WELCOME TO THE SULTANATE OF BRUNEI,
THE ABODE OF PEACE.
I am a retired army officer graduated from the Officer Cadet School Portsea in Australia, Signal Wing of the School of Infantry, the Command and Staff College in Camberley, UK. Also with the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute as well as training visits to the New Zealand Army, the US Army Training Institute in Hawaii and South Korea. Had attended the Counter Disaster Staff Training at Cranfield University Preparedness Centre, UK.
I started being licenced as 'VS5SS' on 28 August 1976. Previous call signs are also G4/VS5SS, VK3EJD and VS5SS/VE7. I enjoyed operating in QRP using the old 'Racal HF' manpack radios with NVIS dipole and loop antennas especially in CW mode in the equatorial jungle of Brunei during my work in the army.
Currently I am active on all HF bands mainly in CW on most days between 05:00 z to 10:00 z (14.224mhz, 14.027mhz, 21.224mhz, 21.027mhz beam LP Eu,W), 15:00z to 18:00z (14.224mhz,14.027mhz beam SP Eu,W), 10.104mhz, 7.004mhz, 3.504mhz and 1.825.5 MHz most evenings depending on propagation. On Cw from 22.00z to 01.00z (14.027mhz, 21.012mhz beam W,Ve,S.America). Will be active on 6 metres soon.
My wife Na'aimah, V85YL, and I currently run a small ham radio holiday shack the 'Tungku Lodge' for rent to visiting ham and their xyl who wish to have a holiday here and operate a ham station from Brunei. Please visit our site at http://www.tungkulodge.blogspot.com/ Please notify at least one month in advance to arrange for a visitor's ham licence and import clearance of transceivers. The lodge's radio station and antennas are also available on rent.Our 'Tungku Lodge' is just 10 minutes from the airport and the city.
Brunei is a lovely country at the North West of Borneo Island with lots to see such as the famous 'Water Village' on the Brunei River. Also from white sandy beaches of the South China Sea to boat rides and jungle trails below tall canopy trees of our tropical jungle. It is also a gateway connecting the other states of Sabah (9M6) and Sarawak (9M8) as well as Kalimantan (YB7) in Indonesian Borneo. Come and visit Brunei and do DXing at the same time. Best 73 es 88!
HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON.
Ambran, V85SS
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NO IRC PLEASE - they do not work here. No buro here either.
FOR DIRECT QSL, Please send $ 3 and your card to: ディレクトQSLについては、3ドルを送ってください – IRCはアフリカでは使えません (Thanks for translation Chuck !!)
PO BOX 102303
MEERENSEE
RICHARDS BAY
KZN, 3901
SOUTH AFRICA
2 SEPTEMBER 2014 - 7 SEPTEMBER 2014
I'm back in Mozambique for a 5 day stay, 2 September through 7 September 2014. Same location as our trip in December/January 2014 - Ponta do Ouro. Equipment on this trip is a Flexradio Flex-3000, Icom IC-2KL amp and Icom IC-AT500 ATU, and the antenna for all HF bands is a 43ft vertical with 8 radials going down the sand dune to the beach below.
DECEMBER 2013/ JANUARY 2014 John - C91J and Beth - C91B, on the front deck of their Mozambique QTH during their recent vacation/DXpedition.
Pictures - 11 December 2013 - 20 December 2013.... and again 28 December - 6 January 2014 operating from the same QTH in Mozambique.
C91B and I arrived in Ponta do Ouro on 11 December 2013 for a vacation style DXpedition 11 Dec 2013 - 20 Dec 2013, and again 20 Dec 2013 - 6 January 2014.
View from our vacation shack over the Indian Ocean
Antennas used by C91B and C91J
DX Engineering 43 ft vertical UNUN, and W2DU style ferrite choke built by Peter Bogner of DX-Wire. 6 radials going down the sand dune to the beach.
The holiday station - Flexradio Flex-3000, Icom IC-7000 (backup), 300 watt linear amplifier
The shack of C91B and C91J while on holiday in Mozambique. Triband rotary dipole
UPDATE: My new QSL cards arrived from Ukraine today 18 November 2013. They have been completed, and put in envelopes, and will be sent by air mail tomorrow morning. Thank you very much for your patience.
ニュース：私の新QSLカードは、ウクライナから今日2013年11月18日届きました。明日の航空便で発送します。待っていてくれてありがとう。
My new QSL cards are being printed by UX5UO in Ukraine. Thank you very much for all the QSL cards received. When my new QSL cards arrive, I will reply to all cards that have been sent to me by air mail. Here is what the front of the cards will look like.
My Mozambique licence (in Portugese) paid up and valid until 31 December 2018, and then renewable.
28 JULY 2013 - 4 AUGUST 2013 PICTURES I'm currently camping in Mozambique 28 July - 4 August 2013, using hamstick rotary dipoles on a 30 ft push up fiberglass mast, for 40, 20, and 15 meter bands. This trip I'm operating from the south of Mozambique in a village called Ponta Do Ouro. Using an Icom IC-7000 and small 300 watt amplifier, right on the Indian Ocean beachfront. Camping 3 August 2013 - Icom IC-7000 300 watts, rotary dipole
DECEMBER 2009 - camping at Laguna Campground, in Bilene, Mozambique - 200 km north of the capital Maputo, Mozambique. Here is a picture of me, operating from a tent with an Icom IC-7000, LDG Z-100 ATU, Icom AH-4, Astron SS-30 power supply, and the antenna is a G5RV strung between two coconut trees. Logging is by RUMLOG, on an Apple MacBook Pro. This picture shows the campground staff helping me to get the antenna up into the coconut trees.
A picture of the operating position - the portable air conditioner is almost essential in the hot humid climate, during the summer months in Mozambique
The QTH I am operating from, is on the coast, and on the shores of a really large lagoon. I took these pictures of the sunset over the lagoon
Sunset at Laguna Campground, Bilene, Mozambique. Picture taken by C91J.
73
John C91J and ZS5J script tags are not allowed.
Visitors to this page since 29 July 2013
NO IRC PLEASE - they do not work here. No buro here either.
FOR DIRECT QSL, Please send $ 3 and your card to: ディレクトQSLについては、3ドルを送ってください – IRCはアフリカでは使えません (Thanks for translation Chuck !!)
PO BOX 102303
MEERENSEE
RICHARDS BAY
KZN, 3901
SOUTH AFRICA
2 SEPTEMBER 2014 - 7 SEPTEMBER 2014
I'm back in Mozambique for a 5 day stay, 2 September through 7 September 2014. Same location as our trip in December/January 2014 - Ponta do Ouro. Equipment on this trip is a Flexradio Flex-3000, Icom IC-2KL amp and Icom IC-AT500 ATU, and the antenna for all HF bands is a 43ft vertical with 8 radials going down the sand dune to the beach below.
DECEMBER 2013/ JANUARY 2014 John - C91J and Beth - C91B, on the front deck of their Mozambique QTH during their recent vacation/DXpedition.
Pictures - 11 December 2013 - 20 December 2013.... and again 28 December - 6 January 2014 operating from the same QTH in Mozambique.
C91B and I arrived in Ponta do Ouro on 11 December 2013 for a vacation style DXpedition 11 Dec 2013 - 20 Dec 2013, and again 20 Dec 2013 - 6 January 2014.
View from our vacation shack over the Indian Ocean
Antennas used by C91B and C91J
DX Engineering 43 ft vertical UNUN, and W2DU style ferrite choke built by Peter Bogner of DX-Wire. 6 radials going down the sand dune to the beach.
The holiday station - Flexradio Flex-3000, Icom IC-7000 (backup), 300 watt linear amplifier
The shack of C91B and C91J while on holiday in Mozambique. Triband rotary dipole
UPDATE: My new QSL cards arrived from Ukraine today 18 November 2013. They have been completed, and put in envelopes, and will be sent by air mail tomorrow morning. Thank you very much for your patience.
ニュース：私の新QSLカードは、ウクライナから今日2013年11月18日届きました。明日の航空便で発送します。待っていてくれてありがとう。
My new QSL cards are being printed by UX5UO in Ukraine. Thank you very much for all the QSL cards received. When my new QSL cards arrive, I will reply to all cards that have been sent to me by air mail. Here is what the front of the cards will look like.
My Mozambique licence (in Portugese) paid up and valid until 31 December 2018, and then renewable.
28 JULY 2013 - 4 AUGUST 2013 PICTURES I'm currently camping in Mozambique 28 July - 4 August 2013, using hamstick rotary dipoles on a 30 ft push up fiberglass mast, for 40, 20, and 15 meter bands. This trip I'm operating from the south of Mozambique in a village called Ponta Do Ouro. Using an Icom IC-7000 and small 300 watt amplifier, right on the Indian Ocean beachfront. Camping 3 August 2013 - Icom IC-7000 300 watts, rotary dipole
DECEMBER 2009 - camping at Laguna Campground, in Bilene, Mozambique - 200 km north of the capital Maputo, Mozambique. Here is a picture of me, operating from a tent with an Icom IC-7000, LDG Z-100 ATU, Icom AH-4, Astron SS-30 power supply, and the antenna is a G5RV strung between two coconut trees. Logging is by RUMLOG, on an Apple MacBook Pro. This picture shows the campground staff helping me to get the antenna up into the coconut trees.
A picture of the operating position - the portable air conditioner is almost essential in the hot humid climate, during the summer months in Mozambique
The QTH I am operating from, is on the coast, and on the shores of a really large lagoon. I took these pictures of the sunset over the lagoon
Sunset at Laguna Campground, Bilene, Mozambique. Picture taken by C91J.
73
John C91J and ZS5J script tags are not allowed.
Visitors to this page since 29 July 2013
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