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The remains of hurricane Ike passed Iceland last night with heavy winds and rain.   The remains of a hurricane coupled with a growing low pressure area is a powerful combination. 

Some areas of the country experienced 47 m/s winds (>100MPH), the strongest gust of wind measured 52.9 m/s and in my area the strongest gust measured 41.9 m/s.

We get this kind of weather in Iceland quite regularly and it is considered normal in autumn.

ike

The only damage at TF4M was caused by the river eroding the riverbank with the result that one feedline pole is in the water.

This will be easily repaired once the weather calms.

 

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I have finally been able to connect the two new Rhombics towards South East Asia and Africa.   I finished building the 7 additional open wire feeders which I call the HARP (High Frequency Arctic Rhombic Project) out to the site.   

I now have 7 Rhombic directions in my station.

rhombics 

 

See the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) site at for information on their system.

See also:

http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1207.cfm

http://www.rense.com/earthchanges/emfmind.htm

http://torrentchannel.com/HAARP,_chemtrails_and_mindcontrol

for more ‘information’ about HAARP. 

Unlike the HAARP project, my HARP really IS a DX based Star Wars Weapon System which fires Morse Code Death Rays into the direction of my choice. 

With my HARP I can control  the weather in the Auroral Zone along with controlling the minds of all inhabitants in the region.

My goal is to open the sailing passage across the North Pole this coming winter by being very active on the air with my new array of 7  Cutting Edge Rhombic directions.

Signed>  Thor, TF4M  - Certified Radio Maniac

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I have been fairly active on 160M lately with the result of working JA and HL and it has become obvious that the receive capability of my station is far superior to my transmit capability.

My only receive antenna has been the reversible beverage to JA, on the reverse heading it hears well into SA but is very poor into EU and NA.

I have therefore not been able to work many stations who were calling me and yesterday I built another receive antenna for 160M.

It´s a wire dipole with 200 meter long legs strung out on the ground perpendicular to the JA beverage.

During snowstorms, when the noise on the TX antenna reaches 50 dB over S9 and the JA beverage has a noise level of S9 this new antenna is almost completely quiet.

It is really amazing to hear, signals are relatively strong and this will enable me to continue working even during snow storms.

I hope to build a new TX antenna closer to the sea along with permanent RX antennas for next season.

 Last night had very good conditions and I was called by HL3IUA who answered my CQ and we made what is most likely the first ever TopBand QSO between HL and TF.

 I also made 13 QSOs with JA stations in approximately one hour.

It appears that with my beverage antenna for JA I can hear the JAs better than they can hear me.  I am also helped by the extremely low noise level at my location.

However, last night we had a snow storm with high winds and ice and my amplifier kept tripping due to high SWR at times.  This cuts out the  amplifier for two seconds and completely prevents damage to any components in the system, but is rather uncomfortable regardless.

 

Kaz JA8ISU sent me an audio recording of my QSO with JH8SRI .

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I decided to get on the air day before the contest in the hope that increased activity might result.  I easily made more than 100 QSOs in about two hours, and at times the band sounded like 20 meters. I heard stations all over the US and a couple of stations in JA and one HL3 with reasonable signals.

When the contest started I had high hopes of a good score, but 2 hours into the contest with only a single contact – TF3KX I realized that this wasn´t going to happen.

At 2330 I was up to around 140 QSOs and was bored stiff with the lack of activity.  I could hear signals everywhere, mostly weak almost none of them lifting the S meter, and it was tough to make myself heard when I called them.

I started again 0930 on Sunday morning and made only 24 QSOs more until the end of the contest at 1500.

My furthest QSO was with NP4A – 6,000km, I heard N6RO with a 519 signal and I spent an hour calling JA3YBK who did not hear me or GM4POI and a few OH stations who were also calling him.

I believe that a TF to JA QSO has never taken place yet, so this was quite exciting.

My strategy of getting on the day before the contest in the hope that those stations and their friends would show up in the contest failed miserably.

After the contest finished, I continued on 160M in the hopes of snagging a JA, I easily made another 100 QSOs all over Europe, again none of those made any effort while the contest was on.

Final score:  164 QSOs 987 points

Lesson learned :  My antennas are too small.  I will be back.

text in icelandic:

Ég hef eytt mörgum vikum, blóði og svita á tveggja ára tímabili til að koma upp almennilegu sendiloftneti fyrir 160M og tókst það að lokum degi fyrir CQ WW DX keppnina í nóvember.  Slysið sem ég varð fyrir tafði einnig  framkvæmdina.  Enn er eftir nokkur vinna við að ganga frá loftnetinu betur en það er YCCC Double L loftnet

sjá:  http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm

með efsta part í 24 metra hæð, loftnetið er fætt með opinni fæðilínu sem er ca 800 metra löng með 12:1 balun spennum á báðum endum.  Ég notaði loftnetið bæði til sendingar og móttöku enda mjög lítið suð hér í Otradal.  Mig grunar að staðsetning loftnetsins sé misráðin hjá mér, fjöllin skyggja á stóran hluta sjóndeildarhringsins og því verði ég að koma 160M loftneti niður að sjó.

Rétt fyrir Stew Perry keppnina datt mér í hug að prófa loftnetið og etv auka við virknina í keppninni hugsaði sem svo að ef menn vissu að TF yrði í loftinu í keppninni myndu þeir eða félagar þeirra kalla í mig í keppninni.

Ég hafði auðveldlega rúmlega 100 QSO á stuttum tíma og var því vongóður um árangur í keppninni.

Heyrði m.a. í HL3 og JA um kvöldið með þokkalegum merkjum.

Fyrsta QSO í keppninni var við TF3KX sem kallaði í mig eftir næstum tveggja tíma árangurslaus CQ.

Þrátt fyrir að hafa ekki heyrt tíst fram að þessu, með viðtækið skrúfað í botn, þá kom það í tvígang fyrir að mjög sterk merki flugu flautandi framhjá  mér, slógu S mælinn í botn og voru svo horfin.  Ég veit ekki hvað þetta getur hafa verið, kannske er þetta eitthvert náttúrulegt fyrirbæri?  Hefur einhver skýringu á þessu? var síðan að til 2330 þá kominn í 140 QSO og alveg við að hætta að nenna þessu.

Byrjaði aftur klukkan 0930 morguninn eftir og náði 20 samböndum á næstu fjórum klukkustundum!

Eyddi þvínæst löngum tíma í að reyna að ná sambandi við JA3YBK sem hafði þokkalegt merki en virtist ekki vera með móttakara, því hann hunsaði bæði mig og GM4POI og nokkrar OH stöðvar sem kölluðu líka í hann í næstum klukkustund.

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