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....