In my last post I mentioned that I’d put my 40m vertical up and was hoping to work some new DXCC entities on 40m during the Japanese Amateur Radio Teleprinter Society (JARTS) contest. Well the band was pretty noisy but I did manage pick up three new entities – Alaska, Canary Islands and Uzbekistan. I […]
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Putting up a 40m vertical for the winter
Last weekend, following the Martello Tower Group DXpedition to Herm Island, I put up a 40m vertical in my back garden. Not just any 40m vertical, it’s exactly the same one we used to great success on Herm. It’s made up of a 12m Spiderpole with a 1/4 wave vertical element and around 30 radials. […]
Statistics – September 2013
Much better than last month – I actually had time to play radio in September and had a lot of fun doing it. The two new DXCC entities I worked were Libya and El Salvador. QSOs made: 653 DXCC entities worked: 60 New DXCC entities worked: 2 Total DXCC worked: 261 Total DXCC confirmed using […]
A week of very low power 10m WSPR
Last Sunday I tweaked my Ultimate 2 transmitter to give me some power out on 10m and I managed to persuade it to run about 80-100mW. I’m going to experiment with a higher voltage for perhaps a little more power but in the meantime I decided to run it for a week. As I’m using […]
Statistics – August 2013
As can be seen, I’ve barely touched the wireless this month. I’ve been doing a lot of preparation work for Herm 2013 and have been running QRSS for almost all the month and as a result, my QSO count is the lowest it’s been since I started this blog. I hope to have more available […]
Winding coils and building filters
Some time ago I posted saying that I’ve been winding lots of coils and since then I also mentioned that I started work on a set of 5B4AGN filters and some of those was shown here. Since then, I’ve completed a full set of low pass filters for my WSPR/QRSS transmitter and here they all […]
Statistics – July 2013
The new DXCC entity worked this month was Iran. QSOs made: 402 DXCC entities worked: 55 New DXCC entities worked: 1 Total DXCC worked: 259 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW: 235 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW/QSL cards: 253
A World First – Experiments on the 60m (5 MHz) band with QRSS
The 60m band is fairly new amateur radio allocation, first introduced in 2002 but only to a few countries such as the United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, the USA, Ireland, Iceland and Norway. I had an experimental Notice of Variation for 5 MHz on my licence a few years ago and I renewed it when we […]
Statistics – June 2013
Another quiet month for me with far fewer QSOs than previous months. Once again, I’ve been doing a lot of low power propagation testing in June using WSPR and QRSS and so I’ve really not actually operated the wireless much making contacts. I worked three new countries this month, they were Ghana, Botswana and Laos. […]
Harwich Amateur Radio Interest Group (HARIG) Fox hunt
Every year the Harwich Amateur Radio Interest Group (HARIG) operate a fox hunt and this year, Yan M0YNK and myself decided to take part. It’s been years since I was involved with any radio DFing and the last time I did an event, I was the fox. Yan has never done it so this was going […]
