| Frank - ON7RU's profileON7RU - OQ7RBlogGuestbookNetwork |  Tools  Help |
|
|
October 30 Hamradio opens doors Did you ever heard the saying "hamradio opens doors"? I heard it the first time while watching the fifth ICOM radionews. The first and major part of the movie was dedicated to Tim duffy, K3LR, owner of a superstation and winner of many multi-multi contests. Tim works or worked in het mobilephone business and hamradio helped him to build a nice career. A couple of weeks ago, the company were I work for since 15 years, had a job offer for a RF design engineer. After several years of people management in an xDSL and IPTV customer helpcenter environment I was looking for a new challenge. So I sended my CV and motivation to the HR department. To cut a long story short....I have the job.  Last few weeks I wasn't very active but During the CQ WW SSB contest I found some time to work a few new ones and a couple of new band/modes. 15m was in good shape, did you noticed the sunspot index jumped from 68 to 82? Think near hamfuture looks really bright. Because I couldn't catch sleep I got up during the night and worked several NA on 80m SSB, actually my first NA ever on 80m SSB. Worked the regular powerstations W3LPL, KC1XX, K1DG, K3LR and several others. Belgians most active contester, Franki OQ5M even worked +50 NAs....wow. Another new one on 80m was Bodo, 5N0OCH. Bodo has 13 QSOs with ON7RU in his log, which brings me pretty high in the belgian main leaderbord. That's it for now, CU next week. October 07 SpotcoëfficiëntSpotcoëfficiënt, isn’t it a beautiful word? Following this link, it even generates 75 “scrabble” points. The word might not be available in your dictionary nor your vocabulary, it will be added soon after the FT5GA DXpedition. Spotcoëfficiënt is a number that you get when you divide the number of QSOs made by a DXpedition by the number of spots on the DXcluster. FT5GA won’t break many records, but sure they will slash this one. Comments like finally, thanks QSO, bad ops, weak, QRX again, holiday style, EU lids, requests for needed bands (do you guys really think they have access to these spots?),... I got over it, FT5GA is not my favourite DXped. Even before the departure I knitted my brows when I noticed they left to Glorioso to activate a rare spot (they claimed most wanted #4) with 3 stations and only 6 operators. You can operate 12 or more hours the first few days but when the adrenaline is no longer rushing through your vaines, operator fatigue comes into o play. Did the French army wanted to play, to use French words, “Cavalier seul”? Let this be a lesson learned for the ham community and future DXpeds. After all, let us be thankful to the guys who spent their time and their (or the army) resources to handout new ones. In a few days, XR0Y will be active from Easter Island. It’s not that high on the most wanted list but I noticed that their goals are similar to the FT5GA crew. 3 stations, 6 ops….fingers crossed. By the way, heard or worked T6YA? The OP is another French army guy. He’s doing a great job. Working pileups @ +200 qso/hour, mainly CW @ 40 wpm. Rumours say he couldn’t wait to jump out of the plane and he pulled his parachute over Afghanistan instead of FT5….hihi.
See you next time |
|
|
