I had previously worked  BU2AI for the first ever QSO between Iceland and Taiwan on Top Band.

This confirms the first ever and only contact made between the Philippines and Iceland on 160 Meters.

Long live the Arctic King !

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 :

Download audio file (PJ4C_160_QSO.mp3)

The second recording is edited to have only the QSO between PJ4C and TF4M.

PJ4C_160mQSO

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:

Download audio file (PJ4C_80M.mp3)

This is a recording of our 40m QSO:

Download audio file (PJ4C_40M_QSO.mp3)

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OD5NJ´s QSL card brings my country totals to 176 Worked, 170 Confirmed on Top Band.