Last Updated on December 30, 2011 by g6nhu I’ll post the full stats for QSO365 in a few days once the project has finished but in the meantime I wanted to get some notes made regarding amateur radio in 2011 as it relates to me. To put it simply, I’ve had a great year! The […]
Month: December 2011
Days 361, 362 and 363 – Some nice DX and just what is this ROS thing?
Last Updated on December 29, 2011 by g6nhu I started day #361 in what’s become the usual way, I had two 40m JT65 QSOs, working DK6AN and DG6AOY before switching to 15m SSB and talking with LZ1ND, Ted and 5V7MA in Togo. I then spoke to HS0ZGQ, Joe in Thailand on 10m. After that I […]
Days 358, 359 and 360 – It’s Christmas!
Last Updated on December 27, 2011 by g6nhu Day #358 was Christmas Eve and so I had some QSOs first thing in the morning before I went off to hook up with the other members of the Martello Tower Group at the local cafe for a late breakfast before heading over to Coastal Communications for […]
Days 353 to 357 – More midweek 40m data
Last Updated on December 27, 2011 by g6nhu All QSOs over this five day period were on 40m using JT65 and the pattern is the same all the way through with one or two contacts early morning between 06:15 and 06:30 and then maybe one more at least twelve hours later after work. Day #353 […]
Days 351 and 352
Last Updated on December 22, 2011 by g6nhu Just in case there were problems putting my beam back up on day #351 I had a ‘banker’ 40m JT65 QSO first thing, I worked IZ2QPP, Ermes. All went well though and so I spoke to UA9CUA on 10m SSB followed by P39P on 15m. After that […]
I received my DXCC certificates
Last Updated on December 22, 2011 by g6nhu “DXCC is Amateur Radio’s premier award that hams can earn by confirming on the air contacts with 100 countries” – ARRL I’m pleased to say that I reached this some weeks ago and submitted my application to the ARRL. I actually waited until I qualified for two […]
You can never have too many 0.1uF decoupling capacitors
Last Updated on December 18, 2011 by g6nhu A couple of weeks ago I needed to repair my iPod transmitter for the car and the fix was a simple one – Resolder the power supply cable and replace the decoupling capacitor because it had broken. The problem was that I had no ceramic disc 0.1uF […]
Days 346 to 350 – Early morning and late evening JT65
Last Updated on December 18, 2011 by g6nhu With my mast down and just a 40m monoband dipole up at 15ft and my 10m vertical, I was quite limited in what I could do this week because I was actually worse off for aerials than I’ve been all year. I started with a long wire […]
Aerial is back up and the winch mechanism works perfectly
Last Updated on December 17, 2011 by g6nhu Today was the final test for my aerial installation and I’m pleased to report that everything went well. This morning, David, M6DHU and myself wrapped up warm and ventured out into the garden. We first lowered my 40m dipole and moved it out of the way then […]
Days 344 and 345 – The ARRL 10m Contest
Last Updated on December 16, 2011 by g6nhu These two days were the ARRL 10m contest and I had high hopes for it. I had a mental target of 500 QSOs over the course of the weekend but things didn’t go as well as expected. I started off on Saturday morning and it was difficult […]
