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This morning I got up early and checked 160 meters for activity.
I immediately heard ZL3IX at his sunset and worked him for a first QSO between TF and New Zealand on Top Band.
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The picture is taken from DX Atlas by VE3NEA and shows the Gray Line at the time of our QSO.
ZL3IX QSO TF4M
I then called CQ and was answered by ZL3NW and later KL7HBK and FK8CP for another first QSO between New Caledonia and TF.
ZL3NW QSO TF4M
And a little bit later the Gray Line was enhancing signals into New Caledonia.
FK8CP QSO TF4M
W8JI also called me with a strong signal and I was pleased to learn that he has heard about the Arctic King 
This audio file contains all these QSOs.:
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I believe that band conditions were rather poor, signals were weak and some of these QSOs were extremely difficult.
I made a few recordings of other stations :
KL7J:
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JT1CO :
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KL7HBK:
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The Mongolian station had good signals but I was unable to raise him.
What a wonderful morning and an omen of things to come.
Villi, TF3DX the designer of the Arctic King antenna worked JA7FUJ last night on 160 meters from his car.
This is the first time such a QSO takes place between Iceland and Japan.
To put this in perspective, with 100 W feeding the mobile whip – even perfectly tuned, only 1 W is radiated.
To compensate for the low efficiency of a mobile antenna, Villi drove to the sea shore where he was able to take advantage of the excellent conductivity of salt water. The noise from the city was also reduced considerably at this location.
Congratulations OM !
TF3DX/M
Today I sent my application for 160M DXCC to the ARRL.
This will be the first 160M DXCC in Iceland.
Band conditions are still poor and the band is quite noisy, but even so I made a few QSOs to JA this afternoon.
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