250 DXCC by EI9KC

15 months on the bands as EI9KC and I`m glad to have 250 DXCC worked ... Latest is T2T ... Tuvalu. When I left 11m band I had 251 DXCC confirmed in 6 years active time on the radio.

T2T Tuvalu

T2T Dx Pedition by Pacyfic DXers. Not sure 100% if worked .... I was tryning on 20mCW but no luck and then on 15mCW. I think that T2T gave me RST but no sure 100%. It was hard to read them with low signal and QRM from other tunning stations on the same freq. Then when band was quiet and there was no pile-up I was trying again but no luck. No on-line log at the moment ... If I`m in the log it will be Brand New DXCC for me. If not ... I will try another time.

OK OM DX Contest

I had real fun last night working in OK - OM DX Contest. Late at night I was searching bands and on 80m I`ve spotted large activity from OK and OM stations. They all were in contest. I went to their website to know the rules in this competion and I was in! Almost 2h spent and 28 contacts made. 100W and dipole only on 80m and real good fun.Challenge for me was to copy serial number from OK OM stations. It was a 3 digit district abbreviation. Why challenge ? It was CW only competition.

Good DXing

Good DXing today. Bands are wide open and it is a pleasure to work on it. Just few stations from my today`s log:

• A52VM Bhutan - 28MhzCW (1`st CW & 10m )
• JT1KAA Mongolia - 28MhzCW
• ZL1BYZ New Zealand - 24MhzCW (1`st on 12m)
• HI3TEJ Dominican Rep - 24MhzCW (1`st on 12m)
• OX3XR Greenland - 24MhzCW (1`st on 12m)
• E51NOU - S.Cook Isl - 21MhzCW (1`st 15m) 
• K9FD/KH6 - Hawaii - 21MhzCW

I spent few hours with Papa Lima DX & Contest Group EI0PL during JIDX Phone Contest 2011. We had aprox 100 JAs stations on 20mSSB.

1`st Bhutan in the log

A52DL Just (LA9DL) is operating now from Bhutan in Asia. And I`m happy to log Bhutan for first time. First entry in my log on 21MhzSSB. Nice one! Brand New DXCC for me never worked before.

Easter Island on 12m

CE0Y/LA5UF Joe logged again on 12mCW this time. When he started calling CQ early afternoon today on 24.904 he had real 559 in my location. Very good signal and pile-up was quite heavy as well. I was trying for few times but no luck. Then a lot of  "lids" on his frequency startred making QRM (calling without split, tunnig , etc) Big mess! Joe stopped calling CQ. I had a feeling that will will appear on antoher freq on 12m or another band. Lucky it was same band just 3up 24.907. When I`ve spotted his call , I gave him one-call and .... he picked-up my call without any problems. Easter Island for 2`nd time ever! TU JOE!

4 new DXCC on my favorite band

On my QRZ.com profile there is information about my favorite band .... 10Mhz is the only band where CW and digi modes are allowed. And this band is my Number1. I am using 79 meters long dipole for 30m and my dream list is to have beam for this band. But so far I`ve worked 101 DXCC on 10Mhz without any preasure just fun. During winter times my plan is to get some more new countries on low bands like 160/80/40/30. Will see how it will works. Anyway last 24h gave me 4 new countries on 10Mhz :

• 7Q7GM - Malawi (102)
• 4S7NE - Sri Lanka (103)
• JA1VND - Japan (104)
• KP2/K1ZE - Us Virgin Island (105)

 Top 10 so far on 30m are:

• VP8ORK
• ZL3AB
• T32C
• TX7M
• E51NOU
• 9M2TO
• S21YZ
• ZD7XF
• PY0FO
• 4W6A