9M8J - Kenyalang DX & Contest Team

9M8A Big Satang Dxpedition QSL Cards have been sent/shipped (First Batch). Next month will be the next batch.

First batch 97 pcs - Na(3), Uruguay (1), Spain (19), Germany (62), Moldavia(1), France(5), Portugal(3) , Estonia (1) & UK(2).

Thanks you 73!

Huge congratulations to station 9M8J and the entire crew for securing First Place in East Malaysia in the 2025 Oceania DX Contest.

​Despite poor condition propagation but with a massive score of 178,314 points in the Multi-Operator, Multi-Transmitter category, teamwork and technical skill really paid off. Outstanding job to the whole team: 9M2DOC, 9M2MAD, 9M2RSI, 9M2WAZ, 9M8LJW, 9M8WIN, and 9W8ZZK. See you next in 2026. 73"

JIDX Contest, we managed to contact >100 JA stations however the bands are up and down plus there is few hiccups but its managable/ solveable. WX also just nice.

Anyway, hope to C U AGN.

Op at 9M8HAZ QTH: 9M8LJW, JG7AMD, 9W8VYY

Very tough indeed propagation condition over the weekend plus QRN QRM daytime & nightime. Short window for us here but we managed gone through. CW is coming on this weekend. See you guys on the band.

Congratulations to 9M8A and the entire team for achieving 31st place in the Multi Operator Two Transmitters Section of the IOTA Contest 2025! Your hard work, teamwork, and dedication to the spirit of amateur radio truly shine. Well done

9M2MAD JW Hisham Marmin Iruan Jaafar Zulkefli Mohd Amaji Pian Supian Mohamad Zaheer Zakaria Alex Alex Winston Lim WT Marhazk Spica Shafarizal Rahman Suhaimi Azri Robin

good info

SSB (Single-Sideband) modulation can sometimes sound like a "duck voice" to new listeners because of a specific technical aspect of how it works.

​A standard AM (Amplitude Modulation) signal is made up of three components: a central carrier wave, and two sidebands that carry the audio information. When you tune a regular AM radio, you're tuning to the carrier wave, and the radio uses that carrier to demodulate the signal and produce the sound.

​SSB is designed to be much more efficient. To do this, it removes the carrier wave and one of the sidebands, transmitting only the single sideband that contains the audio information.

​The receiving radio needs that carrier wave to be able to "unscramble" the audio. It does this by generating its own carrier wave, called the Beat Frequency Oscillator (BFO), and mixing it with the incoming SSB signal. If the BFO is not perfectly tuned to the exact frequency where the original carrier would have been, the pitch of the recovered audio will be shifted.

This pitch shift is what creates that distorted, "duck-like" sound. It's a hallmark of a new operator or listener who hasn't yet fine-tuned their receiver.

9M8A NEWS UPDATE: QSO logs have been finalized. Proceeding with QSL Card, last order for first batch is August 23, 2025. Same goes to first batch of 9M4WWA, second batch of 9M1Z (Borneo and Semporna)

For OQRS, visit www.qrz.com/db/9M8A

Here's the the 9M8A QSO count:-
- Initial QSO uploads: 27,165 total
- 1st Phase QSO uploads: 31,765 total
- 2nd Phase QSO uploads: 34,264 total
- 3rd Phase QSO uploads: 34,667 total
- 4th Phase QSO uploads: 34,856 total
- 5th Phase QSO uploads: 34,856 total
- Final Phase QSO uploads: 34,462 total