Month: May 2025

New things you can do in HamClock

I wrote my HamClock install guide about a year ago and although I’ve kept it up to date with each version that’s been released, it doesn’t specifically show the new stuff that’s been added. I wrote about the new On The Air pane here. Configurations HamClock now allows you to save and load configurations. This […]

Working ZS8W

On the 16th April I read the Daily DX as normal and was excited to see that Marion island was going to be activated just a week later. Not that I’d ever heard of Marion island but the post said that “Prince Edward & Marion Is. are listed as #11 in Clublog’s DXCC Most Wanted […]

N1MM Logger+

I enter a fair number of contests, for voice contests I’ve always used SkookumLogger, for data contests I’ve always used Fldigi and the less said about what I use for CW the better! I’ve always worked non assisted in contests, even those where there is no non assisted section and so therefore I’ve always been […]

My ‘new’ HF aerial – A SteppIR UrbanBeam

This post has been a long time coming, regular readers may remember that back in March 2023 I made a comment that I’d decided what aerial I was going to buy and then I posted in April 2023 to say that I’d had deliveries but I’ve barely mentioned it since. As per the printed sheets […]