Over the last month or so I’ve been doing some experimenting using a newly built Hans Summers Ultimate 3S transmitter fitted with the new oven controlled crystal oscillator and I’m now running four different modes in a single ten minute frame with space at the end for a calibration cycle. You should note that to […]
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Revisiting D-STAR and the GB7TE repeater
Back in March 2011 I wrote about three different modes of communications, EchoLink, D-STAR and QSONet. In that piece, I discounted all of them and although I said that D-STAR was the one which most interested me, I wasn’t planning on using it due to a lack of any D-STAR repeaters nearby. Fast forward to earlier […]
Building a QRP Labs OCXO
I’ve not posted much this year because I’ve not been doing much new stuff. I’m still messing around with the very low power modes and enjoying that a lot. I’m transmitting WSPR and QRSS all the time and tend to leave the transmitter running on one band/mode for a month or so at a time. […]
CQ WPX RTTY 2015
It’s been a while since I made a semi-serious contest entry and I happened to notice a couple of weeks ago that the CQ WPX RTTY contest was coming up. I currently hold the England record for the 15m high power section and so I planned to try and beat that this year. I […]
20m QRSS warmup
I’ve had this screenshot sitting on my desktop for a while because I think it’s quite interesting. It shows my 20m QRSS signal from when I switched the transmitter on, for a period of nearly four hours. You can see how it takes almost an hour to warm up and calibrate itself to the correct […]
I’m not dead!
I know I’ve not updated this blog for some months but don’t panic, I’m not actually dead! Although I’ve not done much operating this year, I have still been playing radio. I’ve been melting a lot of solder building WSPR and QRSS transmitters and there’s normally some RF being transmitted on an HF band somewhere […]
My 10m vertical broke in the storms
Friday night was very windy over here on the east coast and when I went to bed I noticed that there was more noise than normal coming through my aerials. Normally I can hear the wind gently whistling through the mast and the Hexbeam but there was an actual rattle coming from somewhere which is […]
Statistics – December 2013
December was another month where I did very little on the wireless regarding actual QSOs made but I did operate QRSS/WSPR on various bands for most of the time. My interests are shifting slightly towards low power experimentation but I’m still keen on trying to increase my DXCC count. In December, I worked one new […]
Statistics – November 2013
I’ve had a very busy month with very little time to play radio and despite the fact that there have been a number of DXpeditions in November, I was only able to work one of them which was San Andres Island. I did manage to pick up some new band slots on 40m though and […]
Statistics – October 2013
The two new countries worked in October were Guantanamo Bay and Republic of the Congo. QSOs made: 807 DXCC entities worked: 94 New DXCC entities worked: 2 Total DXCC worked: 263 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW: 244 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW/QSL cards: 259
