After deciding to have a go at QRP from MW0BBU this week I was all expectation as the band had seemed to be picking up a bit.
Anyway on Monday 31/01/2011 tuning around it was starting to look somewhat grim as the band was vacant of signals. After an hour of tuning a few signals started to drift in and I managed to work
DL, RA6, SV9 and
LZ all with pretty good signals given the way the band had been an hour earlier.
As work summoned that was it for Monday.
Tuesday kicked off In a very dire way, signals on 15m were at best abysmal and nothing really raised its head until the late afternoon when I worked
K4LTA in Tennessee and greatly to my suprise
HK1R ten minutes later was a 599+ here and was worked first call, which incidentally was a new one for me on 15m CW. Again that was it for the day as the band closed here shortly after.
On Wednesday however the band was quite open to the east from first thing and
4Z5NX/M was the first in the bag followed by a
RW4,
UR and
RU9. Later on a
TA4 and
CT3 were worked fairly easily.
It has been quite a bit of fun to have a go again at QRP from here and as the log shows you can clock up quite a few kilometres with low power and simple antennas. Just remember its all about having fun with radio, trying different things as well. I have listed a small log below for the last couple of days....
MW0BBU/qrp 5w and a Dipole
12.46 DL1RTD 559 1150 km
13.17 RA6AS 579 3439 km
13.25 SV9MBH 599 3004 km
13.42 LZ1NJ 599 2544 km
15.15 K4LTA 559 6523 km
15.26 HK1R 559 7680 km
09.34 4Z5NX/M 559 3948 km
10.11 RW4CU 579 3448 km
10.21 UR3LL 589
10.58 RU9UC 559 5754 km
12.47 CT3AS 559 2331 km
13.35 TA4/DL6RO 559 3242 km
The station of
HK1R works out at 1536 km per watt....
Who needs an amplifier when you have the Code..long live CW.
All the best for now..
Steve.. MW0BBU
