Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu I’ve been asked via Twitter to post the times I get a chance to operate the radio and make my QSOs. During the week, the time I have available to operate the wireless is limited, I’m normally up at around quarter to six and out of the […]
Month: January 2011
Days 10, 11 and 12
Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu This three day update seems to work well, it’s a format that I may well stick with throughout the year. Day #10 saw two contacts in the evening, both on 40m as expected and unsurprisingly to Spain and Italy (EA1HDD and IK6BGJ), two of the three countries […]
Day 9 – Namibia!
Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu 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 […]
Days 6, 7 and 8
Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu These days have been good, no drama like on day #5 where I nearly didn’t manage to have a contact. Day #6 was a 40m day with both QSOs being on 40m, the first to S57O, Franc in Slovenia and a couple of hours later I worked […]
73 – A rant
Last Updated on November 12, 2017 by g6nhu In amateur radio terms, the numbers 73 are an abbreviation for “best wishes” or “best regards”. Note the plural. At the end of a contact people generally sign off using that abbreviation, it’s polite. But if you say “seven threes” or “seventy threes” then what you’re really […]
Days 3,4 and 5
Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu Day #3 started off well with a QSO just a few seconds into the day to R7DX (what a great callsign), Alex who is around 1,800 miles away in Russia. I worked him on 40m and the band was wide open but I was very tired and […]
First QSOs of 2011
Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu 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 […]
My review of 2010
Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu So with 2011 now firmly ensconced on our calendars I thought I should write a review of 2010 as far as my amateur radio activities have gone. I started playing radio again properly half way through 2009 with the rebirth of ClackPak into the Martello Tower Group […]
