A newly minted country means a new DXCC entity - Montenegro. The three week long DX festival from a brand new country in the balkans has started off with massive pile-ups thanks to what must be a dream station. Today, I’ve heard the 4O3T station working 20 meters for the second time. Although the operator [...]
We’re virtually at the bottom of the 11 year solar cycle, but my mind is on DX. Kinda sounds crazy for a guy with a simple HF mobile antenna system (High Sierra Little Sidekick screwdriver-type antenna) and just as simple home QTH antenna (Butternut HF6V 6 band vertical). Here are a few reasons my ham [...]
The IARU 2006 HF Championship was this weekend. I worked a few europeans on 20 meters Friday on the way home from work a CT3 (Madeira Island), a G6 (in the UK) and a DQ2006 special event station in Germany just before the contest and heard a lot of Italians today (celebrating the World [...]