YE6P, IOTA OC-270 - Confirmed

Today i received via direct the QSL Card for YE6P .

IOTA OC-270 , Simeulue Island , Simeulue and Banyak Islands Group .

DXPedition 2006 .

IOTA Credit : 7.9 % .

Thanks a lot Kardi / YB1TC for the new IOTA ! 73 !

FK8HC - QSL Card arrived

Today i received the QSL Card for FK8HC .
IOTA OC-032 , QTH Noumea , main Island , New Caledonia Island Group .
IOTA Credit : 41.4 % .
QSO's on 20 and 15 metres , SSB Mode .
Thanks Bill / VK4FW ! 73 !

Happy birthday to my Weblogs !

I Just got back from work and realized that today my weblogs are celebrating a one year on the net !
I become very busy in the last few months , but still kicking around and can find a spare time for HF SWL'ing and QSL'ing ....
73 all and have a nice weekend !

p.s. We were just announced that tommorow the stormy WX will come again for a short visit , we are expecting for a heavy snow in the mountains and wild winds again ! :-(

Earthquake in Israel !

This is not an IOTA posting , BUT it is an actual and interesting news from today .
We had today an Earthquake in Israel at around 10:32 UTC , 2 times , 5.1 and 5.3 richter degrees , all is ok , in Lebanon was the center about 6 richter degrees , THAT was very scaring ! i was sitting on the chair at the 5th floor , listning on 20 metres band and for a moment i said to myself : "Oooh great ! what a big pile up " ! hihi.......i could feel the whole building moving ! SCARED !
No injuries or damages were reported ,but ppl were totally in panic !
That was the third and the strongest Earthquake this week in Israel !
The first was on Monday's night , i was sleeping in my sweet bed but i woke up with a big panic and a thought that some ghosts were coming to take me to the hell ! while my lady had a good sleep :-)
Is that a new generation of Earthquakes in the Middle-East ?
.......We are all holding on.... ;-)

P29K - QSL Card arrived

Today i receieved via the bureau a QSL Card for the P29K DXpedition .
IOTA OC-258 ,Kranket Island , Papua New Guinea's Coastal Islands North Group .
IOTA Credit : 9.6 % .
QSO on 20 metres band , SSB mode .
Many thanks Tony /LZ1JZ for a NEW IOTA for me ! 73 !
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PA0ABM/P, IOTA EU-146 Confirmed

Today i received via the bureau a QSL Card from PA0ABM/P .
IOTA EU-146 , Schouwen Duiveland Island , Zuid Holland / Zeeland Province Group .
IOTA Credit : 34.8 % .
QSO on 20 metres band , SSB mode , IOTA Contest 2004 .
Thanks Wino /PA0ABM for the QSL Card ! 73 !

VK9WWI - QSL Card arrived

Today i received QSL Card for VK9WWI DXpedition , via mailbox .
IOTA OC-007 ,North Cay , Willis Islets .
IOTA Credit : 26.9 % .
20 Metres band , SSB Mode .
Thanks Tomi /HA7RY for a very nice QSL Card ! 73 !
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Note : Due a lack of time at the moment , only front sides were screened , if anyone got a doubt i got these cards he is welcome to email me !

BY1TX/4 ,IOTA AS-146 -QSL arrived

Last week i received by mail ,QSL Card for BY1TX/4 .
IOTA AS-146 ,ChangDao Island ,Shandong Province North East Group .
IOTA Credit : 14.5 % .
20 Metres band , SSB Mode .
Thanks Francisco/ EA7FTR ! 73 !

NF7E/KL7,IOTA NA-206 -QSL arrived

2 Weeks ago i received by mail , QSL Card for NF7E/KL7 .
IOTA NA-206 , Ushagat Island , Barren Islands Group .
IOTA Credit : 7.5 % .
20 Metres band , SSB Mode .
Thanks Bob / NF7E ! 73 !

Very busy but i am still kicking around...

Hello readers
I've been very busy with my business for the last few weeks , and still got no stable internet connection at my new QTH , but i am still kicking around :-)
Propagations were surely approved for the last few weeks and my new Dipole M/B antenna is doing a great job !
Doing some statistics with the Winlog32 program , one can see that in January 2008 i logged more then 500 QSO's while in 2007 the most active month was ended with about 350 QSO's .
I have done a statistic for my 2007 direct QSL ratio and i found that at this moment i got 76.8 % QSL's returned ratio ! i think it is a good ratio , thanks to all Managers !
Also i have designed my new QSL Card , you can see the front side at the top of this post , thanks to GlobalQsl software and service .

QSL Cards are coming thru bureau and direct eighter , need to find more time to screen and upload here....

I had a HD crash 3 months ago and i lost some of my QSO's , i used a paper logs for about 3 months and 2 days ago i finished to transfer about 800 QSO's to the software, now running with a new HD...

It was a shity work , but i am glad that it is done !

For those QSL Managers that are reading this post , sorry about my delay in QSL'ing , due my HD crash i am starting to send my direct cards for December'07-February'08 just now , i will be happy to get a card back , thanks and 73 !

73 to all ,Shalom !

p.s. I Almost forgot , i've been very busy also with my RDA Chasing as well ! lot of new ones in the log this month ! I am still lazy with finalizing my RDA Application , have couple of hundreads confirmed already , but for the paper application i just can not find the right time , i hope to finish that task this year with at least 500 RDA's in the first application ,so , i started to send direct QSL's to Russia just to speed the RDA Score ;-)

Мой друг, пожалуйста , пришлите мне ваши QSL! Спасибо , Eyran

DL2AH DXpeditions - QSL's arrived

Last week i found in my mailbox 3 QSL Cards from Ulli/DL2AH for his Pacific DXpeditions .
ZL7/DL2AH , IOTA OC-038 , Chatham Islands Group .
IOTA Credit : 38.3 % .

ZK2AH , IOTA OC-040 ,Niue Island .

IOTA Credit : 34.1 % .

VK9ANH , IOTA OC-005 ,Norfolk Island .

IOTA Credit : 39.9 % .

Thanks a lot Ulli for nice cards !

73 und 55 !

Note : Due a lack of time at the moment , only front sides were screened , if anyone got a doubt i got these cards he is welcome to email me !

XR7W - a DXpedition report

Following this post , here is a DXpedition report from Zoli/HA1AG :

Dear all ,
Last Friday we successfully arrived to Caleta Tortel after abt 450 km driving ongravel roads on very mountainous terrain.
We boarded our boat Jorge Montt and left for Wager Island.
Due to the bad weather conditions in the Messier Channel we had to stay overnight in a protected bay.
We arrived to Wager Island on Saturday noon.
We quickly set up the antennas at the tideline and the pileups started.
At around 1800 the rain started too and was followed by gale force winds. The tents were deformed by the wind and even the all weather proof tentscould not resist the sheer pressure of water and soon we were all soaked. Food,clothes, everything.
In the meantime our boat sought protection from theelements in a protected bay in Byron Island. By 2000 local we lost contact with them too. We spent the rest of the night trying to operate, communicate with the CE Navy and protect ourselves from the rain and wind. At 9 AM we had to reduce operation to minimum to spare gasoline for emergency communication. At 1 PM we were told by the CE Navybase to leave the island immediately and seek refuge. I had a last frenetic houron 17m running EU at 5q/min rates under a piece of plastic hand keying on myknee and paper logging until the captain gave the final order to leave.
At that moment we had 2400 QSOs from XR7W in the log. Crossing the channel again at thePeЯas Golf was horrifying.
We got back to Tortel by 5AM Sunday morning. After obtaining the necessary documentation to Roger we left Tortel at 11AM.Everything was fine until 1930 when near to a small place called Bahia Murtaour rented/borrowed van slipped of the gravel road and hit a rock frontally andturned upside-down.
The car was frontally damaged and we were first taken to anearby village called Rio Tranquillo which had a first aid outpost where ourinjuries were inspected and we were immediately sent to Coyhaique abt 200 kmaway in an ambulance car,the nearest place with a hospital.There we were inspected more thoroughly and xrayed.
Vlad RV1CC was diagnosed with a broken left upper arm, Marco CE6TBN with cuts and bruises and a broken rib, Yuri RA0FU with cuts and me with a broken finger (not cw!), a broken riband am suffering from compression on the torax bone. The question this morningwas if Vlad had to be operated here or can be flown home to SPB.
I feel very lucky to survive that accident and I hope we all get the fit-to-fly (sic!)clearance asap.Of course our first priority at the moment is to get out from Coyhaique.
The damage in car, equipment and additional costs are estimated in excess of 11k euro.
Some photos were taken, as soon as I will a bit more fit, I will publish them somewhere.

If you can and want to contribute to lessen this damages please feel free to contact me via this email .
ha1ag @ yahoo.com
Please feel free to circulate this info bulletin.

This expedition took us to the most difficult places in non-Antarctic Chile andit frustrates me that we missed the very last step.
73!
Zoli CE7/HA1AG from Coyhaique, Chile .

IOTA SWL 2007 Contest -Results

The results for the IOTA SWL 2007 Contest have been published on the MDXC/SWL Page .
The IOTA SWL Contest is sponsored by the MDXC .
Many thanks to Achraf 3V4-002 for his publish , thanks to Dan Rolla , I1-12387
IOTA SWL Contest manager and to MDXC .
Last year i participated in the SSB 24-HOUR category , and scored at the 4th place for this category .
Hopefully , i hope to get more time on this year's contest , still , it was fun to take part in a contest , after almost 10 years i did not contested .
The Contest results can be found here (PDF Format) .

My other Contests Scores :
Holyland DX Contest 1998 -First place SWL in Israel (Cup ) .
SPDX Contest 1998 - 3rd place SWL in the world (Certificate ) .
RDA Contest 2007 -4th place SWL in the world (Trophy donor) .