Playing with my Camera.

I played around last night trying to get a photo of the night sky with all the stars. I used my Nikon D-90 and lens 18-105/3,5-5,6. Wide angle was used (18). ASA set to 3200 and niose reduction to "OFF". Unfortunately there was some light haze in the sky. But I'm still satisfied.
First Picture I pointed the camera towards the Milky way. And this was the result. Exposure time was 15s and fully opened aperture (3,5).

Lots of stars!!
Next Picture I pointed the camera to my antennas as a foreground. During the 30s exposure I "painted" my antenna with a 3 W Led flash light for about 1s. Result as follow.

Not so bad. You can see the Pleiades down to the right side of the Picture.
Well, not so bad for a first attempt!!??

Enjoy!

CUL

New rare IOTA QSL in my hand!

Finally the QSL from NA-172 has arrived. Call used was VE3LYC/KL7 and operator was the famous Cezar. He has very good ears and it is Always nice to chase him, from most of the time, very rare IOTA's.
Here are the QSL!

Front and rear side of the QSL. Click on the Picture and enjoy!
Cezar worked 1890 QSO's. 96% was CW!!!

CW rules???!!!!

CUL

Rare DX in my vicinity!

I have a rare DX just in my vicinity. It is only 75 km ( 45 Miles ) from my own QTH in 51 deg direction. This DX Always create big piles. If you not guessed what it is I can tell you it is Market Reef or Märket as it is called in Swedish. This Reef is partly owned by Sweden and Finland. And it is the Finish part that Counts as OJ0. It can be quite trilling to work OJ0 from my location. Especially on high frequencies. It is to Close.
Last year US5WDX, DL5LYM, SP5XVY and DL3DXX was there and they must have had a lot of fun. I managed to work them on 160 m CW and 40 and 30 m RTTY. Nothing new but it is fun to work good operators.

Nice card of the Buildings on the Reef. Swedish part of the Reef has no Buildings.

Well that's all for now. CUL

WOW! Thrilling week!

This Friday I had surgery in both my eye's. Reason was that I've got a lot of cataract in my left Eye and some in the right. So they replaced both my lenses at the same day (Friday 14 Oct ). Surgery took about 10 minutes per Eye and after a short rest I got the notion that I don't need special glasses any more. Just one pair for Reading only. Amazing!! I have to pinch my self several times a day that I have this clear vision now. .
Surgery was performed under a microscope. And it was totally painless. Only thing noted was a powerful strong light from the microscope straight into the Eye during surgery. So now I have Eye sight almost like a Hawk!!??

 Picture!

We had a brief moment of slight sun light this Monday. And I Went into the forest and took this Picture. And the autumn is progressing fast. We have had mostly cloudy sky and temp around 5 C ( 40 F ). Soon time to put on the Winter tyres on the car.

CUL

QSL from a new IOTA

YES! I've got a new IOTA for moi confirmed. It was AS-070 Gusmp Isl. Operators where R7AA, R2DG and UA6EX. Call used was R70ASIA and I worked them in IOTA Contest and the day Before the Contest. Here are the QSL.

I also got a new iota from Club Log direct into my credits. It was OC-273. So now I have the sum of 451 confirmed Groups. I'm slowly getting there!!??

Worked H40GC on 20 m CW. Not new but there where a pile???!!!! V53DX was on 15 m SSB. Same reason! A pile....

But I have worked a new IOTA. AS-131. Call was B7/BD7IHN.

Temperature is hovering around 5 C ( 40 F ) so it is quite could outside. But it will get colder!!

CUL

A QSL from Lesotho!

Worked them in February. I managed to get them on some missing band slots and modes. Now I only miss 7P on 160 and 80 m. The call used was 7P8C and QSL verified by F5GSJ. Got it confirmed via LoTW long time ago. Finally this QSL arrived!

Temperature outside has been below freezing during night time. Hopefully this will stop the lawn to grow. But it is to soon yet to stow the lawn cutter for the Winter. Temp at the moment is 3 C ( 37 F ).
Soon we will have the White fluff on the ground.

Well, CUL!!