I have been emailed details of a new RTTY contest which will run for the first time this year on Friday 4th October 2024. It’s scheduled for the first Friday of October each year going forward. It’s called the URC DX RTTY Contest and the rules are pretty standard in that everyone works everyone. The […]
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That’s N5J in the log for DXCC #304
How to set up a HamClock for your shack
Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 19th April 2025 using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.17. I appreciate that the last post here was about the HamClock and I said I wouldn’t be providing a guide to building one but I’ve been […]
HamClock
For some years I’d been aware of HamClock and around April last year I decided to investigate further and built one using an old Raspberry Pi 3B that I had spare.If you’ve never heard of HamClock, it’s described on the authors page thus: “HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio […]
I’ve worked 300 DXCC entities
How to build a shack clock using a Raspberry Pi and a 7″ Touch Display.
I have deliveries!
A sked with the Falkland Islands
VP8 isn’t especially rare in amateur radio terms, it’s currently number 206 in the ClubLog list of most wanted DXCC entities but although I’ve worked it on SSB and various data modes, I’d not managed a CW QSO until recently. I made a post on the Chiltern DX Club reflector which mentioned it, and shortly […]
New aerial – I’ve decided!
After much research, I’ve decided what I’m going to replace the Hexbeam with. I’m aiming to put up a SteppIR UrbanBeam which will give me the same coverage as the Hexbeam with the addition of a folded dipole on 30m. At the same time, I’m going to replace all the coaxial cable with Messi & […]
DX Century Club – RTTY
Some years ago, the ARRL decided to stop issuing a DXCC certificate for just RTTY and merged the various digital modes all together for a single ‘digital’ certificate. I obtained the ‘digital’ certificate back in 2012 with just RTTY QSOs and was always a little sad that my certificate said ‘digital’. Last year, I heard […]