Monthly Archives: January 2013

Modifying my 40m delta loop to work on other bands

Posted on January 28, 2013 by g6nhu

Back in June 2011 I put up a horizontal delta loop for 40m and I wrote about it at some length here.  Since then, I’ve made a few changes to my aerial for the lower bands, experimented with an off-centre … Continue reading →

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The results of the OK DX RTTY contest 2012

Posted on January 23, 2013 by g6nhu

On the 15th December I took part in the OK DX RTTY contest and I blogged about it here.  Yesterday I was pointed at the results by OK1RIG and I have to say that this has to be one of … Continue reading →

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The UK DX BPSK63 2013 contest

Posted on January 16, 2013 by g6nhu

Last weekend I was pleased to take part in the UK DX BPSK63 contest – This contest was RTTY in 2012 but has changed to PSK63 this year.  I generally prefer operating RTTY to PSK but there’s no doubt that … Continue reading →

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QSLing – Is this in the spirit of Amateur Radio?

Posted on January 11, 2013 by g6nhu

In April last year I made two QSOs with a group of people on a DXpedition to an African country, this was a new DXCC to me and after the trip I looked up the callsign on qrz.com where it … Continue reading →

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Amplifier broken? Aerial broken? Coax broken? What?

Posted on January 9, 2013 by g6nhu

On 29th December I attempted to have a go in the World Wide Iron Ham contest.  I wasn’t planning on a big entry but was just going to run for a couple of hours to have a break from the Christmas festivities. … Continue reading →

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Statistics and look back at 2012

Posted on January 5, 2013 by g6nhu

To start with, here are the statistics for 2012, this includes QSOs made using G6NHU and GO6NHU. QSOs made: 10,078 Unique QSOs made: 5,531 DXCC entities worked in 2012: 223 New DXCC entities worked in 2012: 75 Total DXCC worked: … Continue reading →

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Statistics – December 2012

Posted on January 1, 2013 by g6nhu

I’m back above the corresponding months figure from last year with nearly 800 QSOs in the log for December. I only managed to work one new DXCC entity this month, that was the ZL9HR DXpedition to Campbell Island. I did … Continue reading →

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