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As I tuned across the Top Band after watching TV, I came across a small pile-up.
A single call with the Arctic King and 5N7M in Abuja, Nigeria was in the log.
I had previously worked and confirmed another station in Nigeria, but this was very satisfying nonetheless.
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The Arctic King will not be denied.
The 2011 Microlite DXPedition to the South Orkney Islands is finally QRV on 160 meters.
Spurred on by the fact that VP8ORK called TF4X in the CQ WW 160m contest for the First Ever contact between VP8 and TF on 160-Meters, I had the feeling that they would start calling CQ themselves after the contest was over.
4 hours of listening resulted in this wonderful DX QSO. Most certainly the First and Second Ever contacts between TF and VP8 on 160 meters.
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My total now stands at 167 worked and 152 confirmed on 160 meters.
The Arctic King has once again shown his power.
Skál !
I worked J28AA in Djibouti ( Zone 37 ) on 160 meters during the CQ WW 160 meter contest.
I understand that J28AA uses a vertical antenna on the roof of his apartment and his signal was rather weak.
I received this note from Darko by email:
I recently bought a 43ft S9V vertical antenna with an additional coil
for 160m with the intent to use it at Moucha Island AF-053.
Going to Moucha island was delayed, and I set up the antenna in the
attic of the building where I live. The lower part of the antenna with
coil and two radials are located approximately 3m below the metal roof
and the rest 10m of antenna is threaded through a hole in the
roof. I can not access on the roof!!!!
Hustler 6BTV is located at other side of building.
This was my first activity on 160m.
I hope that the building owner will not complaint and I will be able
to use this new fishing pole antenna.
I was only few hours in the contest and logged 117 QSO’ with Elecraft K3, 90W.
73 CUL
Darko
Extremely strong signals from SK7DX about 200Hz lower in frequency made copying the weak signal of J28AA very difficult as you can hear in the recording.
7 large Beverage antennas plus a OMNI-directional vertical antenna connected to each receiver (giving 8 x8=64 possible combinations of Diversity) in my Elecraft K3 transceiver along with narrow filtering pulled the DX station out of the cacophony of deafening signals.
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This completes my quest for the WAZ160 Award done in about two years.
During the 75 years this award has been available, only 160 stations have completed all 40 zones.
More than 2,000 people have successfully climbed Mt. Everest and more than 200 people have died attempting the climb.
Long live the Arctic King !
FLASH !:: LOTW confirmation has been received :
Station Call Sign TF4M
DXCC ICELAND
CQ Zone 40
ITU Zone 17
IOTA EU-021
Grid HP85fp
Worked Station
Worked J28AA
DXCC DJIBOUTI (382)
Date/Time 2011-01-30 01:20:40
Mode CW (CW)
Band 160M
Frequency 1.810
QSL 2011-02-01 17:00:08
Record ID 322443455 Received: 2011-01-30 16:13:32
K5NA@TF4X, TF4M and K5DU celebrate TF4M´s WAZ160 with a glass of fine Cognac.
K5NA@TF4X and TF4M celebrate TF4M´s WAZ160 with fine Cognac.
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The QSL card for my contact with PZ5T arrived today.
The 160m score is now 164 entities Worked / 152 Confirmed.
Perhaps it is possible to reach 200 countries one day…
PZ5T
PZ5T reverse side
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The mailman brought more joy to TF4M today.
A QSL card from C6ARR in the Bahamas – a new entity for my 160m DXCC.
I now stand at 164 countries worked and 151 countries confirmed.
C6ARR
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I have a small collection of cards from East Timor.
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Top Band seemed very quiet, as I was reading a book in the shack I had left the radio on 1828 kHz by chance – listening towards Japan/VK3 with a Beverage antenna.
VK3PA started calling CQ and a hard but succesful QSO was the result. This is a difficult path around twice the distance to Japan.
16709.9 km to be exact. 
See the article JA-TF 160 on the menu above for the explanation of this.
Only 13 contacts have been made between Iceland and Australia on 160 meters before this QSO.
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I understand that this contact completes Allan´s WAZ160 – Congratulations OM !
Later I heard T88TF in Palau, calling – his signals were weak and he did not appear to hear any of the EU stations calling him.
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I now have 164 countries worked on 160m.
Listen to my QSO with XU7ACY in Cambodia
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Because conditions were very difficult, I was not absolutely certain that Peter had got my call correct, so I listened for a while and when his signal peaked, I called him again for insurance since he wasn´t busy.
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I used a 400 meter long Beverage antenna with nearly 30dB preamplification to receive XU7ACY´s signals.
I later called CQ myself, worked a few North American station and was called by VE2TKH in Zone 2 !
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What a pleasure !
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite4W6MM was featured in the June 2000 issue of CQ Ham Radio magazine and was also featured in advertisements by Yaesu.
