I took some winter pictures from the QTH. We have gotten a lot of snow lately and it’s said to snow during the whole week so I expect a lot more. Lovely isn’t it? I love snow, except shoveling it…

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I just set-up the station for a SO2R effort in the 9A CW contest next weekend. I just have to connect the amplifier switch which was disconnected during CQWW CW again, otherwise the station is pretty much setup. There is a homebrew SO2R box which built a few years ago which can be controlled from the PC when using Win-Test.

Work me on all bands!

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Here are some more pictures from CQWW DX CW 2009.

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The propagations have been absolutely amazing this weekend on 160m! SM2LIY who is here with me worked over 100 NA stations during the night and worked 40 states on 160m! I worked 68 JA stations yesterday evening and some NA stations in the morning. TX3A was logged on 160 and 80m without any problems at all, peaking s9 on both bands. I also managed to work the last countries to complete dxcc on 160m which is a lot of fun, now next goal will be WAZ.

We have gotten some 10cm of wet snow this weekend which made antenna work a bit more difficult. I put up two more spotlights outside (400W) so now I have great light outside so I can work in the evenings with such work as antennas etc. A total of 1300W can be turned on which makes the yard light up really well. Today I put together the boom for the middle 20m yagi in the stack and I hope to complete it tomorrow.

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