Monday 28 January 2013

3 days, 2 on the air and a few firsts......

Saturday was (as usual) contest day on HF.  I got bored and answered a few contesters and made up a number that was around the same as them......  anyway, one was 80m CW in France. F6KHM.   My furthest 80m contact to date.  the long wire does work, just not THAT well.......

then today I stayed on 20m as it was behaving very nicely indeed!

first up was my first QSO into Bosnia and Herzegovina (E77O), then a few more around Europe.

Morse is a funny thing.

in the fast & furious sending, sometimes letters run together and you "hear" what you EXPECT to hear..... this morning, I had just finished a nice contact on 20m with a guy in Malaga, Spain.

as it finished I heard someone calling me. first my callsign, then his, but it was fading in and out.

I HEARD dah dah dit dit.

Now MY Northern Ireland Call starts MI

Dah dah, dit dit.

so I'm thinking that this is someone relatively close by, using low power or maybe using a beam antenna pointing away from me.

no.

Dah dah dit dit is the letter Z

which was followed by L2IFB

and dear friends ZL2IFB is Gary Hinson, and he's only 11381miles away in Hastings, North Island, New Zealand!!

very chuffed indeed!!!  previous longest QSO record more than doubled.  In fact, very nearly tripled!  WOW!

So I told the XYL and her reaction?

"Well done.  Does this mean that now you can't get any further away you're going to stop this silly rubbish?"

Oh Dear!

here's the stations worked.....
 
DJ5QJ Germany
F6KHM France
E77O Bosnia & Herzegovina
OK1RO Czech Rep
RA1ALS Russia
EA7EGU Spain
ZL2IBF New Zealand
DL6FAX Germany
DL3FBD Germany
OM3CFF Slovak rep
YU7EA Serbia
R1ZAB Russia
UR5HJL Ukraine
RU2FZ Russia
UX4LL Ukraine
EA8/G3XAQ Lanzarote
OE2013U Austria
F8CHT France

and the latest update on my top 20 distance QSOs


ZL2IBF New Zealand 11381
PT0S St Peter & St Paul Rocks 3943
KC9KBB USA IL 3869
W8PT USA OH 3414
5N4EAM Nigeria 3372
AF3R USA DE 3308
RC9O Russia 3297
K3MD USA PA 3274
AA3B USA PA 3252
N2NC USA NJ 3206
K2WCT USA NJ 3184
K2QBV USA NY 3152
K2TQC USA NY 3147
K2WY USA NY 3096
K1PUG USA CT 3085
KB2UZY USA MA 3052
K1RAW USA MA 3000
KB1VXH USA MA 2996
W1KBN USA MA 2986
VE2WU Canada 2978

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