Hollywood Business Supplies Ltd.

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Hollywood business Supplies Ltd
(HBS Ltd), providers of Stationery, computer supplies, at fantastic discounted prices, from pens to copier paper and office furniture or Sellotape, Computer Labels and Laminating Sheets.

With secure on-line payment and prompt delivery this is the easy way to get your supplies at a good competitive price.

The Owner, (himself a licensed radio amateur), offers a fast and very efficient service, one I would recommend to anyone.paypal_logo

Give Mike a ring today and see how he can help you with essential supplies
for your Office or Home.

HBS Ltd.

44 Simms Lane, Hollywood,
Birmingham
West Midlands
B47 5HY
United Kingdom

 

Telephone: 01564 780378
Fax: 01564 823966
Mobile Phone Number: 07976 744479

 
Address:
44 Simms Lane
Hollywood
Birmingham
West Midlands
B47 5HY
United Kingdom

Telephone: 01564 780378
Fax: 01564 823966
Mobile Phone Number: 07976 744479

2.6K Qsl Cards to RSGB Bureau

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Latest Qsl Cards to go to the bureau this week are as follows:-

GB1TAN – 320, MØSCC – 70,
MØOXO – 290,
GBØANT – 470,
GBØWFF – 175, GB1HI – 410,
MØBZH – 45, GB4IPY – 560,
2EØKYI – 130, MW0JZE – 120.

Pending are approx 250 GBØANT & 200 GB4IPY
which will be processed in the coming days and also
270 Direct & Bureau cards for GR2HQ when they
arrive from the printer any day now.

G4OBK Logs now on EW4DX LogSearch

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A big thanks to Phil G4OBK for his recent contact re-WFF.

Many of you will be starting to see new areas appearing in your results on the EW4DX LogSearch. Phil has kindly supplied the logs from his SOTA and his WOTA activities to us for the WFF programme.

So far we have sent several logs to the LogSearch from areas such as GFF-020 (Yorkshire Dales National Park), GFF-008 (Lake District National Park) & GFF-012 (North Yorkshire Moors National Park [new activation!]).

Please note that there are no Qsl Cards available for these trips, just the verifications on the WFF LogSearch. On your behalf, I extend our gratitude to Phil for his support of the WFF programme!

(Photo above shows Phil G4OBK on Helm Crag in the Lake District National Park GFF-008).

ONFF Awards now issued

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ONFF announced a few weeks ago that their WFF Awards were now completed and were ready for issue.

I am pleased to say that my first ONFF Award arrived yesterday courtesy of the ONFF Co-ordinator Gino ON3SSB. There are several Awards available (website click here) and he tells us:-


Rules to apply for the “ONFF Award” are simple :


– The award is free, and free only, and will be send to you by mail (electronic format), JPEG file.

– There are 3 different classes :

Class 3/Bronze : 10 QSO’s have to be made with 10 different ONFF references.

Class 2/Silver : 25 QSO’s have to be made with 25 different ONFF references.

Class 1/Gold : 50 QSO’s have to be made with 50 different ONFF references.

All bands, all modes are welcome and all contacts must be verified by the EW4DX Log search.

GL to Gino and the ONFF team, we wish them every success!

Another ‘win’ for Strictly!

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‘M2X’ hit the mark again this week with a nice new Contest Certificate.


This time was for the CQWW RTTY DX Contest in 2009 when John (G4RCG) managed Country Winner in the High Power Single Operator Class (20M).


Well done John!

3WØC paper confirmation arrives

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3WØC‘ Qsl Card confirmation arrived a few days ago for their activity from Con-Co Island, Vietnam (IOTA AS-185). This folded card (becoming the norm now for major Dxpeditions) fills a hole in the Asian section of my IOTA collection.
Côn Có was previously a top secret Vietnamese military base and so any ham-radio activity was unimaginable. And while tourists are today permitted to visit the island, it is not readily accessible, being several hours away by boat – and so rare QSOs with 3W6C were highly valued.

The team have responded to all those who sent their QSLs direct. QSL Manager Leo, HB9DWL, mailed more than 1000 letters around the world. Letters received with insufficient return postage or expired IRCs were QSL’d via the bureau (some people just never learn!).

Sunspot Tytonidae continues to amaze…

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…but not by good HF propagation!

Sunspot 1093 continues to amaze onlookers.

Earlier this week, it divided like a giant amoeba undergoing mitosis.
And “today it looks like an owl (family Tytonidae),” reports Rogerio Marcon of Campinas, Brasil. “What a beautiful configuration!”

Well it’s different I’ll give them that!

‘VYØX’ NA-208 bagged – wanted by 89% of IOTA chasers!

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Cezar (VE3LYC) is back on the air again, this time from another very rare island group in Nunavut (Kitikmeot Region), Canada.

The East IOTA Group, NA-208 (CQ Zone 2) has only been on the air once, 15 years ago, and is on the Most Wanted List, in demand by 89% of IOTA chasers.

‘VYØX’ had very good signals on 20 & 30M yesterday and of course this came with huge pile-ups, callers desperate to get this rare one in their log. Kitikmeot Region is an administrative region of Nunavut Canada. It consists of the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island. The regional seat is Cambridge Bay (population 1,477).

Kitikmeot is the location of the coldest recorded wind chill in Canada of −78 °C (−108.4 °F)

13/08/2010 1230, first contact on 20M CW

14/08/2010 0527, second contact on 30M CW!

PY2MTV / PX2C Qsl Cards now being issued

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New Qsl Cards arrived this week and I have begun sending them out on behalf of Andre PY2MTV. As you can see the cards also hold his Contest Callsign PX2C on.

Anyone requiring a card please go through the normal proceedure and request via the ‘On-line Qsl Request System (OQRS)‘ for the fastest and most efficient dispatch.

Calm before the Storm on 17m

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As we wait for the Storm to arrive (see previous post) I decided to have an hour on 17M just to see what was about. Things seemed poor but started on 10 and 12M with the odd EU contact and not much else.

Having qsy’d onto 17M I put a few calls out on RTTY and worked several Russian stations with reasonable signals when I heard the first JA calling.

One of the first in the log was Ume – JH7VHZ (see image left) from Towada, Aomori, Japan. It was a really strong signal (599 +10) and after a short qso with Ume, hopes were high of a few more from the Far East.

During the next 90 minutes I managed to log 27 JA stations in all. Interesting was that there were no other Countries in the log whatsoever other than the JA. With only one DX Cluster spot from JA, it seemed strange that no other DXCC was apparent. Nevertheless it was a great afternoon with most of the stations being new JCC/JCG areas for me – Happy Days! –  Syonara Ume!