Hello Hams my name is Juan Carlos, ham since July 1992. I live in Santiago de Cuba about 963 kilometer 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. Mostly use CW and SSB, have some few QSO's on RTTY and on SSTV only as SWL. I prefer be looking for DX stations, IOTA references and sometimes am calling CQ in some favorite bands like 28.0 or 14.0 Mhz. I enjoy working some contest like CQWW, CQWPX, IOTA, ARRL, WAE, ARRL 10 Meter, ARRL 160 Meter, IARU Championship, etc.... using my callsign as single operator or others calls ( T48RAC, T48Z, CO8LY, CO8RCB and CO9NAA )as multi operator of contest stations. 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 and 4x4=16 # 1251. 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 3800 hams in 14 provinces and the isle of Youth (a especial municipality), Santiago de Cuba province has around 250 Hams and of them 210 are in Santiago de Cuba city.

There are 4 Ham's category:

CO - First  -- HF/VHF/UHF/SHF bands and all modes, 2Kw in HF Bands.
CM - Second -- HF bands SSB/CW and VHF bands FM, 500w in HF.
CL - Third --- Segments on 160 & 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

And before finish I would like you see ...
Photo outside of CO9NKA Radio Club.
Photos of T48Z multi national contest team.
Photos working an ARRL Contests as T48RAC.
A team of hams at 1974 meters above sea level.
The Station at Home.
Amount of QSO's, IOTA, Confirmed and Worked Countries.
DXCC, Propagation, Prefix List, Antennas, Grounding...
Map of locator for Cuba.

Some links to others WWW page.
 

Propagation page.

Real time satellite tracking.

DX Cluster Page.

The weather in Santiago de Cuba city.
The weather for Cuba (Satellite image).

QSL Manager is Thomas,HB9SVT.

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Post mail: Apartado Postal 8, Santiago de Cuba, CP 90100, Cuba. e-mail: e-mail address Work Phones (53) (22) 653949  and  (53) (22) 653958

          Thanks for the help to James Long W4ZRZ, Thomas HB9SVT http://www.hb9svt.ch/,
          Al KA9FOX http://www.qsl.net/ ,Doug N6RT http://dx.qsl.net/logs/ ,
          Joe W3HNK and others...

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          A man is really educate when he know how to make friends and keep them. I. Newton.
          We are all very ignorant, but not all ignorant of the same things. A. Einstein.

       

       

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