Category: VHF

Days 139, 140 and 141 – Fun on the Martello Tower

Day #139 was very nearly my downfall due to an unforeseen circumstance.  I got home from work, had my tea and headed off to the Colchester Radio club with my lad to see a practical demonstration of the CW leg of the 80m CC contest.  All was going well until I had a ‘phone call from a […]

Days 127, 128 and 129 – The end of GR6NHU

These were three bumper days on the radio, I operated exclusively with my Royal Wedding callsign for them and ended up with a nice number of QSOs in the log.  Over the period I had 166 contacts using GR6NHU over a total of 38 DXCC entities including one new one for me.  I know some […]

Days 121, 122 and 123 – Denmark on 144MHz

Day #121 started with a few JT65 QSOs on 20m, I worked RA9WE, YV6BFE, OH2BPO and OK1NZJ before jumping over to 40m SSB and working a few special callsigns – GR0GMN, Jim in Scotland, MR0XDX, Paul in Mablethorpe, 2R0NOC, Colin in Ashford, GB4HRH, Paul, GB5RER, Peter, GB0PPS, Pete in Petworth, GR3)CA, Ken in Derby, MR0MAU, […]

Days 100, 101 and 102 – My first QSOs on 10MHz

Day #100 started off when I had a contact with KC2ULY, Jeff in New York State on 40m followed by a QSO with UX2SB in the Ukraine.  I’d arranged to have a sked on 10MHz later in the day  but prior to that I set up my JT65 on that band and called CQ.  I […]

Days 94, 95 and 96 – 144MHz UKAC

Day #94 started with a QSO with Nick, RV3EFR who replied to my CQ call on 15m and then I had JT65 QSOs with RU3KS, Andrey, W3BI, Rick and F1MWV, Jean-Pierre before I switched over to 20m and worked R5AO, Evgeny and OM3CFR, Pavol On day #95 I started off by working RX3AIS, Mikhail and […]

Days 64, 65 and 66 – Three very busy days

Day #64 dawned and with it the fact that it was a Saturday morning with contests throughout the day on both HF and 144MHz. Before I did any contest operating though I had two PSK31 QSOs on 40m with DC2QT, Heinrich in Germany and G6UWK, Jon who is in Manningtree, about ten miles away from […]

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 […]

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 […]

Days 29, 30 and 31 – That wraps up January

It’s been a nice weekend on the radio with well over a page full of QSOs in the logbook.  This is partly due to a big HF contest over the weekend and partly down to the fact that conditions have been good on VHF with a  tropo opening to Europe. I knew there was a […]

Days 26, 27, 28 and a minor “DX only” rant

On day #26 I decided to have another bash on 144MHz to see if it was as successful as when I’d called a week earlier.  It took a few attempts and some beam tweaking but I had a nice chat with David, 2E0YUB up in Lincolnshire. Day #27 was ‘cool’.  I spoke to SI9AM on […]