The last couple of days have shown both the good and the bad sides of increasing solar activity, says Steve G0KYA. He adds that Sunday and Monday were fantastic examples of how high levels of solar activity/sunspots, coupled with quiet geomagnetic conditions, can make the bands come alive. “The solar flux index was up to…
IT9RYH, also known as “Nino”,or PIPO as i want to call him,has been active on 20 meters as long as I can remember. There’s only one problem: his equipment knows only one frequency, 14.195 MHz. In winter evenings he is jamming the dx on 40m and 80m as well (when he finds out how his…
Over 3000 QSO for just 1/5 days were made together with Oleg RV3DH. About 80% with RUssian stations (as planned). On the second day, when the bands were opened slightly, reached up to 9 QSO rate per minute in the huge pile-up from Russia. It was a lot’s of fun 🙂 Made several QSO via…
As of October 1, 2011, the Japan Amateur Radio League’s (JARL) QSL Bureau will have a new address. If you use the JARL QSL Bureau, please send your QSL cards to JARL QSL Bureau, 1324-3 Kanba, Hikawa-cho, Izumo-shi, Shimane 699-0588 JAPAN. Source: ARRL.org
Interview 1981 (Iris and Lloyd Colvin’s S.K. now) Lloyd and Iris Colvin are living a dream that all DX-oriented amateurs have envisioned at least once It’s a dream of unlimited travel toward receding horizons, of financial security and international celebrity status. It’s a dream of going to the sun, setting up a shack, and, tor…