Category: DX
May 13, 2019
Got a card from 4U1WB, the World Bank Amateur Radio Club, from a contact back in March of last year. This weekend was the Armed Forces Crossband Test event where amateurs try to contact the military stations by listening on their frequencies and transmitting back using split mode. I was able to…
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April 23, 2019
Tonight had a good grey line connection into middle Asia via FT8. I have had trouble getting contacts in this area. I worked UN7G in Kazakhstan. I was also able to hear a China station but after many tries I was unsuccessful in contacting him. I'll get China eventually. I got a screen capture of…
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April 19, 2019
After Day 1, I recalculated my plan and decided to do 5 of the 9 parks I had planned. This would get me a 5 parks in one day RaDAR award. I started out at K-1865 Fanning Springs Sate Park's picnic area on the river. I operated FT8 from the car here. It was a nice spot to start the days activations.…
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April 13, 2019
There was a lot involved in getting this working so I thought I would write a post about getting the Yaesu FT-891 to work digital modes (FT8 in this case) with a new Mac the only has USB-C ports. There are probably other ways to do it but I think what I am describing will be the lowest cost route.…
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March 6, 2019
Made some good DX today. 2 contacts with Galapagos Islands DXpedition(HD8M) on 17m and 20m, two different stations in Antarctica (RI1ANL and EM1UA) and then Mauritania in Africa (5T5PA). These were all FT8. I'd worked Mauritania via SSB, the other two are all time new ones for me.
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November 26, 2018
I'm still not fast enough to decode contest callsigns in CW on the fly but I read an article about some guys who didn't know any CW and participated in a CW contest using a decoder. The contest logging program I use, N1MM+ Logger has links to one so I tried it out. CW contests are super fun. It's…
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November 16, 2018
Today I hit 100 confirmed DXCC entities, with Iceland being my last one. I almost had Iceland before with FT8, only got half the QSO with a guy named Odin before it faded. I've picked up the last few on 17m FT8. Now I just need someone to confirm Hawaii on LOTW and I'll have Worked All States as…
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May 8, 2018
The Hexbeam is working good. I made a bunch of new DX contacts this week that are new to me, El Salvador, Uruguay, Moldova and Estonia, all on 20m SSB. I was trying to get A66A in UAE for about 20 minutes but the pile up was too big and I had to get going. I also picked up W1AW during the NE QSO…
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