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A few weeks ago I got PZ5RA Ramon confirmed on several bands and modes. That was 198 on LoTW. At the same time I got XV4BM confirmed on 40M as 199. This week I got E44M confirmed on 40M as 200 total on LoTW. Thanks to all LoTW users, keep the confirmations coming!
I just got the news yesterday that the frequency allocations in Norway will be changed and extended. Here are the main changes:
These frequencies are not available for use yet, but hopefully some time during spring.
Original article available here (Norwegian only): http://nrrl.no/NewsArticle.asp?id=296. English translation by Google here.
I just read that CQ Magazine is now accepting eQSL confirmations for award credit. Seems like digital confirmations are getting more and more popular. I have not registered on eQSL myself, and I'm not sure if I'll ever do. Only future will tell.
There is a catch with this whole thing. Only confirmations from "Authenticity Guaranteed" members of eQSL will be accepted, and in accordance with existing eQSL policy, a membership level of bronze or higher is required in order to participate in award programs via eQSL. You will also need to print out a list of confirmations and submit them to an award manager or bring it to a CQ checkpoint. I hope this will be improved to the point that you can apply for the award digitally online.
Go ahead and read the whole press release here: http://eqsl.cc/qslcard/PR-20090113CQ.cfm
I worked E44M on Monday on 40M SSB. I haven’t chased them much at all. I have worked E4 on many bands, but still need them on RTTY. I have tried them a few times on 30M, but haven’t been able to work them. One of the times they were too weak to copy, the other time I couldn’t break the pile-up. They were on 17M as well, but not decodable here.
On Saturday I had more time for radio. TI4CF Carlos were spotted on SSB. He was strong as always. I gave him a quick call to say hello, but struggled to copy him, because too many stations were calling all the time. I went down to CW and gave a few calls for DX. First station was W5CN Marc in TX. He was running 100W and a twin-cage doublet and had a quite good signal. I worked 2 more stations from the US, then suddenly JF1CBT called in with a good signal from Japan. A few minutes later Gary ZL2IFB called in for a new band. I worked him on 30M last year. Tony ZL2AGY also called in for a new band. I worked him on 30M many years ago. Nice to work people on new bands.
I gave it another go on Sunday morning. W5TZC Larry was booming from Arkansas. He was running a big pile-up, but no problem to get through to him. Afer the contact, I went down in the band and gave a CQ. That resulted in 15 JA stations. Several of them called in for a second band contact. Signals were very strong this morning with a few of the JA’s having heavy echo on their signal. Totally 29 QSO’es this weekend, among them 2 ZL, 8 W and 17 JA.
As always, logs will be uploaded to LoTW.
Joe, WA6AXE released his AXETTY program recently. This is an RTTY program which uses the MMTTY engine for RTTY-decoding. The program can log directly into DXBASE. This program is exactly the kind of minimalistic program I have been looking for. I usually run N1MM for grabbing new ones, but I really don’t need all those features in a program. I’ll give this program a try. Thanks Joe.
You can check out the screenshots below.
To grab the program, go here: http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/axetty.html
