YN2N QSL Card arrived

Today the direct QSL card from Octavio YN2N arrived. Great to have Nicaragua confirmed!
Thank you very much Octavia!

3DA0TM QSL Card arrived

Today I found a very much wanted QSL card via direct in my mailbox from Swaziland!
Andy 3DA0TM posted it on december 10... so it took more than two months to arrive in PA from 3DA!
Thanks a lot Andy for your QSL Card!

You can check Andy's website to see some great wildlife pictures he took.

Dutch PACC Contest

Last weekend we joined the Dutch PACC Contest with our local Club Station PI4VAD. The last few weeks we put some time in fixing the antennas: a new dipole for 40m, 80m and 160m, the beam for 10m, 15m and 20m was checked and the vertical for 10m - 40m has been taken off the roof a couple of times. On saturday morning we found out that the mounting point for one end of the dipole was gone and 40% of the dipole was lying flat on the roof due to that. So... very little time to fix but we did it. The vertical was still giving us some hard time getting it tuned.
Despite the antenna problems we still had a lot of fun and made 764 QSOs with 129 multipliers. That make a total of 98.169 points. Last year we had 38.048 points. For the few that can't count... thats 60.121 points more!
On the picture you can see me working on 160m at 2:15 local time (1:15 UTC). On the left of me Rob PA3BXR is taking care of the logging.

8P6GU QSL arrived

Last week I received the direct QSL card from Haschel 8P6GU. That means that Barbados is also confirmed! Thanks alot Haschel!