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Some thought on the recent ‘Numbers Station’ story.

There has been a new ‘numbers station’ that has appeared on the radio spectrum in the shortwave section which lies, on most people’s shortwave radios, between 3

Just one more day on the mountain (2023.09.13)

Tomorrow (on 2023.09.14) I will come down from the mountain, and I will go back to my brother in Tiszasüly to celebrate my upcoming 31st birthday, which will be

M0MNM - HA5KZO 18.125 MHz QSO (2023.09.02, 18:48 UTC)

I am making QSOs (radioamateur contacts) again after a long time. The last time I made a QSO was on 2023.03.03. Today (on 2023.09.02) evening I made a QSO with M0MNM

My first QSO (two-way radioamateur contact) in 2023 (2023.01.07)

The last time I made a QSO (two-way radioamateur contact) was 11 days ago (on 2022.12.27). Today afternoon I made the first in 2023 with a Spanish special radioamateur

Two kind Hungarian words from France (2022.12.27)

As a Hungarian, it is a real delight for me to hear kind Hungarian words from foreign people. Today evening I made a two-way radioamateur contact with a French

Celebrating the 100 years of the BBC (2022.10.26, 10:11 UTC)

GB100BBC is a special radioamateur callsign. It is to celebrate the 100 years of the BBC. I am happy that I was in front of the radio, and the propagation was good,

Testing the 30 meters long wire antenna on the 160 m (1.8 MHz) band (2022.10.10)

This blue wire is my antenna. It is 30 meters long. Currently its highest part is around four meters or five meters above the ground. The built-in automatic antenna

Contact with Lebanon (Beirut) (OD5OJ Bassam) on 24.940 MHz today afternoon (2022.10.08, 11:53 UTC)

The propagation was good, but my current antenna is not ideal on the 12 meters (24 MHz) band. This is why I heard him just above the noise level, while he gave me

My first DX (long distance contact) with the 30 meters long wire antenna in Tiszasüly, Hungary (2022.09.30, 14:48 UTC)

My 30 meters long wire antenna is still approximately four or five meters above the ground in the garden. It is not ideal on 24 MHz, but it works. Today afternoon

Contact with Capoterra (Sardinia Island) (IS0FDW Angelo) on 14.268 MHz in the evening (2022.09.29, 16:05 UTC)

The propagation was not very good today evening, but we successfully finished the contact. His signal was mostly around 52. He gave me a 57 signal report. My 30

TM400MO - A special callsign for the 400 years of the birth of Molière (2022.09.21)

Today I put my 30 meters long wire antenna a little bit higher (from approximately two-three meters above the ground to approximately four-five meters above the

Hello Northern Ireland (2022.09.12)

Today I made a QSO (a two-way radio contact) with MI0AIH David from Cookstown, Northern Ireland on 14.260 MHz. The distance is 2047 km. At first, I barely heard

Contacting North London (England) with a 30 meters long wire antenna on shortwave (14.220 MHz) from Hunyadfalva, Hungary (2022.09.08)

Sometimes I like to experiment. Today I put up a 30 meters long wire in the garden approximately two meters above the ground between two trees. I used this wire

A radioamateur contact with the youngest radioamateur operator in Austria (2022.07.13)

Yesterday and today were mostly uneventful days. Usual workdays. Not that hot (in temperatures), but it is still hot. Around 30-33 °C. According to the weather forecast,

My 100th video on my radioamateur YouTube channel (HA5KZO) (2022.06.21)

Today I uploaded my 100th video to my radioamateur YouTube channel (HA5KZO). I achieved this approximately in 10 years. I created this YouTube channel on 2012.04.19.

II2CC - HA5KZO 14.215 MHz QSO (2020.05.30, 15:52 UTC)

This video is from yesterday. I already uploaded it to my YouTube channel. I made a radioamateur QSO (a two-way radio contact) with a special callsign from Italy.

M0GLV - HA5KZO 14.225 MHz QSO (2022.05.22, 17:59 UTC)

This is the second upload. Hopefully the video will be properly encoded this time. I decided to upload this video on my 3Speak (Threespeak) channel first. I will

OR100RCBE - HA5KZO 14.160 MHz QSO (2022.04.21, 13:22 CEST)

Today (on 2022.04.21) I made a QSO (two-way radio contact) with OR100RCBE on 14.160 MHz, and I recorded it on video. This is what you can see and hear below (on

Something I miss on the amateur radio nowadays (2022.04.16)

This (down below) is a little bit older video of mine on YouTube. I recorded it in the previous year on 2021.12.16, 13:28 CET (so this was before the Christmas of

ベトナムの声からベリカードを頂きました。

3月13日にベトナムの声という、ベトナムからのラジオ国際放送を聴いてベリカードを頂きました。ベリカードというのはおそらく和製英語で、英語ではVerification Cardと言います。ラジオを聞く→受信報告書を送る→放送局の人が内容を確認してベリカードを送る→ベリカードGet!という流れです。