EPC PSK63 qso party WINNER 2006

In the year 2006 when for the 1st time the European Phase Shift Keying Club (EPC), lunched the contest style QSO PSK63 party I participated in this QSO party and finishing first world.
Some days ago received from EPC this very nice glass plaque.
Thank you very much and hope to see you in the coming PSK contests.
73 Spiros – SV8CS

2m DXCC # 28 World Wide (103 countries)

SV8CS - 2M DXCC (15 MAY 2008).

Today received my 2m DXCC.
That is a big event for me, after many years of trying on VHF.
My 2m DXCC, is the 1st 2m DXCC in Greece and I like to dedicate it, to our SV VHF pioneer George SV1AB (sk).
George SV1AB he is not now with us but he was the 1st SV radio amateur using his old equipment to make the 1st EME contacts on 2m .
In this point I would like to thank all those radio amateurs who have helped me to get my 2m DXCC.
Thanks to SV1AB, George - SV1AE, Socrates - SV1CC, Kostas - SV1BG, Bill (all SK’s) for my 1st point to point 2m qso’s (1969).
Thanks to I0IJ/IG9 Tony - 9H1CD Henry - 9H1BT Paul for my 1st DX tropo qso’s (since1972).
Thanks to SM7AED (Arne) for my 1st Es qso (1978).
Thanks to ZE2JV,Ray for my 1st TEP qso (1978).
Thanks to YO2IS (Julio) for my 1st M/S qso (1979 with cw tape recorder.
Thanks to I2FAK for my 1st EME qso (JT65b) (2004).
Thanks to my friends SV3KH,SV8RV,SV8IE,SV8RX,SV2JL,SV2DCD who have helped me in my VHF dxpeditions in the Greek mountains for contesting and DXing since (1974).
Thanks to RA3AQ Dmitri and RU1AA Alex, for their technical support for my EME set-up.
A BIG thank to all radio amateurs who had activated all those rare one DXCC countries with their dxpeditions, putting on the air all those rare calls without to consider lost time, money, personal sweat and family obligations.
Thanks going also to BIG inventor Joe Taylor K1JT, whose the brilliant digital program (WSJT) gave me the chance to complete the last qso’s and obtain my 2m DXCC.
Thanks also to DJ6QT and the German group for allowing me to operate in the 1st SV EME dxpedition outside of Greece on Madeira as CT3/SV8CS during CQWW contest 2005 (CT9L).
Finally I thank also my friends IK2QEI and IK2SGC for helping me to operate 2m EME and 1st 6m EME dxpedition from Morocco as CN3A (2007).
During my long VHF trip, I have used all kind of modulation, like CW,SSB,HSCW,FSK441,JT65b.
At this time I need only the 12m dxcc to finish from 160m to 2m awards.

5D5A+CN3A+5F3COM logs now in the LoTW

5D5A - CN3A - 5F3COM operators are: IK2QEI- IK2SGC- SV8CS.
In the foto its me (SV8CS), with my son Tomas SV8KOS, on the Safi beach in Southern Morocco.

Now the 5D5A contest logs are uploaded to the LoTW (ARRL) .
Also our other contest logs as CN3A and 5F3COM, all from our contest activity from Morocco, are in the LoTW.
There are until now all together about 48.000 qso’s with 12.000 QSL records.
My 2m and 6M Earth Moon Earth qso’s are also there.
We hope to see you in the next contests from Morocco.

73, Spiros - SV8CS

OZ -Denmark on 6m Es - WSPR mode

Today received for the 1st time signal coming here in KM07JS (Zante Island) on 6m with the new type of modulation invented by K1JT. Whisper (WSPR) "Weak Signal Propagation Reporter" with TX and RX with digital soundcard mode MEPT_JT is a program that permit to TX with extra low power and be decoded on screen.OZ1PIF and OZ1BNN was the 1st two sigals Rxed today with WSPR via Es. I am Txing with 5w on 50293 beaming with 7 elements beam to North.
I hope to see many new calls this coming Es season on 6m. Good DX de SV8CS

T61AA- Afganistan - 2m EME NEW ONE

T61AA - Afganistan (QTH:Lashkar Gah- Locator: MM21eo)


T61AA antenna foto from : http://www.df2zc.de/newsletter/
I had a very nice 2m QSO via EME with Ross on 144.125 (JT65b) and of course that is also a new one for me in 2 meters! Ross, T61AA, has no elevation and he is working only during his moonrise and moonset with his 9 elements F9FT antenna and P.A. with GS35b.
TNX Ross for new one, de SV8CS.

5F3COM & CN3A logs in LoTW (ARRL)

CN3A
Morocco contest team IK2QEI - IK2SGC - SV8CS with the special and contest calls CN3A - 5D5A - 5F3COM, now we have uploaded our contest and dx pedition qso's to the LoTW.

CN3A has now in the LoTW 30.898 QSO records, with 8.595 QSL records, included all qso's made via EME in 6m and 2m with digital modes (JT65B-JT65A-FSK441).

5F3COM

For 5F3COM, (special call), there are at about 2.000 QSO's uploaded in the LoTW.

The 5D5A logs are NOT in the LoTW now, but we will upload the qso's with this call very soon. Thank you for the qso's and see you next contest from CN3A.

73, Spiros SV8CS

ET3AA - 2m EME NEW ONE

Bob, ZL1RS, who is an aid worker with the International Red Cross is now in Ethiopia and has received the permition to use the club station call ET3AA.Bob running only 150w and 2x11 elements (YU7EF) antennas, verticaly polarised.

Look for more info at: http://www.df2zc.de/et3aa/index.html

This is a copy of my screen regarding our 2m EME (JT65b)qso:
194800 1 -27 4.9 -455 1 # SV8CS ET3AA KJ98 OOO 0 9
195200 2 -27 -460 4 RRR
195400 2 -25 -462 4 73


Bob's secret is that he has installed the L.Amp and the P.S very close to antenna to avoid any losses of signals.Bob is very grateful to the ET3AA Ethiopian Amateur Radio Society for making this activity possible and of course we are all grateful to BOB for his big effort to put in the AIR via EME the ET3AA call.
Spiros, SV8CS

DI2PM (Germany) - 70 Mhz qso via M/S

After many- many tries… today after 2,30 hours, me and Hans DI2PM we completed a qso on 4m (70.207 qsx 69.950) via reflections to meteor scatters.





My equipments : Transverter made by HA1YA http://ha1ya.config.hu/ with power output 25w and a 3 element antenna home made (DK7ZB). The transverter was connected to a Kenwood TS2000. This is my #6 qso on 4m (9A-CT-DL-OZ-S5-SV).
Hope to see you in the next Es opening on 4m.
73 de SV8CS - Spiros - Zante island (KM07JS)

JD1BMP (paper qsl card) for 2m EME qso

JD1BMP - Ogasawara Island - 144 Mhz qso via EME

After the confirmation of my qso with JD1BMP via the LoTW (ARRL) today received also the paper qsl from ISAO - JM1WBB.

Thank you very much ISAO for the qsl and the new one on 2m EME (DXCC and Locator) from Ogasawara island.

JD1BMP (Ogasawara) - 2M EME New One.

JD1BMP - Ogasawara

Way to the 1st. contact (From JD1BMP web page).

Makoto got to Ogasawara on Feb. 13rd. in first and he installed all of our antennas, Aki special for 160m, full size verticals for 80/40m, 4 x 11 elements Yagies for 2m by himself. I joined to him on Feb. 19th noon with PTT inspectors after 25 hours half seasickness. Inspection was done without any problem in the afternoon but we could not manage any QSO on 2m. We got some bi-directinal signals only with JH0MHE Shiro and JR3REX in a few hours. Bloody hell! We had a phasing problem by incorrect explanation by antenna maker. I came to term with inability to get any station at 1st. day. I went to bed before the European window because I was feel tired. So we lost best window in our expedition. Next morning we fixed the phasing problem and completed beam pattern testing.

JD1BMP antennas

Total was 114 QSOs. DGRD was no good but it was easy to copy many station on Feb. 24th. It was last day for EME operation and no window for NA on Feb. 25th. At 10 degrees we got great our echos but we managed a few contacts only. Last QSO was with DD0VF. We have managed total 119 2m EME QSO with 6 days operations in Ogasawara.

http://gongon.com/JM1WBB/ogasawara2008/ogasawara2008.html

SV8CS - JD1BMP is 1st SV to JD (Ogasawara) 2m EME qso with digital mode.

Thank you Isao for this NEW ONE (for me) 2m EME QSO in JT65b with OGASAWARA and many thanks also for the confirmation of our qso via the LoTW (ARRL).

On line log at DL8EBW - MMonVHF web page :

http://www.mmmonvhf.de/upload-news/DL8EBW/LOGS/JD1BMP20080301.txt

OY4TN, Faroe Island - 2m EME NEW ONE

Yesterday received the qsl card from Trygvi, OY4TN for our 2m EME QSO.
OY4TN (Faroe Island) is a new one for me also. We had QSO at 22 Feb 2008 in JT65b mode and seems to be the 1st between OY land and SV.
Trygvi had a 8 elements antenna and 300w by TE Systems linear amplifier.
Of course Trygvi had upload also his log to the LoTW (ARRL).

Thank you very much Trygvi for your patience to complete the qso and give to me another new one on 2m EME.

3Y0E Bouvet island . New one

Yesterday received the 3Y0E qsl card from Emil LZ3HI.This is an extra qsl service from Emil. http://www.LZ3HI.com
Many thanks also to Petrus for his nice operation from this isolated and very cold island.

Excelent job also from the pilot stations and the every day updates in the web page of 3Y0E.
http://3y0e.com/

IOTA 2007 - SO 12H SSB 1st World.

Once again I was active in the 2007 IOTA contest as SO 12H SSB category.


In the 2003 was 1st world in this category and in the 2007 once again 1st in this very nice contest.The name of my island is Zakynthos or Zante and is in the west part of Greece in the Ionian see at about 18 miles from the Greek mainland (Peloponese).

http://iotacontest.com/contest/iota/2007/finalScore.php?c1=if&c2=su&c3=s&c4=1&c5=h#map

Thank you very much for the qso's and hope to see you again this summer in the coming IOTA contest as FIX island station.

73 de sv8cs , Spiros

BY7PP 2M EME NEW ONE

Thank you very mutch for the NEW ONE on 2m EME in JT65B digital mode.
BY7PP was the call used by BY group (BG7KTA、BG7KTD、BG7IBV、BG7JSQ、BG7IBU、BD7KSF、BD7JLR、BA7IA、BG7IBS、BH7MMC、BD7IXG、BA7NQ) with the presence of VR2KW, Wong.
The group used 2X9 elements antennas and they had a very nice signal via the moon.

For more info : http://www.hellocq.net/forum/showthread.php?t=167547

3Y0E (Bouvet isl) & FO/OH1RX (Marquesas Isl) NEW ONE

Thank you very mutch PETRUS for this NEW ONE from Bouvet Island (3Y0E).

Bouvetøya lies at 54º 26′ South, 3º 24′ East and is roughly four miles long by three miles wide, rising to 780m at Olavtoppen. The centre of the island contains the ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano known as the Wilhelm II Plateau. Glaciers cover most of the island.
Bouvet has no ports or harbours, only offshore anchorages, and is therefore difficult to approach. The easiest way to access the island is with a helicopter from a ship.

http://3y0e.com/3y0e/

FO/OH1RX

Thanks also to the Finnish group for this NEW ONE from Marquesas island FO/OH1RX.

The OH Pacific 2008 pedition scope is to activate the Marquesas Islands FO/M for the period of Jan 9 - Jan 22, 2008 by the team of Finnish radio amateurs Jouko Häyrynen OH1RX, PerttiSimovaara OH2PM, Veijo Kontas OH6KN and Juha Hulkko OH8NC. FO/M is no. 54 in the mostwanted list at DX 425 News. However, the activities on low bands have been infrequent, so there the relative position is much higher, especially from Europe and US east coast. The mainfocus for the pedition will be on the low bands with special effort for Europe and East Coast US.

http://sm0w.com/marquesas/