20250831 1516UTC HS0ZQE(Thailand)on 17m CW
HS0ZQE  Thailandดิท Dit QSL: VIA BURO Email: Use mouse to view.. Ham Member Lookups: 14300 | |  |
20250831 1516UTC 18087kHz CW HS0ZQE
Date : 31/Aug/2025 1516UTC
Freq : 18087Hz CW
Rig : ICOM IC-7200
ANT : LongWire (abt 20m)
PC recording
CURRENT PROPAGATION CONDITIONS
The current propagation conditions are easy to check without the Internet and Computer. Program the following frequencies into your memories: 14100, 18110, 21150, 24930, 28200 kHz. Listen for 3 minutes. Further details about the beacons are here.
QSL CARD VIA BURO PSE, SRI NO LOTW, NO email QSL.
Let us to be friendly and real QSO and real RST or RSN please. QSO with real RST/N and information, name at least, if you have time: QTH, and I like to know you PWR and ANT so I can value the propagation condition.
I am happy for QRS, QRQ, QRP, QRO and I like ALL CW: keyer, bug, side sweeper and straight key.
I like quality QSO not quantity QSO, are you with me? Let's relax, enjoy, take time, no matter QRQ or QRS.
Please send me your information about QTH, NAME, PWR, ANT in the QSO, without me need to visit Internet.
Let us help the young ones who are serious to learn real CW communication skill and thank and reward them!
How to learn CW? BEST way to learn CW today is on website www.LCWO.net
"77" = Long Live CW and Wish You Many Happy CW QSO
I monitor QSX CW Calling Frequencies
NOTE: I like 30m. This band only is 24 hours 7 days all year propagation all of Thailand North to South. 40m it is closed at day time. 20m it is too long skip at night. This leaves us only 30m. BUT. We have very very strong SSB QRM from Indonesia and other South East Asia Pirate. Also sometimes we have a high local noise from LED lights and others.
My favourite band is 12m due to the low noise level most of the time. On 12m, even a simple dipole 6m up is a DX ANT. A 1/4 vertical is only 3m tall, and with Balanced Loop Radials is only 1m wide for the radial footprint. 30m: ~2m wide!
Update: thanks to building a quad beam I am often active on 12/15/17m usually in high end of CW band ~08-09Z, 15-16Z.
It is difficult to find stations in Asia that are not using DCW (Digital CW) and even fewer who will do more than 5NN TU. For this reason I enjoy especially QSO to Europe where CW is still alive and relatively well. Especially on 12, 15, 17mb.
SOME TIPS FOR CW OPERATOR:
* ALWAYS end CQ with K, PSE K, + K, or + PSE K. CQ must always end with "K" (invitating to transmit)!
* ALWAYS send other station callsign so that they know you are calling them, and copied their callsign
* Be Polite: If other station sends you name, QTH, ANT, PWR etc, be sure to also send your infos
I use and enjoy all of: QRS, QRQ, QRO, QRP, Bug, Straight Key, Electonic Keyer, Side Swiper
FT8 is destroying amateur radio. It is communication between computers. The Internet is for this.
It also evades responsibility to deal with the main problem for amateur radio: local noise levels.
Please do NOT use FT8. Use other real QSO digital modes and always operating with volume up.
5T0JL started this Campaign Against the Use of Morse Decoders and he was great DXer. He teach us:
- Do not use split. You destroy other QSO. Skill DXer not need a split.
- Do not give 5NN. Give honest real report.
- Do not QSL 5NN. Only QSL for honest report.
- Give both callsigns, if you did not give both callsign, QSO is not valid.
Fun Addition to QSO: QUA "I have news of..."
During QSO you can use QUA followed by recent callsigns of Quality QSO you have had from your logbook. The QUA code means "I have news of..." and when followed by callsigns from your recent quality enjoyable QSO, this adds to the comraderie of CW operators and gives circulation of the good CW operators in QSO.
Normally you may include 5 to 10 callsigns more or less. It helps in your log book to mark such QSO with a Q for quality or QTT for Quality True Telegraphist or Quality Telegraphy Time, then you can easily send the last few such callsigns from your log during a QSO with another Quality CW QSO Operator. This idea from here.
INDONESIA QRM
Here we are very near YB from which many QRM:
1. Pirates. They are again active on 40m after cleaned the by military action many years before. Now they also active at 30m even more. Every night they use at least 3 frequency on 40m and in the day many more on 30m.
2. Digital CW (DCW). Not only using decoders now a problem, but 90% of Indonesia CW is DCW also using macro on keyboard. It makes a big headache when they call to special event stations and DX. They play audio from computer into SSB microphone and splatter multiple tones 5kHz wide, we often have QRM from DCW.
Until now we found the Indonesia IARU member society no longer active in dealing with any of the growing problems from Indonesia. Even the local amateurs not dealing with the problem, when they hear a pirate they give the pirate a clear frequency and QSY themself.
QSL POLICY
This will update at future. Now situation I keeping log book and not yet print the QSL card. Sorry I hope to do it soon. QRZ QSL are not often and random, sorry. Priority will be to answer QSL cards received.
NO QSLs via email, these go straight to junk folder, sorry. It is too harmful to the environment, paper QSL are less harmful provided they're sent to meaningful QSOs. I can receive QSL via buro and reply via buro.
Antennas in use at HS0ZQE
So to give room for exchange of information during QSO, and because ANT farm frequently changing with some ANT become out of use or need of repair or other one added or experimentation, so I will not list all the ANT here except to say they are all home made and usually include dipoles (doublet), end fed inverted L, elevated vertical ground planes (balanced loop radials), L dipoles (verticals with one or more radials), loops, cubical quads, and possibly other beams. Transmission powers are anything from QRP to QRO.
Following are possible callsign suffixes to indicate areas best covered on various bands with various antennae:
| HS0ZQE1 (160mb) | |
| HS0ZQE2 (80mb) | |
| HS0ZQE3 (40mb) | SEA, THA |
| HS0ZQE31 (40mb) | DX (W) |
| HS0ZQE32 (40mb) | DX (E) |
| HS0ZQE4 (30mb) | WAS, NAS, EU, OC |
| HS0ZQE41 (30mb) | Omni Directional |
| HS0ZQE5 (20mb) | WAS, NAS, SAS, EU, OC, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE51 (20mb) | JA, AM |
HS0ZQE52 (20mb) | JA, AM |
HS0ZQE53 (20mb) | JA, SAS, EU, NAM |
HS0ZQE6 (17mb) | WAS, NAS, SAS, EU, OC, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE61 (17mb) | EU, AM, SAF |
HS0ZQE62 (17mb) | WAS, EU, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE63 (17mb) | NEAS, JA, NPAC |
HS0ZQE7 (15mb) | WAS, NAS, SAS, EU, OC, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE71 (15mb) | WAS, NAS, SAS, EU, OC, |
HS0ZQE72 (15mb) | WAS, EU, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE73 (15mb) | JA, NAM, SAF, SPAC, EU, SAF, AS |
HS0ZQE8 (12mb) | WAS, NAS, SAS, EU, OC, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE81 (12mb) | Omni Directional, NEAS, AF, THA(N) |
HS0ZQE82 (12mb) | WAS, EU, SAM (C/N), THA(N) |
HS0ZQE83 (12mb) | NEAS, JA, NPAC, SAF |
HS0ZQE9 (10mb) | WAS, NAS, SAS, EU, OC, SAM (C/N) |
HS0ZQE93 (10mb) | JA, NEAS |
