National Field Day 2011

This weekend it was NFD.

LA2U/p (clubstation) was active from a QTH nearby.

I look forward to see the results

73 de Børge

DXCC Certificate

Today I received it by mail.

So tomorrow I have to fine a frame for it.

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100 DXCC

Yesterday I applied and got issued 100 DXCC on CW.
All QSL's via LoTW.

A nice milestone for me :)

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XYL-friendly

This is my 10m tall vertical.

But there has been alot of "wires and other stuff" at the bottom.

Hopefully this will hide the stuff :)

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2m J-Pole

Here are some pictures of my homebrew j-pole for 2m

It is made of 8mm thread-rods.
The longest element is extended with a long nut.

Feeding point.

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Thunder

Last weekend there was some heavy lightning nearby.
Closest hit was 3 seconds away, but none into my shack :)

I have updated my logging program from CQRLOG. If You are using Linux; take at look.

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Es Season

The last days there has been Es.
I only have a deltaloop on 6m, but it's doing the job.
JP43TR is my locator if You were wondering.

Also on HF there have been much nice DX.

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Easter vacation

Back again after some days with vacation.
9N7DX and V85TL on 15m this afternoon.

Next week my CG3000 antennatuner will be installed.

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Since last

I have not been so active with the blog, but rather spending time in the shack.

Some new dxcc's in the log.

I've upgraded my log-program from www.cqrlog.com.
It's still an alpha version, but its working ok.

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Seychelles

Today I had some time to spend in the shack.
I've got a new LAN connection, so the log-PC worked fine.

Going through 40m and there was S79UFT CQ-up. No takers.
After he was logged, I entered a spot on DX-summit.fi . Big pile-up.

Snow and stormy weather here today.

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Revillagigedo Islands

Only 10 QSO's since last post. (logbook on the bottom of my blog)

But today i got 4A4A on 15m. The others were busy with contesting, so I got a chance :)

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Barbados

Got a new one today. 8P9NX on 17m.

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China

Finally I got BY in the log.
BD1CAL was calling CQ, and there was no big pilup.
Also VR2UW on 30m this evening

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Quiet

Not so much activity the last days.
But I had a nice QSO with GM4KGK on 30m today.

Have a nice weekend
73 de Børge

Kenya

Some hours this evening also.
I was trying to get XU om 30m, but the pileup was to big.

Just before I was going to close down, I checked 40m.
5Z4/OH1RX had just started to split, and he got into the log.

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Fallback

Even though the old cw-filter was good, the lack of full-break-in, 200w, rx-eq and other stuff "forced" me to bring back the TS-480HX.
I had a nice QSO with AG7N, John on 17m this evening.
The aurora was present, bringing that nice tone to it.

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Back to old Rig

I put up my old TS-430S after been using a TS-480HX for the last months.
The 480 is a great radio, and it is easy to use. But it had no IF-filters installed, but my 430 have YK-88C (500Hz).

Worked CY0 Sable Island on 15m with my 22 year old rig today.

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Senegal and Turks & Caicos

No activity yesterday, but some hours today.
6W om 15m, VP5 on 17m were logged.
An EI station created a heavy pileup as well.

Alot of special-event stations these days :) OL1911VP

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Aurora

This evening there is aurora-boralis activity.
(some aurora-pictures from my other blog)

Work a LA on 10m and a SM on 6m.
LY, OH and DL heard on 6m, but nothing logged.
I guess the 6m ant is still under production :)

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West Malaysia

Not so active these days due to my hollyday is over for now.
9M2MRS was the only one in the log today.
New one on 40m.

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Taiwan

This morning BV and 5N were logged on 15m.
Taiwan, BX4AA was a new one for me :)

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meeting

Not much activity today,
but I logged HZ and ZA on 15m.

This evening there is a club-meeting at LA2U.

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3 new one today

5X, 8P (15m) and VR (40m) new logged today :)
Also logged CT9, UA(AS),and JT

Also today BY was heard but no luck,
KL1V was confirmed via LoTW this morning :)

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Alaska at last

This morning BY was heard, but not logged :(
Instead I got ZB2 on 15m.
After 1 hour in the pileup, finally KL1V was logged 1848Z on 30m.

EA8/LA7RJ with friends on 40m SSB.

Cold here today. -6C and windy.
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Today's hunt

This morning the signals were weak, but I got a J8 on 15m.
This afternoon 3B8 on 30m and HH ,C6 and PJ2 on 17m.

Hope to have some LoTW QSL's soon.

Alot of QRM's.
Why not try to listen before transmitting ?

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First entry

This is my first entry in my HAM-radio-blog.
I'm not sure about this blog yet, but I'll give it a try.

This morning HI, TI on 40m and JY on 20m.
Sunset soon, so I'll go to the shack for more DX.

73 de Børge