Over the last few weeks I’ve spent quite a lot of time reading about different options for wire HF aerials and one kept coming back into my head as being something I could easily try at this QTH – A full wavelength horizontal ‘delta’ loop for 40m. My garden is the right sort of size […]
Having had lots of fun running QRSS on both 30m and 40m I decided to try another band so a few weeks ago I ordered the 80m QRSS kit from QRP Labs and it was almost completely assembled within an hour of me receiving it – I documented that in the blog post here. It […]
I’ve only worked four stations over the three days but have been playing QRSS again. On day #130 I first spoke to ON5KQ, Ulli on 40m – I was only using 10w for this contact and then I had a chat with Terry, G4BFS up near Norwich on the same band. Terry was using a […]
I woke up yesterday morning to find the worst possible scenario (except perhaps for a zombie apocalypse). The internet had failed! I tried rebooting my modem and even went as far as resetting it but not only was it not connecting to the internet, I couldn’t even connect to it. So I arranged to have […]
I was in the local radio shop yesterday and had a flick through the Intermediate licence training book and one of the sample exam questions jumped out at me. The question was: When referring to soldering, the term ‘dry joint’ means: (a) A form of soldering using dry paste (b) A good solder joint (c) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just a quick update, I’ve been shown a full overnight trace from the Pensacola Snapper I mentioned earlier today and I’m pleased to post it here. It clearly shows when my signal appeared and then faded away, it’s a good trace, I like it.
I posted an entry to this blog a couple of days ago about my 40m QRSS transmitter which I left online that night. I wasn’t grabbed by anyone and so I planned to have it running during the weekends because I was advised that W4HBK’s Pensacola Snapper generally switches to 40m on Friday nights. I […]
