A few days ago I decided to look at the datacomms capabilities of my new TS-590S. It has a USB socket on the back and it appears that the complete data interface is built in. I’ve set up a new Windows XP virtual machine just for datacomms and I’ve so far set up software for […]
Month: August 2011
Review – July
IOTA weekend gave my QSO count for July a big boost with over 150 of my contacts for the month occurring during that contest. My DXCC entity count continues to grow slowly and so does the number of stations confirmed on LoTW. I’ve not written out any QSL cards for July yet but will hit those over […]
Days 213, 214 and 215
One QSO on day #213, I worked 9A2YM, Steve on 12m. I’ve only had four QSOs on 24MHz so it was nice to use the band again and he was a mighty fine signal! On day #214 I started off on one of the other WARC bands and spoke to E77YZ, Adis in Sarajevo on […]
Days 209 to 212 – IOTA
I had one QSO on both days #209 and 210, I worked DL5MBY, Ulli on 20m RTTY and TP50CE, Francis on 40m respectively. Days #211 and #212 were the Islands On The Air (IOTA) contest and this is an annual event that is very popular. I had sort of hoped to be operating from GU […]
