Three more QSO's

Getting ready for JOTA 2013

Hamshpere is an excellent opportunity to pratice amateur radio, and since I don't have a real ham radio station, I can pratice and be prepared for the Jamboree on the air.
This year I will be on board of a new scout station, the callsign is CR5NMV.

My first QSL card on Hamsphere

Thank you Gary (26HS4006) for the QSO, my first on Hamsphere.
73's from CT2KJW.

CT2KJW is back on Hamsphere!

That's right! After a long period without QSO's, only altered during JOTA, I have found Hamsphere! Now I have the oportunity to pratice something that I really love, ham radio.

A ground plane antenna for 2 meters... new project.

My new project will be a ground plane antenna for 2 meters like this one...

I already got the material to mount and test it.

JOTA 2010... CQ, CQ, CQ... CR5APN

Getting ready and prepared for the JOTA 2010...
Soon... in a radio station next to you!

Solar storm... propagation low!

(CNN) -- Attention, Earthlings: The sun is spewing plasma toward you, and the results could be beautiful.

Stargazers looking to the sky late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning could see northern lights, or aurorae. According to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the potential light show started Sunday, when the sun's surface erupted and hurled tons of ionized atoms -- or plasma -- into space.

"This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th," said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

When such an expulsion reaches Earth, it interacts with the planet's magnetic field and can create a geomagnetic storm, the CfA said. Solar particles stream down the field lines toward Earth's poles. Those particles crash with atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere, which then glow like little neon signs.

Sky watchers in the northern U.S. and other countries should look toward the north late Tuesday or early Wednesday for rippling "curtains" of green and red light, the CfA said.