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.


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:

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.

Working hard & playing with the tractor

I have been helping my friend Paul KC0HST work on his new house as time permits on my days off. On Friday I hauled my little tractor over there so that we could spread out the rock in his new basement. (It felt like heart attack work with a shovel.)

My little BX2350 was just barely small enough to drive into his basement.. talk about some challenge work. It is all about having the right tools... or so we like to pretend.