Special event station - Kesennuma earth quake

Just twiddling the dials and came across 8J7FUKKO special event station remembering the Kesennuma earth quake in Japan. A mouthful for us both to pass our call signs back and forth but a good contact.....and my first QSO video below:

Another contact with Japan and VK8 (NT)

A quick QSO with JA2DYI - Mike in Nagoya, Japan. A lot of fading on the 10m band today but we still managed the contact.



Also spoke with Peter - VK8HPB in Darwin a couple of days ago. Need to start collecting all the states and territories around Australia.

Japan is open for business

Propagation on 10m was pretty good this evening and after trying for a while I managed to generate a contact on 28.480 with Masa - JE1SDO in Japan.

Great to talk to another ham in a different country and he very kindly gave me a 53 to 55 signal report. Masa was running 200Watts into a Yagi so I didn't feel too bad making the 6,631 kilometre return trip on my 10 watts and the 1/4 wave vertical. WooHoo!!!!!