Season Greetings...!!!

 

Happy Ham Radio Christmas and 

a Happy new Year full of DX

CQ WW CW Contest...

Just for fun again...!!!

FT4TA into the log...

DXCC Nr 180 on 6m...!!!

 

CQ WW RTTY 2014...

 

Participation  just for fun....!!! 

Playing with my youngest son on RTTY late the morning of Saturday, then going shopping, then go to the marriage of a good friend with family until early the morning of Sunday.... 

Few hours of sleep and then on contest again...!!!  

Breaking all "good contestier" rules, no preparations. 

Just fun...

Sunday went better.

530 QSOs using the brand new N1MM Logger Plus.

 

 By the way here is my score:

45 watts by FT-2000 + A3S on 10m

Thanks to all who work me.

See you at next CQ Contest...!!!

6m TEP is already here...

TY1AA worked (not a new one) and FR4NT also...

Signals where nice for both stations. TEP is here and Im happy about it...!!!

 

Happy TEP season to all...!!!

We are all back home...

The last (?) 4m-6m opening...

All-day long today on 6m, 4m and few QSOs on 2m bands.Looks like to be the last (maybe) opening on my favorite bands. About 240 QSOs and few suprises...

4m map

4m-6m opening

6m...!!!

My FT-847 without any mod for 4m operation gave 20 watts and draws about 25 Ampers. Between 12:00-13:00z I decide to make the PA1O mod. After for more than 50 screws and few desoldering-soldering, modification made and radio goes back to opening for test.

YAESU FT-847 opened...

 Now I got 75 watts for 9-11 Amps. Looks a small success...!! No any bad reports so far. 

Audio "looks" also nice from my ham friends recordings...!!

http://youtu.be/2Ley-XfS1rw

Tnx to Erwin DK5EW

 

Holidays and ...tropo games...!!!

Since yesterday I'm on holidays at KM36vc (South Rhodes). 

First propagation thing that I noticed was the 24 hours Tropo on 

UHF TV with Egypt TV Channels 1 and 2.

As you can see it's Q5 and with very stable signal all day. 

Earlier today as I except 2m opening in eastern Mediterranean  happens and the results was 4X, SV9, and 9H on 2m and replys to 9H1CG John's request, I manage to work him on 432.200 SSB using the antenna of ...2m !!!  

Few moments later SV9IOQ was also into the log working him on UHF.

My AIS receiver's coverage today...!!!

The 6m band remains very unstable at openings and a dosen of stations only worked today.

Club meetings...

Ham friends comes at SZ5RDS club station and having good time...

Meetings are every Wednesday 

and after 20:00 local time.

All are welcome....!!!

SV5/IZ8IYX at Rhodes...

My friend and Chief editor of DxCoffee Pasquale IZ8IYX, spend his holidays at Rhodes island. 

At special club meeting today Pasquale have the chance to operate from club station of Dodecanese Radio Amateurs Association making big pileups.

At free of operation time we talk about the cooperation of our people and maybe the next months to have a surprise to our friends around the globe. 

Operating under heavy pileup...

"Souma" just before going on-air with me and president SV5KKE...

From left to right: Konstantinos, SV5BYR, IZ8IYX, SV5KKE, SV5FRW

4m and 6m today....

4m opening....

6m opening (over 4 hours)....

Short skip to Patras and Salonika on 6m give the chance to 

exchange a ..."kalispera" with my friends there....

On videos below my CQs at SV3DCX and SV3FUP stations.

Fun with my friends...

Here is what my friend Trygve LA6UOA seen and listen at his FT-857 when he is at home back Norway...

The video is taken July 3 on a good 6m opening to Scandinavia. Unfortunately Trygve's radio has a damage to transmitter and we have no QSO.

NO PROBLEM...!!!

We make few eyeball QSOs here on Rhodes island  where my friend and his wife spend their holidays the last year....!!!!

Souvenir exchanges...

With the president of DRAA Manos SV5KKE..

Using club's rig to get in touch with home...

With family at my 2nd QTH...

At my shack at 2nd QTH...

At club station for BBQ again with SV5KKE, SV5FRW, SV5DZZ and me with lot of "souma"...

 See you next year...!!!!

AEGEAN VHF Contest 2014...

This weekend we run the Greek VHF Contest. 

The AEGEAN VHF Contest for 13th time.

More here

SV5BYR - SV5KKR servers out of service...

Unfortunately the conflict between NO-IP.ORG and MICROSOFT not solved so all my servers running under sv5byr.no-ip.org domain is out of service from last night. SV5BYR-7 DX Cluster, my SDR servers (HF and VHF) as the RemoteHams FT-817 of SV5KKR, not working. 

I decide to leave out  of service all servers except DX Cluster 
when the no-ip.org returns. 
Will be on service again at Autumn.

 

For your info here is the statement of NO-IP.ORG

Finally 2m Es...

Even with 4 QSOs it's an 2m ES  the 1st for this year at SV5. 

Lets hope for a big one next weekend on "AEGEAN VHF Contest".

All starts with 4m strong opening and the high MUF to central Europe. 

Was matter of time to be an 2m Es....!!!

4m QSOS from KM36vc

DX Maps ES opening

2m Es QSOs

 

QSO map with 9A2SB

JA to SV5 multi Es...

A nice opening also this morning to Japan with a multi Es....

Some screens of procedure...

 

I count 4 "waves" of 20-35 min from top to top and manage to work 28 Japanese stations.... In the mean time I made about 60 QSOs with Ukrainian stations most of them for first time.  

One explanation:  Sometimes I put several QSOs, worked on my frequency, at DX cluster. That's not a way to advertise my QSOs, but to keep the propagation maps up to date and help other to point on the Es cloud from their area showing the path. Thanks for understanding.

Great Es ...but....

4m QSOs map...

6m QSOs map...

6m opening map...

Mixed 6m and 4m opening map...

4m opening map...

Unfortunately no 2m opening and today.... 

J43VHF...

J43VHF/B using my remote station at south Rhodes (KM36VC).

Both beacons comes clear and loud.

Nice experience and great page for the Greek Radioamateurs...

It's mine after 38 years...!!!

As young boy every night I dreamed a "Green Radio" to hear all that voices that they comes from the sea. The very first time when I saw it in a big boat at Karpathos island I fall in love with it and for many years I was looking to find it cheap to buy it. Just to listen the Chanel 16 in the shack. The prices all those year staying high and the sell places far from me to pay the shipping. A day, surfing to E-bay I find it to the German E-bay but the guy says no Shipping to Greece. 

The price was affordable and my dream so closed. I hit a bid and few days later I won...!!! My good friend Frank (DL8YHR) says (after my question) "No Problem" to send it the seller to him at Germany. A week later my box it travels from Germany to Rhodes with UPS. Thanks again Frank for you time and expenses. Few days before the box arrives and the baby comes out to the Greek light. Seller says that "the speaker is not working but you can hear something from headphone if you wish".  

So, I opened the cache and go directly to AF AMP. Some shorts with a speaker shows alive the PA IC, and then I focusing to the electrolytic capacitors. An 4700 μF refused to work and a brand new take its place. The warm bass sound of this radio comes out  making me smile...!!! 

My SAILOR RT144 VHF Marine Radiotelephone its back to life and now listen all ship and Coast Guard reports in all Eastern Mediterranean sea. Yesterday I was listening for a half hour the Port-Said canal control at Egypt with Q5.