PA3C

While in the pile-up of E51m my SPE PA died…No smoke but the smell in the house is horrible. So that is the end of North Cook for me. barefoot (100W) with my TS-2000 will be impossible to have more contacts. Worked them on 20M CW and 17 M SSB/CW. Well that’s life I guess 

Just home from a long trip doing Ecudor including Galapagos.very nice trip beautiful country and nice people.If you have time&money: do it! When I came home the world was white and frozen.Temperatures have been very low the last week, so the ground is hard as rock!I wanted to erect my 80M inverted L

Every year around this time there is a huge high pressure area developing. No wind, fog (convection-type) and inversions. Working as pipes: either you are in the pipe or not. Yesterday 10-11 we had such an event. Heard G4SWX working into OH, UA1 and ES early in the evening. Up to 2000 km! And here…n

Good contest! I joined SOSB 10M only and with the sunspots this was a great choice! Worked 40 zones and more than 150 countries. In total more than 600 qso’s for 1/4 million points. No exact numbers because the N1MM logger was broken Worked in the High power Assisted section but most of the time use

Last week I was digging a hole for a new tree in teh ground next to my house. Only at 10 cm deep the water was there. Groundwater-level is always rising in the winter but this year very early caused by the rains we had in August-September and the beginning of October. But why complain? For the [...]

Lots of activity this period. East Kiribati T32C very good expedition, always on the band and always good signals. Cocos Keeling not to far away but still needed on 10M. But with this active sun no problem to work them. South Cook Island on 12M. Tahiti on 12M. A35CT on 15M RTTY. C21UF on 20M. [...]

DXCC Challenge is a another way of counting the DXCC-score. It counts bands and modes. It was proposed long time ago, see this article. Not sure exactly how it works but DXKeeper does keep track of the number. Last night I received qsl via LOTW which gave me Challenge 2001. Meanwhile some expedition