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Hi, 2 days ago I was QRV on 17M band... yesterday I decided to be on 15M CW ! This wide band was a little open so I decided to try some CQ on 21.007MHz... The first station to answer me was Garkusha EW8OC from Gomel, beautiful 589 w/QSB, and it is a new...
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In some months (April ??) I will move to my new QRA (I will have a REAL shack !! ), so I am slowly starting to buy some equipment I will need for the future station... Today I received a command of 18 PL-259 Silver plated from DX Engineering, good prices...
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Hi all, Today I received MW0CRI QSL in the mail box, confirming our 2 QSOs in 2008 on 15 & 17M SSB (2 new confirmed bands ! ). Wales is worked on all bands excepted on 15 & 17M CW that I still need for closing this DXCC... Not so far & so difficult, it...
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Hi, this afternoon I was back home earlier, and no more snow but rain... I decided to switch on the station, and to call CQ on 17M in CW. After 2-3 calls, Rolf SM0DEJ answered me with a beautiful 589 : Sweden is already contacted on 17M CW but still not...
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Hi, today in the mail box I found a QSL from Bob MD0CCE, confirming our 2 last QSOs on 15M & 12M CW. They were my 2 last missing bands in CW : Isle of Man is now confirmed on 10 to 80M CW !! Thanks a lot. I now only miss MD on 12M & 80M SSB in order to...
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Hi all, today I received TY1MS QSL, confirming our 3 QSOs on 17M CW, 15M CW & SSB (2 new confirmed bands ! ). Thanks PA3AWW for fast reply... Chris F8DZY.
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Today again I received a new & extremely rare IOTA : VY0O NA-230 (Nunavut Group) on 30M CW (new confirmed band ! ) !!! This is my confirmed IOTA # 228... Thank you Cezar VE3LYC, hope to work you from NA-231 in the end of March 2010 ! Chris F8DZY.
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Hi all, today I received in direct the confirmation of an old QSO, W2W (Historical Electronics Museum in Maryland MD) thanks to Nick K3NY, QSL manager for W3HEM/K3NEM. A beautiful QSL and info... Thanks a lot Nick ! Chris F8DZY.
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France is under snow and cold winds since last week... Here in South-West France we only got snow 2-3 days ago but 10 cm in one night ! (not used to... ) This morning, the temperature was -10°C in Agen City !!! My shack (garage) is about 0°C so radio...
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Tonight I jumped in a nice pile-up on 40M CW for YB4IR who was working EU... It's my second QSO with Imam (1st was on 20M SSB) in 09/2007 and only my 3rd band with Indonesia ! The split was not so wide : up 1 to 2 => I worked him in less than 5 minutes...
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