EA8/G7DIE and eQSL

Less than a week to go before I fly out to Gran Canaria for six months, I've been considering how I will maintain a logbook and how people can get a QSL card. 
I don't currently have any plans to produce a specific QSL card for my time in Gran Canaria, as a result I've decided to use eQSL and design an electronic QSL card, I'll be using HamLog on my iPhone as the log source and this will be uploaded to eQSL at regular intervals.

The callsign I plan to use if EA8/G7DIE and have set this up as a profile in eQSL, see the link below for the eQSL website

eQSL.cc

Gran Canaria

So my line of work sometimes takes me overseas, I've had the pleasure of being able to operate from Canada, USA, Crete, Mainland Spain and Gran Canaria previously, but never for more than a month or so at a time, however this Winter I get to spend 6 months on the island of Gran Canaria, I'll be operating holiday style from my apartment and portable at the beach, I'll be using around 80W at the apartment and 10W when on the beach with the following equipment:

Icom IC703
100W portable amp
Buddipole antenna system
MFJ1979 telescopic antenna
LiPo cells portable
Mydel power supply at the apartment
Bands 10-40m

I'll also be taking a paddle key with me and hope to brush up on my CW skills, it's probably 11/12 years since I last used CW, so it's going to be a steep learning curve, again!

My equipment has already been shipped out and I fly out on 28th October, returning to the UK on 28th April.

Hope to work you as EA8/G7DIE/P

New DXCC total

A little effort on my behalf, checking my phone log from last year, and some recent DXpeditions, have taken my DXCC total to 225 all time and 174 for the year, this was bolstered by working TN2MS yesterday morning in the Democratic Republic of Congo, here's the morning session:

20m

YT1ET

YO6PSD

OH01

VK2WWE

VK2WC

VK3SIM

VK2DX

OE2LIP

GW0BTB

VK2NN

F4GHB

IZ2VAJ

17m

TN2MS

9L1JT

OH6LME

OE1/AH6CY/QRP

TF2MSN

EA7/G0WHX

On the subject of yesterday, what a great opening on 10m, sadly I didn't get in on the action until late afternoon, but made up for lost time by working the following:

10m

W8DLD

HI8JQE

K3RA

PY4ZE

ZY5Y

W0WM

EA8BCP

WB0ISK

VE2XIP

NF9V

W4IOW

EA8AZD

W9PT

LU6FOV

LW7DUC

LW6DG

PJ2/K5JP

12m

N1QEH

15m

TO2TT

PJ2/NT5V

ZS6BAF

3B8FA

17m

WV1H

2E0JOB/M

WJ2R

M5FHJ

KD2BMX

LU1ECZ

KB3USC

K2ZF

20m

VU2VID

VU3WIJ

VP8LP

VU2PHD

Fiji

Another all time new one thanks to the Scorpion SA680 antenna, 3D2RA/P on the Pacific Island of Fiji, he wasn't too strong with me at the time and there were plenty of people calling, and to be honest I didn't expect to be heard, but thought I'll never know for sure unless I try, anyway I did, and now it's in the log, two Pacific Islands I've never worked previously Samoa and Fiji are added to my DX list so far this year, with my total around 222DXCC, I say around, because they are a couple I haven't finished moving to my log yet from last year.

I also worked a few Californians yesterday on 15m, the California QSO party was in full swing so I saw the opportunity of adding a few counties worked, in fact I don't recall a time I worked so many Californian stations in one session, I think I might try and work all counties during next year's QSO party.

A couple of other good contacts yesterday was New Zealand whilst driving home from work on 40m, I also managed Mayotte, Angola, Trinidad & Tobago, and Hawaii, here's the summary:

40m

9Y2LAS

ZM4G

DL/G8OFQ

20m

D2SG

3D2RA/P

TO2TT

15m

NM6G

KW8L

KE6ZSN

WH7Z

K6Q

W6YX

N6OJ

KG4N

W0HJW/6

W6PZ

N6NF

N6N

N6O

WA6FGV

CY0P

PY3UK

W6AFA

K6ME

W6T

K6T

W6UE

NN3V/6

W6ML

WB6HYH

K6Z

PT7VB