HAGAL INTERNATIONAL
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by Ahron Kirschner
4X1AT
and Ron Gang 4X1MK
70 YEARS OF RADIO IN
OPERATION
WRAP-UP
Eleven of our members around
the country (in Eilat,
operated between the 7th
to the 21st of October making more than 13,000 contacts with 8684
stations in 142 countries. The “winning
mode” was CW, making 54%. The digital
modes together comprised 17% whereas the remaining 29% were made on good old
SSB.
The callsigns
used in this operation, 4X7ØR
and 4Z7ØR were looked up
more than 5500 times in QRZ.com. Even
though conditions were far from optimal, the operation was a success no matter
how you look at it.
The big stars were Victor
4Z5AD with 3132 contacts using 4Z7ØR
and Alex 4Z5ML with 2532 contacts activating also 4Z7ØR. A big thanks to all
the operators, Victor 4Z5AD, Michael 4Z5AV, Reuven
4Z5FI, Danny 4X4YM, Siman Tov
4Z5PS, Alex 4Z5ML, Izzy 4Z5PG, Mark 4Z4KX, Arthur
4Z4DZ, and David 4X6DK.
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There’s no stopping him!. Here’s a photo
of 4Z5NB’s HF mobile on one of the beautiful coasts of |
THE
4XØWV OPERATION
Shalom Team 4XØWV,
I am home now safe and sound and will soon be getting ready to go back
to work in one hour.... Boo!!! I would rather stayed
in the
So now I just wanted to send this and congratulate and thank
everyone for the outstanding contest results from 4X0WV during this
past weekend's CQWW Phone Contest! As we say here in the States,
"It was a hoot!" For me, it was indeed a wonderful time both
during the contest at the mic running the great
pile-ups. But also at all other times it was great seeing and being
with our friends from 4X-ray who were also operating the contest or just
visiting at the station. It is always my special interest sharing time with
others hams especially in the Holyland.
I am extremely grateful to Moni 4X6ZK
who said, "Yes" to me and Jerry K8OQL when he said to come
to operate the contest this year from the station at Mikve.
As you know, for the past three years I had operated from the
"bunker" in Reut at the 4X4REM club
station. And so it was not only a good change of scenery for me to be
at this new location, a beautiful place. But more importantly this
was a good chance for me and Jerry to join other 4X amateurs for this multi-single
operation.
The
4X4MIS antenna tree at Mikve
Moni has obviously worked hard preparing the station at the Mikve school. He has put
much personal time and expense getting things ready as a contest
station. My thanks to Moni
for being such a great host and for literally opening up his personal station
at the school for this contest. I know Moni
is very much committed to making the club station at 4X4MIS an integral
part of the school's curriculum and also a competitive contest station.
Mikve is a great location and has potential
to be a very nice contest QTH if things can continue to proceed in that
direction. Thank you Moni and continued
successes to you!
I really enjoyed being on the campus of the beautiful school and knowing
we were operating at such a significant historical location as this school is
the oldest school in
I would do a great wrong if I did not also extend my sincerest
thanks to Jacob 4X6WP for his kindness during our stay at
And also for our other operators, I hope you enjoyed your time at the
station. I thank you for your participation. I also hope
you had as much fun as I did. What a joy to have Ruben 4Z5FI come
all the way from
Ross 4Z5LA and Mark 4Z4KX put in several hours at the mic and they had some really good QSO run rates Saturday
evening/night. Thanks for the great job guys! I look forward
to making QSOs with you this coming weekend from the
4X0J mini-DXpedition at Nof
Ginosar and the Ancient (Jesus) Boat. I hope you have
many QSOs from there.
It was my pleasure being in the same station with the famous 4X DXer Dov 4Z4DX and listening
to him work the pile-ups. One of my
highlights was on Saturday morning when I came into the station and Dov and Slava 4Z5MU were working
together almost as machine. Dov was playing the
MFJ voice memory keyer like a concert pianist
plays his Steinway.
Although Slava is a world class CW op, he
did an excellent job at the mic during some run times
for him. It was great getting to see him and spend time talking with him
outside the contest.
Actually, we should all be quite pleased with our score for this
time in the solar cycle and with some less than favorable condx
on 160 and 80 during and following some storms. Plus, I think we probably
missed some mults on 10m but the tough decision about
QSYing when we were making such good
runtime especially on
The 40-meter beam was a real treat for "owning" a
frequency and running stations especially the EUs.
We had many stateside stations in the log but could have had some more on
40 Sunday night but the contest ended too soon HiHi.
Boy those BC stations are a killer on the other side of the
I will be putting together all of my video and also photos that we
took. I only took a few, low resolution digital photos but have at least
one-hour of digital video. Jerry took many 35mm film and he has told me
that he will have them converted to digital and will send to me and so I will
put all of this together and send copies to each of you.
In the meantime, I wish nothing but my sincerest thanks to each of
you on the 4X0WV team for the great contest and many wonderful memories of the 2006 CQWW Phone Contest. My
best also to all hams in 4X and to everyone in the Holyland
of Israel.
And if G_d willing, next year in 4X for CQWW!
Our final score will be submitted as:
Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN
1.8 11
28 9 4
3.5 82
235 43 7
7 821 2273
86 23
14 981 2759
83 29
21
1886 5452 97 28
28 136 348
40 14
Total 3917
11095 358 105
Score : 5,136,985
73, Hal W8HC
GLOBAL QSL - A SNEAK PREVIEW
Azar Hami 4X6MI and Paul Gross 4X6UU have joined forces in the
creation of a revolution in QSLing.
To sum it up in a few sentences, the power
of the Internet and personal computer are harnessed in the service of
confirming amateur radio contacts. One
buys a number of QSL cards, makes his own designs (as many as he wants) for his
callsigns, uploads his logs either manually or by a
transfer of the files created by his logging program. Then, the Global QSL elves print the cards
and send them to the QSL bureaus of the recipients.
Please note… this is not a virtual QSL
service such as eQSL.
Rather, Azar prints out beautiful full color
two sided QSL cards on thick glossy cardboard, and they go out into the real
world.
A Global QSL subscriber can see his QSLs on the website before they arrive in person, so the
advantage of the virtual QSL services is utilized.
The project is presently in its beta stage
and has not yet gone public. There is a
pilot group of hams who have begun conducting their QSLing
giving Azar and Paul feedback to get the process
streamlined and iron out all the bugs.
So…. hopefully it will soon be operational
and we will be able to give a review of its functioning.
In the meantime you can check out these web
URL’s: www.globalqsl.com
and www.test.globalqsl.com
the subdomain being used for testing purposes.
4X6UU’s contest QSL (4X2Z)
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And while we’re mentioning
4X6UU, we congratulate Paul on winning first place in
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NEWS BRIEFS
Letters demanding payment and
threatening legal action were received from a Swiss collection agency at the
IARC offices. They claimed that the IARC had bought advertising from an
Austrian firm two years ago. Joe 4X6KJ
checked this out and found that this was a scam that had milked quite a few
marks in
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Ehud 4Z4UR is co-ordinating the preparations for a meeting with the Ministry
of Environmental Protection. A
presentation has been made describing in detail the activities of an average
radio amateur, the safety criteria that must be met and the conclusions which
can be reached at this meeting. Jim
Stone 4X1RU is responsible for models to be used. Ehud has pointed
out that in the Environmental Protection Ministry’s website there is a mention
of amateur radio pointing out that a number of hams have received authorization
in the matter.
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4Z4DX’s
antenna as lifted from his homepage – bet Dov’s
neighbors love him!
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Digital Modes will be
integrated into the next Holyland Contest – RTTY
and/or PSK.
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AMSAT’s project Phase Three E will
be launched in 2007. The IARC council
voted to make a modest donation to it.
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The IARC Israeli Callbook is due to come out in 2007. It was decided to include the callsigns and names of all the IARC members in the IARC
website without any further details to ensure the members, privacy. Links will be provided to the online QRZ.com
amateur directory for already public information.
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That kind of wraps it up for
this issue. Next time we hope to have
the final Holyland Contest results for you. Happy Holidays to all our readers.
73 de Ahron
and Ron
