N4LA Update

Many of you have probably noticed the lack of blog entries for November.

So I thought I would give a brief update.

On Nov 6th my mother passed away unexpectedly.

So for the past few weeks, life has not been easy...

especially with the holiday season upon us,

Needless to say .....

My radio time and computer/blog time 

have been very limited over the past few weeks.

Thanks to all the support of all my ham friends 

around the world during this tough time.

And a special thanks goes out locally to my good friends

Jack / W4TJE  & Abe / K4MK

and also my church family

at

" Farmer Old Fashioned Baptist"

Over the past weekend I finally resumed my radio activities

and found it to be a nice distraction to the past few weeks

As many of you know the CQWW  CW contest was in 

full force over the weekend.

I worked a handful of stations of stations worth mentioning.

40 meters

VU2PAI

4S7NE

80 meters

TC2T

C5A

KH2L

JA1YPA

JA3YBK

160 meters

C5A

JA3YBK

JA1YPA

* This was the first JA's of the season for me on Top Band*

As many of you know I also enjoy the SOTA program

"Summits On The Air"

On Sundays I typically relax and play radio if I get the chance.

This past Sunday I decided to keep and eye on 

http://www.qrpspots.com/

and

sotawatch.org

for SOTA activations.

I was not disappointed, as I put several new summits in the log

VA2IEI / Dennis on VE2/QC-002 ... 20 meter SSB

KD0BIK / Jerry on W0/FR-107 ... 17 meter SSB

NE1SJ on W1/CR-007 ... 17 Meter CW

KD9KC / Mike on W5/PO-007 ... 20 meter SSB

WT5RZ / Ron on W5/PO-007 ... 17 meter CW

Thanks Guys for your summit activation efforts... 

as we all know

 some of these summits are not easy to get to !!

For more info on SOTA 

go to 

http://www.sota.org.uk/

Thanks again for all the condolences

73 de N4LA

New Antenna at K4SSU !!

Here is a shot of my longtime friend Dave / K4SSU  

On the way up ...

 to install his new 4 element Monster Steppir Yagi

Here is a shot at the "MonsterIR" at 140 ft !!

K4SSU

is

Radio-Active

EI8GQB Expedition 31 October 2011 broken antennas

Here is video from Olivier ... after the storm during CQWW 2011

EI8GQB Expedition 27 October 2011 antenna farm

EXTREME PORTABLE OPS !! ... Thanks for the video Olivier

WOW !! >>> Two All Time New Ones In One Week

Cocos Keeling Islands

VK9CX

With over 340 DXCC Countries worked since 1999....

I can't remember the last time 

I worked 2 new countries in the same week.

But It happened this week ...

As I put VK0KEV ( Macquarie Island )

and VK9CX ( Cocos Keeling  Islands )

in my log !!

I worked Babs on 27 Oct 11

at 12:00 Z on 15 meter SSB

DL7AFS (Babs) and DJ7ZG (Lot)

Will be QRV from October 19^th till November  9^th 

from Cocos Keeling Island.

6m - 80m - mainly in RTTY, PSK and SSB  

 QSL via DL7AFS

TX7M ... For A New Band Country

Marquesas Islands

The Marquesas Islands are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. The Marquesas are located at 9'00" S, 139'30" W. The highest point is the peak of Mount Oave on Ua Pu island at 1,230 m (4,035 ft) above sea level.

I've been chasing TX7M 

for the past couple of mornings... at my sunrise.

I worked them on 80 SSB on Tuesday morning...

Then on 80 CW / 40 CW /30 CW / 20 CW this morning 

All for new band countries !!

As many of you also know  ...

They are using four Elecraft K3's and various Vertical Arrays

Looks like good ops and great radios ....

Make for a winning combination !!

Thanks

TX7M 

Team

73 de N4LA

VK0KEV ... For A All Time New One !!

New DXCC Country

For N4LA

I have chased Macquarie Island for a long time...

and YES ... I finally put it in the log

If you haven't worked Kevin / VK0KEV ...

Time may be running out.

Kevin says he will leave the island in a few weeks.

23 Oct 11

I worked Kevin for an all time new DXCC country at 03:02 Z

On 18.153 SSB ( He was working split & listening 5 down )

Signal reports were 5x8 both ways

Sorry guys ... this one wasn't worked with qrp pwr and wire antennas

I worked him using 1 KW and my yagi at 100 ft

Here is Kevin ...

Operating as VK0KEV on Macquarie Island

54 30' S 158 57'E / QD95LM / AN-005

Thanks for a 

"NEW COUNTRY"

Kevin

73 de N4LA