#189 DXCC 9L1JT Sierra Leone

I first went to chase Ascension Island on 30m  when I saw the spot for Sierra Leone on 17m.  Since I was just there for CW night with N0TR, I was able to quickly get back on 17m and found the DX working with a straight key or a bug.  He was very copyable though.  He had a reasonable size pileup.  It took about 15 minutes of calling before he acknowledged me.  I later found Ascemsion Island ZD8O on 20m CW but could not break through the pileup before the DX called QRT.

QSO with KG9HV - 5370 miles per watt

Propagation was great today.  KG9HV was calling CQ on the QRP watering hole on 20m at 14062.  I was waiting for a SOTA station from a spot.  John, the station Op was running an ATS570 at 5 watts.  We decided to back down to 100 milliwatts and carried on the conversation.  He gave me a 549 signal report and was still at 100% copy.  I cannot back down the K2 any less than 1 tenth of a watt.  So this is my personal best within the continental United States for carrying on a conversation from SC to Indiana 537 miles at 100 milliwatts.

GARC Club Meeting - EME and Meteor Scatter using WSJT

Nice talk tonight by Dave Anderson K4SV.

#187 DXCC C82DX Mozambique

40m band had lots of static but DX station was relatively loud.  Easy pickin in the pileup at 1200 watts on the ZS6 antenna.  Op had good ears..

Hexbeam at NY4G QTH

Barely visible against the clouds.  It is up around 30 feet above ground.

#186 DXCC Saint Helena ZD7VC

Saint Helena is a tiny island off the western coast of Africa in the Atlantic. The bearing is towards the southern tip of Africa - Capetown. Matt WM4AA was over helping me setup the hex-beam. So for the first time I might be sending out forward power at 6dBi. We saw Saint Helena on a spot in the DX Cluster and he was having a long ragchew allowing us to set-up the linear for 1500 watt output on 20m as he was on 14160 SSB. When he finally finished the QSO we discovered there were a lot of of people piled and waiting. A huge pileup ensued - and we threw out my call sign Norway Yankee Four Germany - twice. He returned with proper phonetics - November Yankee Four Golf and QSO started. We had a nice short chat and complimented the strength of my signal. Nice to have a first call QSO on SSB. Saint Helena station ZD7VC only QSL's direct.

#185 DXCC KG4HF Gunatanamo Bay

KG4HF was working RTTY split listenong up a few kilohertz on 12 meters. It took about 20 minutes of calling as this was a relatively rare station. I transmitted 400 watts into the G0GSF. I just got confirmed on LOTW.

#184 DXCC MI0BPB Northern Ireland

12 meters and the high bands were pretty open today. It took a while to get my turn between stronger stations. I was transmitting 500W. Andrew Mulholland is the operator and very polite at that. We exchanged names and QTH and other pleasantries. Thanks Andrew.

#183 DXCC Papua New Guinea P29NO

After over an hour of listening and waiting for a lull between strong stations - propagation finally improved for him to finally hear me - transmitting 1000 watts. He was on the CQ Oceana Contest. I heard Matt a few minutes earlier (WM4AA) make it - so I thought my chances ought to be better. Thanks Naohiro and to gray line propagation early Saturday morning

My Omniangle Antenna

ARRL Simulated Emergency Test

Our ARES group participated.  KJ4RQZ Nathan and I were NCS at the top of Paris Mountain coordinating comm tests with Mobile Command Center Truck at Keith Drive - AJ4IK and Red Cross building in downtown WD4DYH Johnny

#182 DXCC TX5D Suitecase Dxpedition - Austral Islands

Finally landed TX5D - on 12 meters even - after many days of trying. Propagation is pretty good today. Tried the Omniangle 15m for the first time - no problem transmitting power through it.

Number 112 QRP DXCC SV9/DL7UCX Crete

Worked simplex on October 7, 2013 in heavy static 0330 UTC. DX signal was very strong.

#181 DXCC 5X1NH Uganda

This was on 10/6/2013 - late in the afternoon in the east coast about 4 pm.  The station was working split 5 up and I did not realize it for about 5 minutes.  The band cops were not telling  to QSY.  I was looking for callers 3 kC up but could not hear anything.  I thought he was working simplex  - but nnever returned my calls.  I decided to search 5 up and lo - there were the callers.  I immediately went to work splii and was able to work him with 500 watts.within a few calls.

#180 DXCC TO2TT Mayotte

This was on 10/5/2013.  A late evening contact at about 2 AM UTC.  Made it with the linear at low drive 500 watts.  The pile-ups on this Dxpedition had been large.