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Sunday 8 November 2009

Got a Hankering for CW

Woke of this morning early as the sun was rising and all was quiet. Made my first coffee fired up the radio and start tuning the band. I started with the maritime band and located a CW station on 6390 khz and from there I've dedicate the morning to hunt CW stations and try to get their ID. Previous night I had rolled out a good length of thin stranded wire for an antenna for the Sony ICF-SW7600GR as all my other radio gear and antenna have been packed away ready for us selling up the QTH here in Canberra and moving over to Manchester UK for a while. So it been a good morning so far, lets se how the rest of it goes.


20091107:

Time Khz RST Message / Info

1945 6390 359 AQR 2/4 VVV VVV - Signal faded in and out 50% copy

2002 6378 479 DE 4XZ VVV - ID itself regularly and variety of other short message followed.
Looking on the web it appears that this is (Israeli Morse Station 4XZ)

2022 7015 259 IK2SND IK2ND TEST - Fairly hard to focus with this operator, and signal fade
did not help.

Trying to listen to CW on 7MHz and it was busy / piled up at times fairly hard for a novice CW listener.
I'll spend a little more time here and get another coffee and see how I go.

20091108:

After getting bogged down in 7MHz, I had to stop as the washing was being done, and the washing machine kill the reception. So back up and running let see what afternoon CW we get:

0326 14014 479 CQ TEST UA9MC

Brisbane QTH 2007

Brisbane QTH 2007
Heres my little Listening Post at Brisbane

Charlotte Pass August 2007

Charlotte Pass August 2007
The DEGEN 1103 in action on the ski slopes

Listening Post Thredbo

Listening Post Thredbo
Degen DE1103 and Long Wire - Thredbo Camp Site June 2007

Condamine Gorge - XMAS / NEW YEARS 2006

Condamine Gorge - XMAS / NEW YEARS 2006
Brother Robbie and I listening to the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race scheduled radio morning Check in. Those swags are very confortable.

Cold Night - Mum, Dad and Robbie at Lake St Clair on our Tassie Trip 2007

Cold Night - Mum, Dad and Robbie at Lake St Clair on our Tassie Trip 2007
It was a very cold night, but man that fire was bueatiful. Using the Sangean ATS-505 coupled with external 100ft wire for MW DXing.

New Years Eve 2005 - My Wife Tanya and I

New Years Eve 2005 - My Wife Tanya and I
You can see the FRG-7 we brought in my New Years as a Family. Starting with New Zealand / Melborne / Brisbane then lost count after that :) And it finished for me with BBC broadcast of chimes of Big Ben Clock from London.