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Earthquake near Bouvet Island

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 16th, 2009. Tags: , ,
Filed under dx

USGS_Earthquake PRELIM: M6.0 20:05 6/16 54.4S 5.8E 156 km E of Bouvet Island BOUVET ISLAND REGION Z=10km US 2009hybe 33f06

From the VK9GMW website……

by k4sac @ Friday, March 27th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

They have made it! Team on Mellish (03-27-2009 from AA7JV)

March 27, 0800 UTC, Mellish Reef. At 0600 UTC we have dropped anchor in the lagoon at Mellish Reef (well, OK, we lowered it gently, given our make-shift gear). We have ferried some gear ashore this evening and will complete the station and camp set-up [...]

Mellish Reef Update

by k4sac @ Wednesday, March 18th, 2009. Tags: , ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

I had talked previously about the Mellish Reef Dxpedition VK9GMW slated to take place 22 March 2009.
This is a casual dxpedition put on by AA7JV and HA7RY. They plan to focus on low band activity from Mellish, although they say they will operate all ham bands.
The Mellish Reef dxpedition webpage www.vk9gmw.com
From the website: [...]

Beacon system-Service or QRM?

by k4sac @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under ARRL, FCC, beacons, contests, dx, space, sunspots

NCDXF beacon system is a set of beacons, scattered around the world, that operate to informs hams of potential propagation openings. Each beacon transmits every three minutes, day and night. A transmission consists of the callsign of the beacon [...]

Computer-aided dxpeditions

by k4sac @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under cw, dx, dxpedition, skimmer, software, space

EDIT 2010/Jan/18
I was contacted by several members of the ZL7T dxpedition about this blog post. My only intent of this blog post was to get discussion going about the use CW skimmer type software at a time when this software was relativly new. The post was NOT a attack on the ZL7T dxpedition who I [...]

K5D QRT

by k4sac @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under dx, dxpedition

Well the K5D dxpedition is over now. They racked up a total of 115,728 Qso’s.
Of course it is always said how well a dxpedition does depends on if you are in the logbook or not, but I think these guys did a pretty good job. (Disclaimer: I do have 8 contacts with them)
There were some [...]

Chatham Island Dxpedition

by k4sac @ Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

On the heels of the K5D gang is a team of nine ZL dxpeditioners are headed to activate Chatham Island in the South Pacific during March 2009. Starting March 5th, 2009 and ending March 10th, 2009
According to their web site here they will operate from the Chatham Fishing Lodge in the fishing village of [...]

VK9NS SK

by k4sac @ Tuesday, February 10th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under dx, ham radio

It is with deep regret that I pass on this annoucement that Jim Smith VK9NS, is now a Silent Key.
Below is an e-mail from his son Bruce G3HSR.
Jim and Kirsti Smith are legends in the ham radio community. As with many folks, Jim was my first Norfolk Island QSO and if you were active in [...]

K5D-Desecheo Island

by k4sac @ Saturday, February 7th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under dx

Desecheo 2009 Press Release #5
 
February 6, 2009
 
 
Today several team members leave their homes and start their journey to Desecheo via Puerto Rico.   The entire fifteen man team will assembled by Saturday evening in San Juan.  Sunday morning will be devoted to the required UXO (unexploded ordnance) training and afterward the team will travel to Rincon, [...]

Tuning the bands

by k4sac @ Wednesday, July 16th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under dx

The glow of the radio reflecting off of your face, you pause as you hear a weak signal in the background, almost down with the noise. You pause, holding your breath….the signal doesn’t even twitch the s-meter. You strain as you listen through the headphones and you hear a new one! Your heart races as [...]

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