Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu I’ve blogged previously about my total lack of success running QRSS on the 30 metre (10MHz) band and I’ve always blamed my aerial. I ran my home made QRSS kit into my long wire for a few days and nobody heard me. I tried running it into […]
Month: March 2011
Days 85, 86 and 87 – CQ WPX and more DXCCs than you can shake a stick at
Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu I was awake at midnight on day #85 as I’d been working a few stations just before in the build up to the CQ World-Wide WPX Contest which is one of the big HF contests of the year. I had no real plan for the contest, just […]
RSGB General Manager
Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu This blog isn’t normally used to report general news articles but I think it’s worth posting this. RSGB General Manager The Board of the RSGB has today released the following announcement: Peter Kirby, RSGB General Manager, has left the Society’s employment after the discovery of financial irregularities […]
Club Log – A great tool for analysing your log
Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu I was pointed towards Club Log a few weeks ago and I signed up for it out of interest to see what it can do. The “About” info says: Club Log is a web-based application that analyses log files from radio amateurs all over the world. Using […]
G6NHU ‘grabbed’ in Pensacola again
Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu I totally forgot on Friday night to switch the QRSS transmitter on but remembered just before I went to bed last night to tune the aerial for 40m and connect up the kit. This morning I had a hunt through the archives at W4HBK’s Pensacola Snapper and […]
Days 82, 83 and 84 – 80m was better this month (oh, and Cape Verde)
Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu I blogged a couple of days ago about my displeasure with the behaviour of a particular station who was calling D44AC in Cape Verde on 10m. I gave up trying to get through the pileup on day #82 and a little later I switched to 15m. There […]
Ignorant and rude operating – A rant
Last Updated on November 12, 2017 by g6nhu I got home from work this evening and within about thirty seconds of getting in, the phone rang. It was Tony, G0MBA so I put the wireless on and we had a chat on 28MHz. Tony was on the outskirts of Colchester in his van and was […]
Days 79, 80 and 81 – Another couple of DXCCs
Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu Day #79 was the second day of the Russian DX contest I mentioned in my last entry and I was hoping to make it up to 100 QSOs before the end. I didn’t quite manage that as I only added another twenty to my previous total, bringing […]
Days 76, 77 and 78 – DXCCs everywhere
Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu Days #76 started off just after midnight. Now I appreciate that one day always follows the previous but in the case of day #76 it started on the wireless at 00:05 when I worked OX3XR, Peter in Greenland on 40m JT65 for a new DXCC. That was […]
More QRSS, overnight full grab from Pensacola
Last Updated on December 30, 2015 by g6nhu Just a quick update, I’ve been shown a full overnight trace from the Pensacola Snapper I mentioned earlier today and I’m pleased to post it here. It clearly shows when my signal appeared and then faded away, it’s a good trace, I like it.
