Author Archive for thomas

QRV as OY3AA

Published by thomas August 21st, 2009 in DXing. 7 Comments

I’m now QRV with the new callsign OY3AA from Faroe Islands. QSL via OZ1ACB.

See you on the bands!

Visiting VU2PAI in Mangalore

Published by thomas April 30th, 2009 in DXing. 0 Comments

In December 2008 I had the great pleasure to spend a few days with Pai VU2PAI in Mangalore. We managed to do a bit of sightseeing, try some of the delicious local sea food, and most importantly working some good pile ups.

Thanks to Pai and the other local hams of Mangalore for the great hospitality.

 


OZ1AA and the new Steppir antenna at VU2PAI

 


Great Indian dinner with the DX and Contest group in Mangalore

 


Working the pile up on 40 CW

 

CQWW CW 2008 at YM3A

Published by thomas April 30th, 2009 in Contesting. 0 Comments

As I ended up in Istanbul during the last weekend of November I was happy to be invited to be a part of the YM3A team who was setting up for a M/2 operation near the city of Bandirma. The team consisted of LZ1NK, LZ1CNN, LZ1WX, LZ1UK, LZ2UW, TA2TX, DF4SA and myself. During the contest we had a total of 8 hours of power outages. A leason was learned to bring a generator for the next operation in Turkey. We finished with 7000 QSOs and 11.5 million points.

Thanks to the Spiderbeam Team for a great time in the Turkish country side!

 

Antenna work before the contest. Background sound of the islamic call to prayer from the local mosque!


One of the three operating positions

 


Overview of the antennas

 


DF4SA and LZ1CNN installing the big Spiderbeam including 40 m

 


OZ1AA officially becomes a member of the Team Spiderbeam

WPX CW 2007 as 5P1AA

Published by thomas May 29th, 2007 in Contest. 0 Comments

Call: 5P1AA
Operator(s): OZ1AA
Station: OZ7YY

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Denmark
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 12
80: 306
40: 747
20: 973
15: 276
10: 15
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Total: 2329 Prefixes = 706 Total Score = 3,654,962

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Tricky call to get across - many might still think they worked Panama. Otherwise the contest turned out as a fine EU QSO party including a US run Saturday night on 40 and another one Sunday afternoon on 20.

Thanks for calling in and thanks to OZ7YY for the use of the station!

73, Thomas

5P1AA

Published by thomas March 29th, 2007 in DXing. 2 Comments

The Danish Telecom Agency is now issuing calls with the prefixes OU, OV, 5P and 5Q. I have just recieved 5P1AA. See you on the bands!

RDXC 2007 @ OZ7YY

Published by thomas March 22nd, 2007 in Contest. 0 Comments

Another great contest from the OZ7YY QTH! This year I teamed up with Igor RZ9OU for a MOST entry in Russian DX Contest. Happy to finish with 2363 QSOs, averaging nearly 100 QSOs/hour during the 24 hours.


More photos…


Summary:
SSB CW DUP DXC OBL POINTS AVG
——————————————–
160 60 258 3 38 49 1928 6.06
80 103 423 2 52 54 3148 5.98
40 176 334 5 66 61 3585 7.03
20 442 461 18 61 70 7414 8.21
15 12 66 0 30 20 580 7.44
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
——————————————–
TOTAL 793 1542 28 247 254 16655 7.13
================================TOTAL SCORE : 8 344 155

Igor RZ9OU working 40 SSB in Russian!

Thanks for the QSOs and see you in the next one!

73, Thomas

Welcome!

Published by thomas March 22nd, 2007 in Contest. 1 Comment

The new version of oz1aa.com is up and running. I hope you will enjoy!

73, Thomas