EI1Y Contest station QSLing

EI1Y Conest station of Papa Lima DX-Contest Group has more than 60K QSOs logged already.

Contesting is one thing , QSLin is another story.

I am helping now Adam EI5JQ to manage all QSL requests for EI1Y / EI0PL and EJ1Y

Direct and Bureau

EI1Y QSL card 1

We strongly recommend using OQRS provided by Clublog 

for both type of requests.

https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/EI1Y

EI1Y QSL card 2

About 2000 QSL cards processed last few weeks , all Bureau requests ...

LoTW upload was done with latest QSOs made

during ARRL DX CW and SSB contests.

EI1Y QSL 3

At the moment we have in stock three different types of EI1Y QSL card!

Order your QSL now via

121 QSOs during ARRL DX SSB 2016

ARRL DX SSB by EI9KC

121 QSOs made during my short run on ARRL DX SSB 2016. Not much but I had no time and prefer CW more . But SSB can be good sometimes too especially when you calling CQ with 100W on packed 21Mhz and VE8GER Patrick from Northern Territory is giving me a call !!!

What a fantastic location and QSO to remember! It was on Saturday.

I can compare now CW and SSB and ARRL DX .... I had more US States worked on CW , much more QSO with 100W and much easier was to work stations. 

12M rocks this weekend and ACOM 1000 is dead .....

All QSOs on 12M this weekend

It was long time ago when I had 12M band in good condition like this weekend. Saturday was JA day with about 50 QSOs made with Japanese stations. Great strong signals and during my CQ I had to go split to manage huge pile-up from far Asia. 

JA / HL QSOs on 12M this weekend

JR6AG gave me a call from Okinawa Island for the second time on 12M

On Sunday 4 stations from South Korea logged.

My amplifier ACOM 1000 didn`t manage pile-up on Sunday. Got some noise during QSO and I had to switch it off. After professional expertise by Adam EI5JQ and Oleg EI7KD verdict can be only one: high voltage transformer is gone .... Replacement will be quite expensive. So well this was probably the end of the transformer life as it was about 8 years old ....

DXpedition Marquesas 2016

TX7EU on 30M CW

This is TX7EU DXpedition Marquesas 2016 - Nuku Hiva OC-027 recorded this morning on 30M CW. Wonderful signal and "easy" to work. Marquesas Islands confirmed here from on 7 bands (10-40) two emissions CW/SSB almost 5 years ago thanks to TX7M

This is rare location on HF and good to see EU Team there focused to call Europe on high bands.

I will try to get them on RTTY as new country on DIGI mode. 

K5P Palmyra Atoll QSL

K5P Palmyra Atoll QSL arrived

One of the hardest DX to work. 2 bands - one mode - CW

GITMO on 80 !!!!

KG4HF - Guantanamo Bay

Al W6HGF is back on Guantanamo Bay and I am very happy to log him on 80M as new DXCC on this band! He gave me already several new band slots with this entity. 80M tonight was very hard. Tight split and many callers. Big guns only. So it was challenge for me. 

Decided to try as I was at the first line in EU.

Advantage for sure on low bands.

Didn`t work earlier on this band Philippines DU1IST with fantastic signal in my location , had nice short QSO with 3XY1T Los Island in Guinea by Italian DX pedition Team but Guinea is not new country on 80 for me. Spot from KG4HF showed up on 80M. After long battle got magic reply EI9KC 5NN EI9KC just before he went QRT!

Very lucky QSO! GITMO now sorted from 80 to 10 all modes!

QSO already in the log on Clublog and CFM on LoTW as my 181 DXCC on 80M

EI9KC - KG4HF log

Thanks Al !

UKEICC 80m Contests - 2`nd March 2016 - SSB

UKEICC 80m Contests - 2`nd March 2016 - SSB

60 - QSOs

12 - DXCC

2 -DUPES

Longest QSO with UT2II - 3220 km

First time on high power SSB with antenna on CW portion of the band.

Not a good idea. Will try to avoid in the future.