Alexey, VE2XAA became a Silent Key on August 21, 2011 from a heart attack, only a few weeks after his visit to Otradalur, where he operated TF4X in the IARU Contest 2011.
From Hávamál :
Cattle die, and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one’s self;
But a noble name will never die,
If good renown one gets.
It was a pleasure to meet Alexey and we already talked about his next visit to Otradalur.
VE2XAA de TF4M SK ——————————-
Outside of the contest, Alexey operated from my station using the call sign TF/VE2XAA.
Our last QSO was on the 14th of May, 2011 on 20m CW.
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Here is an album of photos I took of Alexey during his visit.
During his stay, Alexey suggested some improvements to my engineering - I have already begun to implement some of his suggestions.
Alexey had prepared to work the contest on SSB and had recorded his contest exchanges into the voice keyer of the radio. However, he decided to do a CW only effort. The recording was discovered by chance recently.
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I believe Alexey was very pleased with his visit. He wrote in my station Guest Book:
…unic place in the planet, unic landscape with real Elves and unic antenna farm. ….In 10-20 years one more forest will cover the place where it was never before. And on top of the trees the Arctic King with Arctic Quinne will rule their Otradalur Kingdome!
The result of the contest IARU 2011:
total: 1876 QSO, 770400 points, beside contest 2200 QSO. Total for 3 days ~ 4000 QSO.
Main station impression: usually you do not hear the stations calling you. This problem does not exist in Otradalur farm. You hear even 160 m band with full daylight days in July! ”White nights” – is not a problem for Arctic King!
73! Alexey, VE2XAA
Most of Alexey´s TF4X operation was recorded as follows:
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