HF Contacts - 40m

Did spot you straight away this time m8 (sent "morning" in the free msg).
Mark has contacted me twice but i didn't spot him sorry Mark.

I did notice and appreciated it Alan mate.  

Always love a free message popping up on those windows but I'm never always quick enough to type one!
Plus I had my youngest granddaughter popping in and out fascinated with what I was doing in the shack this morning as well as holding a conversation with a friend on the local 2m repeater. Seems I can 'multi-task'! (Shhh, don't tell my Teresa! )

I'm sure we'll get Mark in our log entries and will be just as much of a thrill to do so.

Mark is in my log i just didn't notice it was his call.
Should keep my glasses on more lol.

40m FT8 was in a bit of a busy mess this morning so thought I'd flip to FT4 and was rewarded.....

9Y4DG - Trinidad & Tobago

10W, lawn mower lead in the loft, ITL and QRZ confirmed.  



(Still scrabbling for an Oceania contact though! )

Nice one Victor, well done! I've just checked my stats and I have no south America contacts on 40m, all 17m and up. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it 'cause you're doing it right!

Cheers Neal mate.  


I think sleepless night and getting him at 3:10 UTC helped.

3.10 utc snap today lol.
Normally up early but this morning something went bang in the kitchen but turned out to be nothing. important but i was up so no going back.

Thank you for pulling signal in this morning Alan, great to finally get you in the log. I think you sent a free message after but didn't catch it as had to shut down quick as we were going out and didn't want to upset my better half. Hope to catch you on the other bands.

New country to me this morning.
YS1CH  EL-Salvador  on FT-8.

FT8 new one today 7th October

06:34 6W/IV3FSG IK14

Very well done Mike. I managed to work them a week ago on 10m, was a new one for me too. They confirmed on QRZ just a couple of days later, so fingers crossed they do for you. I haven't even heard them on 40m so you're receiving well.

SangueG wrote:

Very well done Mike. I managed to work them a week ago on 10m, was a new one for me too. They confirmed on QRZ just a couple of days later, so fingers crossed they do for you. I haven't even heard them on 40m so you're receiving well.

Well done on ten metres.

Not managed to catch on any other bands but nice to get on 40m.

I got 5X3K on the three high bands yesterday.

Those take me to 180 countries across all bands now.

first contact on 40m, i know its not far but the air was well hit quite a few times (s51ck)
even with a pile up got back to me, roll on tom when the station manager goes to work lol....... if anyone around ill be on 7.127
hope to catch you all on the bands sometime soon, thanks for all the advice and help
did hear HS0zoa but with 10w didnt stand a chance but did try a good few times and even more lol....

Well done Jimmy on your first 40m contact, very pleased for you.

You're receiving well to pull in HS0. Believe me, you DO stand a chance to have a QSO with them on 10W. Always have a go.