XU7AKC - IOTA AS-133 - Koh Rong Sanloem Island

Monday, May 9, 2016

Sunday, May 1, 2016

XU7AKC log uploaded to LoTW

I have just uploaded XU7AKC log to LoTW.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Farewell dinner

Yesterday evening we had a nice farewell dinner with Wim XU7TZG. Wim is one of cambodian resident hams living in Sikhanoukville. He is quite active on bands, working mainly RTTY.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Already QRT. Antennas down and packed. Holidays with radio finished. Just a few more days without CQ... and go home. I have to wait for autumn and next trip. Where? I do not know yet.
Best 73s to all!

Monday, April 18, 2016

Last night coming

Last night on the island begins. I am going to be on 20m starting from about 16:00z.
Hope to catch some NA...

QRT soon

Last night of operation is approaching. Still had no success with NA. Maybe tonight on 20m? Yesterday was difficult. A lot of QRM from contest. Only 100 QSOs increased.
Today I will pack my 40m vertical which was, unfortunately, useless. Tomorrow morning I have to get down the hexbeam.
Sorry for a lack of digi operation . My digi interface didn't want to cooperate... I had no time to try to fix it. Preferred to work ssb in a spare time.
The Koh Rong Samloem is beautiful. Very nice beach and shallow bay. Water clean, at this time, at least. The people from Secret Paradise Resort so friendly and helpful. I wish to come back here.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Sorry for self-spotting...

Years ago hams were searching DX's on bands, nowadays they are only searching on cluster...

I want to apologize for self-spotting but I am able to spend with radio only limited time. The main reason of my trip to Koh Rong Samloem is holidays. So, when I realized that 30 min, calling CQ does not bring any effect I started self-spotting. Any of my spots usually gives an effect within maximum 3 minutes :).

My second consideration is that some of hams does not listen at all. They switch on their linears and just calling making a lot of QRM. Today one of EA7 operators called me continuously covering all other stations. I answered him at least 15 times. Never any reaction, any answer from him. I worked split so if he would be able to copy me he would do it without any problem.