NEW!

TA0/HA8KW will be on the air as a member of a Hungarian-Turkish joint DXpedition team to Giresun Island, Turkey (IOTA: AS-154) between 24th and 31st July 2012. In the IOTA Contest (28-29 July 2012) we will sign TC0HA.

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From 4th to 9th July 2010 we were operating from a youth camp near Szeged at lake Feherto, located in Pusztaszeri Tk.Nature Reserve (WFF: HAFF-036), grid loc: KN06bh.

The youth - among many other tasks to fulfill - activated HA8KID callsign. Most of them were making their first QSOs so TNX for your patience with them.The background adults were: HA8CX/P, HA8DD/P, HA8ER/P, HA8ZE/P and myself, HA8KW/P.

Rig: FT450

Antennas: W3DZZ for 80-40-20-15-10m, "SLIM JIM" vertical for 6m and a "V" ant for the rest.

Full color QSL cards were sent out via the bureau to all stations who worked us.

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PSE DON'T SEND ME YJ0KW AND/OR FM/HA8KW RQUESTS! Someone pirated me. If Igo somewhere you'll find info here in due course.
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I am a CW enthusiast, and besides beeing in love with high speed CW, let's meet also with a simple straight key at least between 15:00-1700Z on 80m-band on Sunday of 2nd full weekend in April every year! For details visit:

http://hskc.ha8kux.com/

Member of

- Hungarian CW Group (HACWG), #37
- Croatian Telegraphy Club (CTC), #387
- Straight Key Century Club (SKCC), #3447T

My e-mail address:
provicsf(at)invitel(dot)co(dot)hu
is public for everyone but do not abuse it pse.

IMPORTANT for QSLing:
For saving some time and efforts wasted so far, and avoiding considerable amount of cards coming back stamped "Not member","Not QSLing", "Unknown", "Denied" etc. - my QSL policy effective for QSOs made after 1st January 2007 is as follows:

PAPERCARDS:
- Not each contact will automatically be QSLed any more, except those ones I consider rare, peculiar or need me for specific purposes, e.g. awards etc.;

- Each QSL request from you is 100% answered as follows:

*** my QSL for incoming bureau-card goes via bureau;
*** direct request with SAE without sufficient return postage returns via bureau;
*** direct request with SAE with sufficient return postage (or SASE) returns direct;
*** e-mail request for my bureau-card returns via bureau.

NOTE:
- return postage: recently 2 USD or 1 EUR or 1 IRC (new-styled only, valid till end of 2013) covers postage.
- e-mail requests: send your message to provicsf(at)invitel(dot)co(dot)hu indicating main data (your call, date, time, band, report, remarks) of QSO.

e-QSLs:
- Although I am actually not interested in e-QSLing, I am member of eQSL.cc with Authenticity Guaranteed status. If you send me an eQSL.cc request I try to answer by uploading apropriate data as soon as possible. Furthermore, if time permits I upload my QSOs occasionally.
- ARRL-LoTW: Sorry not member yet.

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Biography: Born in 1963, member of clubstn HA8KUX from 1974, got first own callsign (HA8RF) in 1986, then moved to Szeged city and got new, the recent callsign (HA8KW) in 1992. Married in 1990, have one daughter Esztella born in 1992, she already knows the whole Morse-code system, and she likes amateur radio, too.

I work for Invitel Telecommunications Company (the former Vivendi Telecom Hungary) as telecom infrastructure contracting manager.

A keen member also of HACWG (Hungarian CW Group) and the national team of highspeed telegraphy. I like CW, very much. I use to organize the only straight key high speed championship in Hungary, the only straight key contest in Hungary on 80m band and the national championship of radio complex (including orienteering, grenade throwing, airgun shooting, Morse-text transmission, Morse-text reception and CW radio net). More info can be found on our website http://www.ha8kux.com

Antennas: Half sloper for 160m; Inv.VEE @20m for 30m; Sloping dipoles for 80m, 40m; 3el Yagi @20m for 20-15-10m; Indoor Inv.VEEs @ 15m for 17m, 12m bands.

RIG: Icom IC756 +tuner "Hari"

Some small, recently established holiday-type HAM-vacations:

2001 SV8/HA8KW/P: Thassos Island, EU-174, Greece

2002 IV3/HA8KW/P: Grado Island, EU-130, Italy

2003 9A/HA8KW/P: Prvic Island, EU-170 (CI-094), Croatia including IOTA Contest2003.

2004 9A/HA8KW/P:
Rab Island (EU-136, CI-096) 19-26 July (including IOTA Contest 2004)
Brac Island (EU-016, CI-010) 26 July-2nd August
Pag Island (EU-170, CI-082) 2-4 August Croatia

2005
OM/HA8KW: 29 Jan. - 5 Feb.: Certovica, the Low Tatra Mountains, Slovakia(JN98vw) 1236 m ASL
SV8HA8KW (no slash "/" in callsign!): 24 July - 1 August: Keri, Zakynthos Island, EU-052, Greece
J48KW: 30-31 July: IOTA Contest 2005, Keri, Zakynthos Island, EU-052, Greece

Where to go next ? ;-) See you in the bands!

73! Feco, HA8KW