Billi, TF5B (ex TF5BW) visited and made a few contacts as TF4X.
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Ágúst, TF3AU visited the TF4M station today. He was given the station tour and I demonstrated the antennas with pounding signals from all corners of the world.
Stefan Arndal, TF3SA visited my station. Stefan was Station Manager of TFA for decades.
It was nice to see the stone lifted for the first time in years and a real effort by the others who failed to lift the stone this time.
Although The Stone only weighs 144 kilograms, it´s shape makes it difficult to lift.
Stan, SF7WT visited TF4M and used the great rhombics for a couple of days. Unfortunately there was a solar disturbance during his visit causing a massive Aurora and very poor propagation.
Stan is the author of the books ‘Thanks to Amateur Radio’ and ‘Amateur Radio gives you 2 Million Friends‘.
A young seal sunning itself on the Otradalur beach was caught on camera.
7 members of BMW Motorcycle Club Iceland visited the West Fjords over the weekend. I had the privilege of riding with them, and I am very proud to be a member of this fine club.
I was impressed with the fine riding skills displayed by the club members on wet and slippery gravel roads, at times I had trouble keeping up with them.
After reducing the tire pressure on my R1150GS to 15psi/front and 20psi/rear, the bike was literally glued to the road and I began feeling comfortable after this long forced abstinence from riding.
I have been unable to ride since the accident with my eye, but I need not worry, I am still capable of riding although I have to be careful with glare from the sun and oncoming vehicles in the dark.
On the first day of riding we went to the westernmost tip of Europe – Latrabjarg, where we had pizza with Puffin meat – delicious!
The second day, we rode on some of the worst dirt roads in the world until the road ended after crossing numerous unbridged rivers and we were unable to continue. I believe almost everyone on the trip managed to drop his bike at least once without any injuries.
I can see now that there is no need for any off road training area to be set up in my area, all we have to do is ride on our public roads which haven’t been improved for decades in this area.
A very hard day to say the least, but what a pleasure to be riding again.
I had a visit by Thor, TF3GW and Gudmundur, TF3GS, who were on an annual working trip around the country, they were shown all antennas and the new shack at TF4M.
I tasted Shakshukah for the first time last February on my visit to Israel. This dish in it’s original form is simply fantastic and I especially enjoyed the green version made with Spinach and Garlic – incredible !
I prefer to put the pan into the oven after putting the eggs into the pan. 225° C for 10 minutes works well for me.
Shakshuka lends itself very well to make a delicious dish out of leftovers, what’s even better, it is impossible to get wrong.
Here is a link to a recipe for Shakshukah.
Here are some photos of my own attempts to make Shakshukah with available materials.
July 2011 – enjoyed by VE2XAA
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The call series TFxY, TFxX and TFxZ are presently reserved for Contest operations and special occasions.
TF4Y was issued for the first time to me for a limited period only to be used during the Russian DX Contest by a team of Russian operators.
This call sign may be re-issued at any time.
The team members, Alex-RA3MR, Elena-RV3ACA, Valery-RZ6AU, Artem-RD3MA, Sergey, OH2DZ (UA1ANA) and Dmitry-RA3MF operated my station during the contest to the tune of 1800 QSOs and a score of approximately 3,000,000 points.
In addition the team operated before and after the contest as homecall/TF and activated the Yaroslavl Club Station RK3MWL/TF as well.
Alex, RA3MR operated from my QTH for the second time – see the R7C/TF operation – and he generously donated two beautiful 19 inch LCD monitors to my station.
The group arrived at my QTH on March 13th and immediately started building and assembling antennas – a SpiderBeam, Delta loop and an Inverted Vee antenna to be used for multiplier hunting.
The SpiderBeam had some problems and was only operational two hours before the start of the contest.
We discovered that it was possible to run two stations on each band without any interference at all, due to the 500 meter separation between the USA transmitting antenna site and the JA/EU transmitting site.
No issues or problems arose during the contest and all equipment and antennas functioned flawlessly.
Some photos of their visit may be found in my gallery .
The QSL manager for this operation is Elena, RV3ACA.
It was a pleasure to welcome these experienced Radio maniacs to my station and to see them in action and I hope they will be happy with their visit to Iceland.
On their return to Russia – Artem, RD3MA and Dmitry, RA3MF were interviewed by Yaroslavl Region TV.
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