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TF4Y-Russian DX Contest 2008

TF4M — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:33:33 +0000

The call series TFxY, TFxX and TFxZ are presently reserved for Contest operations and special occasions.

TF4Y was issued for the first time to me for a limited period only to be used during the Russian DX Contest by a team of Russian operators.

This call sign may be re-issued at any time.

The team members, Alex-RA3MR, Elena-RV3ACA, Valery-RZ6AU, Artem-RD3MA, Sergey, OH2DZ (UA1ANA) and Dmitry-RA3MF operated my station during the contest to the tune of 1800 QSOs and a score of approximately 3,000,000 points.

In addition the team operated before and after the contest as homecall/TF and activated the Yaroslavl Club Station RK3MWL/TF as well.

Alex, RA3MR operated from my QTH for the second time – see the R7C/TF operation – and he generously donated two beautiful 19 inch LCD monitors to my station.

The group arrived at my QTH on March 13th and immediately started building and assembling antennas – a SpiderBeam, Delta loop and an Inverted Vee antenna to be used for multiplier hunting.

The SpiderBeam had some problems and was only operational two hours before the start of the contest.

We discovered that it was possible to run two stations on each band without any interference at all, due to the 500 meter separation between the USA transmitting antenna site and the JA/EU transmitting site.

No issues or problems arose during the contest and all equipment and antennas functioned flawlessly.

Some photos of their visit may be found in my gallery .

The QSL manager for this operation is Elena, RV3ACA.

It was a pleasure to welcome these experienced Radio maniacs to my station and to see them in action and I hope they will be happy with their visit to Iceland.

On their return to Russia – Artem, RD3MA and Dmitry, RA3MF were interviewed by Yaroslavl Region TV.

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R7C/TF DXpedition

TF4M — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:30:40 +0000

I had the pleasure of hosting the R7C/TF DXpedition December 14-19, 2006.

The team members were Valery – RW3GW Project Manager, Andrei – RW3AH (also KL1A) and Alex – RA3MR and they made around 6,000 QSOs from my station.

They were part of a national project: “The World Encyclopedia of travel” and they brought with them a TV Crew with the plan to make a documentary about Iceland to be shown on Russian Television.

They also plan to make a separate TV documentary about their DXpedition to Iceland.

At the same time, three more operators (RA3NAN, RZ3EM and RZ3EC) were active from Flatey Island – IOTA EU-168 with the call sign TF4RRC. You may visit their website for more information.

Andrei, RW3AH has written about the DXpedition on his website : www.CQDX.ru and photos from the trip may be found in his Gallery and also here . Some sound files from the operation may be found at http://shortwave.rpod.ru/tags/TF4M/

During their stay we had very strong Aurora and Andrei coined a new term to describe the effect of the Aurora on Radio Communications as ”Aurora Firewall” (Patent Pending).

I was proud to be visited by such fellow ”Radio-Maniacs”!

I look forward to see them again. Perhaps next summer?

Valery, RW3GW Project Manager

Andrey,RW3AH

Alex, RA3MR

Sergey and Anastasia

Boris and Snezhana (TV Crew)

filming in the shack

filming in the shack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVfTe4Td5gI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO_l7gk6C68

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9eHRmO3NV4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObaWPhsUovw

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Booking the TF4M station

TF4M — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:48:35 +0000

UPDATE: November 2011.

My station is NO LONGER available on a rental basis.

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Guest Operations

TF4M — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:44:44 +0000

The TF4M Rhombic Farm station is available to visiting Radio Amateurs by prior arrangement.

Otradalur has Zero noise level and no light pollution. The Auroral displays during winter are simply magnificent.

2005 CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

TF4M — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:28:23 +0000

This contest is held every year in the last full weekend of October. The objective is for Radio Amateurs around the world to contact other Radio Amateurs in as many countries and zones as possible in a 48 hour period.

Call: TF/N0HJZ

Operator(s): N0HJZ

Station: TF/N0HJZ

Class: SOAB(A) HP (Single Operator All Band (Assisted) High Power)

QTH: Iceland

Operating Time (hrs): 29

Summary:

Band QSOs Zones Countries

160: 17 5 10

80: 229 11 46

40: 509 16 55

20: 1,572 26 80

15: 1,157 14 58

10: 2 2 2

Total: 3486 74 251 Total Score = 2,030,275

Club: Minnesota Wireless Association

Comments:

I need to thank Thor, TF4M, for hosting my contest operation. Thor is an incredible host who is building up a world-class operation in northwest Iceland.

Thor has three rhombics, one to EU, one to US and one to JA. They performed flawless on 15 & 20. On 40M, I think conditions and some aurora kept me from maximizing a bigger a score. Thor is working on new ideas for 80 & 160 antennas.

Please check out Thor’s location on QTH.com. Thor is looking to have other people operate his station. Check with Thor for details. You will not be disappointed with the radio operation!

Thanks to everyone that worked me. The pile-ups on 15 & 20 were some of the biggest I’ve ever handled. Lots of fun! Anyone have a semi-rare location for me next year?

Rich N0HJZ

Rich has written a nice article about his visit to TF4M.