Nice card arrives from Monk Apollo in Mount Athos

The QSL card from Monk Apollo, the only ham in Mount Athos!

I'm delighted to have received a QSL card in the post this morning from Monk Apollo SV2ASP/A in Mount Athos. I sent away for it a few weeks ago. It's nice to get this rare one confirmed on the following band slots:

12 metres SSB
12 metres RTTY
18 metres CW
18 metres SSB

Thank you Monk Apollo!

The card is pictured in front of the radio, showing the split on which I worked 3G0ZC Juan Fernandez on 40 metres CW at 8.05am. This was the last band I needed Juan Fernandez on (apart from top band!). I now have 11 slots with this excellent dxpedition, which features three Irish hams, Dave EI9FBB, Ark EI9KC and Mark EI6JK. Thanks lads for the excellent activation!

3G0ZC Juan Fernandez worked on 20 metres SSB with one call

This is a video of my QSO with the 3G0ZC Juan Fernandez dxpedition on 20 metres SSB. I had been trying on 20m RTTY without success and saw a spot for 20 SSB so went up there. He was chatting with someone he knew 8 Khz up so when his chat was finished I just called on 14.208. As you can hear, he came back to me straight away with a five and nine. I love QSOs like that, but it was my third band slot attempt of the morning, having failed to work them on either 30m CW or 20m RTTY. That's the way the cookie crumbles!