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eHam Forums / DXing / When does Bosnia.......
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on: December 27, 2007, 05:11:20 AM
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....offically switch from T9 to E7 as their prefix???...I e-mailed the ARRL DXCC desk last week to inquire, but have yet to get a response...Anyone know??....
also...I heard a report yesterday on the BBCWS that Kosovo was denied independence from Serbia....At least that's what I thought I heard....I still have to do a search on that story, but I shall, as this could have an affect on the DXCC list.....Jeez, with all of these (pending) new entities, and prefix changes poping up (Bonaire, Curacao, Kosovo, St. Barts), I will be running out of paper printing up updated lists this new year!...YOY!!!!
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / St. Barts -- Out of the blue!
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on: December 20, 2007, 04:59:59 AM
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Wow, I must have missed something in the bulletins over the last few weeks. Had no idea that St. Barthelemey (or however you spell it) was (going to be) a new DXCC country. And holy smokes, what a pileup on 40 m CW last night!!!! Kaos at it's best. Anyway, for those of you who were just as oblivious to this news as me, here's the official link of the announcement. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/12/19/100/?nc=1Vince P KA3NRX P.S. Anyone actually been to St. Barts? I hear its fabulous. |
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eHam Forums / DXing / What happened to the Virgin Is. 10 Meter Repeater?
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on: December 19, 2007, 05:03:16 AM
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Not that it matters at this stage of the cycle, but many years ago when we had sunspots, I used to bang that baby on 29.660 all the time, with it's recognizable tones. It was great fun hearing all of the signals coming in from Europe on that thing! Now the last few repeater directories don't list it and web searches turned up empty, aside from a "Ham Radio in the Virgin Islands" site that provided a repeater frequency that I found out is also inactive. So I throw the question out. What happend to this machine? Was it a vicitm of Global Warming, er um uh, a Hurricane or something and the owner(s) just said forget about it?
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / Decent Conditions to Africa....
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on: December 03, 2007, 10:49:16 AM
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Only 6W1SJ was working split on CW. All else was simplex....I hope it stays this way...I am getting tired of listening to dead air....
VP
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / Decent Conditions to Africa....
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on: December 03, 2007, 05:16:35 AM
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...yesterday! On 20 meters. Worked 3DA0TM, 6W1SJ on both SSB and CW, ZS6WN..Heard old man Bill ZS6CCY, who's always great to hear..(music to the ears)....Nice stuff....It was very encouraging....What say yinz?.....Did you take advantage yesterday afternoon of the good conditions???......Or did you watch football???.....(for the record, my team played at night, and won!...GO STEELERS!!!!!).....
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / VP8KF QSL
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on: November 29, 2007, 11:30:20 AM
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Again, I must re-iterate before you are chastized. I am sure that G3VPW is a good qsl manager. Patients, my friend. You will get your card.
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / Need a Dxing Elmer
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on: November 26, 2007, 04:48:06 AM
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Hi There! After using a G5RV for the last 18 years or so, and talking to many a ham, I have found out that dipole antennas are pretty much omni-directional. I am certain that you will radiate a little more stronger is some directions as opposed to others, but your success for the most part is because of the antenna itself and it's fairly equal radiation patterns. I would not sweat it. You are doing fine with what you have. I just wish these conditions would improve as it is getting mighty mighty old listening to silence.
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / 3B7C QSL.......
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on: November 19, 2007, 12:49:23 PM
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You betcha!...I just found out, via their web site that they have several members of the team working on getting the QSL cards out....Now that is a well thought out expedition....I am trying to get my friend, N3AZH, (who has no qsl cards,) to send away for his 30 m qso because of this 2 month TAT...I told him, go get a post card, an SAE, and the $2.00 and send it all out....Definitly worth it!...
VP
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / 3B7C QSL.......
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on: November 12, 2007, 08:22:09 AM
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...has arrived!!!...Woo Hoo! What a great TAT too. Sent on 9/22 (the day I worked them on both 30 and 40) and arrived on 11/9. TNX G4NUG...
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / Palestine?
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on: November 12, 2007, 08:16:18 AM
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Bad News. The lastest query I did on the DX Cluster comes up with the following info from a Russian spotter: "E4BDC PIRATE FROM 270 DEGREES" Sorry to be the onus of disappointment, but I would seriously check into this if I were you.
Vince P
KA3NRX
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eHam Forums / DXing / Finally, Sun Spots
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on: November 12, 2007, 04:49:36 AM
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I was told that the peak of this upcoming cycle will not be until 2012! Oh, man! That seems like an eternity from now!!!!
Vince P
KA3NRX
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