Tim Beaumont, Author at M0URX

SM0MDG Björn in the Caribbean

28 December 2012

SM0MDG Björn will be active from Antigua as V26BM December 28 to January 4, followed by activity from Montserrat as VP2MSW January 4 to 8. This will be a light weight holiday style activity using a FT-857D and simple wire antennas.

Operation will be limited to high bands with a focus on 17 and 15 meter and if propagation allows also 10 meter. If possible there might be occasional stints from Montserrat on 160 meter, but don’t count on this.

This is a holiday activity and I have no intention to be on the air 24/7, but when I find time to be on air I will help as many as possible into the log.

The log will be uploaded to LoTW after my return to home. QSL manager is M0URX Tim and direct or OQRS are the preferred options.

73 from the Caribbean! SM0MDG

Christmas Post 2012

21 December 2012

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, with lots of great DX in 2013!

To ensure that no mail goes missing over the Christmas holiday shut down, I have now suspended all outgoing post. My next mailing out will be on Thursday 27th December 2012. I already have about 200 letters ready to post in that dispatch.

I would like to express my thanks to the loyal support of everyone, thanks to the suppliers that have kept United Radio QSL Bureau going in 2012, thank you to ON5UR Max for the excellent service of QSL printing, thank you to the loyal volunteers of the World QSL Bureaus for keeping all the Bureau cards circulating around the globe.

Thank you to you, and Merry Christmas.

Christmas Post 2012

21 December 2012

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, with lots of great DX in 2013!

To ensure that no mail goes missing over the Christmas holiday shut down, I have now suspended all outgoing post. My next mailing out will be on Thursday 27th December 2012. I already have about 200 letters ready to post in that dispatch.

I would like to express my thanks to the loyal support of everyone, thanks to the suppliers that have kept United Radio QSL Bureau going in 2012, thank you to ON5UR Max for the excellent service of QSL printing, thank you to the loyal volunteers of the World QSL Bureaus for keeping all the Bureau cards circulating around the globe.

Thank you to you, and Merry Christmas.

QSL Update

9 December 2012

13th December 2012 – 160 QSL cards posted for OY3JE & PJ4NX.

JX5O QSL cards have now arrived. All outstanding QSL cards will be posted soon.

XR0Y – I have now taken over from Stan SQ8X as QSL manager for his activity XR0Y Easter Island from 2009. I have available a few hundred QSL cards. OQRS is now open to claim your DIRECT QSL, no bureau

Please only use OQRS direct option or direct by post.

As I only have a few XR0Y QSL cards, these will be for DIRECT ONLY! No Bureau cards available here until a reprint has been done. Thank you.

9M6DXX Mini-DXpedition

30 November 2012

Disappointed with the current poor conditions and high noise level at my home QTH, I have booked two night’s accommodation at a seaside hotel where I am able to put up vertical antennas by the sea. I plan to be active (SSB only) as 9M6DXX (IOTA OC-088) on 8 and 9 December, using 400 watts to an 80m quarter-wave inverted-L with 50ft vertical section and feedpoint just inches above the sea at high tide. On 10m I will use a vertical dipole, again right on the ocean, and will participate part-time in the ARRL 10m Contest (single op, HP, SSB). On the other bands I will use a Butternut HF6V-X with 12/17m add-on kit, elevated about 15 feet above the sea.

I will be checking 80m SSB around the greyline for Brazil, northern South America, the Caribbean and eastern USA and Canada around 1000 – 1050UTC and 2130 – 2215UTC on both days. I will also look for northern and western Europe on 80m SSB between 1500 and 1800UTC. If propagation is no good on 80m I will try 40m instead.

QSL 9M6DXX via M0URX: direct or bureau. You may also use M0URX’s OQRS service (www.m0urx.com/oqrs), but since I am collecting cards for 5BDXCC I would prefer it if you sent your own QSL card to M0URX either direct or via the RSGB bureau. The logs will be uploaded to LoTW within a few days of the operation.

73, Steve, 9M6DXX

OY3JE QSL Preview

25 November 2012

The Faroe Islands offer a stunning backdrop that make beautiful photography that look just gorgeous on any QSL card, sunsets and Aurora Borealis are my favourite subject for a design. This new design for OY3JE Jan will be printed and available very soon. QSL Via M0URX.

I have received a parcel from Jan containing 115 letters. All letters have been processed through the log. QSL cards will be posted once the cards arrive from the printer.

PJ4NX – Bonaire – QSL Via M0URX

25 November 2012

Welcome Peter, PJ4NX in Bonaire, to the United Radio QSL Bureau. QSL now Via M0URX. OQRS is now open.

Peter has sent me the full log so I can now process QSL requests. A NEW QSL card is currently being designed and will be printed soon. I expect to be able to post QSL requests by Christmas. Please be patient while I wait for the cards to be printed.

Peter will upload to LoTW regularly. Please use my OQRS for QSL requests where possible please, both for Direct and Bureau. I ask you please do not send any cards to PJ4NX through the Bureau system, if you can use OQRS please use it. Save costs!

Any stations that I am QSL manager for will always be glad to work you, however I ask you to follow the DX Code. If the DX station is asking for a specific area STAND BY and DO NOT call. Some of the behaviour from Europe now is unacceptable and the DX will just close down if you carry on like this. Thank you for your attention.

3A/ON5UR & 3A/ON8AK

8 November 2012

After more than 6 months work and hundreds international phone calls, we finally find a “base location” for a DX trip to Monaco.

Callsigns: 3A/ON5UR – 3A/ON8AK – Operators Max and Marc.

Date: 9 – 17 November 2012.

SSB operation only.

QSL via M0URX Tim.

So far we have permission for one base station, but we hope to find a solution to get two stations on the air.

We will operate from 10 to 80 Mtr.

Website Now Live – Monaco Gallery

3A/ON5UR Log search

3A/ON8AK Log search

JX5O

7 November 2012

I am pleased to announce that good progress is being made with discussion with Stan SQ8X for the transfer of QSL manager for JX5O.
I have now received the log. OQRS is open for NEW requests ONLY

Old Requets: Very Important: Please read carefully.
For those who have paid by OQRS to Stan, please email me direct at [email protected] Stan has agreed to transfer me the money for the postage of your direct OQRS. Please email me a copy of the PayPal invoice for my reference. I will then bill Stan, and the letters will be posted once the money has been trasferred from Stan.

Stan has a further 80 – 100 direct letters and these will be replied to by Stan.

We will consult with a courier to arrange shipment of the boxes from Poland. I will make a further announcement as and when I have more news. I have no time frame just yet but you will get the QSL.
Please if you are emailing me, be polite, any nasty emails will be deleted or moved to the back of the pile! Please do not use cluster for discussion on this matter. Email me please.

Stan informs me “I have sent a big number of bureau cards already. Some are pending but this is something I can manage here”

Please DO NOT under any circumstances make a double request for Direct or Bureau cards already requested, as this will delay and cost money.

All previously requested QSL’s will be honoured. My OQRS is only for NEW requests.

I repeat. DO NOT… that is DO NOT use OQRS for QSL cards already REQUESTED.

Thank you for your understanding. Tim M0URX

10m Is On Fire As Signals Go Round The Globe.

23 October 2012

Wow what a morning on 10m! Although I have a day off work today I was up early and switched on the computer to check on emails and check band conditions, all very quiet but I noticed that a warning of an X1.8 flare had been issued at 0322z this morning. So I made a cup of tea and back into the shack to wait for the bands to open.

10m opened at 0700z with a QSO to Paul VK5PAS in Adelaide Australia, closely followed by a spot on the cluster for VR2XMT Charlie in Hong Kong, always a good operator to work and with a very strong 59 signal. I decided to call CQ on 28.528 MHz and soon had many European and Asiatic Russians calling me, “what was that a ZL? The ZL again please?” “Zulu Lima Two Bravo Charlie Golf“ Just brilliant, my first ZL on 10m, I love that buzz you get from working DX, conditions just excellent.

Then many Japanese stations calling in. After about an hour it seemed to go quiet so i tuned around, I found Glenn G8NOF further down the band working a VK2, I joined them for a few minutes as Glenn wanted to go QRT so he said take the frequency so again I called CQ DX beaming towards VK, and VU3KPL from Bangalore India called in, another CQ and a reply I struggled to work out where to beam all I was getting was L7 or NL, i tried again, and got the call “NL7V beaming long bath” rotator turned to about 150 degrees and there he was, NL7V in Alaska, some 20,720 miles on long path. we also tried the short path which was slightly stronger, Glenn called back in to work the NL7 I noticed a loud echo with G8NOF it sounded like our signal was going around the globe, great to hear, and something I don’t hear very often on 10m.
Phewww, I need a cup of tea!

Author - Tim Beaumont