Day #38 started off well. It was the second round of the RSGB SSB 80m Club Championship and I’d planned on operating for the 90 minutes and attempting to beat my score of 30 QSOs from last month. In order to get nicely warmed up, I called CQ on the band an hour or so […]
Month: February 2011
MKARS80 – All the resistors are in
Inspired by listening to a couple of episodes of the Soldersmoke podcast, specifically Soldersmoke #130 I decided to ‘melt some solder’ this evening and pulled my MKARS80 kit back off of the shelf. I was given this as a Christmas present and all I’d done with it was to fit a handful of resistors. Tonight […]
Radio improvements – Tweaking things to make them better
I like things to work well. I like to tweak the best possible performance out of equipment and as such I’ll look into what I can do to make things better and do it. I’m not counting my current HF aerial in this as that was just thrown up at the spur of the moment […]
Days 35, 36 and 37 – A great ‘radio’ weekend
Day #35 was Friday and after work I had a quick word with Andy, IZ1MHQ on 40m. Later that evening I had a tune around on 80m and heard a really strong signal coming from HE3OM in Switzerland. It was a club station and I worked them and discovered that they were operating from Sottens […]
QSL cards for January have been posted
I forgot to mention earlier this week that the QSL cards from January have been posted. All 94 cards were sent to the RSGB Bureau on the 1st of February so if you’re reading this blog because you’ve worked me already, your card is in the post.
Days 32, 33 and 34 – Quiet
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were all very quiet days with just one QSO each as I’ve had quite a busy week. Day #32 was Tuesday and it was the night of the 144MHZ UKAC contest so I got home from work and had a very quick QSO with Paul, DC1EI on 2m. I was hoping […]
Review – January
I’m going to see if I can write a review of each month with statistics and feelings. It may end up just being statistics without the feelings but I’ll see how I can do. If I’m totally honest, I started the project with a little trepidation. Although some people have a lot of time to […]
