At about 0946 UTC on 20th March 2022, I tuned in to the Radio Nacional Da Amazonia broadcasting in the Portuguese language on 6180 kHz.

The broadcast was coming from the Brasilia 250 kW transmitter in Brazil. At 1000 UTC the signal was totally wiped out by China National Radio CNR6 on the same frequency.

The overall reception of Radio Nacional Da Amazonia was poor – fair.

Below is a short video showing my reception of Radio Nacional Da Amazonia.

References.

1. Short Wave Info, 2022, <https://www.short-wave.info/>, viewed 20th March 2022.
2. Short Wave Schedule, 2022, <https://shortwaveschedule.com/>, viewed 20th March 2022.

A few weeks ago in the mail, I received a QSL card and letter from Bangladesh Betar. I had tuned in to their station back in November 2021.

Unfortunately, the letter was severely damaged by water.

In the past week, I finalised the results for the 2021 Top VKFF Activator and Top VKFF Hunter, for the World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) program.

I came in at 4th place in Australia, while Marija was in 6th place overall.

Thanks to all of the VKFF activators.

The photo on the certificate features a photograph I took of a White Faced Heron.

About a week ago via email I received a QSL card from Sam F4GYG. I logged Sam on 9th April 2022 when he was activating FFF-3216.

A few days ago via email, I received a QSL card from IU3QEZ. I worked Simone IU3QEZ on 11th April 2022 during one of his activations for the Mountain QRP Club.

Simone was activating SOTA summit I/ VE-233.

Here is a selection of some of the QSL cards we have received in the mail in the past couple of weeks.

Received in the mail yesterday was a QSL card from the Voice of Turkey, for my reception of their station back in October 2021.

Also sent was a broadcast schedule.

Marija and I received these very nice certificates via email the other day regarding our use of the special event call of VK80LAN.

We would like to thank the WA VHF Group for the opportunity of using the call.

Yesterday (28/3/2022) Marija VK5MAZ and I had the use of the VK80LAN callsign again for the afternoon and the evening.

The special event callsign VK80LAN is celebrating 80 years of the Avro Lancaster aircraft.

From about 2.30 in the afternoon, we made a total of 320 QSOs into 39 different DXCC entities on 20, 40 & 80m SSB.

The map below shows our contacts.

The long path into Europe was once again very good. The map below shows our contacts into Europe and the UK.

The short path into the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, and Central America was very good during the evening. We worked 29 of the 50 USA States. The map below shows our contacts into that part of the world.

We did not get a huge chance to do anything on 40m for the VKs this time around due to a late start in the shack and then the 20m pile-up, but did work a handful of VKs, and a few dozen VKs on 80m.

We would like to thank everyone who called, and we would like to thank the WA VHF Group for allowing us to use the callsign again, to celebrate 80 years of the Avro Lancaster aircraft.

Over the weekend of Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th March 2022, the 2022 CQ WW WPX Contest was held.

I worked a total of 815 QSOs on 10, 15, 20, & 40m SSB.

This included 83 different countries.

The map below shows my contacts during the contest.

Countries worked:-

• Alaska
• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Azores
• Bahamas
• Balearic Islands
• Belgium
• Belize
• Bonaire
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Brazil
• Brunei Darussalam
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Cayman Islands
• China
• Corsica
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
• Denmark
• East Malaysia
• England
• Estonia
• European Russia
• Federal Republic of Germany
• Finland
• France
• Greece
• Hawaii
• Hungary
• India
• Indonesia
• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Kuwait
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Montenegro
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Norfolk Island
• North Macedonia
• Northern Ireland
• Norway
• Oman
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saudi Arabia
• Scotland
• Serbia
• Slovak Republic
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Svalbard
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• United Arab Emirates
• United States
• Virgin Islands
• Wales
• West Malaysia

The majority of my contacts were on the 20m band. Below is a graph showing my contacts per band. The long path on 20m each day was very good, whilst I found the short path to be quite average. The 10m band was average, with just a few European stations logged.

My best DX worked on 10m was D4Z at Cape Verde. The majority of my contacts on 10m were into Japan (90 QSOs)

The map below shows my contacts into Europe, both on the long path and the short path.

The map below shows my contacts into the USA and Canada and the Carribean.

The map below shows my contacts into Asia.

I did not hear a huge amount of VKs or Kiwis calling CQ Contest. The map below shows my contacts around VK and ZL.

THANK YOU to everyone who called. Although I am a long long way off the leaders, I had a lot of fun.