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Big 6M aurora on September 27th

la8aja — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:28:55 +0000

After the recent activity on the sun, which shot the flux up to the highest point ever in solarcycle 24, we were bound to have an aurora. I checked 6M, but I couldn't really here too many stations on. I could hear Egil LA8AV working some stations. I took a break and came back later. G8BCG in IO70 was very strong on SSB, so I gave him a call. He is running 4 x 7el lfa's, so no wonder he was strong. But the aurora must also be good to work the IO70 square. It turned out that F6KHM heard my signal and wanted to try on CW. I gave him a call and we worked. He is in IN78. That's the first time I've worked F on aurora and a distance over 1600km.

I continued to work stations in G, PA, GM, GD, DL, SM, OZ, YL, SP, ON and LA. The aurora took a dip and came back later. I worked a few more stations until I started getting inband TV from the east. Turned out the aurora had turned to auroral-e and I worked OH, ES and LY with clean and shacky signals. I ended up working 39 qsoes this time.

What was even more fun, was that the aurora was visible outside. It was very weak, but I could see weak green waves in the sky. I tried to take a few pictures too, but it wasn't easy to catch it. Here are a few pictures from last night.

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Svalbard 2011 pictures has been uploaded

la8aja — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:33:17 +0000

JW8HGA and I took some pictures while not operating radio. Go to the album to see the pictures I uploaded. JW 2011 album.

OH8X Radio Arcala photoalbum added

la8aja — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:40:12 +0000

I have added a few pictures from the trip to OH8X Radio Arcala last weekend. Go here to take a look.

A beautiful sunset captured

la8aja — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:07 +0000

When going home after visiting some friends yesterday, the sun was setting. The view was spectacular, but no camera to catch it. When at home, the view was very beautiful, but it just wasn’t as spectacular as it could have been. I did however take several pictures and stitched them all together to form the attached picture. I think the result speaks for itself. I’m happy with it. What do you think?

Happy New Year everyone

la8aja — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:51:01 +0000

I’m starting the year with a little different post, at least compared to the last few months. The last week it has been pretty cold, ranging from -10C to -20C most of the time, and the ice has built up on my antennas and the trees around. This makes for several nice motives. Yesterday I took a lot of pictures out in the cold. Today I picked out the best, and I have now uploaded them to a new album which is called "Winter In Norway 2". Go here and enjoy.

And to all my readers out there, I wish all of you a Happy New Year with hopes that the new year will bring a lot of DX in your log!

Today’s catch

la8aja — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:22:37 +0000

Yet another nice sunset today.

Sorting pictures and adding more to the gallery

la8aja — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:16:00 +0000

Hi. I have finally sorted all my pictures on my pc and found several "lost" pictures. I have added 2 galleries that you can take a look at under photoalbums. One shows the magic of winter in Norway, and the other one shows some nice clouds I have captured. Samples are shown in this post. Check out the rest under photoalbums.

LA3Z.com is up and running

la8aja — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:31:53 +0000

If you go here, you can see the new LA3Z.com site that I helped set up. The old site has been removed. It was located at LA3Z.no.

I have also fixed most of the bugs on this site. I’ll probably start blogging a bit more now, that everything is running smoothly. I’m not sure which way the blogging will take, but probably will write about more different stuff. Not just hamradio related.

Oh, just remembered, added a few more pictures to the sunset photogallery. An example can be seen here