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Great conditions on 20m tonight - little noisy. Couple contacts after 10pm all 5/9 with only 70w on my dipole: 9K2GS Kuwait LA5FHA Norway 5F8SIA Morocco Z81B Rep of South Sudan - new one for me HZ1TT Saudi Arabia EI3GAB Ireland 4Z5KA Israil Philip

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Nice job just on 3 bands and in one day! I need to get a 40m ant up. Philip

Norfolk Island Dxpedition 2013 VK9NT from Norfolk Island DXpedetion on 14.223.5 split 5, sig 5/7. Great conditions last night and should be all weekend, ran low power on all contacts. Philpoh

Bought the W2IHY EQPlus - nice review. http://www.worldwidedx.com/product-reviews/36139-w2ihy-8-band-eq-eqplus-video-review.html Philpoh

Heard Charlie Sat/Sun around 9am, about 4/4 into Ohio @14.275. Just too much upper/lower QSB from CQ contest couldn't verify the contact. Just need some back rejection - would be nice! Philpoh

Nice contact Delta-40! - Walid nice guy, have been hearing him up for the last month in Ohio. Great signal strength.

JT1DO Badruun on 14.205 Sat at 9am EST - 5/5 into Ohio. Saw on QRZCQ.com DX spotter!

Got on 20m after 11pm last night, and the band was wide open. Was on for just 5 minutes, got 2 new ones: A92GR Bahrain Sig 5/9 YI1RZ Iraq Sig 4/4 Love being able to work DX after work and well into the night. Philpoh

Conditions were great for Thur and Fri but seem just ok for Sat and Sun on 20m. Got one new one Fri night: JY4CI Jordan 10:41am Sig 5/9 Got into Kuwait, Israel couple times well past midnight - great signals! Heard Sat mourning Brunei and Bhutan huge pile up but could not break in...

Thursday night was wide open on 20m, started listening around 9pm and shut down around 12:30am. I check 11m then get lost on 20m for hours! Propagation for HF was excellent after midnight:w00t: Couple of new ones for me: VU2RAK India 10pm Sig 4/4 3B9FR Rodriguez Island 11:17pm Sig 3/4...

Conditions are up and predicted even better for the weekend and Mon/Tues/Wed of next week! Last couple nights 20m DX has been open past midnight, stayed up till 1am. Couple new ones for 20m: 5N7M Nigeria 8pm FR5HA Reunion Isl 10:56pm A92HK Bahrain 11:30pm 5W0W W Samoa 12:30am Other...

I can hear Div 3 and 67 talking to 341 but I've got no signal on them. Thanks for heads up! Philpoh

Yes kb6nu, hamelmer, and arrl.org/question-pools are all great sites another just for General Class - Lessons/Study: Polk County Amateur Radio Association Print out with only the correct answer for each question. 26/35 questions for tech/gen and 37/50 extra Good Luck!

Start designing your antennas ghutch, your soon to have few more freq's open to you! Huge ssb contest weekend, stayed on 20m for the most part. Couple of the new ones: D44AC Cape Verde D3AA Angola J5UAP Guinea Bissau 4U1TTU Geneva 3V8BB Tunisia YE1K Indonesia KH2KY Guam Stations...

Great news ghutch, keep it going!:thumbup1: Fun stuff to study, bet you know most of it already. I'd take both Tech/Gen at same time, then the next question is what equipment to buy and antennas to build!! Heard couple good ones Sat mourning on 20m - huge contest: B3C China YE1K Indonesia...

ghutch sent you a PM. Got on around 8:45pm and started hearing couple A. Russian stations scanned the 20m band and got a new one EY7AD Abdur from Tajikistan 5/5 at 9pm. Philpoh

For me 20m was/is the way to go, I'd say 95% of my DX contacts have come between 14.175 and 14.225 which your General 2nd test would cover these frequencies. Since putting up a rotatable 20m dipole in Jan this year I have had over 200 qso's and 89 different countries, on 11m maybe 5 new...

Conditions on Friday/Sat/Sun seemed down on 20m, no contest going on. I always look at dx conditions but don't worry about them - even in poor conditions on 20m made some great contacts. Couple I qso's this weekend on 20m: Friday - 3 to 4 noise level 4X4FR Israel 6:20pm TA4AU Turkey...

Haven't heard 91AU001 Indonesia in Ohio since Oct 2012. Also waiting on Libya to come back in, saw on DX cluster your qso's ghutch. 20m last night was quite, couple of the contacts: Spain, Slovenia, Maritime mobile Norway, Sweden, Germany, and a new one JW7VRA Svalbard @6pm. Got back on...