Well, good news and bad news. Let's see. The good news are that I found out the problem with the antenna. It was the dipole adapter, like the one on the picture to the right, that caused all the issues for reasons yet unknown. Once I replaced the adapter with a chassi-mount SO-239 the problems …
As I promised earlier, I'm currently QRV from Herøy, Norway. Locator JP66ca, IOTA EU-062. As a personal challenge, I didn't bring any antennas with me this time. Instead, I brought some wire, a couple of nice toroids, a 4:1 balun, and a five meter long telescopic fibreglass pole. "No problem", I foolishly thought to myself. …
Did you notice how the activity on this page dropped after the OJ0T DXpedition? Holy shit. To be honest, I haven't even unpacked all of my gear yet. I guess it's about time to start sorting the cables from the dirty laundry; in about a week's time I'll be heading up north to Helgeland for …
My hosting provider recently did some upgrades, which resulted in my blog disappearing for a while. If you're reading this, it means I'm back in business. Lately I've been super busy with duties outside of the amateur radio hobby, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now, and will get …
I will attend the annual Norwegian Ham Meeting 2023, held in Jessheim Is- og flerbrukshall near the Gardermoen Airport. The main purpose is to meet up with other DXers and discuss future opportunities, as well as socializing and mingling with other crazy amateur radio operators out there. If you want to say hello, you know …
CQWW SSB 2023 is over, and I assisted my club the best I could. We struggled with terrible conditions on Saturday, but did our best and worked 160-10m with four operators. I logged about 500 of the 2000+ QSOs we got. Fingers crossed for better conditions next year! Unfortunately our Expert 1.5k-FA PA decided its …
It's that time of year again. Prepare your ears and forget about getting any sleep, it's CQWW SSB time! I will be joining my club and be active as LN2T from CQ zone 14. We will start planning operator shifts soon, but I will probably opt for the evening/night shifts like I've done earlier. My …
Logs have been uploaded to QRZ.com, and will be synced with LoTW shortly. If you are looking for QSL cards, please forward your requests to EA5GL. I bumped into a bit of problems with my logs, and accidentally got the wrong time stamp on the first batch. Deleting all the QSOs from QRZ.com is a …
It has been an exhausting week with very little sleep, extreme weather, antennas blowing down, shack RFI, QRM, condx going up and down, and whatnot. When I got back home I slept for 10 hours straight, and could easily sleep for 10 more. Here are some photos from our trip. Loading the boat On our …
Okay, let's both ignore my horrible attempt of a wordplay in the title, and rather dig into what's happened, and up for the upcoming month. It's been a few busy months with very little activity. I'm still a bit bummed that the JX Jan Mayen expedition got cancelled, but I'm on a constant lookout for …
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