ON4ND Belgium

This afternoon there are tornado warning in Southern West Virginia, so was stuck inside looking at the rain. Tuned around a bit in the SSB portion of 20 meters and caught this one (ON4ND) after a couple of tries. I'll replace this picture card with a E-QSL when it returns to me. He was very surprised when I mentioned my mighty 10 watts.

This is my second contact in Belgium. 

My first was ON4AOI 

EA8OM Canary Islands

Another "across the pond" contact this evening. A very difficult contact.... 

EA2IF Spain

I had trouble working Guru (EA2IF) on the first attempt. I was afraid I had lost a DX contact because the signal was so weak, I couldn't get the exact call.....and was cursing my futile attempt at another DX contact this afternoon. I copied the name and QTH but just couldn't hear the correct call. When looking at the DX clusters, I didn't see anything similar to the call I had written down.

But after a few more stations had worked him, the signal picked all the way up to 559. This time I could hear him clearly and when I sent my call again, he immediately came back to me. I explained my error and he re-affirmed the contact with a big QSL.

When I looked at his bio.....e-qsl was listed as a preferred method of confirmation. I was already in his log book and the card was there in less than a minute.

DL4KCA Germany

This evening brought me another DX contact (my 62nd now) operating from Cologne Germany. Joe (DL4KCA) operates a lot of QRP but was QRO today. He's a broadcast engineer in Cologne and we took a few moments to exchange the basics.

The last month or so, I've become very enthused with my DX contacts. They're becoming addictive and I listen every evening near sunset. I'm looking forward to getting outdoors and away from all this city electrical noise. I plan to do some outdoor operating soon.

M0PNN England

Ooops....another one at the last moment! Just like fishing, you never know what you're going to catch sometimes. Hihi 

F5NBX Neuzac France

An unexpected catch this afternoon on the 20 meter band. 

Great signal here on the east coast! 

Worked with 5 watts. 

EA8/OK1DMP QRP Canary Islands

As luck would have it.....he fortunately copied my call sign after many many minutes of waiting for the signal to peak on a high point. I was incredibly confused trying to decipher his with the same process. I sent an e-mail with the hopes of confirming his power level. If he was at one watt, this was a fantastic contact on his part!

Update....got the e-mail this afternoon which reads:

I have used FT-817 (2.5W out), “stealth” antenna was 10m LW from hotel balcony at the 3-rd floor to tree about 8m up and with GP counterpoise (4x5m wire) on the balcony.


This is a fantastic contact from his location.....well worth a "thousand mile per watt award" as his distance is at least 3,000 miles @ 2.5 watts. I think this is the only European DX station I've worked under these conditions. What a nice contact! 


I sent Milan this card: