Category Archives: 2017: E6AG OC-040 Niue

Final Hours Today marks the last full day of operation from E6AG. The plans at this stage are to operate on 40m this evening, either LSB or FT8. I may also do one more stint on 20m but that will … Continue reading →

First Up – the Tourist Report! Swimming on the Reefs We have been having loads of fun here on Niue and have found several swimming rock holes that even without masks or scuba gear give us plenty of opportunities to … Continue reading →

A few people may be disappointed that they are not in my FT8 logs. Some of the issues I am seeing are as follows: Make sure you are using WSJT-X v 1.8.0-RC2 – there are fixes there that help ALOT! … Continue reading →

Arrived and Setup Hello and welcome from Niue! We arrived safely with the gear and managed to put the first signals to air on Tuesday 12th (Niue time) in the evening after flying in from Auckland that afternoon. After managing … Continue reading →

As this will be a one man holiday style expedition I wont be operating 24×7 like the big guns. However, I will make the effort to try and work particular openings propagation willing, with a focus on trying to reach … Continue reading →

Niue here we come! There is less than 36 hours to go before we leave Australia on the first leg of the journey out to Niue. The first step is the flight from Adelaide to Auckland on Monday. We will … Continue reading →

It’s official – I will have some low band capability now on the trip. Thanks again to Steve VK5SFA, I will be taking a 160/80/40m trapped dipole with me that I can string in between the coconut trees! While not … Continue reading →

80m to be tried / 160m possibbly too! Saturday 26th August saw us test fire the 40m folded monopole antenna with the SGC-230 ATU on 80m. Local contacts out to 300km were made about an hour before sunset so it … Continue reading →

Looks like there will be a few around to work in September!

It is getting closer now and most things are ready to go! A dry run of most of the station netted contacts from VK5 into Alaska on 30m and Ukraine on 40m. The backup station is now running as well … Continue reading →