Good progress on 30m

It is good to see LoTW working like it should be. Logbook of The World  is back to normal now. Great processing time noticed this morning. I had to upload whole my log as numbers of QSOs were missing. Noticed large amount of NEW ONES confirmed on LoTW especially on 30m. This is result of my latest activity on 10Mhz.

AUCKLAND & CAMPBELL ISLAND, 

MACEDONIA , 

WEST MALAYSIA, 

FRANCE , 

MAURITANIA, 

CZECH REPUBLIC, 

GUYANA, 

KUWAIT, 

GUERNSEY, 

LATVIA, 

UGANDA, 

MADEIRA ISLAND, 

SLOVAK REPUBLIC, 

CRETE, 

SLOVENIA, 

NETHERLANDS, 

SWEDEN, 

TURKEY, 

PERU

At  the moment my statistics on 30m are:

191 DXCC Worked

163 DXCC Confirmed (147 on LoTW)

EI9KC`s brief 2012 summary.

I like all sort of statistics for my radio hobby. 

Now it is good time to show some of them for 2012.

5455 QSO in total

3248 - CW (59.5%)

2073 - Phone - (38%)

135 - Digi - (2.5%)

QSOs per band

QSL from T8XX Palau (First QSL from Palau)

Countries DXCC

247 Countries worked in 2012

Full DXCC statistics per band here

QSO per continent:

2813 - Europe

1549 - North America

456 - Asia

284 - Africa

212 - South America

126 - Oceania

OH1VR/VP9 - Bermuda (80/40/20 QSL)

Worked All 40 CQ Zones.

Most active zone: 15 with 1164 QSOs

Just 2 QSOs with Zone 2 , 12 and 34

1386 worked prefixes.

QSO per stations:

PJ4C - 20 QSOs

1A0C - 19

5T0SP / HK0NA - 18 

CY9M / PJ7PT - 15 

EI3KG - 14

HU2DX - 13

EI80IRTS / PT0S - 12

7O6T / D64K - 11

E40VB / TN2T - 10

When CW is a pleasure ....

Just arrived ... Morsedirigent (Der Morse Dirigent) ... not much time to play with it today but for sure will enjoy very soon. My old "Kent TWO" - paddle / straight key was good ... for some time ... but when things are not going like your fingers are asking to do - it is time for a change. And here it is. Brand new morse paddle to improve my CW skills. Hard to make a choice these days - what to get ?... Paddle or straight ? For me paddle for sure ... then what make ? Top brands are not for my pocket ... this one here made by Scheunemann-Morsetasten in Germany is from the middle shelf but some people says: "simply the best paddle ever made". It is good for sure , not much experience here to say more but as I said ... I will enjoy.

The only one thing I did not like when see it first time - those blue finger pieces - this is only me - I will try to replace them with transparent ones ...

When DX-ing is a pleasure - part 2

When DX-ing is a pleasure part 1 - here .... it has also different point of view. My favourite band on HF is 30m ... NO SSB allowed here .... no microphone ..... CW - fundamental to HAM radio and DIGI Modes only ... as I am not big fan of digi modes ... enjoying operating CW almost every day there. Band is open 24h here .... well. From some directions of course.

DX-ing is a pleasure for me when I am calling CQ from my first ever home made antenna , inverted V-dipole hanging on the tree using 100W barefoot from my radio , sending morse code at 21 wpm (can read 32 hihi) and enjoying every single QSO! Tonight same as every night .... CQ CQ de EI9KC PSE K few QSOs on 30m few stations from USA and Europe logged and ... one surprise from South Africa replied to my call - ZS6EZ Chris ... great QSO ... thank for 449 in South Africa Chris! This is real pleasure for me , this is how I like to enjoy HAM radio and CW!

On the picture here my first Morse paddle - Kent TWO - will try very soon to practice on something new ;)

Today in my "BOX"

I had P.O. Box many years ago :) 

VK9/OH3X Lord Howe Island from Henri OH3JR. New DXCC for me on HF! Many thanks!

This is my 2`nd QSL from The ONLY HAM Radio operator in Mount Athos --- SV2ASP/A Monk Apollo. This time single sided two colour QSL card. Last time received 4 pages double sided full colour QSL card.

80m IRTS Winter Contest

A bit of activity on 80m EI IRTS Winter Contest. 66 QSO here in mixed category. Not much activity noticed this year. Missing counties this year in my log where: ARM , CAR , CAV , DER , LAO , LON , MEA, MON, SLI , TIP, TYR. For first and I hope last time used SD archaic software to log all QSOs.

HNY Bermudas on 30m!

Happy New Year to all!

Just started New Year with few QSOs on 30m CW .... Yesterday I had to fix my dipole for 30m as strong wind damaged my supporting rope. As mentioned few QSOs this morning on quiet band .... one of them brought me New DXCC on this band K1GI/VP9. Bermuda Islands to make it 190 country worked on 10Mhz.