Back with a QSO into England

It's been a long time with work and other priorities taking up any spare time. I managed to get a QSO back into Stoke-on-Trent with Ian - G0UWK. Great to get back into Europe while still running 10 watts on 10m. Ian was pushing 400 watts into a 4 element Yagi and coming through to Brisbane very well with some QSB. Summer is coming around in Brisbane so time to get out and about. I also know that VK4 is on the map with respect to SOTA so I'm looking forward to some activations as the summer months drag on. I also need to get my butt in gear and sit the open call exam. Difficult to study at the moment but I'll get there in the end.

Aus to Ukraine - 12,842 klms

Another long distance contact into Europe thanks to Alex UR4MSF in the Ukraine. It took a while to get the RSTs confirmed but a 5x5 recieved and a 3x3 provided. Thanks again Alex! Put him onto the VKLogger so hopefully some other aussie hams can pick up some contacts into Europe.

Aus to Bulgaria - 13,272 klms

Just leaving the shed after repairing a Kenwood mic for my 2m mobile rig and thought I'd have a quick scan of 10m and up pops Mike - LZ2DF running an FT-920 into a Yagi and looking for DX contacts in the pacific.

A lot of QSB on the signal but eventually we managed to swap signal reports completing a 13,272 kilometre contact from Australia to Bulgaria. Definately my farthest contact so far and still with the same vertical (new one hasn't gone up yet).