Mizen Madness

Hi Guys

It has been 2 days since operating EI0IMD at Mizen Head with the group. Since coming home I have been tired, but it was all fun and interesting.

To start off our trip My Dad and I visited Pat EI2GHB and had a cup of tea shortly before heading on our journey. We set off around 3:00pm and arrived at Mizen roughly around 5:00pm and to my surprise the weather was terrible. It was lashing rain with gale force winds and quite cold also.

The other members arrived at Mizen around 6 - 8pm, so we decided it was time for setting up the antennas. My Dad and I went out to the back of the Visitor Centre were the antennas are usually setup and begun putting up a 40m dipole which was a bit difficult because of the force of the winds but in the end it was up and running nicely :).  Claus EI7JZ came out shortly after we headed out back and begun putting up a simple 20M j - pole which worked okay :)  

     
We kicked off maybe an hour or so before Marconi Day begun just testing antennas and securing a frequency for when 00:00 hit. On Saturday the whether was better still quite windy but varying between sunny and cloudy which was an improvement from the day previous.

During all of Saturday we worked, switching between operators and just having a good laugh.
We had two stations on the air, one on 40m in the upstairs of the Visitors Centre and a second station downstairs in a private room operating various bands.

This was my first Mizen while being licensed and I enjoyed every minute of it. We finished the activation with a good amount of contacts and it was all around good fun. I really enjoyed this and I can't wait until next year.

Jordan EI4HLB

 

A weekend with Marconi

Hi Guys

Just a quick update on the 25th to the 27th the North Cork Radio Group will be attending Mizen Head for the Marconi weekend and this is usually a great weekend but Im looking forward to it even more now that I have my own Callsign. The Call for the weekend will be EI0IMD and the operators going will be EI3GAB, EI2GHB, EI7GSB, EI7JZ, EI4HLB and hopefully we will work a lot of ye. I will keep ye posted and there will be a lot of pictures to follow :)

Jordan EI4HLB

First Hiccup

Not my night at all  had a great evening working 20m DX only to discover after 3hrs work, my logs "Clock" wasn't working correctly! Hopefully some of those guys will use eqsl or hrd and I can find the times to update my log properly. If you worked me and the times are wrong please reject and add the time to "comments" so I can clean up this logbook mess.

Jordan

CQ WPX !!

Hi Guys

What a weekend its been!.  I took part in the CQ WPX Contest from Friday (00:00) UTC until Sunday (00:00) and to be honest I loved every minute of it. This was my first contest with my Callsign and I think I did quite good :). My entered category was 20m LP NA Rookie.  

I managed 600 QSO's with a score of 314,000 and I worked roughly 12 hours out of the two days, since my Mam and Dad were also taking part in the contest. Our family score is roughly 1.3 Million on 20m only so after the contest my jaw was a bit stiff from talking so much Hi Hi :) .

 I also made a nice couple of new DXCC's , by working Indonesia, Australia, China and Alaska.  I worked a good few US Stations during the contest and so far have confirmed more States so I now have 38 states out of 50 and also I have now 95 DXCC's worked since the contest with nearly half confirmed so I'm pleased all round. DXCC certificate soon I'm sure Hi Hi, 73 Guys.

Jordan