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Hi Dan, This is very sad news indeed, Bill will be missed and the band a it will be much quieter place without him now. Even less of the old brigade left now, my sincere condolences to you and the family. R.I.P. Bill.
Dai, G8FXM Saturday 04 July 2009 - 08:36:54


Hello Dan - Thanks for letting us know about Bill - sorry for your loss - I have good memories over the years Bill was on 50 MHZ. Take care and regards to the family. Another missing call on 50 MHz - getting less and less each year. 73
Ken, G4IGO Friday 03 July 2009 - 23:22:29


Bill Lee, GW3MFY passed away in the early hours of Friday Morning. He had been fighting the final stages of Cancer for the past 7 months, and my gosh did he fight! Most of you will know that Bill loved 6m! I have him to thank, for getting me interested in the magic band back in 2001! I shall certainly miss my grandfather on 6m! Let our thoughts be with him.
Dan, MW1MFY dan_lee14@hotmail.com
Dan, MW1MFY Friday 03 July 2009 - 21:37:23


Why post OLD NEWS ???
Ref. frontpage June 5th
Matt OZ6OM Friday 03 July 2009 - 19:17:34


8Q - Pierre, HB9QQ is now active as 8Q7QQ from the Maldives until 11
July. He operates on 50183 kHz in JT65A mode (first period) around
moonrise and moonset in search of Sporadic E and EME contacts.
Other activities include 30, 17 and 12 metres. QSL via mome call.
[TNX HB9PL
David, BRS25429 Friday 03 July 2009 - 18:36:23


Greece, SV. Alexandros SV8CYR, Vassilis SV8CYV, Ilias SV8FMY and Giorgios SV8IJZ will be active as SX8GR from Samos Island for the Aegean VHF Contest (4-5 July, rules at http://www.5-9report.gr/). They will operate SSB and CW on 6 and 2 metres, and on 40 and 80 metres during their nights. QSL direct to SV8FMY. (425 DX News #948)
Matt OZ6OM Friday 03 July 2009 - 18:11:19


Jimmy, thanks for your effort and thanks for our QSO yesterday. The V29JKV signal was more than S9 level at times and in here for hours. And I was really impressed by your calm and competent QSO style - a joy listening at. Have a safe trip home. 73 de Christoph
Christoph, DF9CY Friday 03 July 2009 - 06:29:31


All of the QSOs are on 6 meters...the only band I used and love...jimmy
Jimmy, W6JKV Thursday 02 July 2009 - 12:11:56


Howdy from sunny Antigua...a beautiful island in the Caribbean. Thru Wed., I have had 1356 QSOs with 56 countries. The number includes dupes. I will go QRT this Friday night around around 2300 European times...at end of day. I hope to work a lot of you during the next 2 days...and to many...thanks for QSOs. Jimmy
Jimmy, W6JKV Thursday 02 July 2009 - 12:10:59


A further report/update from TZ6EI.

It was dark when we landed at Bamako and very hectic. It is the rainy season and it was very hot setting up, about 97 degrees

The rotator control box didn’t survive transit, neither did the VOM meter to assist with any repairs. We are turning the Antenna manually which means constant trips to the roof, which sometimes isn’t easy due to local restrictions.
After setup last Thursday we went and got a case of water about 4 pm which saved a lot of money but it was hard work carrying it about 1/2 mile. We were dehydrated bad. The good news is the AC in the room works great and the 240v is stable.


We worked no one on Thursday 25th. On Friday 26th mid afternoon things opened to Europe. We were getting concerned something was wrong. We made a contact with MT off the moon . The six meter beam is about 35 feet high.

Our frequency is 50.117, signals are often just there for a brief moment and then gone. The noise is low and no TVI. The QRN when the regular evening storm comes is bad.

The USA is tough as about the time we think we would have propagation to the USA we have our nightly rainy season thunderstorm with lots of QRN and Lightening and we have to shut down as it is some serious lighting right to the ground. We get back on after it is safe and will be on until around 2400z trying for the USA. I think the other window will be just before the thunderstorms which would be about 1600z to 1700z but it depends on the night. We eat our one meal a day during the storm.

We have no Internet other than a trip to a Cyber cafe and it is terribly expensive. Our advice is if you are not sure of the QSO, go ahead and work us again as often we get a call and send a report and they come back but we don't get the report. People have been "SMART" and just sending RST and we send their call and RST. I would suggest sending the RST two or even three times to increase our chance of copying it. A lot of people are sending too fast for signals being so weak.

Tuesday June 30th, We had an opening to eastern Europe and right during it we had to QRT to speak with the Manager. We spent a long time trying to get our bashed up rotator control box to work. We can only get it to turn one way! It is tough with no diagram or volt meter. We worked in the dark on the roof but could not come up with anything.


Wednesday July 3rd , we may have a receive problem? We have checked everything and did find our switching power supply has more birdies than our spare one so we have switched to an ASTRON Supply we have used on other trips. We have listened on the second radio a FT-897 that we used at TO5E and don't hear any better on it.

We will see if the cleaner switching supply will help. We have copied about 10 stations calling us but they are not hearing us as we get no reponse.
From our end it appears we are hearing better than we are being heard but it is hard to tell. We certainly are not getting the impression they are hearing us great, we have to send the report a number of times and we have theirs no problem. We realize that this is likely a QSB problem.

We find almost all signals only stay in for 15 seconds to 20 seconds and then almost always are gone and never come back. We have heard a few stations over a period of 2 or 3 minutes but that is far and few between. Several times we have worked only one station and no one else from an area with quite a good signal. We took 45 minutes to work a K2 and he was either very, very weak or non existent!
That was very unusual as nearly all other stations are in for a very, very, very short time and not heard again. A few times they are heard again in the same opening.

We have about 200 unique QSO's on six.
We are listening all day every day, even if some don't think that is the case . But poor prop on 6.
CU on 50117MHz 73 TZ6EI
Neil, G0JHC Thursday 02 July 2009 - 09:15:59


TZ6EI has been active but we have been experiencing poor 6m propagation with deep and very rapid QSB when we do have openings. We have double checked our equipment and all seems functional. We are active from at least 0800 to 2200h UTC daily on 50.117.

We have worked about 200 stations on 6 so far, with only 20 North Americans. Hoping conditions improve.

73, Ed, Arliss and Holly
Ed, W0SD Wednesday 01 July 2009 - 23:31:39


Re: C37NL Field Day, from Saturday July 4th 09Z till Sunday 5th 12Z.
Jose, EA7KW Wednesday 01 July 2009 - 19:12:09


A reminder to all that the closing date for entries for the 2009 UKSMG Summer Es Contest is close of play today 1st July. So if you havn't sent you entry or check log, please do so today!
Dai, G8FXM Wednesday 01 July 2009 - 08:23:23


National field day in Andorra will bring up C37NL again on the air from its favorable hilltop location. 3 stations are planned to operate simultaneously from 09Z Saturday till 12Z on all bands, 6 meters included.
Jose, EA7KW Wednesday 01 July 2009 - 07:22:30


Nauru, C2. A mail from Armic EA3RKR, says; According to the Team Leader of the group EA4ATI Dani, are now permanently if, after several postponements due to force majeure, confirmed the dates for the DX.pedition C21TI.
Dani plans to travel back to Spain, to finalize preparations and different shipments of equipment for the DX-pedition.
With the sponsorship and assistance from: Danish DX Group, Radio Club Valdemoro, European DX Foundation, German DX Foundation, ACR El Madroño, Southeastern DX Club, Swiss DX Foundation, Southwest Ohio DX Association, Section Local URE Valdemoro, Union Radio EA7URS of Seville, and ARMIC EA3RKR also of contributions to date: EA5AVW, EA3KN, EC3AJW, IK8CNT, ON4IQ, SM7FJE, EA3RKR and EA4YK.
Read more at, http://www.qsl.net/oz6om/QSPDX/cqsix.html
Matt OZ6OM Wednesday 01 July 2009 - 00:37:00



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