5X1NH(Uganda) on 40m CW!!!

5X1NH(Uganda) on 40m CW!!!

5X1NH  Uganda Nick Henwood G3RWF Conifers, Church Rd, LIttlebourne Canterbury CT3 1UA England [+] Mailing label
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20121205 2125UTC 7006kHz 5X1NH
Date : 05/Dec/2012 2125UTC 
Freq : 7006kHz CW 
Rig : ICOM IC-7200
ANT : LOOP(for 20m..not enough gain)
PC recording

Picture: Ndali vanilla factory, Nr Fort Portal

QRV since Nov 2007. Active from University of the Mountains of the Moon (MMU) in Fort Portal, Western Uganda and (occasionally) Kampala (the capital) when on trips from UK. Fort Portal is in the foothills of the beautiful Rwenzori Mountains which form the border with the Congo (about 25 kms away). It is a fertile area with a fine climate - a major local cash crop is tea. MMU is an independent (non-profit) university owned by the communty of the area. Last trip was December 2011.

Main ham radio challenges are frequent thunderstorms and static which make low bands hard work. Also erratic power - which frequently goes off without any warning and may stay off for many hours.It can provide as little as 160 volts (instead of 240). The house solar power system is feeble. Internet connectivity has improved greatly in the past 5 years. I prefer CW but am also QRV on SSB and digimodes.

Use LOTW but not eQSL. Direct QSLs please via home call G3RWF. Please enclose an IRC or $2 (sorry but $1 no longer covers the cost of a stamp anywehere). Also bureau OK but will take a while (and please put as many QSOs as possible on one card to reduce weight and make replying easier). I only reply to QSOs for each new band.

Please do not e mail me to ask me to check my log -except in unusual circumstances.I load LOTW regularly - please check that first. I would rather be on the air than hunting through my log when I am in Uganda! Thanks

I actively support the DX Code (http://www.dx-code.org/link.htm)

I am back in Uganda from Nov 6th 2012 for 5 weeks.

Uganda

Uganda ( /juːˈɡændə/ yew-gan-də or /juːˈɡɑːndə/ yew-gahn-də), officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest byRwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania.

Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country including the capital Kampala. The people of Uganda were hunter-gatherers until 1,700 to 2,300 years ago, when Bantu-speaking populations migrated to the southern parts of the country.^[4] The area was ruled by the British beginning in the late 1800s. Uganda gained independence from Britain on 9 October 1962. The period since then has been marked by intermittent conflicts, most recently a civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army.

The official languages are English and Swahili, Luganda a southern language is widely spoken accross the country, although multiple other languages are spoken in the country. The current president is Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Geography

Map of Uganda

Main article: Geography of Uganda

The country is located on the East African plateau, lying mostly between latitudes 4°N and 2°S (a small area is north of 4°), and longitudes 29° and 35°E. It averages about 1,100 metres (3,609 ft) above sea level, and this slopes very steadily downwards to the Sudanese Plain to the north. However, much of the south is poorly drained, while the centre is dominated by Lake Kyoga, which is also surrounded by extensive marshy areas. Uganda lies almost completely within the Nile basin. The Victoria Nile drains from the lake into Lake Kyoga and thence into Lake Albert on the Congolese border. It then runs northwards into South Sudan. One small area on the eastern edge of Uganda is drained by the Turkwel River, part of the internal drainage basin ofLake Turkana.

Lake Kyoga serves as a rough boundary between Bantu speakers in the south and Nilotic and Central Sudanic language speakers in the north. Despite the division between north and south in political affairs, this linguistic boundary runs roughly from northwest to southeast, near the course of the Nile. However, many Ugandans live among people who speak different languages, especially in rural areas. Some sources describe regional variation in terms of physical characteristics, clothing, bodily adornment, and mannerisms, but others claim that those differences are disappearing.

Mount Kadam, Uganda

Although generally equatorial, the climate is not uniform as the altitude modifies the climate. Southern Uganda is wetter with rain generally spread throughout the year. At Entebbe on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, most rain falls from March to June and in the November/December period. Further to the north a dry season gradually emerges; at Gulu about 120 km from the South Sudanese border, November to February is much drier than the rest of the year.

The northeastern Karamoja region has the driest climate and is prone to droughts in some years. Rwenzori, a snowy peaked mountainous region on the southwest border with Congo (DRC), receives heavy rain all year round and is the source of the Nile. The south of the country is heavily influenced by one of the world's biggest lakes, Lake Victoria, which contains many islands. It prevents temperatures from varying significantly and increases cloudiness and rainfall. Most important cities are located in the south, near Lake Victoria, including the capital Kampala and the nearby city of Entebbe.

Although landlocked, Uganda contains many large lakes; besides Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga, there are Lake Albert, Lake Edward and the smallerLake George.