UE80YG(European Russia) on 20m CW!!!

UE80YG(European Russia) on 20m CW!!!

UE80YG  Asiatic Russia  Club ASG P.O.Box 16 Smolensk 214014 Russia [+] Mailing label
Lookups:   1779
QSL: RK3LO

20140303 1615UTC 14013kHz UE80YG
Date : 03/Mar/2014 1615UTC
Freq : 14013kHz CW
Rig  : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT  : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording

Lookups 1779 (2311) QRZ Record# 1931933 QRZ Admin RW2L Last Update 2014-02-09 11:50:56 Latitude 54.788017 (54° 47' 16'' N) Longitude 32.080078 (32° 4' 48'' E) Grid Square KO64as Geo Source User supplied Bearing 322.9° NW (from JJ5IZX) Distance 4793.4 mi (7714.3 km) Long Path 20063.4 mi (32288.9 km) Sunrise 04:39:03 UTC Sunset 15:28:37 UTC ITU Zone 29 CQ Zone 16 QSL Info RK3LO QSL by Mail? No (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL? Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW? No (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Apply for a new Vanity callsign...

UE80YG is a special callsign used until 30 April, 2014 to celebrate the 80th birthday of the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin and his first spaceflight.

UE80YG Yuri Gagarin 80 years

Onlinelog:  

Dear friends! Activity Smolensk Group (Smolensk region, Russia) announces Gagarin's day dedicated to the 80th birthday of the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin and his first spaceflight on April 12, 1961. You can contact special callsigns on air. From 1 March to 30 April 2014 the following special callsignswill be active on air: R1961G ("Man in space"), R1934G ("Born Yuri Gagarin"), RG1961PP ("Planet Pioneer"), UE80G ("The first astronaut Gagarin"), UE80YG("Yuri Gagarin 80 years"),
UE80V("The Vostok-1 spacecraft)").

You may get a special certificate on www.12APRIL1961.ru when you have 80 points. The rules are simple. 10 points for each QSO with special stations RP61PP, R80KEDR, UE80G, UE80YG and 20 points for QSO with a bonus station R1961G. You can duplicate QSOs on other bands and modes (CW, SSB, any DIGITAL).
Good luck and 73s to all!

Vist website www.12APRIL1961.ru

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C31MO(Andora) on 20m USB!!!

C31MO(Andora) on 20m USB!!!

C31MO  Andorra MICHEL DE DIEGO AZNAR Ed.El Masover II,2n,1a. Ctra del Forn CANILLO AD100 Andorra [+] Mailing label
Lookups:   50066
Email: Use mouse to view.. QSL: VIA DIRECT OR VIA BUREAU NO EQSL

ZL/VE7DS(New Zealand) on 20m CW!!!

ZL/VE7DS(New Zealand) on 20m CW!!!

VE7DS  Canada  Donald Studney #47-6100 Woodwards Rd. Richmond, BC V7E 6H1 Canada [+] Mailing label
Lookups:   1349

20140303 0854UTC 14011.9kHz ZL/VE7DS
Date : 03/Mar/2014 0854UTC
Freq : 14011.9kHz CW
Rig  : KENWOOD TS-870S
ANT  : LOOP
PC recording

Lookups 1349 (1681) QRZ Record# 1750298 QRZ Admin VE7DDG Last Update 2012-07-20 16:56:37 Latitude 49.145600 (49° 8' 44'' N) Longitude -123.176500 (123° 10' 35'' W) Grid Square CN89jd Geo Source User supplied Bearing 41.8° NE (from JJ5IZX) Distance 5031.3 mi (8097.1 km) Long Path 19825.5 mi (31906.1 km) Sunrise 14:52:19 UTC Sunset 01:57:13 UTC QSL by Mail? Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL? No (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW? Yes (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Apply for a new Vanity callsign...

I was first licensed in 1961. See the entry for VE7DDG for the special 50 year anniversary QSL card for 2011.

I like operating CW and working commemerative stations and DXpeditions.

Have operated as A25DS from Botswana in March 2012. See photo above for the QTH at Lotsane Lodge on the Limpopo river

I will be QRV DxPedtion style from Pender Island (NA-075) for the RSGB IOTA Contest July 25 2012. CW only.

Enjoyed the DxPedtion of a lifetime as part of the ZL9HR team to Cambell Isand 2012
Dave K3El and I will be active as TX5RV from Raivavae in the Austral Islands October 30 to November 6th 2013. 

Next stop will be as an operator with the 3DA0ET Dxpedtion to Swaziland Novmember 16th to 26th 2103

QSL direct, buro, LoTW

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DL4NBE(Germany) on 20m CW!!!

DL4NBE(Germany) on 20m CW!!!

DL4NBE  Germany  Leo Wirth Hans-Sachs-Str. 16 91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber Germany [+] Mailing label
Lookups:   5465 Ham Member
Email: Use mouse to view.. QSL: VIA BUREAU

20140303 0826UTC 14019kHz DL4NBE
Date : 03/Mar/2014 0826UTC
Freq : 14019kHz CW
Rig  : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT  : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording

Lookups 5465 (5895) QRZ Record# 1161373 QRZ Admin DL4NBE Last Update 2012-09-27 20:23:19 Class A Latitude 49.383518 (49° 23' 0'' N) Longitude 10.182953 (10° 10' 58'' E) Grid Square JN59cj Geo Source User supplied Bearing 327.0° NNW (from JJ5IZX) Distance 5752.7 mi (9258.0 km) Long Path 19104.2 mi (30745.2 km) Sunrise 05:59:53 UTC Sunset 17:02:56 UTC ITU Zone 28 CQ Zone 14 QSL Info VIA BUREAU QSL by Mail? No (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL? No (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW? No (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Admin For (6) DE4LEO DF0AN DJ9AT DL1LAW DL3SZDL4NBE Other Callsigns Alias Comment DD8YA Previous callsign Apply for a new Vanity callsign...

I'm operating contests in CW mode, FM mobile operations, HF County hunting. SWL since 1968, call DE4LEO. Now Licensed 01.June 1978, as DD8YA than DL4NBE License Class 1. I'm Member of VFDB the club of radio amateurs in telecommunication and post,cooperated with DARC, local Ansbach chapterDOK Z61.

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9J2T(Zambia) on 30m CW!!!

9J2T(Zambia) on 30m CW!!!

9J2T  Zambia  Silvano Borsa Viale Capettini 1 Mortara, PV 27036 Italy [+] Mailing label
Lookups:   14636
Email: Use mouse to view..

20140302 2122UTC 10115kHz 9J2T
Date : 02/Mar/2014 2122UTC
Freq : 10115kHz CW
Rig  : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT  : Mini-Whip(PAORDT) 
PC recording

Lookups 14636 (19696) QRZ Record# 1930167 QRZ Admin I2YSB Last Update 2014-01-29 12:44:13 Geo Source From DXCC Bearing 266.5° W (from JJ5IZX) Distance 7806.4 mi (12563.1 km) Long Path 17050.5 mi (27440.1 km) Sunrise 04:15:52 UTC Sunset 16:39:17 UTC Uses LOTW? Yes (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Apply for a new Vanity callsign...

February 28 to March 17, 2014

Home page: http://www.i2ysb.com/idt/ QSL Policy

OQRS - LoTW - LOG online real time

  

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EI2HPB(Ireland) on 40m LSB!!!

EI2HPB(Ireland) on 40m LSB!!!

EI2HPB  Ireland  Dave Carty 39 Kevinsfort Heath, Strandhill Road, Sligo Ireland [+] Mailing label
Lookups:   17147 Ham Member
Email: Use mouse to view.. QSL: QSL DIRECT, VIA BUREAU OR EQSL

20140302 1936UTC 7164kHz EI2HPB
Date : 02/Mar/2014 1936UTC
Freq : 7164kHz LSB
Rig  : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT  : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording

Lookups 17147 (21698) QRZ Record# 1840945 QRZ Admin EI2HPB Last Update 2012-08-06 09:23:58 Latitude 54.213861 (54° 12' 49'' N) Longitude -8.503418 (8° 30' 12'' W) Grid Square IO54rf Geo Source User supplied Bearing 339.2° NNW (from JJ5IZX) Distance 5976.3 mi (9617.9 km) Long Path 18880.6 mi (30385.3 km) Sunrise 07:22:42 UTC Sunset 18:09:59 UTC QSL Info QSL DIRECT, VIA BUREAU OR EQSL QSL by Mail? Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL? Yes (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW? No (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Admin For (1) EI2HPB Apply for a new Vanity callsign...

I've had a lifelong interest in radio starting in the late 70's when I was 10 years old and my dad bought me a cheap 4w AM CB. I graduated up to a 240 channel SSB set and tasted my first proper DX. I was hooked! I was fortunate enough to experience the fantastic propagation of the early 1980s when it was possible to work the world with simple equipment and very low power. My main antenna back then was a homebrew Delta Loop for 11m which worked the world for me with just 12 watts of power. Later on I inherited an old Yaesu FT902DM and became an active SWL on the HF bands. Long periods of radio inactivity unfortunately followed during the 90's and 00's due to family and work commitments but radio is in the blood and I got the bug again when we settled in our current home, finally obtaining my full amatuer radio licence in July 2012. A lifetime ambition fulfilled!!

My main radio is a Yaesu FT 1000MP MK V which is a wonderful rig.


My main antennas are a Mosley TA33 JRN WARC yagi covering 20,17,15 12 & 10m and a half wave dipole for 40m



I am a keen mobile DX'er and in my car I use the brilliant Kenwood TS 480HX 200w radio with either the Watson Multiranger 200 multiband short vertical (20,17,&15m) or the MFJ 1979 Telescopic whip with Wolf River Silver Bullet Mini coil for 40m.


I am very fortunate to live near the coast and this is the location I use the majority of the time when I am DX'ing from the car. Depending on the tides I can often get very close to the salt water which provides an extra few db of gain for free and a fantastic low angle of take off for long haul DX.



I live in Sligo which is located on the north west coast of Ireland in a beautiful but rugged part of the world. Sligo is a coastal town at the mouth of a long valley surrounded by high mountains and gentle hills. The surrounding countryside is dotted with lakes and rivers and the coastline boasts some of the most beautiful sandy beaches in western Europe (if only we had the weather hi hi ).
 

Sligo is also known for its long association with the poet William Butler Yeats and features strongly in some of his most famous works. The mountain pictured in my QSL card (above) is called Ben Bulben from one of his final poems titled 'Under Ben Bulben'. Following his death in 1939 W.B yeats was buried in Roquebrune, France, but in accordance with his final wishes, almost 10 years later in 1948 his body was taken back to Ireland and buried in a small church graveyard at Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo.
 
The pictures below are of Knocknarea, a large hill west of Sligo town. The 327-metre (1,073ft) high limestone hill is visually striking, as it is monolithic in appearance and stands in a prominent position on the Cúil Irra peninsula. At the summit is a large mound or cairn of loose stones. This enormous cairn is 55 meters in diameter by 10 meters high. Folklore says it was built for the mythical Iron Age Queen Maeve, whose father, the high king of Ireland, gave her Connacht as a gift. Archaeologists believe it may really date back to 3000 BC. It is considered bad luck to remove a stone from the cairn, and good luck to take one up the hill with you to deposit on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21GLJjJPm8&feature=player_embedded




Apart from ham radio I have several other hobbies that keep me busy.
I am a keen fisherman and enjoy fishing for trout and salmon on our local lakes and rivers. The faded picture below was taken back in the early 1980's at a place called Glencar lake Co. Sligo. The guy standing in the water is my dad and I am the one looking out at him from the shore. The photographer actually worked for a postcard company and he told us he hoped to use the picture for their Sligo series. and so he did! This picture evokes alot of nostalgia and very happy memories for me !!


I am a musician and play bass guitar and double bass. I have played in some great bands with some very talanted musicians over the years and I consider myself very fortunate. In the first picture I am playing my Ned Steinberger CR4M electric upright bass in a real 'World Music' (I'm the only Irish musician!) band playing tunes from Ireland, Spain, Greece, Russia, Switzerland, Scandinavia, England, the USA and many other countries. the second pic is me playing my Lakland jazz bass with a pop rock band called Queen B where we have more fun than should be allowed!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZmm-yq6Co


I am also facinated by history particularly the period covering the 1940's and the second world war. I am a member of a living history reenactment group and we portray different regiments who fought during WW2. Here are a couple of pics of me in my period gear with some aging applied to the images. the pic on the left depicts a sergeant in the North Irish Horse who as the name suggests were originally a mounted cavalry regiment but converted to armour (Churchill tanks) during the second world war and fought in the north African desert and during the Italian campaign. the pic on the right represents a captain in the Glider Pilot Regiment as he would have looked during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. As well as honouring all those brave men who had to fight the war (including both my grandfathers) we actually have great fun playing soldiers. my wife always tells me I've never really grown up!!
 
Thanks for checking out my QRZ page, I hope to meet you on the air very soon!
Best 73s
Dave EI2HPB
I PREFER EQSL BUT WILL ALSO ACCEPT BUREAU OR DIRECT (IF ACCOMPANIED BY SAE & SUFFICENT RETURN POSTAGE)
****For those interested in worked All Ireland squares my number is G63****

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