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Author Archives: dh8bqa
IOTA contest & YJ – Vanuatu as a new one
Just handing out a few QSOs/points while further beta-testing N1MMLogger+ this weekend … and working YJØUO on 20 CW caught me by surprise, it’s been another ATNO so 293 DXCCs wkd now. 🙂 IOTA Contest Call: DH8BQA Class: SO(A)24Mixed HP … Continue reading
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Bad luck on six today
After spending 12 hours in QRL today I came home in the evening just to hear from the locals there was a real good 6 m opening to the U.S. early afternoon. Great signals, lots of stations and our guys … Continue reading
Six across the pond again
Another nice 6 m opening tonight, this time to VO1. Worked VO1VCE and VO1HP on CW and heard VO1SO on SSB, the latter just down in the noise so did not even call. All 3 stations are in GN37 so … Continue reading
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More 6 m across the pond …
Six has been open across the pond again tonight. Signals have been as strong as never heard before. So after my rant yesterday it seems the propagation god decided to send a good opening to JO73 today … maybe I … Continue reading
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Massive 4 m opening and a bit of 6 m NA
Six meters opened into North America tonight but once again bad luck overhere. Briefly heard AC4TO with about 419 and K4RX with 529 but couldn’t raise their attention. A pity as both would have been new squares. Always have the … Continue reading
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DMC-RTTY & NAQP-RTTY
Did a few QSOs on RTTY during the weekend in DMC and NAQP contests mainly to further test N1MMLogger+. It’s a quite stable product already, only finding minor things still that do not harm contest operations. To be honest I … Continue reading
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IARU-HF & WRTC 2014
I did not really plan to enter this year’s IARU HF Championship. We do some station sharing for the bigger contests between Uwe, DL3BQA, and me. In the past both RUSDX and IARU-HF were for the same OP (either Uwe … Continue reading
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Two ATNOs worked
During the last two days I worked T88KH, Republic of Palau, on 15 m SSB and V73NS, Marshall Islands, on 15 m CW for two all time new ones. DXCC total up to 292 now, slowly moving to the “magic” … Continue reading
YA – Afghanistan #131 on 6 m
Lucky guy overhere! Finally caught T6DD on 6 m today for DXCC #131 and square #604. He has been quite active during the last few weeks but the skip was never right. But this morning it finally did fit. 🙂 … Continue reading
DAØHQ in July’s VHF contest 2014
We had the honor to activate DAØHQ on 2 m during last weekend’s VHF contest. DAØHQ is the German Headquarters station during next weekend’s IARU HF World Championship. So we used the call to be active on 2m, too, and hand … Continue reading
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Sporadic E on 2 m
Finally a good opening this evening. It started with a lonely EI3KD being 59+20 while calling CQ on 144.300 MHz. Worked him with just 8 W as the PA was still off. 🙂 No other ones around. After he faded … Continue reading
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J3 – Grenada #130 on 6 m
Caribbean was open again tonight. Sorrily the skip was not right so could only hear half of Europe working all the DX but nothing here. J38DR was finally audible for about a minute weak and with lots of QRM but … Continue reading
600 on 6
Back from Friedrichshafen. It was a great convention again and good to meet so many people. Really appreciated the nice feedback after my lecture as well as all the people knocking on my shoulders to tell me they use one … Continue reading
HAM RADIO Friedrichshafen
Going to leave for the 600 km trip down to lake Constance tomorrow to join the HAM RADIO International Exhibition for Radio Amateurs in Friedrichshafen. Will hold a lecture myself during the CTU (Contest University) about antenna switching & station … Continue reading
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IARU 6m, Ukrainian DX Classic RTTY & All Asian DX contests
Spent the last weekend alpha/beta testing N1MMLogger+ in different contests trying to find bugs. Makes a very good impression so far (not many bugs found) and I really like all the new features! There was a nice presentation in Dayton … Continue reading
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Caribbean 6 m openings today
Six meters has been very quiet during the last few days and weeks. This year’s Sporadic-E season is one of the worst I every experienced. 🙁 Nevertheless we finally had a small Caribbean opening this afternoon lasting for about half … Continue reading
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CQ World Wide VHF Contest 2013 certificate received
Another contest certificate in the postbox today. Was not aware they are now handing out the awards for winners per square. Didn’t do many QSOs in the CQ WW VHF 2013 as condx were rather poor. Besides this the contest … Continue reading
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DRCG-WW-RTTY
I have not done any serious RTTY contesting in the past. Have been chasing a few DXpedition slots on RTTY lately using the built-in features of the K3 or IC-7100, i.e. sending RTTY from memories. Using this method I also … Continue reading
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QSL of the month – 70 cm Aurora confirmed
This time I had another VHF/UHF goodie in the QSL pile from the local QSL manager. Kjell, SM7GVF, confirmed our Aurora QSO on 432 MHz done back in July 2012. What makes it so special is 2 things: a.) It’s … Continue reading
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Sporadic E … finally!
There was a nice long ES opening on 2 m today but too far south, i.e. between F and LZ/SV. Hoped all the time the ES cloud would move a bit but not much happened. Then I heard stations south … Continue reading
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