Good Morning Niue

Once again about Niue and ZK2V. It will be always great QSO. This time logged on 12mSSB. Above print screen from real-time logging on Chris`s website. New DXCC in SSB.

Rapa Nui - Easter Island for first time ever !!!

Easter Island was my Number One Most Wanted DXCC from the list. And today for first time ever logged in my logbook! 10mCW QSO CE0Y/LA5UF Joe from Norway is operating now from this beautiful location. I had no luck to contact him from Nauru as C21U but no worries. Easter Island was more important for me. He was active today in the morning UTC time on 20m but his signal was too little. And in the evening our time I spotted his call on the cluster on 10mCW he was very weak but looged and he pick-up my call. After QSO strong QSB .... Thanks Joe! Big big New One for many years Most Wanted!

Several QSOs on 80m and 1`st ASIA on this band!

Not many DXCC worked on 80m but I`m not worry about this. My dipole is great for EU and if I can make QSO outside of Europe on 80m I`m very happy. To practice CW I like to jump on some frequency and just call CQCQ. Best way for me to learn CW every day. Winter months are good for low bands. My local QRM are in bed and best time for me is evening time. 20/15/12/10m are closed but 160/80/40/30m are open! Today I looged several stations on 20m and 80m practice my CW skills. On 80m I`ve logged about 5 /QRP stations with good signals in my location. And last QSO I had with UN7CW Nick from Kazahstan! He reply to my call and we had QSO. It was my 1`st ASIA station on 80m! TU NICK! looking forward to make a lot interesting QSOs on 160/80/40/30m during winter months.

7Q7GM Malawi

7Q7GM CW only DX Pedition is on air now from Malawi in Africa. I had just one QSO with 7Q and it was RTTY on 20m. Now for 2`nd time Malawi logged but this time on 12mCW. New country in CW for me.

HF weekend happenings.

A lot to say after few days ....

• TU2T Ivory Coast - new DXCC for me worked on HF. I was trying them on 40/30m no luck. Signal very weak and big pile-up. I must say they have weaker signal than 3XY1D working from similar location. Anyway ... worked them today on 17mSSB / 10mCW / 12mRTTY no bad ... 3 bands = 3 modes ;)) Good thing is to see log update in real time!
• Another new DXCC on HF worked 8Q7DV Maledives ...10mSSB during CQWW SSB 2011 contest.
• CQWW SSB 2011 Contest - I was active for short time yesterday and bit longer today. No much. Just enough to make: 300QSO! I was operating on single band 28Mhz - unassisted category - high power.  Beautiful openings on 10m! Band fully open. 300QSO - 64 countries - 23 zones. UFF! Good stuff! About 30newDXCC on 10m band! 90% of my time I was calling to another stations without using DX Cluster , last 25 minutes I was calling CQ and I was spotted on DX Cluster and I did 74QSOs with USA stations it means I had about 3 QSOs per minute :)) Great Fun it was! All my contatcts are uploaded to LoTW.
• I have digital interface to connect PC to my radio! Wow! A lot of new opportunities on the way! One of them was during CQ WW SSB Contest. I was able to put exact frequency to my logbook!

Niue sunrise ....

I`m happy to see in my log ZK2V Chris operating from Niue this time on 12mCW! I like info from his website
Niue is about the last place on the planet to see each new day. This is true .... for me it is the end of the World. Further is only .... tomorrow! (on the picture sunrise in my town - Celbridge) GM!

TX7M last band completed ...

Today last missing band with TX7M was completed. 17mCW. And I was lucky to log them on 12mSSB as well. On 10mSSB signal was too weak. No worries I have 10mCW. Great condition from their location and MARQUESAS worked from 40m up to 10m (7 bands ...) I`ve SWL them on 80mCW! Good DX Pedition and it was good experience to worked out how they operating CW in split mode. Good school of DXing!

P.S. Last band where I have some chances to work them from my location (160/80 no chances with my condition)