In order for your HamClock to work after June 2026, you must switch to a different backend server. Since my original post on the future of HamClock, a number of very talented people have been hard at work in examining the traffic to and from HamClocks and the host server and reproducing it. First of […]
I fully support this project to reverse engineer the output from the HamClock server. I think this is the best method to try and keep HamClock functioning past June. If we can build another source for the data and replicate that at multiple places around the world we can be sure we won’t end up […]
** UPDATE **HamClock is not dead. See here. On Thursday 29th January 2026 a simple notice appeared on the HamClock home page. I’ve worked with Elwood Downey, WB0OEW very closely on HamClock over the last couple of years and we’d become good friends. I emailed him straight away using a different address to the one […]
January sees the third running of the World Wild Award, an event organised by HamAward at https://hamaward.cloud which is all about making contacts. Throughout the entire month of January, over 100 Teams, most with special callsigns, consisting of over 1100 operators are on the air and looking for contacts. You can work each team station […]
My QRZ page says “I started using RTTY with a Creed 444 teleprinter in the early 80s“. I thought it would be interesting to look back through my old paper logbooks and see if I could find my very first RTTY QSO. I spent a happy hour browsing through the logbook and it brought back […]
If you’ve got a headset or if you contest, you’ve almost certainly got a foot switch for your wireless, and the chances are that it looks something like this. I bought this years ago from Maplin for under a fiver and it’s been used as part of my station here, originally with my Heil headset, […]
I wrote my HamClock install guide about a year ago and although I’ve kept it up to date with each version that’s been released, it doesn’t specifically show the new stuff that’s been added. I wrote about the new On The Air pane here. Configurations HamClock now allows you to save and load configurations. This […]
On the 16th April I read the Daily DX as normal and was excited to see that Marion island was going to be activated just a week later. Not that I’d ever heard of Marion island but the post said that “Prince Edward & Marion Is. are listed as #11 in Clublog’s DXCC Most Wanted […]
I enter a fair number of contests, for voice contests I’ve always used SkookumLogger, for data contests I’ve always used Fldigi and the less said about what I use for CW the better! I’ve always worked non assisted in contests, even those where there is no non assisted section and so therefore I’ve always been […]
This post has been a long time coming, regular readers may remember that back in March 2023 I made a comment that I’d decided what aerial I was going to buy and then I posted in April 2023 to say that I’d had deliveries but I’ve barely mentioned it since. As per the printed sheets […]
