Category Archives: TI5/K9JY

Update on TI5 QSL Cards

Just a quick update today to let you all know that all of the direct TI5/K9JY QSL cards are in the mail. I have very few bureau cards so far for TI5, but still have quite a few VP9/K9JY cards with the new batch just in from the ...

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TI Photos: pictures from Costa Rica

Thought I had provided the link for the photos from TI here on the blog (just the snapshot from Flickr), but I did not. There are pictures from the 11 days there. On the upper right of the link is the ability to see them as a slide show; ...

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TI5/K9JY Logs uploaded to LOTW tonight

This weekend I submitted for a new certificate to include TI5/K9JY and received the confirmation from the ARRL this morning in e-mail. As a result, I'll be uploading the TI5/K9JY logs tonight after work (Pacific Time) or 27-Feb-2007 UTC. Scot, K9JY UPDATE: Completed. TI5/K9JY QSO's have been uploaded to LOTW

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TI QSL Cards Ordered

Quick update: I've ordered the QSL cards for the TI trip and the CQ WW RTTY Prefix and ARRL CW contests here in February. According to the reply back, I should be getting the cards in two weeks and I'll start processing them then. Scot, K9JY

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TI5N Wrapup

What a great contest! The ARRL CW Contest offered it all of us in Costa Rica...a little Murphy lurking at the beginning of the contest, some issues with keyers and software, great runs on all of the bands and the normal sleep deprivation. And a bonus, for this time of the sunspot cycle: a two hour ...

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Post CQWW RTTY Prefix Contest

We had a good contest as TI5N here in Costa Rica. Raw score a bit of 6.0 million before submission. We're going to submit the score from here. QSL'ing for the contest and TI5N is through the manager. The TI5/xxxx call signs we are using outside of the contest should be QSL'd to the home call. Monday and ...

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TI Update — Thursday Night

So...off to bed to get a good nights sleep before the contest tomorrow night. Here's what we did today: Set up the laptops Set up the radios and interface devices Set up the amplifiers Modified the 80-meter dipole for CW off from SSB Tested the set up on 15, 17, 20, 30, 40, ...

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TI Antenna Setup

Here are some pictures of the antennas we'll be using in the CQ WW RTTY prefix contest plus the ARRL CW contest next weekend. The most interesting thing about this picture is the very short bar, the third line down from the top of the picture. That bar is a ...

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TI Radio Active

Well, an uneventful trip to Costa Rica yesterday. After getting to TI5N's place, I slept for a good eight hours. This morning, Ron, WJ7R, and I did most of the setup with the radios and PC's, ensuring everything is working. I still need to get an amplifier set up with the Kenwood TS-570, but that will ...

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Phoenix

It was an uneventful ride from Seattle to Phoenix. US Airways had a nice flight. With all the time changes, I never really know the actual flight time until I get on the plane and they announce it. The flight time to Phoenix was about two hours and thirty ...

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