We have ordered 1500 QSL cards from Globalqsl.com company. It took us almost 1 1/2 months to get them. On Friday, February 13, 2009 QSL cards have finally arrived to Almaty. As of Sunday, February 15, we have started dispatching them to our correspondents. The first ones to get our QSL cards will be...
After completing our operation on December 6, 2008 we have made a quick survey of our results: each of us have made 1000 QSOs. Unique correspondents: 900- 8Q7GC and 930 - 8Q7GU. DXCC worked: 54 - 8Q7GC and 58 - 8Q7GU. We hope that next time we can do much better. However, considering the vacat...
After a 30 minute flight from Male with the Maldivian air commuter we have finally ditched on the water close to our destination - Sun Island. The total flight distance was just over 100 km. The flight was smooth and exciting. We managed to see much of the local scenery as we flew by numerous isla...
After 4.5 hours flight from Almaty on a comfortable Boeing 767-300 we have landed in Dubai International airport. The flight was very nice. No bumps in the air. We actually expected some issues upon departure from Almaty due to 'imperfections' in current customs legslation since we were taking our...
On November 19, 2008 I received a phone call from Vladimir, UN9LW, who was surprised to find out from the website for Kazakh radio amateurs that we are going to Maldives. He told me that by chance they are also going to the same island about one week earlier to take part in the annual CQ WW contes...
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| Written by Mike, UN8GC |
| Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:33 |
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On November 19, 2008 I received a phone call from Vladimir, UN9LW, who was surprised to find out from the website for Kazakh radio amateurs that we are going to Maldives. He told me that by chance they are also going to the same island about one week earlier to take part in the annual CQ WW contest which is due for November 29-30. Their team will be 3 operators including UA9CDC who reportedly has already been to the island several times and has learnt specifics of operating from there very well. Their team will work on most of the main HF bands utilizing 3-band Yagi and vertical GPs for LF bands and QRO. The team will be there for about 2 weeks so our operation will coincide with theirs for almost a week. To minimize possible interference we are looking at choosing accomodation at the opposite side of the island. Since our main focus is to have a good 'beach-type' vacation and radio comes in only secondary, we believe we won't have too many issues with neighboring Hams operating on HF. On the other hand it's good to have a few other Ham souls and hands around since they may be come in handy should we need help in raising antennas or solving other technical issues. Anyway, we won't be alone and that makes life easier! (or, more difficult?) |
| Last Updated on Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:45 |
