.

Well, that's all for now. CUL

New IOTA confirmed

Hawar Island AS-202 was announced as a new IOTA in July 2014. In April 2016 the first activation happened with a team from Russia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Ireland and UK. They used the call A91HI and made over 23000 QSO's. Well done indeed!!!

So my IOTA score is now up to 444 Islands!!

Swedish summer has started. Rain, rain and some TS and some more rain!!?? Temp outside is about 8 C (46 F) and inside 18C (64 F). I have turned off all heaters as it should be summer and heater is not needed in theory. But in reality I have to put on a fire in my fireplace to get some comfort inside. I have a lot of fire wood so no big deal!

Well back to chasing new (for moi) IOTA's.

CUL

One new IOTA and a map from Vlad UA4WHX.

Today I got a new IOTA from David, BA4DW when he worked AS-094 Hainan Isl. Thanks David and my IOTA score is now the fantastic (!) sum of 443 Islands. Wonder when I will reach the magic number of 555 so I will be in the fine list!!??
Anyway here are the QSL from David.

Next Picture is a map from Vlad's 2015 Arctic Tour on the Icebreaker MSV Mikhail Somov. But I will only show you all the mid part as the QSL is to big for my scanner. But enjoy this part.

The QSL from the IOTA's I worked was shown in the privies issue of this blog. But if you worked him from the Icebreaker as RI0POL you can get this nice card for your self from Vlad.

That's all for now!
CUL

5 New IOTA QSL in my hand!

Today I've got 5 new IOTA. First out is VK6NAX/P from OC-164, Garden Isl.

And Pavel understand the Word "direct". QSO was 30_Apr-2016!! SUPER!

Next 4 is from Vladimir Bykov and his trip in the Arctic. Unfortunately I missed a few of the Islands but this is what I worked.

Very nice cards and the worked Island was as follows:
AS-042, Golomyannyy Island. AS-029, Bolshoy Island. AS-005, Dickson Island and finally AS-027, Wrangel Island.

Click and enjoy the nice QSL and that my IOTA score is up 5 (!!!!) more Points.

Lots of Pictures and not so much text!

CUL