Category Archives: DX

So, I’m reading the “ARRL Contest Update for February 11, 2015” this morning, and note the following item:  “This YouTube video by Mike WB6DJI shows how a noise-canceling system can make a big improvement when properly configured and used. He uses … Continue reading →

I’ve been adding a band or two a day for the past five days, and only needed 40 meters to have worked K1N on all bands from 160m to 10m.  It happened tonight around 8 PM with this exchange: WB4SON . … Continue reading →

20-Meter CW seemed fairly sparse this morning about 0900 local time, so I watched my panascope for a bit, determined the pattern, and watched K1N work near the upper edge of the pileup (about 30 KHz).  A couple of calls and I … Continue reading →

On this snowy Patriots Groundhog Day, K1N is cooking away on 20-Meter CW.  Their signal is a solid S6, and the pileup is about 10 KHz wide.  Signals last night on 40-Meters (after the Pats won the Superbowl) were over … Continue reading →

January was a good DX month, with cooperative sunspot activity and plenty of time to enjoy it.  I had hoped to make at least one QSO every day this month, but that was cut short by the Blizzard as I had to … Continue reading →

After finishing up the first of what is bound to be many situation reports for the Red Cross, dealing with the Blizzard currently underway, I took a couple of minutes to check my LotW account.  Low and Behold, two confirmations … Continue reading →

I finally worked EP6T on 17 Meter CW yesterday.  I probably spent about 3 hours trying to work them, and another 9 hours of listening.  Since the pileups were horrible and the ham behavior even worse, I don’t know why … Continue reading →

A couple more LotW confirmations came in from C5X today (still hope to get them on 80M — but they have been a fantastic DXpedition).  That brings my Challenge count to 994.  With QSLs in hand from E40VB, 3B9FR, and … Continue reading →

I spent more than 3 hours listening to EP6T tonight (about 2300 to 0200Z) on 10.122.96 MHz.  Below is a picture of my band scope that shows a typical response to a EP6T CQ — About 6 KHz of tightly packed … Continue reading →