Hi all,
New IOTA added this morning in the log after a "hunting" day yesterday Claimed by 23.6% of participants, this is not an extremely rare one, but it is rare enough to try a QSO since this would be a new one for me. I actually heard them yesterday late afternoon on 17m CW, but week here. This lasted about 15min before I heard the operator saying QSY 20m where they were...nil ! This morning, I took my chance on 30cw where their signal was a real 449, but I succeeded to log them after about 10 minutes despite some endless callers. The fact I'm located in Western Europe helped for sure to go over those DL and I stations for sure. IOTA # 673, tnx guys ! Ronan, F8AFC Malminskiye Islands are hard to get in the log because
- They are claimed by less than 10% of IOTA chasers (8.3% as of today), last expedition from there being in 2004 with RI0CM. - They are locaed in R0C area, zone 19, an almost pure polar path from Western Europe, but a short and clear path for almost all Europe. No magic there with the entire Europe continent and callers to cros over, I needed extra-help instead of spending hours of in-vain calling. Although they spent all the day on 20m CW with a nice peak at their sunset up to 559, they were simply too many obstacles to cope with (including personal ones with tons of things to do at home) I decided to wait for my sunset (19:27z tonight) and went to the shack at 19:00. Steady S3 here, slightly increasing. I could make the QSO at 19:15z, 12 minutes before sunset, right in the greyline zone with a real 559 report. The operator was oscillating between +1 (more or less) and +3KHz (more or less also). Listening to where he was taking was quite easy, not much flutter, and still some local propagation. The hardest was to get through, which I did at +0,9KHz. IOTA # 672, many thanks Vasily for this great effort !!!!!! Ronan, F8AFC PS : Remember, for IOTA chasing, only 1 QSO counts. No need to work it on all slots, so give a chance to others !!!!! Hi all,
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