Birta – Magyar Vizsla and Skuggi – Labrador enjoy the fine weather in the snow.
I found a few photo albums since the Whaling days of my youth.
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.
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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.
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The PostMan brought me some new QSL cards for my 160m DXCC.
OD5NJ´s QSL card brings my country totals to 176 Worked, 170 Confirmed on Top Band.
With conditions on Top Band detoriating due to Aurora, I went outside to capture the view instead.
The annual Quadrantid meteors entered our atmosphere at 250 miles per second on the morning of January 4, 2012.
They typically vaporize about 50 miles above Earth’s surface, creating the streaks of light we see as a meteor shower.
I got up very early, went outside in the freezing cold and took hundreds of photographs in the darkness.
I witnessed several beautiful meteors, but only one of those was caught by the camera.
Quadrantid Meteor Shower January 4th, 2012
This is a heavily processed image I made from merging 20 photos and playing with RGB levels…
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This is a photo taken during the construction of the Arctic King. I think it gives a good idea of the size of the antenna.
TF4M is the climber – those were the days, now gone.
TF4M working on the Arctic King
DK1CE is on a DXpedition to Namibia 26 December – 16 January.
This is a recording of our QSO on 160 Meters.
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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.
I recorded a small pile up on 160 meters. The recording is in stereo, reception is full diversity with various receive antennas switched into circuit as needed.
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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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