Came Back to This Place

March 5, 2016 4 Comments

Having been away from CW world for over 4 years, I managed to have my Ham Radio License reissued on 19th February 2016.

Installed a simple 2 band vertical antenna at my front yard and started QRV with 5 watts.

My old FT817 and Elecraft K1 sounded nice CW tones and I have worked with my friend stations in JA and also a USA station near San Francisco on the first day. My weak signal reached to ZL1BYZ and 9N1ZAK, too.

I am going to update this blog again from time to time and want to be active on the air.

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About Leo JJ8KGZ
Born in Hokkaido Japan. Name; Hiroto Tsukada I'm an enthusiast of a communication utilizing CW, Morse Code. An amateur radio operator since 1992. Have 3 children. An importer of Agricultural Machinery. Love traveling.

4 Responses to Came Back to This Place

SV1GRN says:

March 5, 2016 at 6:40 PM

Well come back and good dx. 73 de SV1GRN

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- Leo JJ8KGZ says:
  
  March 28, 2016 at 6:01 PM
  
  Hi Thanks for your comment. CU on the air someday,
  
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John K3TN says:

March 21, 2016 at 7:37 PM

Good to see you are back and active, Leo – but, of course, your return is coinciding with a very deep drop in the solar conditions! 10m and even 15m are starting to sound like VHF bands, but 30 and 40 meters are always fun.

73 John K3TN

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Leo JJ8KGZ says:

March 28, 2016 at 5:59 PM

Hi John,

I have never experienced peaks of SSN in my life.
So I do not care so much about the solar conditions.
It’s good enough for me to QRV on the bands.
I can still hear some DX STNs on 21 and 18Mhz and try to call them with 5W almost everyday..
I could contact with FK8CE on 15m a couple of minutes ago and the RST was 579 / 559.
it was really impressive.

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