HF diario

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Burma - Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Myanmar is not so often a visitor on HAM bands. Soon will be my 3`rd anniversary as licensed HAM radio operator EI9KC and to be honest never had a chance work or listen station from Burma. Today happily logged XZ1Z Zorro (JH1AJT) - legend of Amateur Radio - SP7IDX Waldi said this to me. Zorro is currently in there with a humanitary mission. He was active last few days on the frequencies. I had no spare time for the radio. But today weather is disaster and is nice to sit down beside the radio and have some challenge to work him while he is there in Myanmar. Signal was not so strong. On the beginning was nothing when first spots showed up. This direction is not easy from us here EI and always is better at the end of the day local time here. I was not sure if he will be still active. In his QTH is deep night and sunrise will be soon. But he was QRV. 20m SSB not my favourite mode but no choice! Split 5-20 is like lottery. After several calls logged! Brand new DXCC for me and much appreciated. Thanks JH1AJT for New One for many of us and it is good to see first licensed station active from Myanmar after long time. 73 and Good Luck!

Saturday, 3 August 2013

40 CQ zones confirmed on eQSL!

Many thanks to Robert ST2AR for his recent upload to eQSL. His zone (34) was my only one missing to complete all CQ Zones on eQSL. Two years ago I was asking Robert to consider upload his logs to eQSL and he told me he will do it some day. He kept his promise! All CQ Zones now confirmed on eQSL.

Libya welcome in my log as new DXCC

Late last night DX-Cluster spots shows 5A1AL Abubaker is acticve on 20m SSB. Seen some spots from EI staions, decided to give a try as I haven`t got any Libya stations in my log. Signal was not so strong and was up and down. Some QRM did not help. But luckily managed 2-way QSO! New DXCC for me on HF! QSL his DL call-sign DL1AL. Many thanks Abubaker to bring 5A prefix back on Air!

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

EJ0PL / EJ1Y from EU-006

EJ0PL / EJ1Y is QRT now. Another IOTA experience with Papa Lima DX-Group. We operated from different Islands in Ireland .... EU-007 / EU-103 this year was time for EU-006.

I had pleasure visit a lot offshore islands in EI but never been on Aran Islands. Since now.

Team went to Inishmore on Monday and I joined them on Tuesday 23rd of July. Equipment was shipped same day from Galway as cargo. We had 7 seater car converted to be a van packed with radio gear.

All day on Tuesday station was prepared. 6 masts with antennas were erected. 3 radios with computer network, etc. First signal went on air early on Wednesday night. Almost all members went to sleep tired after long day but Michal EI3KG stayed fresh and CW operation from EU-006 as EJ0PL stared. He did about 600 QSO till sunrise on 40/20m. SSB operators were awake and 2 stations went on air on phone. I was operating EJ0PL on CW only. Managed 1200 QSOs in just two days myself. I was happy to run approx 30wpm speed on CW. Second night on EJ0PL we had amazing propagation from West-Coast and All over the World. Waldi SP7IDX was really surprised how openings on the bands looks in EI land. I was operating that night on CW as well. Log was uploaded in real time to ClubLog. Thanks to network and WiFi broadband connection set by EI9FBB Dave. EJ0PL was on air just 3 days. I did not operate third day - half members of the Team took break before IOTA contest and went to visit Inis Oirr island, smallest Aran Island. I had a thing to do on the island and the rest of our Team visited EJ0A Limerick Radio Club ready for IOTA Contest from EU-006 as well.

Saturday morning was very busy to set-up station for IOTA Contest. Main thing in the shack - software and interfaces had to be configured as it should b to run Multi Operator station from EU-006. EI7KD Oleg joined us on Saturday just for competition. Shifts were prepared and at 13:00 locat time IOTA Contest fun has stared. New contest call-sign was issued EJ1Y. I was running Multiplier station it means I was operating CW/SBB chasing multipliers on the band. Condition on Saturday was not great. 15m was in bad condition. 10m was closed. Sunday morning big difference. 15 wide open to JA and Asia plus EU and 28Mhz in great shape!
We managed aprox 2000 QSOs during IOTA Contest with 400 Multipliers in the log. Shortly when contest was over station was dismantled. It is amazed how long takes to set-up station and how quick to dismantle ...
I enjoyed Aran Islands so much. How different this location is compare to the others places we were operating for IOTA Contest. Inismore was full of life and we were blessed with good weather for all our stay on the island. Place to remember for sure!

EJ1Y IOTA Contest 2013 from EU-006 Inis Mór (Inishmore) - Aran Islands

TEAM:

From Left to Right

EI9FBB , EI9KC , EI5JQ, SP9NWN, SP7NNM, EI4GK, EI3KG, EI7KD, SP7IDX

Thank you for great fun and CU next year from another IOTA!

Saturday, 27 July 2013

EJ0PL now QRT

EJ0PL is now QRT. Aprox 12700 QSO were made in just 3 days. Station will be set now for IOTA Contest and we will use call-sign

EJ1Y

from EU-006

Thank you for great support!

OQRS is now open via Clublog

See you in IOTA Contest 2013! Good Luck!

Thursday, 25 July 2013

EJ0PL - 2`nd day

EJ0PL shack

Fresh news from Inish More Island EU-006. EJ0PL just logged 6630 QSOs. In just 30h of operation! Great condition on the bands and big pleasure to work you all. RTTY station is now prepared and should be on air shortly. Please note we have just 2 CW operators here and sometimes pile-up is massive. We are trying to serve you ALL. SP7IDX noticed great condition on 20m last night untill early in the morning here. He enjoyed signals from West Coast of North America and Hawaii Islands as well! 80m is not great at the moment. We will be monitoring this band during the night.

At the moment 3 stations are running and we will keep them all day long.

Online log of EJ0PL is uploaded in real time.