Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu As documented elsewhere, I did significant work to my VHF aerial system last year consisting of a new rotator, cable and masthead preamplifier. This has been all very good and has given me a half decent VHF aerial system but it’s also shown weaknesses. My location isn’t […]
Month: July 2011
Days 185-189, two visits from the insurance company
Last Updated on August 28, 2011 by g6nhu Not many QSOs during these days but that’s not too surprising as my shack really is decimated with no computers, a bare minimum of an Internet connection through a dodgy router and a borrowed radio balanced on top of my old broken radio. On day #185 I […]
Review – June
Last Updated on September 1, 2011 by g6nhu Luckily I keep a paper log as well as a computer log so I am able to provide some statistics for the month of June. I can’t give as much detail as usual but the basics are here. QSOs made: 301 QSL cards sent: 231 DXCC entities […]
Days 178-184, lightning, security and insurance
Last Updated on August 19, 2011 by g6nhu Day #178 saw me just working the higher bands, I spoke to DO8ABS, EW6DX and IZ5ENZ on 10m and HA5JI, YO5OHY, SP7HKK and HA6NL on 6m. Day #179 was the day of the lightning strike but luckily for the project I’d worked W4DXX, Eric on 20m in […]
