ZS6WAB and ZS6NK qsl cards on 70mhz received

1st ever TEP qso between Greece and South Africa on 70mhz 4m band

INFO

TRANSCEIVER : YAESU FT 847 recently modified on RX and TX

POWER OUTPUT : 70 WATTS

ANTENNA : 9el 10m boom yagi homemade

4A4A Revillagigedo NEW ONE !

This morning i worked 4A4A Revillagigedo (http://www.revillagigedo2011.com)for a new one !! Qso made on 40m band CW .Very hard copy of the team but enough to work them.
Signals were coming short path from 315 deg.
It will be very interesting to check the long path propagation on this band due to our sunset.I think that the signals will be stronger.
The team will stay on the island of Socorro until 20th of March.
Good luck all with this dx
73 de SV2DCD Leo

Transmit Power vs Antenna gain

The VP8ORK team is qrv from Orkney islands.This DXCC entity was a new one for me.But there was a problem.My linear amplifier 2 weeks ago had a problem on the Automatic Antenna Tuner board.Not a big one (some burned capacitors due to high swr) but i had to send it to the manufacture.So i was wondering.Will i pass through the pileups with the 100 watts of the transceiver ??? Well i got the answer.Yes! And not one time but six until now.
Of course the winner is the antenna gain.
Good luck all with VP8ORK
73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for NanoSail-D

FROM http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Seeks_Amateur_Radio_Operators_Aid_to_Listen_for_NanoSailD_999.html

On Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT.

The ejection event occurred spontaneously and was identified this morning when engineers at the center analyzed onboard FASTSAT telemetry. The ejection of NanoSail-D also has been confirmed by ground-based satellite tracking assets.

Amateur ham operators are asked to listen for the signal to verify NanoSail-D is operating. This information should be sent to the NanoSail-D dashboard at: http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm. The NanoSail-D beacon signal can be found at 437.270 MHz.

The NanoSail-D science team is hopeful the nanosatellite is healthy and can complete its solar sail mission. After ejection, a timer within NanoSail-D begins a three-day countdown as the satellite orbits the Earth.

Once the timer reaches zero, four booms will quickly deploy and the NanoSail-D sail will start to unfold to a 100-square-foot polymer sail. Within five seconds the sail fully unfurls.

"This is great news for our team. We're anxious to hear the beacon which tells us that NanoSail-D is healthy and operating as planned," said Dean Alhorn, NanoSail-D principal investigator and aerospace engineer at the Marshall Center.

"The science team is hopeful to see that NanoSail-D is operational and will be able to unfurl its solar sail."

On Dec. 6,, 2010, NASA triggered the planned ejection of NanoSail-D from FASTSAT. At that time, the team confirmed that the door successfully opened and data indicated a successful ejection. Upon further analysis, no evidence of NanoSail-D was identified in low-Earth orbit, leading the team to believe NanoSail-D remained inside FASTSAT.

The FASTSAT mission has continued to operate as planned with the five other scientific experiments operating nominally.

"We knew that the door opened and it was possible that NanoSail-D could eject on its own," said Mark Boudreaux, FASTSAT project manager at the Marshall Center. "What a pleasant surprise this morning when our flight operations team confirmed that NanoSail-D is now a free flyer."

If the deployment is successful, NanoSail-D will stay in low-Earth orbit between 70 and 120 days, depending on atmospheric conditions. NanoSail-D is designed to demonstrate deployment of a compact solar sail boom system that could lead to further development of this alternative solar sail propulsion technology and FASTSAT's ability to eject a nano-satellite from a micro-satellite - while avoiding re-contact with the FASTSAT satellite bus.

It was great !!!

Here are some pictures from my latest trip to Russia.
It was a great visit to Moscow and Moscow region (Sergiyev Posad,Sorochany ski resort)
Lot of cold but there is always the solution for this in Russia.VODKA !!!!! :-)
Thanks Sveta for everything !!

QSL via LOTW

Many thanks to George SV1ENM for all the great and hard job to put my logbook in the ARRL LOTW system.
73 all de SV2DCD Leonidas

Merry Christmas !!!!

3A Monaco new one on 4m band

Many thanks to Bo OZ2M and Uffe PA5DD for the nice MS qso on 4m band from Monaco 3A/OZ2M.A new one for me on 4m band.DXCC # 31 !!!! Thanks again guys !
73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

SV2DCD/B ON AIR

SV2DCD/B
QRG:144.438 Mhz
LOCATOR:KN00LI
1799m ASL
OUTPUT POWER:5W
ANT:2X7el DK7ZB @ 360 deg + 2x5el F9FT @ 180 deg

PSE REPORTS : sv2dcd@yahoo.com

Another weekend on the radio

This weekend was almost full dedicated to the radio.
ZL8X was a very good reason to stay in the shack and work them on some bands.
Very nice signal from Kermadec Islands.Until now i worked ZL8X on 40m,30m,20m,15m,and 10m bands.
Another good reason to stay in the shack was my good friend Kostas SV2CXI.
He visited my shack during saturday evening after a long time no seen!
Good luck all with ZL8X and also ZK2A who is also qrv from pacific aerea
73 de SV2DCD

The 4 m Meteor Scatter Contest - 4 m MSC

QSP FROM http://70mhz.org/4mmsc.htm

P R O P O S A L

The purpose of the meteor scatter contest is to stimulate the interest in both the 4 m band and meteor scatter random contacts.


Participants : The Four Metres Website hereby invites all radio amateurs to participate in The 4 m Meteor Scatter Contest

Date and time : 11 December 2010, 2000 UTC to 12 December 2010, 2000 UTC
Sections : All stations participate in the same section
Contacts : Only random meteor scatter contacts are valid

The contacts must unconditionally comply with the IARU Region 1 VHF Committee Meteor Scatter procedure with the following additions:

CQ calling may use the following procedure

* CQ SQRG = split and RXing on QRG and keeping TX on existing freq.*,
e.g. CQ S950 OZ2M
* CQ QRG = IARU Region 1 VHF Committee MS Procedure CQ QRG principle,
i.e. both stations QSY*, e.g. CQ 290 OZ2M
* CQ = no QSY,
e.g. CQ OZ2M

*: QRG above 500 means 69,QRG MHz otherwise 70,QRG MHz

The following strings may be utilised by operators using CW or MGM and short messages by operators using SSB to ask for missing information:
Message CW/MGM SSB
Both callsigns missing BBB Both calls
My callsign missing MMM My call
Your callsign missing YYY Your call
Duration and signal strength missing SSS Report
All information complete OOO All info
Faulty keying or unreadable UUU Unreadable

The other operator shall respond by sending only the required information. This approach must be used with great caution to prevent confusion
Modes CW, MGM and SSB
Exchange Callsigns, reports and final RRR must be exchanged
Points Each completed contact counts for the following number of QSO-points:

* MGM: 1 point per contact
* SSB: 2 point per contact
* CW: 3 points per contact

Each station can be worked ones per mode per locator square, e.g. JO65

A prefix multiplier is counted for each new WPX, e.g. CT1, EI2, EI3, G3, GM4, GW8, LA2, OH0, OH5, OZ0, and SV9. Please note that OY/ES7XX count as OY0

Stations changing square may add QSO-points and multipliers for each square

The total points is the total sum of QSO-points times the total sum of the WPX multipliers, e.g. 23 MGM contacts and 15 WPX, 5 SSB contacts and 3 WPX and 1 CW contact and 1 WPX = (23 x 1 + 5 x 2 + 1 x 3) x (15 + 3 + 1) = 36 x 19 = 684 total points
Adjudication Duplicates, erroneous and incomplete contact must be clearly marked in the log and does not count for points or multipliers

The contest manager's adjudication is final
Manager Please send your electronic log no later than 15 December 2400 UTC to Bo Hansen, OZ2M, at Callsign Rudius Net. Only electronic logs are accepted. REG1TEST logs are preferred, however, any plain ASCII/ANSI format will be accepted. If so please include name, locator(s), station description and comments in the email
Comments The timestamp of the QSO is when it has been completed or aborted

The rules of the contest only applies to stations participating in the contest

Announcing own CQ frequency, mode and period is permitted but not where reception takes place

Information about the contacts must in no way be disclosed before the deadline has passed

CQ WW DX SSB Contest.That was fun !!!

The 2010 CQ WW SSB DX Contest is over.As usual i was running on 40m band SINGLE OPERATOR HIGH POWER ASSISTED.My score for this year is much better than last year.I have 1997 qso's 128 DXCC's and 37 zones.Total score 502.260 .I am very disappointed for my DXCC countries worked.They are 5 less than last year.I am also disappointed for not working cq zone 34 which is so easy for me and cq zone 38.I never heard any station from cq zone 34 and i didn't see also any spots from stations in cq zone 34 on 40m band.I saw two spots from cq zone 38 (ZS) but no copy here.Last zone i lost was cq zone 31.During sunday morning KH7CW was fb copy 59 via long path in lot of qrm.I called him several times but no copy me.Very surprised about the stations i worked Sunday morning short path to west coast W6,W7.Great opening !!Thank you all for working SV2DCD during the contest.It was fun once again running the biggest contest of HF contests!
Cu all in the next one !
73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

ASSISTED CATEGORY award program for CQ WW SSB CONTEST

Bob,K3EST reports

Dear Fellow contester

Many of you do not subscribe to the contest reflector or CQ magazine and you may have missed our public announcement. The CQ WW Contest Committee would like to inform you via this news letter that the ASSISTED CATEGORY award program has been greatly expanded.

n We announce the strengthening of the assisted awards program. Starting with the 2010 CQ WW contests, the assisted category award program will be greatly expanded.

n All Low Power and QRP assisted entrants will be specifically listed and eligible for awards as is already the case for unassisted entries.

n A band-by-band breakdown for all band assisted World, Europe and USA will be provided within the 2010 results.

n Lastly, the number of plaques available to assisted entrants will be increased to include Europe Assisted All Band and all World Assisted Single Bands.

We hope that this action provides an incentive for entrants using a QSO spotting system to join the assisted category.

Please make a note that the log submission deadline for SSB has changed to Nov 21, 2010 and for CW to Dec 21, 2010.

73,

Bob, K3EST

CQ WW Director



CU ALL IN THE CONTEST
DE SV2DCD SO 40M HIGH ASSISTED

F2 propagation is back on 6m band

During the last days F2 propagation is back on 6m band.
Even though in my qth there was no one heard or worked via F2 skip we can see on the cluster history that stations from western Europe had some qso's via F2.
In my qth the most remarkable event on 6m was to copy (for the first time) very strong the SV1SIX/B from Athens via backscatter

CT1FFU 50006.0 PY0FF wow 599 F2 1822 15 Oct Fernando de Noro

CT1FFU 50091.2 S9SIX 529 f2 1727 15 Oct Sao Tome & P

KE4WBO 50000.1 CE1 cemusic>fl f2f2 2021 12 Oct Chile

KE4WBO 50036.0 OA4B/B 55-579 f2 1956 12 Oct Peru

CT1FFU 50110.0 KP4EIT 559 f2 1753 11 Oct Puerto Rico

CT1FFU 50032.0 D4C F2 529 1704 11 Oct Cape Verde

Good luck all on magic band !
73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

Long time ago !!

Picture taken back in 1985.I was only 5 years old :-)

Claude 6W7FZ visit at SV2DCD shack

It was about 6 months ago when i had a qso on 20m band with Claude 6W7FZ.Claude was for many years in Greece and he speaks Greek very well.Yesterday Claude visited my shack as he was in my city for vacations

Back to reality.....Winter season is here ....

Well,that's it.Back to reality.Summer time is end for me and i am back to my home,my work and my shack !!
It was a great summer time full of everything ..... ;-)
The scchedule was full.ZANTE for 10days ,XALKIDIKH for a week and almost every weekend and for the end Athens for a great weekend with U2 concert !!!!!
Have a great winter season everyone !!!
Best 73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2010

LIST OF LOGBOOKS RECEIVED UNTIL NOW

5B4AIE

5B4AIF

DL2OM

HA7LW

IZ3DBA

IZ7QDV/QRP

J41P

LY2SA

LZ2ZY

LZ3RX

SM1TDE

SV1EIW

SV1IXK

SV1JRF

SV2KGA

SV4CDB

SV9COL

SW1JCO/P

SW1MNF

SW1MOO

SW1MRV

SW1NJW

SW1PBH

SW1QEC

SW6IED/P

SX2IMA

SX7W

SX8SI

SZ2RCP

SZ7TRC

YL2TQ

YO2KDT

YO3APJ

YO5DAS

YT1VP


TNX ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2010

CU AGAIN NEXT YEAR

73 DE SV2DCD LEONIDAS

SX0HQ 40m SSB Radio Station

SV9GPV first visitor in the new shack

My good friend George SV9GPV became the first visitor in our new shack!
George and his family was visiting Kastoria for a couple of days and found some time to visit the new shack and make some qso's.

In the photo SV2FNS Chris and SV9GPV George in front of the equipment

More photos to come....

73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

T70A San Marino new one on 4m band

As from last saturday DXCC #30 on 4m band is true.T70A worked @ 18:56 z.Great signal from San Marino and thanks a lot the team for this great new one on 4m band.
73 de SV2DCD

EA9IB Ceuta and Mellila new one on 2m band via e sporadic

Another short e sporadic took place yesterday around 17:30 z on 2m band.Earlier the signals from Spain on 4m band where very promising with many EA stations in for almost 6 hours !
EA9IB on 144.300 was 59 at 17:34z and for 10 minutes ! calling CQ CQ and working only a couple of SV2 stations and a couple of IK7.The SV1 guys had opening only to EA5 aerea.Worked him easily for a new one on 2m band !!
Good luck all with the e sporadic on VHF
73 de SV2DCD Leo

LA0BY Norway new one on 4m band

Yesterday afternoon i had a great opening on 4m band with extremly strong signals coming from OZ,OK,OM,G,LA,OH.
From 16z to 18z i worked more than 30 stations with Stefan LA0BU included.
This was a new one for me on this band and DXCC nr 29.
Good luck with the es to all of you working on VHF !!
73 de Leo SV2DCD

Two great qsl cards received today !

2m Es summary from yesterday

This is my 2m Es summary from yesterday afternoon.
Nice opening to Russia and Ukraine for about 15min.

14:21 RN6DJ KN96

14:25 RA6HHT LN04

14:25 RZ6BU KN64

14:26 RA6LOT LN17

14:27 RX6APY KN95

14:28 RA6DA KN96

14:29 UA6MA KN97

14:31 RV6BU KN94

14:33 RU6LB LN16

14:34 UA6YIM KN94

14:34 RW6HD LN15

14:35 UT5JCW KN64

14:37 RW6AG KN95

All qso's SSB

My setup on 2m band is TS2000X,100W,4X17el Cushcraft

Cu again maybe today !!!!

gl de SV2DCD Leo

ON Belgium new one on 4m band and GW Wales new one on 2m band

What a great opening this afternoon on 6m,4m an 2m bands !!
All started around 15:00z with es on 6m to DL.Great signals.Everything was promising.30 min later i worked on 4m band EA6BB and EA6SX with 59+ signals.I was cqing on 70.200 mhz cw beacon mode for more than an hour when at 16:56 z ON4PS replied my cq as i was also rxing on 69.950 mhz for ON.The report received was 559.Bingo ! A new one for me on 4m band and also 1st ever qso on 4m band between ON-SV.Next one from ON were ON5QRP on ssb,ON4KHG and ON5VW.Some G stations come through very strong.This was promising for es on 2m band.The MUF was getting higer.So at 18:19 z Dave G7RAU heard calling ca on 144.305 with 59 report.Then i made qsy on 144.310 calling CQ ES.What a surpise! GW8JLY replied.Another new one for me this time on 2m band !!
Hoping for another great es openings an more dx and new ones on VHF.
73 all de SV2DCD Leonidas

Copied at Arecibo

Joe , K1JT reports

I've now found time to go through the 22 audio files we saved when using
JT65B at KP4AO. As a reminder, here's what it looked like on our screen
with WSJT set to its widest passband, about 4 kHz:

http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/KP4AO_JT65B_1.png

Going though these files carefully, one at a time, I decoded the
following 63 stations calling KP4AO. Completed QSOs are marked *. Most
stations were copied multiple times.

9A9T AE6EQ AF6O* CT1FFU DF3RL DF6SM* DH1WM DH4FAJ DJ8MS
DL5RDI EA2ASB EA3XU EA4CYQ* EB3DYS ES3RF* G4ZFJ* G6HKS
G8FJG HA0HO HB9DKM HB9DRI IK1FJI IK7EZN IV3CYT K3GAU
K5LA K6HLH K8SIX KI7JA KR7O KU7Z LU1C NA6MF N9XG* OE3SJA
OM3BC OY4TN OZ1MAX OZ2LD PA3CMC PA3DOL PY2BS RN3QRY S51WX*
SK4AO SM4LMV SP1JPQ SP3XBO SQ7DQX SV2DCD* SV2RM* UA4FRL* UT5JCW
W1FKF W1ICW* W7EME W7ID W8PAT W9GA WB2RVX WD4JHD WF1F*
YL2HA YL2OK* YL3HA* YO5PLD YU1EXY

These stations were found between about 432.045 and .049, where we
announced we would be lietening. Many more stations were calling
outside this frequency range, especially in the range 432.050 to .060,
our listening range for SSB and CW.


Here's a copy of the Linrad screen when listening to one of our wideband
recordings:

http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/KP4AO_Linrad.png

The scale at top is frequency in Hz above 432.000 MHz. Dark horizontal
strips in the upper waterfall show the KP4AO transmissions; bright spots
at about 44000 Hz after these are the KP4AO echo. Most stations calling
us are between 432.050 and 432.060, as requested. The very strong JT65
station at 432.064 is working someone else.

I've not yet listened gone through our wideband recordings to attempt
making a list of all callsigns heard on SSB and CW. My partial list
continues to grow, however; it now contains 202 callsigns (CW only);
here's the list:

9A1CAL 9A1CAW 9A1CMS 9A5AA 9A5SG 9A9T 9H1BT
AA5TB AE6EQ AF1T AF6RF CT1DMK DF0MU DF1HF
DF1VB DF3RL DG8YHH DG9BEW DG9YIH DJ1RPL
DJ2QV DJ5BV DJ6JJ DJ8MS DK2ZF DK5MB DK6AS
DK7AN DK9TF DL2HWA DL3HXS DL4HRM DL5MAE DL5RDI
DL6SH DL7FF DL8GAP DL9JY E73O EB3DYS F2CT
F5SE/P F6BCU F6FHP F8GBY F6KIF G3LQR G4ALH
G4CCH G4CEN G4NOK G4YTL GM4ISM GM4JJJ GW8IZR
HB9BZA I1NDP I2FHW IK1HWG IK6EIW K0TV K1DM
K1DS K1DY K1NY K2TXB K4RT K4RTS K5DOG K6AAW
K6TSK K7NT K7XC K7XQ K7XQ KA9A KB8U KE7L KH7Y
KL7HFQ LA0BY LU1C LU7DZ LZ1DX LZ1DP LZ1OA
N0OY N1VT N2NQI N4AO N4FRE N4GJV N4SCS N6DIQ
N6DIT N8OL NA6MF NU6S OE2CAL OE2WPO OE2XRM
OH2PO OH3A OH3HLJ OH4LA OH6NVQ OK1DST OK1KIR
OK1KPA OK1TDO OK1VVT OK1YK OK1ZHS OK2GMO
OK2JCZ OK2JNM OK2KJT OK2KOG OK2KVM OK2NMA
OK2PMS OK2TT OK2UYZ OK2VSO OK2VWX OK2ZI
OM1GX OM1TL OM3LQ OM5CM OM5LD ON5OF OZ1BCG
OZ5W PA2CHR PA3DOL PA3DZL RA3XX RW6AG S51ZO
S53RM S56X S57M SF6X SM3MQU SM4IVE SM6CEN
SM7GEP SM7SJR SP3YDE SP6ITF UN8L UR6IWZ UT2EG
UT5CW UT5JCW VE2DFO VE2JWH VE3KRP VE4MA W1FKF
W1JR W1KSZ W1MKY W2CNS W2WD W3EP W3KWH
W3SZ W4DEX W4RBO W4XP W4ZRZ W6AT W6FM W6YFK
W7CS W7IUV W7IY W7MEM W7OE W8TXT WA1ZMS
WA2ODO WA3DRC WA3GFZ WA3XX WA9KRT WB2SIH
WB6JZY WB7QBS WD5AGO WW1M YL2HA YL2OK YO2BCT
YO2IS YO2KDT YO2LAM YO2LCP YO7IV YT2RA YT5MW

There are surely some mistakes or typos here.


A total of 106 SSB QSOs, 122 CW QSOs, and 14 JT65B QSOs are in our log.
You can check to see if your call is in the log by going to
http://dx.qsl.net/logs/logs.html . QSL information is also posted there.

Once again, thanks to all who sent us reports on this most enjoyable
event! We're sorry we could not work you all in the time available!

-- 73, Joe, K1JT

This means that yes ! we are in the log !

Tnx again Joe,K1JT for the great qso's

D44TD 4m band qsl card received !!

I just received my qsl card for my qso with D44TD on 4m band.
Tnx again ANTONIO XARA for the nice qso 1st ever between SV Greece -D4 Cape Verde on 70mhz and e sporoadic dx world record on 4m band distance > 4400 km
Hope to meet again D44TD on 4m band this season !
73 de SV2DCD Leonidas

P.S My setup on 70mhz : YAESU FT847 (unmodified),45W,Antenna 9el 10m boom DK7ZB homemade

A92IO new one on 6m band

The dx season on 6m band started very well here with a new one for me.Yesterday evening i was able to copy weak on 50.107 cw A92IO Dave.RST was 519 deep qsb.After a long try Dave heard me with rst 449.Very hard qso.Tnx Dave for his patience !
Gl all on 6m band !
P.S My setup on 6m band is YAESU FT2000,8el 2WL dk7zb homemade @ 15m

73 de SV2DCD Leonidas