Thursday, August 29, 2013

1000 RDA-s confirmed!

Yay - got my 1000-th RDA confirmation today!

This one came through their 'autoconfirmation' site http://adok.dyndns.org:8000

RU5A/1 from PS-21 (Pushtoskinsky area in Pskov region).

Very nice!

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

JCC 400 confirmed!

Huh, it took a while, but today I received a card from Nob-san (JA3EKL), Nara prefecture Izumiootsu city.

That marks the 400-th JCC confirmed with old school paper qsl.

49.4% of all Japan cities done. This is really fun thing to do!


Friday, April 5, 2013

8000-th station from US

It's amazing what you can work with 2el wire beam. Today I worked my 8000-th station from US.

KA7QAR, Jim from Portland, OR.

Thanks!

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

20% of US counties confirmed

Got a card from N5PT, Canadian county, Oklahoma. That was my 614-th confirmed county, which means that 20% of the road is behind me!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

ZL9HR - 17700km !

Beautiful winter afternoon here in Tallinn. -3 degrees, 12cm of snow, nice sunshine.

Worked my #268 dxcc on 15m long path. Campbell isl , ZL9HR. 17700km. That's almost the most distant place (the most distant being Chatham isl, 17750km) one could go from Tallinn. Very nice..

Friday, October 26, 2012

First ever antenna for 10m - 3el yagi!

Well guys, now when the Sun is finally cooperating, it was about time to put something up for 10m. I have never had anything on that band. I borrowed a 3el yagi from my friend Gary, ES1WST.

Bolted it to an old TV antenna mast, with an 1.5m extension tube. There is no room for the rotator, as the elements would be stuck into 15m moxon guy wires. I fixed it towards Japan for now.


Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Welcome to 15m

It was a nice and windless day here in Tallinn today. I used the opportunity and replaced my 20m moxon antenna (which was a real workhorse for W6,W7 during the summer) with 15m band moxon. God it looks good from the ground.

By the end of the day I worked 91 W-s, 49 JA-s, 4 VK-s, 3 ZL-s.

The 15 moxon stays up at least until the end of April 2013.
I hope it will be my best JA band.