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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These photos were taken by a work colleague (Siggi?) around 1978.  I took the liberty of processing the images in HDR.

TF4M cuts a Fin whale tail

Sperm Whale Blubber

The following recordings were discovered on an old Reel-to-Reel tape in my possession.

These recordings are possibly the only ones in existence from this period of History.

The first recording takes place around 1980, Hvalfjörður Radíó calls the Whaling Ships and receives their reports.

Download audio file (Hvalbatar01a.mp3)

The second recording takes place around 1980, Hvalfjörður Radíó (2153 kHz ?) instructs the Whaling Ships to return as the Season is over due to bad weather.

Download audio file (Hvalbatar02a.mp3)

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This is a recording of our QSO on 160 Meters.

Download audio file (V5-DK1CE_160.mp3)

Note:  I have discovered that the recording audio leads from my transceiver were in the wrong sockets.   Since I have not touched these for months, since installation at least, it appears that the mischievous Elves of Otradalur may be to blame.   From now on both channels should be present in the recordings.

The Arctic King once again showed his tremendous power.

According to this they are even using Rhombics for their operations!

This is my country #176 Worked on Top Band.

Download audio file (JAN02_2012_160M.mp3)

Note: I have discovered a mistake in audio connections…the recording is only the left channel, the diversity effect is therefore lost in the recording.

Booming signals from Europe, Russia and the Middle East and even one QSO with Japan.

The Arctic King showed his power yet again.

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I had been listening to Kevin for a long time and was able to make the QSO with him on a QSB peak.

Download audio file (KL7KY_1601.mp3)