Thinking Day 2010 on the Air

World Thinking Day on the Air (TDOTA)

TDOTA 2010

will be the 3rd full weekend in February 20 & 21

This year the theme will be girls worldwide say “together we can end extreme poverty and hunger”. The theme is taken from the first UN Millennium Development Goal and is part of our WAGGGS Global Action Theme.

For 2010 we are highlighting the difference Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting makes and the ways it challenges poverty in five countries:

1. Haiti

2. Georgia

3. Maldives

4. Sudan

5. Zimbabwe

In favor of this international theme all radioscouts are invited to be on the air during this event!

I will be QRV the February 21st during celebrations in my city, Bari, South-East of Italy.  The reference’s frequency will be 14.290MHz. All scout’s groups of my city will take part of this TDOTA.

So please every scout’s station is invited to contact others radioscout all over the world, I’m waiting also for sked via email or also via comments on this post.

40&80 2009 un gran divertimento

Forse è stato il contest più divertente che ho mai fatto, certo non stiamo parlando del CQWW o altri con nomi importanti, stiamo parlando semplicemente del contest italiano in 40 e 80m che si svolge ogni anno il primo weekend di dicembre sotto l’egida organizzatrice della sezione A.R.I. di Bologna.

Ricordo l’anno scorso, avevo ancora il mio caro ic-706, in quell’occasione ebbe un tracollo verticale, ovvero andò in fumo la scheda di gestione delle correnti dei finali e portai avanti il contest praticamente in qrp e con la consapevolezza di dover buttare la radio….Poi le antenne erano semplici dipoli filari.

Oggi le cose sono molto cambiate, radio nuova, un bel FT-950, e soprattutto le antenne nuovo, in 40m una moxon full size autocostruita con le mie mani e in 80m un dipolo filare anche questo autocostruito dai fili al balun centrale 1:1 con toroide e cavo teflonato.

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CQWW SSB ‘08 – THE LAST ACT

“First and foremost, congratulations to everyone on the accomplishment of 1st Place North America and 2nd Place World in the 2008 CQWW SSB. All of you were fantastic operators and made a great team. This is a huge accomplishment for 6Y1V!

I have attached a scan of the certificate I just received from CQ Magazine.

Again, thank you all for your participation and a fantastic job.

Thank you kindly,

David ~ KY1V”

Thank you David, it was been a very incredible adventure! You are a great man, a great DXman, but also a great Teacher, you have taught me many things about the fantastic world of hamradio and contests! See you in contest GD!

CQWW SSB CONTEST 2009 – RESULTS AND OPINIONS

After the night of rest is time to analize the amazing results of the best ham radio contest of the year!

Friday I had received a phone-call by my friend Fabio IZ7NLJ: he said me that there was an incredible opening in 10m during the morning with some VK and other asian stations listen with good reports. It was a very good news, I have rushed on the net to search some feedbacks and I have found this fine article by G0KYA .

So there were very interesting premises….

And now, after a great fun, these are the results:

CQWW DX SSB Contest –  IZ7KHR

Time ON : 23:19 Ore

Time OFF: 20:36 Ore

Summary QSO/scores

BAND   QSO   ZONE   CTRY    DUPE  SCORE  MEDIA

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160      0      0      0      0       0   0,00

80     35      6     24      0      44   1,26

40    179     20     68      0     266   1,49

20    138     22     65      0     243   1,76

15    201     31     93      0     427   2,12

10    146     24     61      0     229   1,57

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Tot.    699    103    311      0    1209   1,73

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Late Dx Activity

After few days of Antenna’s maintenance I have reassembled and completed the 2 elements moxon for 40m, now it is a wonderful and pile-up breaker antenna, as my usual!!!!

I have contact, without problems and waste of time, 3D2MJ Fiji Island, both in 40m and in 20m phone, he had a nice real 59 in 40m.

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Glorieuses Island 2009 FT5GA

Glorioso Archipelago :

The Glorioso Archipelago (7 km²) consists of two coral islands: Grande Glorieuse (3 km in its larger diameter) where the human installations are, and Ile du Lys (circular island, 600 metres in diameter) which is desert. The archipelago also includes two rock islets - Roches Vertes and l’Ile aux Crabes – as well as a sand bank more or less above water at high tide. At the East and North east of Grande Glorieuse are a series of dunes reaching a maximum elevation of 12 m. The islands and rocks are surrounded by a reef and a lagoon which is drained dry at low tide. The Glorioso islands are situated 220km North West of Diego Suarez (Madagascar). (Economic Exclusive Zone: 48 350 km²)

The island became French territory in 1930. Around 1912, a French came from the Comoros and planted there a fine coconut palm plantation. Exploited until 1958 by people from the Seychelles, it is currently abandoned. There are also filaos. Fauna consists exclusively of a rather large colony of terns.

The meteorological service of the French colony in Madagascar installed on the island a rather primitive weather station in 1955, which was opened only during the hurricane season from October to April.

Since 1960 the station is open all year round. The importance of this station is clear. It predicts cyclones for the North Madagascar and Comoros area. It ensures safe navigation on the Madagascar-Djibouti-Madagascar and Kenya-Mauritius-Kenya air and maritime routes.

(minister for the french overseas Website)

The French Team is making a very great job at the moment! The pile up is very HOT hihihih… But operators are managing it in very good way.

The time schedule of the Dxpedition is until 5th October. At the moment I have worked it only in 20m usb. But signals on 20m and 15m are very solid during all the day, both in cw and ssb.

FB QSO TO ALL AND STAY TUNED.

Meeting with Mr. PKW Antenne

Thanks to I7GLO Nino for the friendly opportunity! Sauturday we have met the owner of PKW Antenne industry at I7GLO’s home, Mr. Stefano, son of famous I2PKW founder of the company.

It was a beatiful meeting, but full of  interesting informations. It was the occasion to speak about antennas and future projects!

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Un ringraziamento a Nino I7GLO per la sua totale disponibilità, sempre disinteressata, per il bene del radiantismo! Sabato è stata l’occasione dell’incontro, nello shack di I7GLO, con Stefano Martelli, proprietario della PKW Antenne, figlio del noto fondatore Giuliano I2PKW. La lunga e gradevole amicizia che lega Nino I7GLO alla famiglia Martelli ha permesso di intrattenere una serata interessante e fruttuosa per quanto concerne i nostri futuri progetti inerenti ai vari sistemi di antenna.

The two elements 40m Moxon is up!

Hi!

Now also the 40m two elements Moxon is on the tower. I have used the same boom of my Delta.

The KD6WD’s site is a very good resource to build a Moxon antenna. You can download a Win software that provides all measures of the Moxon rectangle.

The Moxon antenna concept is very revolutionary, it consists to fold part of the element in the point of minimum current flow. So the dimensions of the antenna are very compact against a typical yagi dimension. There is  also the possibility to reduce the lenght of the elements introducing coils and I think this is a good trick with a moxon for 40m!

I haven’t use coils, but the length of the two elements are very big; my elements consist of the first part of Alluminium and other 6m with a fiber-glass fishing pole joint with fiber-glass sheet and Epoxy.

So, due to the extreme length of the elements, I think that shortly I will modify the antenna with coils, but there is two possibilities: reduce the moxon with the coils, or build a short yagi with coils and 4.8m of boom.

This the photo of my antenna system at  this moment:

6Y1V 2nd worldwide score in cqww ssb ‘08 (multi2)

Hi guys!

This is a very great news! Our score is the second in the world, after the Canarian station AO8A. We have a score of 14,094,054.

We thought that it wasn’t a good score, because the propagation on 10 and 15m was been very poor. But now we can say that it was a very good job.

I remember to all the team:

David KY1V, Dave G3NKC, Dave G4BUO, Martin G4XUM  , Manu LU9ESD, Frank IZ7KHR.

This is the extract of the official score:

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My portable station in JN66BM

This is the first photo of my little antennas for my holidays in the North-East of Italy.

Location is Cortina D’Ampezzo, a wonderful place on Dolomiti mountains.