CO8TW Juan Carlos Veranes

Apartado Postal 8, Santiago de Cuba 90100, Cuba.

http://www.qsl.net/co8tw

co8tw@frcuba.co.cu

QSL via HB9SVT or direct.

Search in my Log at

http://www.clublog.org/logsearch/CO8TW

Am ham since July 1992. I live in Santiago de Cuba city about 963 kilometer South East from Havana the capital of the Republic of Cuba.

I have used the callsings CL8TW since Sep/94 until Ago/95, CM8TW since Sep/95 until Feb/97 and CO8TW since Mar/97. I prefer be looking for DX stations, IOTA references and QSOs via satellite, just do it calling CQ in some favorite bands like 28.0 or 14.0 Mhz, in CW, SSB, FM, RTTY, and SSTV (only as SWL). Also enjoy working some contest like CQWW, CQWPX, IOTA, ARRL, ARRL 10 Meter, ARRL 160 Meter, IARU Championship, etc At home I have some Awards: DXCC on CW # 8278, WAE on CW # 2149, ISS on voice (FM) # 72, The Galapagos Islands # 198, The Republic of Ecuador # 103, Roy Neal, K6DUE Commemorative Certificate, Israeli # 341, 4x4=16 # 1251, Arissat-1 for finding a Secret Word, Arissat-1 for decoding the Telemetry and Experiment data signal and Arissat-1 for receiving a Slow-Scan TV picture. Also others from contest such as 1996 ARRL CW , 2000 ARRL SSB as member of the T48RAC team, and 2003 ARRL CW .

In Cuba we are around 4887 hams(Sep/2011), 1223 with first category, 1339 with second category, and 2315 with third category. In Santiago de Cuba province we are around 400 Hams and of them 300 are in Santiago de Cuba city.

There are 3 Ham's category:

CO - First -- HF/VHF/UHF/SHF bands and all modes, 2Kw (SSB) and 1Kw (CW) in HF Bands.
CM - Second -- HF bands SSB/CW and 2 meter band FM, 500w in HF.
CL - Third --- Segments on 160, 80, 40 and 2 Meters SSB, CW and FM.

The prefix CL9, CM9 and CO9 belong to Radio Clubs or Hams authorized to operate from a Radio Club. T4, CO0, CM0 and CL0 are especial prefix to be used from an IOTA Reference, contest team, special event, etc .

The country has 7 IOTA Reference, Those are:
Main Island "Cuba"-NA015
Archipelago "Camagüey" - NA086
Archipelago "Jardines de la Reina" - NA201
Archipelago "Los Canarreos" - NA056
Archipelago "Los Colorados" - NA093
Archipelago "Sabana" - NA204
Las Tunas/Holguín/Santiago de Cuba province group - NA218

VHF expedition, from "Puerto Boniato" at 400 meter above sea level.

VHF expedition, from "Puerto Boniato" at 400 meter above sea level.

T48RAC contest station.

T48RAC contest station.

T48RAC contest station.

A team of hams on " Pico Turquino" at 1976 meter above sea lever.

My QSL card. You can get it via HB9SVT or direct.