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Due to the poor conditions lately caused by solar storms, I occasionally have a listen on the higher bands.
Laci, HA0NAR was operating as FW0NAR on 30M from the “Kingdom of Uvea” on Wallis Island when I heard him very weak, actually barely audible – as can be heard from the recording.
This is an all time new country for me, I don´t recall ever hearing a station from Wallis & Futuna before.
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I used my JA Rhombic to blast through the pileup (at the start of the recording) and a DX PIG shows up at the end of the recording by tuning up on the DX frequency. The recording is in stereo, with both sides of the split operation. I can not imagine a lesser antenna making this QSO possible. Here is another look at the DX PIG.
Centuries ago, cannibalism was the norm in these parts and I have met people from Polynesia who would pinch my arms and sides to check if I was fit to eat – I believe I was approved 
Foreigners are commonly referred to as ´long pigs´.
The photo below is linked from the web site of south-images.com and shows the preparation of a Polynesian feast.
Otradalur Panorama photos
These are the Panorama photos I used to make the Virtual Tour.
Dark Arctic
Today´s photos…
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- Otradalur
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- The Arctic King
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- Feedline Gantry
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- Rhombic
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- Rhombic
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- Rhombic
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- Otradalur
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- Arnarnes Lighthouse
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- The Arctic King
DU1/JJ5GMJ
Today the postman brought me the QSL of DU1/JJ5MJ.
This confirms the first ever and only contact made between the Philippines and Iceland on 160 Meters.
Long live the Arctic King !
PJ4C – Bonaire 2012
PJ4C – Bonaire 2012 by F6KOP´s Team was extremely weak on 160 Meters due to Auroral conditions when I first heard them, and when I managed to get his attention he got my call wrong as TF3M and I was unable to correct him because signals were so weak. It turns out that both TF3M and TF4M were logged as can be seen from their online log.
I continued calling and on the next QSB peak we had a solid QSO.
The first recording runs about 15 minutes and demonstrates the extremely deep QSB and has our QSO at the end – even with 30 dB of amplificaton from the Beverage antenna, PJ4C almost disappeared completely due to the deep fading – the station was mostly inaudible on my transmit antenna – the Arctic King which fires straight into a mountain in this direction :
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The second recording is edited to have only the QSO between PJ4C and TF4M.
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Even when PJ4C was the strongest, this is really only a RST 519 signal – but due to my quiet location, I can cascade two 15dB amplifiers when needed to bring signals up to readable strength.
Bonaire was a part of the Netherlands Antilles until their dissolution on 10-10-10.
The political change resulted in four new DXCC entities (Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire and Saba/Sint Eustatius)
This is entity #177 worked on Top Band.
The operator at PJ4C was Kenneth, OZIKY – I worked him the following day on SSB on17m and he mentioned the contact.
The Arctic King continues to amaze.
I have made a few additional contacts with as shown in their online logs which are updated very quickly – apparently in real-time.
PJ4C continue to churn out the contacts and I have now worked them on all bands more or less…
This is a recording of our 80m QSO:
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This is a recording of our 40m QSO:
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160 Meter QSL cards
The PostMan brought me some new QSL cards for my 160m DXCC.
OD5NJ´s QSL card brings my country totals to 176 Worked, 170 Confirmed on Top Band.
Winter
With conditions on Top Band detoriating due to Aurora, I went outside to capture the view instead.
