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 W9 Bureau.
I’ll be working on those next.
Scot, [...]
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Update on TI5 QSL Cards
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; I would do so. The pictures are [...]
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, and 80 meters. Working fine.
Most frustrating thing for [...]
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 placeholder for the top of a 40-meter [...]
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 [...]
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 minutes.
That’s a little different from Phoenix [...]
Seattle Airport
I’m sitting at the gate, waiting for the US Airways plane to go from here to Phoenix. Once in Phoenix, I change planes and continue on to San Jose, Costa Rica. The flight leaves Seattle at 8:20 AM and I don’t get into San Jose until about 10:00 PM Costa Rican time tonight. Costa [...]
TI DXpedition Announcement — Update I
Today was spent getting organized for the trip; tomorrow (Super Bowl Sunday) will be mostly spent packing and making sure all the essentials are in place.
It is amazing how much lists can help out on a trip like this. When I went to Bermuda with the boys, I came back and immediately made a list [...]
