QSOs for Wednesday
A couple of quick Q's in the log after work but before dinner...
JH0INP on 10 meter CW
JR4VDV on 10 meter SSB
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JH0INP on 10 meter CW
JR4VDV on 10 meter SSB
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QSOs for Tuesday
I had a couple of minutes during my lunch break to try to get a quick contact in the log. I saw that ZD8F was spotted on the DX cluster. I worked them on 10 meter RTTY running split.
ZD8F turns about to be Ascension Island. (I had no idea where this was located.) It turns out this little island is about 6100 miles away in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Mapping info:
http://www.scribblemaps.com (works with GoogleMaps)
ZD8F turns about to be Ascension Island. (I had no idea where this was located.) It turns out this little island is about 6100 miles away in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.
73 de NG0R
Mapping info:
http://www.scribblemaps.com (works with GoogleMaps)
QSOs for Monday
| Date | Time | Call Sign | Freq | Mode |
| 2011-11-08 | 02:26 | 9K2UU | 14.255 | SSB |
| 2011-11-08 | 02:17 | RX0AT | 14.081 | RTTY |
| 2011-11-07 | 22:37 | TU2T | 14.290 | SSB |
I made one of my coolest QSOs tonight. I worked 9K2UU (Kuwait) on the second call. I have never heard anything from that part of the world. I was surprised to hear the great signal on 20 meter SSB after 8pm local time. We were able to have a simple QSO for a few minutes with no problem at all.
Clearly the bands have gotten a LOT better recently in this solar cycle. I am working a lot of new DX stations on a daily basis.
I was nervous that I was not going to get my QSO for today. A busy day at work, an early dinner, run kids to an evening activity, run some errands, pick up the kids and get them home & to bed. I snuck TU2T into the log with the 5 minutes I had before left the house and then put RX0AT and 9K2UU in once the kids were getting ready for bed.
Fun stuff.
73 de NG0R
Deer Hunting Opener 2011
Ben sitting on the ridge on Saturday
Looking down the ridge
Jacob guarding the trail on Sunday
Ben, Grandpa Jack, and Jacob on Sunday before we hiked out
Some quick camera phone pictures from the hunting trail. On Saturday it was 54 degrees (F) and breezy. On Sunday it was 48 degrees (F) with drizzle and strong winds. It was fun to walk around in the woods in blue jeans. My memories of hunting as a kid are largely tied to freezing my tail off sitting on a stump in the middle of the north woods.
Walking the north woods in in jeans sure beats snow pants and heavy winter boots!
QSOs for Friday
| Date | Time | Call Sign | Freq | Mode |
| 2011-11-04 | 18:44 | CO8LY | 24.96 | SSB |
| 2011-11-04 | 18:15 | 6V7Q | 21.27 | SSB |
| 2011-11-04 | 18:13 | CT3FQ | 24.9575 | SSB |
| 2011-11-04 | 18:11 | EA8DO | 28.53 | SSB |
| 2011-11-04 | 18:09 | D2AM | 28.474 | SSB |
Not much time to play radio today. While I did take today as a PTO day I needed to run some errands prior to getting on the road with the boys after school to head up north for the weekend.
We will be gone all weekend so I will likely resume the daily challenge of 1 QSO per day (when I am home) on Monday.
73 de NG0R
QSOs for Thursday
| Date | Time | Call Sign | Freq | Mode |
| 2011-11-04 | 02:24 | CO6VS | 7.0382 | PSK31 |
Today was ubber busy at work combined with trying to take Friday as a PTO day means that I worked late today. I finally shutdown the work laptop around 8:30pm. That made me a little antsy to get at least on QSO in the log ASAP to keep the daily goal alive.
Victor in Cuba was my contact for today on 40 meter PSK. Victor thanks for being on the air!
73 de NG0R
QSOs for Wednesday
| Date | Time | Call Sign | Freq | Mode |
| 2011-11-03 | 00:45 | PJ2/VA7AM | 7.183 | SSB |
| 2011-11-03 | 00:24 | VP9KF | 7.010 | CW |
| 2011-11-03 | 00:20 | HP4/KJ4KKG | 14.265 | SSB |
| 2011-11-03 | 00:15 | TU2T | 14.047 | CW |
| 2011-11-03 | 00:11 | VK6ANC | 14.193 | SSB |
I had a busy day at work today and some errands after work so I feel happy to have 5 in my log for today.
One Q per day is the goal (more is better if time/conditions permit)
73 de NG0R
QSOs for Tuesday
| Date | Time | Call Sign | Freq | Mode |
| 2011-11-01 | 15:28 | CU3HN | 21.071 | PSK31 |
Kind of a RF quiet Tuesday for me. I spent the day working on chores around the house on my day off.
73 de NG0R
QSOs for Monday
Here are contacts for today:
It fun working Europe on 10 meters this morning. I had a chance to have a couple of quick ragchews instead of the standard NG0R 5NN TU.
The day off from work was helpful for getting some chore completed around the house and finding a few minutes to emit some RF.
(The times are shown in GMT, but they are all from Monday 10/31 in my time zone.)
73 de NG0R
| Date | Time | Call Sign | Freq | Mode |
| 2011-11-01 | 03:05 | TU2T | 7.180 | SSB |
| 2011-11-01 | 02:30 | IS0GQX | 7.007 | CW |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:40 | E51NOU | 21.004 | CW |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:35 | TF2JB | 28.050 | CW |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:33 | 7X4AN | 28.591 | SSB |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:22 | S53IV | 28.570 | SSB |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:12 | DL8YBM | 28.422 | SSB |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:08 | PA3GEG | 28.419 | SSB |
| 2011-10-31 | 16:05 | E73RZ | 28.006 | CW |
| 2011-10-31 | 13:31 | CO8LY | 28.437 | SSB |
It fun working Europe on 10 meters this morning. I had a chance to have a couple of quick ragchews instead of the standard NG0R 5NN TU.
The day off from work was helpful for getting some chore completed around the house and finding a few minutes to emit some RF.
(The times are shown in GMT, but they are all from Monday 10/31 in my time zone.)
73 de NG0R
Sunrise before work
Here is a quick image looking out the window of my home office. I grabbed an old dSLR to take the picture before the moment disappeared.
