Saturday October 8, 2011: This week I,ve re-installed my FT817, as this is a true QRP-rig that I really love, since \u00a0I bought it in 2003. \u00a0I,ve used it last year in the O-QRP contest, and before that on a few \u201choliday-activities\u201d. A few 5W qso\u2019s proved that one can work the world with QRP. Found back my Panasonic lead-Acid battery (12V 7,2 Ah) and recharced it last night. This rainy weekend with several CW contest activities maybe a good \u00a0moment for some Qrp-cw-fun and a good preparation for a qrp\/p activity.<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago I,ve received a encouragements-award from BQC (Benelux Qrp Club) as I entered their Marathon competition. My activities were good for last position in the overall ranking. So one first have to be disturbed before getting motivated, HI. Today I just want to try to work some DX(CC) on all bands:<\/p>\n
10M: CW QSO wd KE8M Dave in Ohio, 599.<\/p>\n
12M: Calling CQ on 24.905: JA7OXG \u00a0OM Nori with 569 report for me.<\/p>\n
15M: VK2IM in OCDX contest 599 nr 477 002<\/p>\n
17M: No DX but E74OW Becir 599 and YR2WFF without problems, later TF2JB.<\/p>\n
20M: \u00a0Huge VK & YB pileups in OCDX, so calling CQ 14.055: SP5JXK Jan 599 and IZ4APT Giovanni 599<\/p>\n
30M: UR7UA Alex nr kiev 579<\/p>\n
40M: EU-Sprint: GW0ETF Stew, LY3QA Jon, DL5AXX Ulf, DJ1YFK Fabian, G4ERW Dave, DL2NBY Tom<\/p>\n
80M: EU-Sprint: G, S5, SP, LY, PA, DL, UA2 within 15 minutes<\/p>\n
160m: DL3AD Frank 599 and G4ZCG Tony in Preston 338 only, but a qso!<\/p>\n
OK, It\u2019s not all DX but VK, JA is and afterall this was all done just on a Saturday with 5 watts only.<\/p>\n
(battery is at 10,5 volts now, ready for recharge)<\/p>\n
Written 23:55 local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saturday October 8, 2011: This week I,ve re-installed my FT817, as this is a true QRP-rig that I really love, since \u00a0I bought it in 2003. \u00a0I,ve used it last year in the O-QRP contest, and before that on a few \u201choliday-activities\u201d. A few 5W qso\u2019s proved that one can work the world with QRP. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}