Sunday, February 21, 2016

20160220 3XY1T(Guinea) on 30m CW

20160221 3XY1T(Guinea) on 30m CW

3XY1T Guinea flag Guinea
Los Island (AF-051)
I.D.T. DXpedition
February 18 to March 4 2016, -
Guinea
QSL: I2YSB
Email: Use mouse to view..
Page managed by I2YSB Lookups: 33465 





20160221 0622UTC 10104.1kHz 3XY1T

Date : 21/Feb/2016 0622UTC
Freq : 10104.1kHz CW
Rig   : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording



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Friday, February 19, 2016

20160218 C5DX(The Gambia) on 20mCW

20160218 C5DX(The Gambia) on 20mCW

C5DX The Gambia flag The Gambia
ALAN GRAY - G4DJX
5 MEADOW CLOSE, MARSHALSWICK,
St. ALBANS, HERTS, AL4 9TG
England
QSL: LoTW or direct
Email: Use mouse to view..
Page managed by G4DJX Lookups: 11464




20160218 1423UTC 14007kHz C5DX

Date : 18/Feb/2016 1423UTC
Freq : 14007kHzCW
Rig   : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording


C5DX (2016) - DXpedition and demonstration of amateur radio to school students in The Gambia
I will be returning to The Gambia and operating C5DX between Friday 12th February - Friday 19th February 2016.
The plan is to operate CW from our hotel in Banjul as well as demonstrate SSB from Farafenni Senior Secondary High School. Most of the operation will be CW and I hope to make around 2000 QSOs in between duties whilst on this school trip. The station will consist of a K3 (100W) and wire antennas. The location of antennas is not perfect due to many surrounding palm trees and buildings, so I predict my signals will be S3-S7 with most.
Plan to operate on 40m - 10m. Might try 60m. Will usually be low in band, but will avoid any large DXpeditions.
Operation will be spit - usually listening 1 UP. As usual, please respect the DX Code and only call when I come back to you.
Look forward to working you.
QSL either LoTW, Direct (NO IRCs - only green stamps) or BURO. Logs will be uploaded AFTER the trip.



Previous C5DX DXpedition - 2015
LOG UPLOADED TO Club Log on 21/02/2015  https://secure.clublog.org/logsearch/C5DX
LOG UPLOADED TO LoTW on 1/3/2015
 QSL CARDS NOW AVAILABLE - please NO IRCs for direct cards. Green stamps or correct postage if in UK.
Between 13th - 20th February 2015 I was in The Gambia on a school trip.
Details of trip: I am the headteacher of Sandringham School, St. Albans (www.sandringham.herts.sch.uk) and since 2008 we have developed a strong link with Farafenni Senior Secondary High School in The Gambia. The link has been focussed on developing the curriculum (science, maths, English and humanities) with various staff visiting from each school and two visits involving students. On this trip, we took three staff and five students. We have also sponsored a number of students through the school who would ovtherwise not have been able to be educated. This costs around £100 for their four years at the high school. This was my second visit and I wanted to demonstrate Amateur Radio to school students and staff as part of our scientific development of the curriculum.
School hall project: We have also been fudnraising to provide a school hall for Farafenni School. So far we have raised £10k and the exterior structure of the school is now complete (see picture below). We need around £5k more to complete the project, so if anyone is interested in helping out with some sponsorship this would be really helpful. Please e-mail me if you are keen to support this worthwhile project.
Callsign: the callsign, C5DX was requested and issued by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) in The Gambia. They were very helpful.
Equipment: K3 and small switched mode PSU.
Antennas: Home made 40m-10m Windom,  50m of RG58 coax, 10m telescopic fiberglass pole. Thank you to everyone who managed to hear my signals - they were weak due to limited antenna space surrounded by many tall palms and buildings. Apex of windom was around 10m with ends at 2m.
Operation details:  Between 13th and 15th February and 18th to 20th February operated from Badala Park Hotel, Serrekunda - by the coast. Between 16th - 17th February operated from Farafenni High School, Farafenni. This is about 180km inland from Banjul.
Logging: Used an i-Pad running the Mircules HAM QuickLog app. This worked well and was a convenient method of logging for a small operation like this.
Statistics: Made a total of 2007 QSO's with limited operation time around business. 73 DXCC and 267 band slots in total.
Reports: I wanted to provide accurate reports (not 599!) This slowed things down because I think people thought I was struggling to copy; this was not the case - I received well even if you were 519! No need to repeat calls etc if I have it correct first time.
Split operation: Used UP1 for most of the time in an attempt to keep any interference to other stations to a minimum. This did slow things down somewhat and on the last day I simply listened UP which meant that some of the weaker stations could be picked out if they called on a clear frequency.
QSLing: I will upload the log to LoTW as soon as the certificate is issued by ARRL (this has been requested). Will also produce a QSL card for those who would like a hard copy. Please send SAE and sufficient postage (IRCs NOT ACCEPTED - cards will be returned via Buro)
Really enjoyed the pile-ups and hope you managed to get through at some point.
Photographs:

Station - K3 and i-Pad logging

Windom antenna (you can just see the 4:1 balun and one leg of the dipole) - notice how it is surrounded by some pretty tall palm trees.

This photograph shows one of the legs of the windom - as it slopes down behind the hotel complex to about 2m above ground level. North is directly through the building!

The windom and a 15m dipole erected at Farafenni High School - this was in the clear and about 7m high.

One of the Farafenni students who passed some messages on SSB.


Our group from Sandringham with staff from Farafenni School. Mr. Jallow (Headteacher of Farafenni School is sixth from the left). Alan - G4DJX third from the right.

The school hall project in process - with walls and roof completed. This will be the largest school hall of any secondary school in the Gambia when completed - 35m long and 15m wide.

One of our sixth form students, Mariam, with some children from a village who came to play when we stopped for a break whilst travelling.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

20160216 RI1ANR(Antarctica) on 40m CW

20160216 RI1ANR(Antarctica) on 40m CW

RI1ANR Antarctica flag Antarctica
Antarctica Novo Runway Airbase
Novolazarevskaya station
Queen Maud Land, 15km to the South from Schirmacher Oasis
Antarctica
QSL: RK1PWA, ZS1ANF
Page managed by UA1PBA Lookups: 65277

20160215 1949UTC 7020kHz RI1ANR 


Date : 15/Feb/2016 1949UTC
Freq : 7020kHzCW
Rig   : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording


Flag Counter
Team of RI1ANR is the same as last years: Oleg/UA1PBA/ZS1ANF, Slava/RD3MX, Alex/UA1PAW
Rig is Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V Field, ACOM-1000
Antenna for 14-28 MHz is 3 El SteppIR Yagi on 10 meters mast with rotator
Antenna for 1,8-10 MHz is 18 meters vertical with antenna tuner from RA6LBS
Antarctic season 2014-2015 is over. About 12500 QSOs were done. LoTW was updated 20.04.2015

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

20160106 7158kHz 9K2GS on 40m LSB

20160106 7158kHz 9K2GS on 40m LSB

9K2GS Kuwait flag Kuwait
Abdallah H AL-Muzayan
AL-Zahra
State Of Kuwait
Kuwait
QSL: LotW
Email: Use mouse to view..
Ham Member Lookups: 360103 

20160106 0400UTC 7158kHz Hifi LSB


Date : 06/Jan/2016 0400UTC
Freq : 7158kHz LSB
Rig   : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording

Now about recorded on 4kHz filter .

Very good modulation on the Air : )




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20160106 ZS6CCY(South Africa) on 40m LSB

20160106 ZS6CCY(South Africa) on 40m LSB


ZS6CCY South Africa flag South Africa
WILLIAM (BILL) HUNTER HOSIE
SIBAYA RANCH
VAALWATER 0530
South Africa
QSL: DIRECT ONLY VIA K3IRV
Email: Use mouse to view..
Ham Member Lookups: 124086 

20160106 0342UTC 7151kHz ZS6CCY

Date : 06/Jan/2016 0342UTC
Freq : 7151kHz LSB
Rig   : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)
PC recording

See also C91CCY. https://facebook.com/BufaloLodge
First licenced ZE1DX in 1970 in what was formerly Rhodesia.Trained in radiocommunication engineering.Moved to Perth Western Australia in 1981 as VK6ACY. Ran a successful radio networking and high site business. 30 year past-time of photo graphic safaris, and canoeing, the Zambezi River,Lake Cahora Bassa-Mocambique, and the Okavango Delta, Botswana, led to full time game ranching in the Waterberg area of South Africa upon returning home to Africa in 1999.
Ex military Unimogs are used for hard transport and construction works on the sites. 3.5 tonne  4x4. Best on the planet.
Also breeding Buffalo and other wildlife in neighbouring Mocambique, where the C91CCY station is being put together.
Previously keen on EME conducted first Africa/USA 144Mhz EME in May 1975 with WA6LET.
Antennae: All monoband. Full size.
75m: 4 square. Comtek Quadrature coupler.
40m: 4 element yagi at 120ft. OB 4-40 O W A.
20m: 6 element yagi at 95ft. KLM Big Sticker
10m: 6 element yagi at 72ft. KLM
6m 6 element yagi at 60ft.
All fed with 7/8" hardline.
Collins and Drake collector. See main photo.
3,6m dish for 1296 EME in the background and 6 element 6m yagi.
The new radio room is hexagonal, 520 square feet. Purpose built. Flat concrete insulated roof. Double brick walls, provides natural, constant 20 to 25C inside temperature. Conveniently located 500 meters from the main homestead situated on a  a 500Ha game farm.
Thatched roof homestead. Rustic and climate-suitable.
Excellent, low man made noise location. Powered by lengthy underground 3 phase armoured cable to minimise overhead powerline interference. Serious surge protection mains outlet panels.
Take off angle enhanced by a negative horizon,-20 to -30 degrees on most headings. 


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Sunday, January 3, 2016

20160103 SM1IRS(Sweden) on 20m CW

20160103 SM1IRS(Sweden) on 20m CW

SM1IRS Sweden flag Sweden
ANDERS (ANDY) STENBERG
STENVAGEN 35
GOTLANDS TOFTA 62265
Sweden
Email: sm1irs@grk.se
XML Subscriber Lookups: 33852



20160103 0912UTC 14007kHz SM1IRS

Date : 03/Jan/2016 0912UTC

Freq : 14007kHz CW

Rig   : SDR(PI4THT)

ANT : Mini-Whip(PAORDT)

PC recording


IOTA: EU020
PARISH:I01
LEAN: I
LOC: JO97BM
ITU-ZONE: 18
CQ-ZONE:14
Reguest QSL from SM1IRS here

I got my license 1977 when i was 14 years old. Worked my first QSO on 80Mtr CW 2Watts home made transmitter.

Mostly I like to work CW on my favorite band 30m. For me it some special feeling with CW, like a drog, SSB? - yes that happend some time. I often use station with low TX power, but not QRP about 20-100 Watts. In the summertime I was QRV on my portable station, in a old fishing shed, on CW of course. In Loc: JO97BF. I'ts a very nice place few meters from sea and the best off all, no electricty that gives no QRM/QRN. I'm use battery and solar panels - that's give a fantastic feeling of independently.

I like both pile up and ragshew QSO:s, course from both sides.

I'm also member of ARRL, SSA, (Swedish Radio Amateurs), GRK (Gotland Radio club), SOCWA (Scandinavian Open CW Activity) and SCAG (Scandinavian CW Activity Group).

Hope to meet you on any Band.

73 de Anders (Andy)

SM1IRS.

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