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It rained today so I spent the day on the radio instead of outside doing antenna work.
BV1EK was heard with good signals most of the day, but did not hear my calls.
JA7OEM had an amazingly strong and steady signal for hours. We had a short QSO
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I recorded his CQ call for about 45 minutes.
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Later this evening I called CQ and logged the following DX stations :
RW0LT, JA7EVP, JA9RRH, JL2ONQ and JH2SON.
Thanks to EU stations who stood by while I worked the DX.
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Spectacular conditions continued on 160M with the following DX stations going into the log.
JA7OEM, JH1GNU, UA9BA, JA1BK, RU9MX, JR2KDN, JH5FXP, JA7FUJ, JE6IGP, JA3EMU, JA4LKB, JH4AAG, JA9KRO, JA3CJO, JA7EVP, JA2CXF, JH4CES, 7J4AAL, JR7VHZ, JE2OVG and UA9MA.
It was a great pleasure to QSO my good friends Kan, JA1BK and Yuichi, JR2KDN (second QSO !), who have both visited my station, first in Dili, East Timor when I held 4W6MM and 4W3DX and again in this QTH in Iceland.
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Another fantastic opening to Japan occurred last night. I worked the following 19 stations from JA.
JH0ZHQ, JQ2VVH, JJ2LPV, JE7RJS, JA7FUJ, JA4FUJ, JA4CUU, JA1ANR, JR2KDN, JF1FSR, JI1FXS, JA2FBY, 7K4DHB, JA1HSF, JI1NJC, JA3CSZ, JA1GV, JA2TBS, JH7NTJ and JH7PFD.
It was a special pleasure to work my friends Yuichi, JR2KDN and Yasu, JI1NJC who visited me here in Otradalur.
1948 UTC to 2047 UTC
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2047 UTC to 2115 UTC
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You may download the event in .wma format 1948Z-2047Z and 2047Z-2115Z
On the afternoon of 28. October around 1700 UTC I heard ZL3IX on Top Band.
This is the first time in history that a station from New Zealand is heard in Iceland on 160 meters.
I called him a couple of times and it seems that he was alerted to my presence and he called a few times QRZ TF but did not hear me and then he disappeared.
This was incredibly exciting and raises hopes that a contact may be possible in the future.
I recorded the event:
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A new Beverage designated in my plans as B3 is now in operation. The antenna is a two wire design 320 meters long, with the DXEngineering reversible Beverage system giving two directions either switchable or simultaneously.
This shows the pattern on 160M.
This is the pattern on 80M:
I have been hearing VK9DWX in Willis Island near Australia, with fairly good signals for several afternoons. I have called and called and it appears that the DXpedition had severe receiving problems with S9 Plus noise.
This afternoon, they were stronger than ever, a real 589 signal and I dropped my call three times and to my big surprise they came right back to me.
Unfortunately, I had not started recording at the time I worked VK9DWX, but I went on to call CQ and made 58 QSOs with JA that night.
You may listen to the recordings of the entire event.
Recording starts at approximately 18:12Z.
The following DX stations are recorded in this file:
JA7OEM, UA9KAA, RW0CR, JK1OPL, JA1MRM, JH2UVL, JA7AKQ, JA1UQP, JH1HDT, JM2RUV, JG3IWL, JE1SSE, JA4LXY, JA7BXS, JA1EOD, JA0GJJ and JA1SYY
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This recording is from 19:21Z to 20:21Z and contains QSOs with the following DX stations:
JA7KY, JA4CQS, JH1TWT, JR3GWZ, JA1CNM, JA3FYC, JA7KY, JF2KOZ, JA0RUG, JA7FUJ, UA0SR, JA2XYO, JQ2VVH, UA0BA, JR3VXR, JA2EPW, JH7PFD, JK1GKG, JA0DBQ, JR1IJV, JA6HUG, JE7JDL, JF3KON, JR6EZE, JA6BZI, JH6WMJ, JH1CHA, JR3IIR, JA3PIS, JA0MVW, 7N2KRX, JH1NYM and JF1EGO
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The last recording is from 20:21Z to 2119Z and contains the following DX QSOs.:
JA1DOF, JA3TJA, JA8FKO, JH4ADV, JA8BKM, JA3ONB, JA1FNA, JA0ED, JH3VNC, RV0AR, JA7AKH, JW7QIA, RW9WA, EY8MM and JH4IFF.
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This afternoon was one of the highest points in my life. Can this get even better?
I believe so, when the BIG TX vertical is built near the sea, and the 9 new Beverage directions are connected it will be even better. What a pleasure!
I received a recording made by JA3FYC of our QSO. He was running only 100 Watts.
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I heard VK3LZ with reasonable signals for a while but not well enough for a QSO.
Seven JA stations made it into the log:
JN4MIV, JQ2VVH, JA7ZP, JA7QVI, JQ3DUE, JH2RMU and JA8ISU.
JJ2LPV, JH0INP, JA9KRO and JE7JDL were heard and responded to, but did not make it into the log.
This is a recording of the whole session.
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JA7QVI sent me a recording of our QSO – it is interesting to compare the recordings made in Japan and Iceland.
This is the QSO as recorded in Japan
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This is the QSO recorded in Iceland.
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This is a recording of the QSO with JA8ISU
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It seems quite clear that my reception is of world class quality, but transmit side needs improvement.
The 160M conditions continue to be excellent. On February 26 I made a dozen QSOs with Japan and I was also called by HL3IUA for a second QSO on 160.
You may listen to my QSO with JA7NI:
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A longer recording of my QSO with JA7NI is here.
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A one hour recording of all QSOs made on 160M on 26th February, 2008 may be played
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I am keeping a close watch on the measured K-Index in Leirvogur, Iceland displayed on TF3MA´s web site which seems to correlate well with the good conditions we have been experiencing.
26 February
conditions are detoriating, I heard a JA station around 1700Z but was unable to raise him. Later I had contacts with JA7NI
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and JA7FUJ on 160M.
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The K-Index as measured at Leirvogur Magnetic Observatory is now rising and only two JA QSOs were made.
(linked from TF3MA´s (SK) website – the graph shows the K-Index for the last 7 days as measured at Leirvogur Magnetic Observatory in Iceland.)
