LA5EKA/MM QRV in the Barents Sea

I am QRV in the Barents Sea until October 8th aboard the HU Sverdrup II. Equipment is the Elecraft KX3, LA1IC 2x12.5m trap (W3DZZ) antenna and the Begali Magnetic Traveller Light. Conditions are so so, but right now there is an opening on ten to Southern Europe. 

I had forgotten to bring my KXUSB cable for this trip, so I had to make a serialcable following this pinout :

Image by Elecraft. Works like a charm. Luckily we had a bunch of serial to USB converters onboard, so I can use it with my laptop. I use Logger32 for logging by the way. 

Migrating from website to blog.

I will slowly migrate my almost 16 year old website to the blog-format. Hopefully this will be easier to maintain, and also be more interesting to the readers. See pages with LA-HamBase 2012 for info about and download of the software.