STEW PERRY 160 CONTEST

Stew Perry Topband Challenge

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA7TTT

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 5

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 126  Total Score = 494

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Same Equipment as 2016,100 w and a W8AMZ sloper.
Feeded 15 mtr up in the Tower,11 NA worked (in 2016..6 NA)
So almost 100% more sucsess to have a qso to North America...
KM7W had a big signal,he was the first NA I heard and the last.
He was well over s9 and other was in the s5-s6 area, he was
hearing well also. Hope to take part in Big Stew NeXT year also...

CONTEST QSL LN7TTT 2017

This will be the qsl card for my contest  activity in 2017.
The photo is from Budor ,about 15 km from  the village I live in,

RUSSIAN BASES IN ANTARCTICA

After i worked RI1ANA on 17 mtr cw this week.

I was curious of where the different RI1A## qth's where.

I checked with qrz.com ,and this was the call's I found.

I probably missed some also,but intresting to know..

Russia also have some closed bases...

They are marked with a blue square.

I try to work every station I hear from Antarctica.

Have worked bases in Antarctica  from: Belgium..Italia..Germany..USA

Ukraina..Russia..Japan..South Korea..Australia..

CONTEST CALLSIGN NORWAY LC # #

Good news for the Activ contesters in Norway.

From NeXT year (2018) Norwegian radio hams can get a 2x1 callsign.

It will be like LC1A..LC1B..LC1C and so on.

If i understand it correctly it will only be the LC serie of qrz's

But this is good News, Rumors have been for this some times

but finally I read about this in the Norwegian ham radio Magazine #6/17.

It will be the national ham radio League (NRRL) that will

assign the Licenses. (valid for 5 years) after this you can

renew for 5 more years.  I think it's a blue copy of the system

they have in Sweden (SSA) A good Christmas present from NRRL and NKOM.

The photo of the Young lady is from the 60's..she must have been on from a HOT spot..

MERRY CHRISTMAS

CQ WAZ AWARD via LOTW

Amateur Radio operators will be able to use LoTW logs to generate lists of confirmed contacts to be submitted for WAZ credit. Standard LoTW credit fees and separate CQ award fees will apply.

Implementation, documentation, and internal testing of the link between LoTW and WAZ is complete. ARRL and CQ are now assembling a team of external “beta testers” to assure that the link is ready for widespread use. A separate announcement will be made when LOTW’s support for CQ WAZ is available to everyone.

AO NANG KRABI

I ended up in Thailand in November.

Missed cqww cw contest, airplane landed in Oslo on sunday morning.

Was Lucky to get one qso With VK9MA on 30 mtr, needed on this band

was #312 on 30 mtr for me (tnx LB8DC) Then i was going to HS-land.

Missed 9U4M and VP2MDL totaly...but life is more than hamradio...

Worked J5T on 17-20 mtr before they was going qrt on sunday.

It was a very good November month for dx-ing and I

was not taking part, running around in Asia, but life is good...

If you are a dx'er you realy want's to work every dx-pedition.

So i missed some band Points, but ok to have something to do

when I get old......older  😛😛😛😛

My DXCC Challenge score is 2503 entity.(confirmed)

3C1L EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Qsl card from their home page.

After 3C0L Annobon Isl.. YL2GM-Yuris and YL3AIW-Kaspars

continued With 3C1L dx-pedition. They made 43613 q's from Equ.Guinea

Great qso # from a 2 man dx-pedition,they closed the operation on 12 November.

Their qso rate have been very high often over 200 q's pr hour.

Very VERY good, not often we se this from radio expeditions.

They worked about 76000 qso's, great team/result.

I worked them on 12-15-17-30-40 cw  and 30 mtr Rtty.

One New bandpoint 40 mtr cw and a New one on Rtty mode # 264

Hope to hear you on the air again from another

semi-rare spot.....

XXXXXX

They have realy set the pace for other dx-pedition.

This 2 guys made more qsos than other dx-pedition With 6 to 8 guys...

Often we se radio expedition have qso rate from 40 to 80 q's pr hour.

Sometimes I Wonder...why in hell havent you trained Your cw-skil

before you go on dx-pedition...you spend a lot of Money, and can't

work the pile-up.......

3C0L Annobon Island

Where is Annobon Island ??

Two Latvian radio hams was activ from this radio country in October.
The Island belong to Equiateriotal Guinea, but it count as it own
country in the ham radio world,not so much activity from this part
of the world,I think many needed this one on morse code...cw...
From 13 to 25 October they made 32448 qsos, mostly on cw
A great effort of YL2GM-Yuris and YL3AIW-Kaspars.
Great cw from this 2 guys, my hat of for this operation.
I made qsos on 12-15-17-30 cw and 17 ssb.
All my gsos on my vertical GP7DX and 200 watt.
No low band qsos but happy with the q's I get.
One New band point 30 mtr  DXCC #311

Qsl card for 3C0L ,Found it on their homepage.

ARRL 160 CONTEST

ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA7TTT

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 3h

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 24  Sections = 19  Countries = 2  Total Score = 912

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Must have been great radio conditions.
In 2016 I made 19 qsos and 540 Points.
Worked some New states also IL-OH-MI.
Equipment used: FT5000 set to 150w and W8AMZ Sloper antenna.
I hope the conds will be like this in the upcoming 160 tests.
Will take part in Stew Perry 160 in the end of the month.
Smal garden ? try this sloper ,Works ok, I bet you can work

DXCC on 160 With it, I run low Power.

Have feeded it 15 mtr up in the Tower.

Against a lot of aluminium....

FUNNY QSL CARD

This cartoon qsl tell more than 1000 words.
I think many of us have been there.....

PHOTOS RI1F IOTA EU-190

Nice photos from the homepage of this dx-pedition.
Polar bears , walrus , low temp and tents.
A very tough/hard dx-pedition  I think.
Well done boys, I see my 3 qsos is confirmed in your log search. 

AURORA LEVEL IN SAC SSB TEST

This 'photo' I  found on LA Contest page.
It's tell all about the radio conditions this weekend.
Scandinavia was covered of aurora, eating almost
all of the radio reflections , Not a single North American
station was heard at my qth,  neither any JA'S.
My signal to the east only reached UA9 this weekend.

SAC SSB CONTEST 2017

 Scandinavian Activity Contest, SSB

Call: LN7TTT
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA7TTT

Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 05:00

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:           
   40:  120    24
   20:   40    15
   15:    5     1
   10:           
-------------------
Total:  165    40  Total Score = 13,320

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Only qrv sunday,worked saturday,to tired for radio
when i returned back home,Radio conds was bad ,even
worse than 2016. Endless cq's...no one heard me....
Low power and a vertical on 20 mtr wasn't a success.
I'm laughing of this kids with stacked antennas and 
big amps,when they complaints..oohh only 1000 qso's
They should try a wire ore a vertical and 100 watts.
Was looking on the dx-cluster it's a lot of friendly 
Dx-spotting out there,it's no reason for a Scandinav
to spot another Scandinavian station in this test...
It's not allowed to work qso's inside Scandinavia. 
So the contest committee should look at this....
My suggestion 1 friendly spot 1% less score...
10 freindly spot 10% less score....
I don't know what LA7AK was doing but he spotted
him self 12 times in this contest, Mybee a new assisted 
category.....Thanks to all who called me, cu all neXt year.

VIKTORIYA ISL. IOTA EU-190

A group of Russian radio ham's was activ from this island 4 to 8 October.
Had some problem to work them/hear them ,but made 3 qsos and 3 band.
30 + 40 mtr cw and 20 mtr ssb  ,  thanks for a new iota worked.
I think this was a hard dx-pedition for the team, very cold and some
ice bears around the shelter.....

SWL REPORT RECIVED

To my big suprise I recived this swl card in the mail today.
This young talented boy have heard my cw signal during the
SAC contest of 16 September 2017.
He write that my signal was very loud , atomic load 599+++
He used a sdr radio, selfmade, but only for recive .
He wished he had that Elecraft radio that guy used near
the China border...

CQ WW RTTY 2017

 CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY

Call: LN7TTT
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA7TTT

Class: Classic SOAB LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 24:00

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX   Zones
------------------------------------
   80:  103       1       32     6
   40:  305       1       47    12
   20:  322      23       60    18
   15:   73       1       35    12
   10:    4       0        4     3
------------------------------------
Total:  807      26      178    51  Total Score = 437,835

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

This year all band 24 hour low power classic.
Work to much and problem with my back,problem
to sit in the chair for long time,Totally missed

North America on 40 mtr ,but good sleep both night's.

......Claimed score is new Norwegian record.....

Beam still heading 90 degrees east, worked 23 states 

On 20 mtr with the GP7DX vertical not bad,20 mtr was 

actually very good this weekend, 15 mtr very spotty

but nice to have some qso's there also. Most qsos S&P

Only some few runs ,goal was 720 qso's and 300 mults.

Qsos  ok but mult not good, Fun contest.

SAC CW CONTEST 2017

   Scandinavian Activity Contest, CW

Call: LN7TTT
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA7TTT

Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 15h29m

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:  138    24
   40:  455    32
   20:  212    35
   15:    2     2
   10:           
-------------------
Total:  807    93  Total Score = 151,311

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

2017 SAC cw contest is over.
As other says the conds was NOT the best.

1st stint:
1200z to 1318 I made 52 qsos,the first hour only 39 qsos.
I started on 20 mtr, the band was dead,So I switched of the radio.
2nd stint:
1522z to 1857z started up again and made 282 qsos on 40 mtr.(334q's total)
Ohhh it was fun again, QSY'ed to 80 mtr. NOOOOO more fun so quiet.
Extrem high swr.Shoe on .Where is that dam flashlight!!  
My feed point for my shortned gp on 80 mtr is 2,5 mtr up 
Found a camping chair ,tramped up on it and checked the pl's to the choke
balun everything was ok..but no change in swr,antenna was totally useless.
Ok last chance,check the water proof balun box,When i open the box the water
was flowing, it was full of water....dryed it up...swr was ok ..lost 33
minutes. 
3rd stint:
1930z to 2141z found a frequenc on 80 mtr and made 111 q's on 80mtr.
Tryed some cq's on 40 but band was dead, Qrt day one. Total 445 qsos.
2ND.day.
0321z to 1146z
Can not sleep wake up early, tuning 40 and 80 mtr band...very quiet. 
Dident work a single North American on 40 and 80 mtr.Cqing on 80 was giving
some more qsos but qsyed to 40 mtr made 170 more qsos there before I ended
Up on 20 mtr, Made 160 more qsos on 20 mtr but the band was very bad so it
was a struggle to make qso, Changed frequency a lot of times,was sqeezed away
of other Scandinavian stations, they couldn't hear me and was taken over 
the frequency . But no problem everyone was on 20 mtr,no other band was open..
Last 30 min of the test everything stopped on 20 mtr for me,no more to work.
Qsyed to 15 mtr, to my suprice the band had som signal. Worked LY2NK and 4X0A.
Heard YO9HP and UR3GU also on 15 mtr ,but no qso.   Qrt 1146z.
=================
SUMMARY..ok contest..
My beam is still locked to 90° East
My rotary dipole for 40 mtr is facing north-south
Hope that i can change the rotor before cq ww cw.
Have a multi band gp up 10 mtr,GP7DX it worked ok.
So can't complain to much.....
But.... i think i lost 200 qsos due to qrt time early in the contest.
My goal was 1000 qsos

GP7DX VERTICAL ANTENNA

Today I put the GP7DX antenna on a pull-up mast.
This mast I buy for 15 years ago 2nd handed.
This mast is 10 mtr high, my plan was to put it
on a trailer and put a 3 ele 3 bander on it and use it
in a so2r set up. This plan is still valid, but for the upcoming
Sac cw test this will be my main antenna. The goal is 1000 qsos.
Of course my Optibeam  is facing To 90 degrees east, not the worst
direction but I totally lost the beam path to North America.
Last year the Optibeam was locked to 0 degree north.
So a better solution this year since it is a big contest activity from East EU.
In 2016 I worked 204 DXCC on the GP7DX Antenna.
A very good result,because I run low power and only are qrv in weekends.
So if you have limited space buy this vertical.
I think I was the only station in Norway that worked
VP8SGI and VP8STI on low power and vertical.
Also worked VK0EK  on 30 + 40 mtr band with this antenna.
In 2016 I had this antenna only 4 mtr up, with the pull-up
mast I will raise it to 10 mtr in the weekends.
If you put it up 10 mtr it's best to use guying.
This antenna have a solid construction. 

EARLY X-MAS FOR ME

This winter will be fun.
Finally I get the new antenna rotor in house.
The plan was to change it in last part of August.
I can only say that I hope It will be ready for cqww cw in November.
I'm a slugger on ground ,but can do nothing in the air. (Big Vimp)
So I need help from a local monkey.........(Morten are you ready)

AWARD CQ WW RTTY 2016

Award from cqww rtty in 2016.
In 2016 I was doing only 40 mtr in cq ww contest.(cw-ssb-rtty)
I have a decent signal on 40 mtr from my Optibeam dipole.
But the reason I choiced 40 mtr is that my rotor is caput..
This summer have also been a kind of hectic, much work.
Spend 3 weeks in Asia in July and when  I come back i order a
Pro Sis Tel rotor, haven't get it yet but I hope I will see it this week.
Then i have a chance to change it before next cqww rtty test.
Was taking part in SCC rtty test this weekend , it was fun
so I hope it will give me a kick  so I get my station up and running again.
Bye the way, my result in ww rtty was very good...👏👏👏

YB72RI AWARD

More awards in the collection.
This time an Indonesian short time award.
Work all 10 call area get gold award.
A lot of activity from Indonesian Radio ham's.
Very easy to make qsos from Norway.

RUSSIAN-CW-CLUB AWARD

 Special Event Station R#17CW ,on the air from 22.july to 6. August.
Work 20 station's and get an award bronze, silver ore gold.
I managed to get the gold award, fun with this short time awards.
It was 21 station's activ, I worked 13 and 28 qso's. 

FX-9A CHINA HF RADIO

FX-9A
Received this radio today ,only 9 days with DHL from China.
This is a upgraded version 2017 mod. Much better than the
previous the say/write on the Web........time will show...........
Paid 390 us $ for this radio, ok price for the radio if it works.
Like the design of this radio, my goal was to buy another
Chinese qrp radio ,the Xiegu X5105 hf + 6 mtr.
But I haven't the time to wait for it...so I ended up with this..
Will probably buy the X5105 when it comes into production.
So this weekend I will test out this radio.   👍👍👍

MOSCOW RUSSIA JULY 2017

1st time in Russia. I can read Burger King....✌✌

Back again in Norway,  the little 130 kilo boy
survived Moscow. A great visit...
Not much dx to write about in July for me.
Life is fun,have a lot of things to do....
NeXt post will be a dx report for June/July.

CONFEDERATIONS CUP 2017

Confederations  Cup in Russia 2017.
Worked a lot of R17xxx stations in the last week.
36 qsos for gold award ,they continue to 2nd July.
My goal it's reached,  so back to tv for football looking. ✌

NEW BANKNOTES NORWAY.

New banknotes in Norway.
I think possibly the most ugly notes in the world....
Launched on the 1st. of June 

ICE DRIFTING AWARD #3

Award #3 in box..

UPDATE S21ZEE-ZED

Received this qsl last week.
Worked from 15 to 80 mtr.
New dxcc on 20 + 80 mtr+ also on rtty mode.
This dxpedition team was very good.
Hope to hear them again from a nice spot...

DRIFTING ICE AWARD #2

North Pole-1 .Award #2  one more to go.

ICE DRIFTING AWARD 80 YEAR

I like this Russian's short time awards.
All ways good cw ops,make it fun to participate.
This award is for celebration of the 80th anniversary
of the 1st Russian Artic station on drifting ice in the Artic.

RAW SCORES WPX CW 2017

Single-Op 10 meter not assisted  

KN4Y..............35,632
4Z5LU.............35,344
DL9ZP.............13,624
SU9JG.............13,440 (EA7TN)
4F3FSK.............7,955
LZ1IA..............6,630
LY2HS..............4,588
RW7M...............4,235
EA5CP..............4,212
LN7TTT.............2,754 (LA5LJA)

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Single-Op 160 meters not assisted 

EU3AC............107,666
E79EA.............88,147
OK1JOK............76,912
HA1TI.............53,550
KV4FZ.............52,800
LA5LJA............23,000
LY2NZ.............17,572
IK3VUU............14,299
F5RAB.............11,289
RV3FW..............8,384
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This is fun....
Raw scores shows 2 top ten place's 
for me in the cq wpx cw contest 2017.
I realy must have choiced the right bands.
I realy get a good feeling....👅👅👅👅👅👅

BOUVET ISL. DX-PEDITION 2018

Found this foto on the Web. A very nice photo.
This will be the big one in 2018. A lot of rookies need this one.
This rookie need a cw qso.....have Bouvet on ssb.
I realy hope they reach the 100000 qso level.

MOSCOW 870 YEARS, AWARD #4

One more Moscow award   # 115 issued.

CQ WPX CW 2017

This was Norwegian record on 40 mtr. Low power.

CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA7TTT

Class: SOSB160 LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 3h30m

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:  116
   80:     
   40:     
   20:     
   15:     
   10:     
------------
Total:  116  Prefixes = 100  Total Score = 23,000

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Only short time effort this year also...summer was come
to Norway,temp was 25°C...it's feel like crazy to sit in
front of the radio when you can BBQ outside and drink beer.
But managed to work some hours on 160 mtr and the claimed 
score is new Norwegian record. So happy with that..😆😆😆
NeXt year I will do a full time effort on 20 ore 40 mtr band.
Since I probably lost the Norwegian low power record on 40 mtr.

In Norway we have some RBN police and since my rbn spot are investigated. 
This year they realy will be shocked...get 2 rbn spot from Germany 
They say snr 69 db and 82 db....oooh my good..the norm is between 
20 to 30 db...in other word was I tx-ing 50 to 80 KW....
Jealousy and low iq realy get people to behave bad....
This people must be mental disturbed, living on social welfare 
and have no money,Realy some band trash,

MOSCOW 870 YEARS, AWARD #3

Moscow 870 anniversary.
This is award #3 for me in this serie.
They will continue true 2017.
So more to come....

DX IN MAY

E31A was activ in the last part of May.
I made qsos on 15-17-40 ssb + 30 cw.
They made 36434 qso's in total.
A great number for only 4 ops.
They was giving me # 287 on 40 mtr band.
Already confirmed  on lotw, a big thank you.

This was the big one for me in May.
Had qso's on 15-17-40 ssb +17-20-30-40 cw + 40 rtty.
First time I heard them on 17 mtr cw I was thinking
what is this??? They was on 18,108 mc ,that's a rtty frequency.
They was doing cw ,the op could only copy 1 qso in 3 min..
So I didn't try this pile-up at all .
Later I get a qso on 30 mtr cw and after that I get a better
trust in them. They made 44438 qsos,so they where ok.
A25UK was giving me #286 on 40 mtr band, already confirmed on lotw.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Other dx in May.
TA0/DL7UCX on 30 mtr cw, Iota as-201
VU4YC on 17 -20 mtr cw
XW1IC on 17 mtr Rtty.
E44WE on 10 -17 ssb + 17 bpsk63
MJ/PB5X on 20 - 40 ssb and MJ/PA1AW on 160 rtty
The summer has came and so has the sporadic e layer.
About 250 qsos on 10 and 12 mtr in the last part of May.
It's  fun when 10 mtr shows way of life, great activity
the band have been dead for 8 months at my qth.
Let's hope 6 mtrs also get life....

DX IN APRIL

A late dx-report for April.
Well I was in Thailand from 1th to 16th April.
And when I come back it was a pile of work....on work.
The foto's  are from Hilton Hotel in Hua Hin Thailand.
I like this hotel,for me a great choice, good food and near the beach.

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DX in April.
Not much to brag about..
KH7XS on 30 mtr cw,great signals in morning time.
XW4XR on 17 mtr Rtty  and   S79Z on 30 mtr cw.
V85TL on 20 mtr cw   and   9V1XX on 20 mtr cw.
BA7IO on 30 mtr cw,he was on Iota AS-129.
4S7VBG/p on 40 mtr cw, Vladimir was on Iota  AS-171.
From Vlad's qrz page you can read that he was not happy
with the help he gets from some locals ham's...

DXCC CHANGES AGAIN..

Midway and Kure Islands Reinstated as DXCC Entities

05/11/2017

On March 31, 2017, the DXCC desk announced the deletion of Midway Island and Kure Island from the DXCC entities list. The stated reason for this action was because of changes in the administration resulting from changes inPapahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, formerly known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, of which the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and the Battle of Midway National Memorial, the Hawaii State Seabird Sanctuary at Kure Atoll, and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands State Marine Refuge, of which they are all included.

After further review it has been found that the deletion of these two entities is not supported by the changes that were made to the relevant administrations. Therefore, the deletions from the DXCC list should not have occurred and the two entities, Midway Island KH4 and Kure Island KH7K, will return to the DXCC List. 

So that will say....back to 339 for top Honor Roll.

AWARD CQ WW SSB 2016

New award from cq ww 2016.
New Norwegian record....can easly be beaten..
Conditions during cq ww ssb 2016 was very low..bad.

BBQ

First BBQ this summer.
Finally the summer has come to  Norway.
+ 10 °C and everybody is out in the garden.
Free day ,labour day tomorrow, BBQ again. 😅😅
Life is good.

FUNK AMATEUR

Do you read ham radio magazine..

This is my favourite magazine. 

Have subscribed for 3 years now. 

I think Europe's best magazine. 

Look carefully  on the frontpage. 

👅👅👅👅👅👅

B0RIS..

After cq wpx rtty...
Someone asked me. Who is B0RIS.
This is B0RIS....
We made new Norwegian record MSLP.