I knew that two stations operating from countries that I needed were active on 160 Meters and they generally showed up between 0100 and 0300. Since I was already up after working Z81Z, I decided I would hang around and see if either 6Y6T in Jamaica or VP2EC in Anguilla would show up since propagation [...]
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I am sometimes unable to sleep and I go into the radio shack to see what may be found on the bands. I turned on the radio and tuned casually across 160 Meters. The first signal I came across was Z81Z in Jūbā, Southern Sudan, calling CQ with no takers. View Larger Map He [...]
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The 2013 Cordell Expedition is now on Clipperton Island. “For a tropical island, Clipperton doesn’t have very much going for it. The tiny, ring-shaped atoll lying 1,000 kilometres off the southwest coast of Mexico is covered in hard, pointy coral and a prodigious number of nasty little crabs. The wet season from May to October [...]
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XT2TT is the call sign of an Italian DXpedition to Burkina Faso. Conditions on 160 meters are poor at present and their signals were quite weak. With hundreds of stations calling them from all over the world it was difficult to get through, but they have done their homework with proper receive antennas and they [...]
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The photo was taken in near total darkness. I looked out the window and saw a mysterious bright light emanating from the sea. It turned out that the Moon was shining through a gap in the heavy clouds, but was otherwise not seen. I added the dark vignetting to emphasize the darkness and draw the [...]
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From 14 to 23 February 2013 a Belgian – Dutch expedition team is on the air from Bujumbura. Their QTH is at the Club du Lac de Tanganyika on the shores of the Lake Tanganyika. View Larger Map I had been listening for them for a while on 160M but poor conditions prevented me [...]
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The optical fiber is now connected and working with 10 Mbps upload/download speeds. This will be upgraded to 100 Mbps soon. This is a major improvement from the poor ADSL connection I had endured for the last few years. The 3 Phase underground power is also operational bringing my remote location firmly into the [...]
ContinueAbysmal conditions
Conditions on 160 Meters have been abysmal for the last couple of weeks and some beautiful Auroras have been observed during this period. The photos were taken with a 50mm lens and then stitched together to create the images.
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Phil, G3SWH has agreed to act as the QSL Manager for all my operations. I will be shipping my blank cards to him shortly and a new QSL Card which depicts the Arctic King is being printed. This card will be used mainly for direct QSL requests for 160M QSOs.
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