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Archive for October, 2008

Several new ones – V8, 5Z, 9L, YB, C5, VK9DWX


Posted: October 21st, 2008 under DX, Hamradio, Soundclips.

The last week has been pretty productive when it comes to new countries. Wednesday gave me 5Z4/RW1AU on 30M (# 221 30M). V85SS was worked on 40M CW Thursday evening. This was a new country on 40M and CW. The signal was up and down, but mostly 559. It's only the second contact with Brunei, […]


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LB1GB – Bjorn


Posted: October 18th, 2008 under Hamradio, Link.

Here is a short presentation of Bjorn LB1GB. He started his ham career at the age of 14. One of his big interests is contesting, and he is one of the founders and operators of LA8W. Bjorn has lately put down much work with the Norwegian SOTA program. The Norwegian program was launched May 1st […]


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VK9DWX QSO and soundclips


Posted: October 15th, 2008 under DX, Dxpedition, Hamradio, LoTW, Soundclips.

I finally managed to work VK9DWX Willis Island yesterday. They had a great signal on 40M, and I managed to make recordings of my own QSO and a few minutes of totally chaos on the frequency. Listen to the three soundclips below. In case you haven’t been following DX-bulletins, Willis Island is activated by a […]


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Working some old friends on aurora


Posted: October 12th, 2008 under DX, Hamradio, Propagation.

Yesterday we had some aurora up here in Northern Europe. I don’t recall when I last worked aurora, but it was probably some time last year. Since I have most of the square around me worked, I don’t bother that much for aurora, but I noticed Per LA7DFA had been on 6M. I still need […]


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Desecheo Island 2009 – KP5 website launched


Posted: October 10th, 2008 under DX, Dxpedition, Hamradio.

The official website for the 2009 KP5 DXPedition has been launched. KP5 is currently the 7th most-needed DXCC entity, worldwide! Here you go: http://www.kp5.us/startup.htm


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