I won’t normally blog twice a day and I generally won’t blog on the same day as I had the QSOs but as I’m not going to be on the wireless again today I thought I may as well post. I’ve had three QSOs today, the first was on 7MHz where I worked IK4HLQ, Joe […]
Category: QRSS
First QSOs of 2011
The first two days QSOs have been easy, if it’s like this all year then it’ll be a breeze! I still don’t have much experience in HF propagation so I still don’t really know what to expect but the bands seem to have been in a fairly good way over the last couple of days. […]
10MHz QRSS Transmitter kit
I mentioned yesterday that I’d been building a QRP Labs 30m QRSS transmitter so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail here. QRS is accepted as the Q-code for ‘please send slower; in Morse and QRSS is a derivative of that in that it means ‘send extremely slowly’. Very slow Morse code is […]
Spain and a new square
Every Saturday I take a drive to Frinton-on-Sea to stock up on bread for the week. I’d done the shopping and was just getting back into the car when my phone pinged at me to tell me I had a new email. I glanced at it and saw that it was a DX-Sherlock warning of […]