Last night was a good night for me on 40m QRSS, I was spotted by four grabbers that I’m aware of, they were, in alphabetical order. IV3ONZ, Italy at 1114 kilometres, 692 miles ON5EX, Belgium at 199 kilometres, 123 miles VE1VDM, Canada at 4634 kilometres, 2879 miles W4HBK, USA at 7288 kilometres, 4528 miles […]
Category: Amateur radio
Days 88, 89 and 90 – Quiet
After the hectic last weekend, these three days have been very quiet with just one QSO each day. Part of the reason for this is that I also spent quite a while writing out the QSL cards for March, here’s just a few of them all written out and ready to go to the bureau. […]
Review – March
March has been a great month, one where I’ve been really active on the wireless. The bands are starting to open nicely and I’ve ‘discovered’ the 15m (21MHz) band or to be more precise, I discovered I had an aerial which works on 15m and it’s quickly become my band of choice. There have been […]
10MHz QRSS and WSPR
I’ve blogged previously about my total lack of success running QRSS on the 30 metre (10MHz) band and I’ve always blamed my aerial. I ran my home made QRSS kit into my long wire for a few days and nobody heard me. I tried running it into a home made dipole for a few days […]
Days 85, 86 and 87 – CQ WPX and more DXCCs than you can shake a stick at
I was awake at midnight on day #85 as I’d been working a few stations just before in the build up to the CQ World-Wide WPX Contest which is one of the big HF contests of the year. I had no real plan for the contest, just to give away a few points and hopefully […]
RSGB General Manager
This blog isn’t normally used to report general news articles but I think it’s worth posting this. RSGB General Manager The Board of the RSGB has today released the following announcement: Peter Kirby, RSGB General Manager, has left the Society’s employment after the discovery of financial irregularities on his part. For the time being, RSGB […]
Club Log – A great tool for analysing your log
I was pointed towards Club Log a few weeks ago and I signed up for it out of interest to see what it can do. The “About” info says: Club Log is a web-based application that analyses log files from radio amateurs all over the world. Using the logs, Club Log offers you a wide […]
G6NHU ‘grabbed’ in Pensacola again
I totally forgot on Friday night to switch the QRSS transmitter on but remembered just before I went to bed last night to tune the aerial for 40m and connect up the kit. This morning I had a hunt through the archives at W4HBK’s Pensacola Snapper and was very pleased to see that my 150mW […]
Days 82, 83 and 84 – 80m was better this month (oh, and Cape Verde)
I blogged a couple of days ago about my displeasure with the behaviour of a particular station who was calling D44AC in Cape Verde on 10m. I gave up trying to get through the pileup on day #82 and a little later I switched to 15m. There was D44AC calling CQ on 15m with very […]
Ignorant and rude operating – A rant
I got home from work this evening and within about thirty seconds of getting in, the phone rang. It was Tony, G0MBA so I put the wireless on and we had a chat on 28MHz. Tony was on the outskirts of Colchester in his van and was a good signal with me. As we signed, […]
