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The YJ0AG 2018 Expedition Story
Expedition Planning After the very successful trip to Niue in 2017 I was truly bitten by the expedition bug. Niue had been fantastic both as a holiday destination and as an IOTA activation. This established my desire to do it … Continue reading
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eQSL Records now available for YJ0AG operation
I am happy to announce that the logs for my YJ0AG operation have now been submitted to eQSL. There are still some paper cards to send out. I am working through them now (those who didnt follow instructions and order … Continue reading
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LotW Uploaded for YJ0AG
I had a chance over the weekend to complete the reconciliation of the WSJT, N1MM and Polish RTTY contest (SPDX RTTY) logs. Were you one of the lucky ones to work me in SPDX RTTY? It was amusing the number … Continue reading
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YJ0AG QSL Card Preview
Firstly thank you to everyone again for all of the contacts and well wishes while I was operating as YJ0AG. Your feedback to my activation of YJ was greatly appreciated. Now after a couple of days rest, I can advise … Continue reading
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YJ0AG QSO Statistics
A good friend once told me, everything is enhanced with statistics! So here are some tallies for my operation here at YJ0AG Vanuatu The workhorse band as always was 20m although a sizeable contribution came from 17 and 40m. The … Continue reading
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YJ0AG now QRT – Teardown has begun
Thank you everyone for all of the contacts! Time to tear the station down and pack it away for transport home tomorrow. Its been loads of fun. I worked 96DXCCs over 3200 contacts in 12 days covering CW, SSB, FT8 … Continue reading
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Station Build Complete – Now on air 80-6m
The Rise of the HexBeam It has taken about 6 hours of hot sweaty work but I am pleased to announce that the 20-6m HexBeam is now in the air and working fabulously. Currently as I type this I have … Continue reading
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YJ0AG is ON AIR!
We have arrived! After a long day on Monday when we made it to our accommodation at around 5pm after leaving home at 3am, Tuesday was spent first making a trip into Port Vila to visit a super market for … Continue reading
YJ0AG 10 Days to Go!
Departure Looms: 16th April Only 11 days to go before we depart for Vanuatu and our next DX Holiday adventure! Everything is falling into place. The gear is all tested, accommodation has been reconfirmed, flights are confirmed and we have … Continue reading
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YJ0AG Preparations Continue – 20-10m Beam Testing Complete
The final end to end testing of the G3TXQ Portable HexBeam by Ant MW0JZE was completed today! Im very pleased to report that it came in at better than 1.2:1 on all bands. A very impressive product in the way … Continue reading
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