OK folks, the eagle eyed among you will have noticed the typo in the last post..... the Brazillian station was PP5EG, not GG.......

so anyway, Interesting DX since then?

EX20aruk  Kyrgyzstan
SX5KL Dodecanese Islands (Greece)
UN3M Kazakstan
WP5/W5CW Turks & Caicos Island
5B75FOC Cyprus
3a2MD Monaco
FM5FJ Martinique
4U1ITU  UN  Geneva
3v8bb Tunisia
4J6RO Azerbaijan
VP9FOC Bermuda
PJ6a Saba & St Eustacius
ZF1A Cayman
OHO/pa3ALK  Aland Island
JY5HX Jordan
CO2IR Cuba

which combined bring me over the magic century and my DXCC total now stands at a heady 102

thats 65 phone, 91 CW, and the band spacing is:

Callsign	160	80	60	40	30	20	17	15	12	10	6	4	2	70	Total	Slots
MI0OIM	0	9	0	19	0	100	27	1	0	8	0	0	4	1	102	169

An interesting weekend on the radio.

lots of ***FOC stations all over the show, celebration the First Operators club 75th anniversary.

One was Jersey, GH4FOC, which was a new DXCC,   other new DXCCs were ZB2FK, Gibraltar, T77C, San Marino, C31CT, Andorra, and A6/DL9WVM in UAE, so 5 new DXCCs in 24 hours... not bad!!

Bercause of contests I spend a bit of time on 17m with the long wire today.  quite a few contacts round europe, so that was nice, as I'm usually on 20.

High point of this evening?

Calling CQ on 20m and having GG5EP form Southern Brazil answering. 6219 miles looks good.  10,009km looks better!!

Been too busy playing radio with my new touch key to post any blog entries, so sorry for neglecting you, dear reader!

The key works really well, with just a few total foul ups. sending at 20wpm is easy, though I really got to spend some time and get my receiving improved.

under 10 wpm I can do, over that I can hear and write the dots & dashes down and then translate them later.

Ah well, some day!!

NOTABLE CONTACTS?

GB2RN  on HMS Belfast in London.  have to visit that old girl some time!
F/FK8IK/P on holiday in france from New Caledonia. OK, a SO from him at home would be more impressive, but he's my first double slash QSO!
CN2SS is a Spanish guy cycling round Morocco...

INTERESTING DX.... 4 new DXCCs.......

K3MD	USA PA
KS1CC	USA MA
CN2SS	Morocco
TA3AX	Turkey
W2EZB	USA NY
W9OA	USA IL
K1VC	USA CT
VE3FIT	Canada ON
AJ4SB	USA FL
OH0/OI3V	Aland Island
GP4FOC	Guernsey
UN/R9DA	Kazakhstan
N3BNA	USA PA
W1MK	USA MA
A45XR	Oman
VE3DZ	Canada ON
W4VIC	USA VA