PD55EA

From the 1th till the 29th of August,we will be active with a SES Callsign on 10,20,40meters and also sometimes on 2Meter band.

The Callsign is PD55EA...to celebrate the 55th Birthday of the Museum "Ellert and Brammert" in my town Schoonoord.

All QSL's will be send automatic via de buro.If you want it direct,please send me first with SAE.I also send eQSL with this callsign.

More info on http://www.pd7bz.nl/pd55ea

WAE Contest and PKW MHF1e40

In the past week,my girlfriend put the Rotary Dipole from PKW for 40M,the PKW MHF1e40,on the roof.It's just in steady position,little North-West/South-East.

This because during contests,many from NA are on 40M.So for me this would be the best position.But as it is only a Dipole....it TX as well as to the front as to the back.But i am very happy to have it up on the roof....around 8 meters above the ground now.

Before it was only standing at the back at the house at 4 meters....but even on this height i was able to work XW1B,Bruce in RTTY....just 8800 Km. :)

The past weekend,8th and 9th of August,was the WAE Contest in CW....(Work All Europe).

Means....we from Europe where only allowed to get outside EU in our log.

Knowing this and that the propagation isn't still very well......

Still i did manage to get 101 QSO's logged.Started also very good with KH7XS and KH6MB logged within my first 12 QSO's.

Also 10M was open and got some nice ones on this band as well....total 14 QSO's.

Worked these nice DXCC's on 10M: LS1D , FJ/VE3EY , 5N0OCH , PY2NDX , etc..

On 20M also nice DXCC's: CO8ZZ , HK1X , CX1AA , etc..

On 40M is did try out my PKW MHF1e40 on the roof.Could work some NA stations without any problem with my 25W.Also got FM5CD and FJ/VE3EY on 40M.

Saw that YN9H was also active on 7054....also worked him in SSB in a pileup.So i am very happy with my PKW dipole on the roof.

Got total more QSO's and multies then last year,but have to wait how much points i get,after all logs where checked.As i do my CW with my computer,sometimes callsigns and numbers aren't correct.Or the other stations doesn't have my callsign correct.

In N1MM i got total 9.999 points till now.

Contesting

On saterday the 1th of August,i was active during 2 contests.

First there was the TARA Grid Dip contest,in RTTY and PSK...from 0:00 till 23:59 UTC.
In this contest we had to exchance our name and part of our locator.I had to send "bernard jo32"
Didn't see too much stations active during this contest....was that the propagation or just lack an interest??
Still some nice DX was worked and got 52 QSO's logged.

At 12:00 UTC the European HF Championship started as well.This contest you could work in SSB,CW or mixed mode.I was active in both SSB and CW,so mixed mode.
In this contest we had to exchange the last two digits of the year we got our first licence,For me this was 2006...so i had to give away 06.We where only allowed to get QSO's with EU stations for this contest.Came to 200 QSO's in this contest,good for 17200 point,said it in N1MM.

As we as Novice HAM's in the Netherlands are bound with bands we are allowed to TRX on,it's good that 10M is open so now and then as well.We have on HF just 3 bands to be on,also during the contest.These are 10 , 20 and the 40 Meter band.