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52 Responses to “S21YX – Bangladesh”

1. Jon, KL2A says:

   February 9, 2011 at 18:21

   S21YX LOGS ARE UP: http://www.clublog.org/logsearch/S21YX
2. Jon, KL2A says:

   February 9, 2011 at 18:30

   S21YX: QSL VIA JH1AJT
3. Brad K5AR says:

   February 9, 2011 at 18:58

   Jon -

   Thanks for all of your hard work on getting the logs up and going. Hope to see you again next month.

   73 fm NTX
   Brad
4. Jon, KL2A says:

   February 9, 2011 at 20:03

   #S21YX: If there are any questions on the log, please send them to log@s21yx.com and we’ll look into it for you. Tnx KL2A
5. Mike, NE8P says:

   February 17, 2011 at 14:32

   Thanks much! Nice to see the confirmation.
6. Jon, KL2A says:

   February 17, 2011 at 20:16

   Roger. I see many are receiving their cards now. Good deal. 73 KL2A
7. Gary Marek, W7DO says:

   February 21, 2011 at 14:50

   I received my beautiful QSL card last week, my card depicts two smiling YLs. “We too, have dreams! please don’t let them melt away..” Very nice indeed, thanks for your efforts, your my only QSO from Bangladesh. 73, Gary, W7DO
8. Brad K5AR says:

   February 21, 2011 at 19:10

   Gary -

   I also received S21YX a few weeks ago. As you say, it is indeed a very fine QSL. Many thanks to Zorro and Jon for their time and dedicated work.

   Brad K5AR
9. Andy RZ3EM says:

   February 22, 2011 at 06:32

   Jon KL2A and S21YX Team, Many Thanks for SUPER operation! Any chance to upload the log of S21YX into LoTW?

   Thanks in advance!

   73, Andy RZ3EM
10. Jon KL2A says:

    February 22, 2011 at 20:06

    Radio friends,

    Thanks for the kind words regarding the recent S21YX Team visit to S2 in Dec. 2010 DXpedition. The trip was very short and we enjoyed the radio very much. I’m certain the entire team wishes to share the full S21YX story with all of you, and we will open up with more details ASAP.

    For now, please know there is a wonderful story behind the QSL card, and even more in the work that Zorro and his staff are doing with the children in this part of the world.

    If you have specific questions regarding the log, please forward them to log@s21yx.com and we’ll expedite that to the proper person on the team.

    TU and CU in the next pile up!

    73! KL2A
11. Mike, W1MU says:

    February 23, 2011 at 20:50

    Many thanks to the ops at S21YX for such a great job. S2 is a very tough haul from W1-land; it’s a polar path and when trying to contact S2 on short path there’s always a horde of Europeans making it hard. When trying on long path, at certain times of the year, we’re up against the JA’s. I worked them on 40M, and my congrats (and thanks) to the 40M op on that end. You could tell that they were laboring under tough conditions – the pileups must have been ferocious and I bet there were problems with local noise as well. This was a great QSO to have in the log and the QSL, which arrived today, was all-time #332 DXCC for me on 40M.
12. Jon KL2A says:

    February 24, 2011 at 19:17

    Hi Mike!

    So true, and as could be imagined the bands were a wall of callers from Asia as a rule and the USA was typically a background-level of signals.

    Your QSO Mike came during an almost missed 20 minute window to the Americas at 1147-1210z on Dec 18, 2010. I say that as the pile must be stopped to know for sure if it’s open to NA/SA.

    After a fruitful day of running on the high bands we dropped one radio down on to the 40m band. We had been on the frequency for 30 minutes working Eastern Asia and the nearby 9M area stations when a USA callsign was detected in the fray, and that commanded our attention immediately (don’t recall at the moment who it was but may have been N2ZX).

    We asked EU and Asia to stand by, which they did so without complaint or interruption (that was beautiful in itself) and we proceeded to call for NA/SA.

    The signals from NA on this opening were [1] background-level S1-3 which demanded an extra effort to keep awareness high on the frequency as to what we were doing in the moment; working NA/SA. We sent the stations callsign being worked 2 to 3 times to be sure the guys on the NA side knew it was their turn as it really was a weak signal opening. Also noteworthy is that this short opening was a majority (18 out of 21 Q’s) of W1-4, VE3 and a W8, and 3 western stations: W6UB, W7DO, and W0UO.

    Indeed it was a tough haul, and through to the end of that 20 minute opening to NA the wall of Asian hams standing by politely monitoring on frequency heard a “TU for QRX nw QRZ DX S21YX” and the energetic morse-music of 100′s of callers (maybe 1000s) filled the quiet low end of 40m once again.

    73 and see you in the next pile up!

    Jon, KL2A
    S21YX Member

    [1] http://hamgallery.com/dx2010/s21yx.ram (not sure who to credit for this audio recording) – This audio may have been during the opening. In any case it does represent the type of calling we were using during this 20 minute opening that netted 21 Q’s, slow going.