QSL via home call: YL2VW (e-mail request, LoTW, eQSL, YL buro, direct - details below).

SV0XBZ/9 (now QRT)

I was living 2 years on Crete island. First, I was on the air as SV9/YL2VW, then I obtained "local foreigner's" call SV0XBZ/9.

Location: Gazi (near Iraklio), Crete island, Greece

IOTA: EU-015
CQ zone: 20
ITU zone: 28
GRID: KM25mh

• SV0XBZ/9 Log search
• SV9/YL2VW Log search

(view on the South coast of Crete, near the exit of Aradaina gorge)

RIG: 100 W (IC-756 Pro2)

Antennas:

- 20m to 10m bands - three separate InvVs for 20m, 15m, 10m bands. Tuned also on 17m and 12m. Apex 4-6m above the roofs

- 160m to 30m bands - temporary vertical or top-loaded vertical antenna supported by 18m Spiderbeam fiberglass mast and fed through automatic coupler. Usually 4-6 skewed radials of different lengthwere scattered on the roofs.

- 10m band - temporary 2 element home-made Moxon beam (rotated manually). 4 bottom sections of the same above mentioned Spiderbeam fiberglass mastwere used as the support (resulted in approx. 4-6m above the roof).

Photo 1: night sky in Crete with Great bear constellation and Polaris in the background and 3 InvV's mentioned before.

Photo 2: View to the South and Moxon beam for 10 m band with InvVs behind

Photo 3: When QRV for low bands. This was temporary setup for non-windy contest nights, which normally did not see the daylight (no space for proper guying, windy, scary, neighbors etc). This photo was taken just before taking it down in the early morning after night of Russian DX contest 2011.

SV0XBZ/5 (now QRT)

I made 564 QSOs as SV0XBZ/5 from Kasos island, Dodecanese (IOTA EU-001) during the period of July 28-31, 2011, before and after IOTA contest 2011, where I was member of J45K team

• SV0XBZ/5 Log search

QSLing

The best and the fastest way: LoTW (www.arrl.org/lotw) or/and eQSL (www.eqsl.cc). My QSO data is there.

I am replying buro QSLs as well - please send your QSL via YL buro or just send an e-mail request to me with the QSO data (faster way). I will reply through globalqsl.com service.

If in big hurry, use direct mail with SASE - use the address in Latvia given above.

You can use the links below to check if you are in the log and to request my QSL through buro.

Log search and buro QSL request:

• SV0XBZ/9
• SV0XBZ/5
• SV9/YL2VW

Note: I process online QSL requests in bunches (about once in a month) and will send you e-mail confirmation when the buro QSL to you has been uploaded to the globalqsl.com service.

Special thanks for help to Dimitris/SV9COL, Georgios/SV9DJO, George/SV9MBL, Kostas/SV9OFS, Manos/SV9JI and Radio Amateur Society of Crete / RASC and of course to father (Zigurds/YL2PJ).

73! Agris