Month: February 2011

Days 38, 39 and 40 – How bad can 80m be?

Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu Day #38 started off well. It was the second round of the RSGB SSB 80m Club Championship and I’d planned on operating for the 90 minutes and attempting to beat my score of 30 QSOs from last month.  In order to get nicely warmed up, I called […]

MKARS80 – All the resistors are in

Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu Inspired by listening to a couple of episodes of the Soldersmoke podcast, specifically Soldersmoke #130 I decided to ‘melt some solder’ this evening and pulled my MKARS80 kit back off of the shelf.  I was given this as a Christmas present and all I’d done with it […]

Radio improvements – Tweaking things to make them better

Last Updated on April 4, 2019 by g6nhu I like things to work well. I like to tweak the best possible performance out of equipment and as such I’ll look into what I can do to make things better and do it. I’m not counting my current HF aerial in this as that was just […]

Days 35, 36 and 37 – A great ‘radio’ weekend

Last Updated on April 17, 2011 by g6nhu 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 […]

QSL cards for January have been posted

Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu I forgot to mention earlier this week that the QSL cards from January have been posted.  All 94 cards were sent to the RSGB Bureau on the 1st of February so if you’re reading this blog because you’ve worked me already, your card is in the post.

Days 32, 33 and 34 – Quiet

Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu 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 […]

Review – January

Last Updated on March 16, 2011 by g6nhu I’m going to see if I can write a review of each month with statistics and feelings.  It may end up just being statistics without the feelings but I’ll see how I can do. If I’m totally honest, I started the project with a little trepidation.  Although […]