Ogasawara

3 operators from Japan went for one week to Bonin Islands, known in Japan as the Ogasawara. Tomorrow is their last day on the island. I was trying 6 days without look and today finnaly loged JD1BMH on 21Mhz CW. Today they had best signal in my location. Early today I was trying to work them RTTY but no luck. CW did a good job on 15m. Nice one. Nice DX. New on HF. Worked before on 11m. This is website of JD1BMH
Ogasawara is my 210 DXCC worked on HF as EI9KC.

ZD8RH Ascension Island on 24Mhz

ZD8RH Robert from Ascension Island is my newest DXCC worked on 24Mhz. Nice location, always pleasure to work such a DX! QSL via G4DBW

P29CS Andy - Papua New Guinea on 21Mhz

P29CS Andy, good radio friend currently in Papua New Guinea was calling UK stations on 21Mhz today and then he asked for EI. I gave him a call and he pick-up my call-sign but QRM on his side didn`t let us finish 2-way QSO. I send my e-mail to Andy with thanks for pick-up my call-sign and Andy reply very quick that I`m not in the log because he didn`t get his raport and he asked me on another frequency to finish our QSO! Great contact Andy, QSO to remember! Looking forward to get your beautiful QSL card via M0URX
And looking forward to see You next year in Dublin for a pint of Guinness Andy!
I`ve worked Andy with antenna just 3m above the ground.(Yes wind, strong wind in EI today)

Read a note from M0URX blog about P29CS Andy why 2-way QSO with him is a must!  

Northern Mariana Islands on RTTY

 

2`nd  new one worked in RTTY (1`st was FP)! Great opening on 17m from Far East. KH0PR from Rota Island on Marianas logged! Antenna just 5m above the ground. Pointing into building .... I had a few QSOs from 11m with that prefix. Interesting QSO anyway 12000km ... Just passed 3000 QSOs in my log as EI9KC.

"Today in my box ..."

RI1FJ Eugeny from Franz Josef Land .... here is a note when I`ve worked Eugeny in March 2011. Good looking QSL card and for me Brand New DXCC in my collection. At the moment I`ve logged Eugeny on 15m CW and 15/17/20/30/40m RTTY.

VR2KF and few more interesting contacts as wind slow down.

VR2KF Kazu from Hong-Kong is my newest DXCC worked on 14Mhz CW. Brings CW DXCC up to 170.Wind slow down today and I was able to erect my antenna up to the proper operating position 9m above the ground. Few nice QSOs made today on the bands : Lebanon on 21Mhz SSB / Oman on 18Mhz RTTY / Uganda on 14Mhz CW / Chile on 24Mhz CW / Guadelupe on 14Mhz RTTY

50Mhz debut

50Mhz

I`m not a big fan of VHF but .... 50Mhz can be interesting this summer. My 2el Delta should work on this band but I need manual antenna tuner, my radio have some problems to tune delta on 50Mhz. But my WimDom dipole is a big and universal, working on 50Mhz as well! Today for first time EI9KC show up on 6m band. My first QSO was with EA6SA 1659km. QSO in CW. I will think what to do to improve my 6m set-up. Maybe 3 or 5 ele delta ... that will be nice ...