Last Updated on December 11, 2011 by g6nhu After the recent heavy winds in Scotland it’s now time for the south of the country to get them and we’re forecast winds of up to 65 mph at some point over the next few days which equates to Storm Force 10. My Alimast from Aerial-Parts of […]
Month: December 2011
Days 337 to 343 – Aerial work at the Martello Tower and the 2m UKAC
Last Updated on December 9, 2011 by g6nhu I had a nice lot of QSOs on day #337, largely on the higher bands again. I was up at a reasonable time and had a couple of CQ shouts on 10m, first working UV3QF, Igor and UA6BCB, Vlad. I was then nicely surprised to be called […]
Planning permission – I had a visit and a letter from the council
Last Updated on December 6, 2011 by g6nhu Planning permission is a subject I’ve steered clear of on this blog for one main reason. I don’t have any. I used to have a twenty foot pole on the side of my house with a seventeen foot long 2m beam for over fifteen years along with […]
Days 334, 335 and 336 – Not much happening
Last Updated on December 3, 2011 by g6nhu This is a very small update. The bands have been really dead in the evenings and the fact that I didn’t have an aerial for 40m following it falling down means it’s been a difficult three days. Day #334 was when the aerial fell down, I worked […]
Aerial down!
Last Updated on March 11, 2013 by g6nhu Yesterday I got home in the evening, switched the wireless on and had a couple of QSOs, one of which was on 40m. Much later, just as I was about to go to bed my wife suddenly said “Oh, I forgot to tell you, your long dangly […]
Review – November
Last Updated on December 31, 2011 by g6nhu I missed working one hundred countries in November by just four but that’s overshadowed by the fact that I’ve worked a large number of new DXCC entities this month and also have had a load confirmed on LoTW – An extra seventeen entities which has pushed me […]
