It’s been a busy few days for me on both the wireless and in ‘real life’ but I’ve been able to keep the project going without too much trouble. On day #13 which was Thursday I was home from work and back out again very quickly with my daughter to visit my mum. This is […]
Category: Contesting
Days 10, 11 and 12
This three day update seems to work well, it’s a format that I may well stick with throughout the year. Day #10 saw two contacts in the evening, both on 40m as expected and unsurprisingly to Spain and Italy (EA1HDD and IK6BGJ), two of the three countries I hear the most on the band, the […]
Days 3,4 and 5
Day #3 started off well with a QSO just a few seconds into the day to R7DX (what a great callsign), Alex who is around 1,800 miles away in Russia. I worked him on 40m and the band was wide open but I was very tired and went to bed straight after. Later on […]
That’s pretty much it for 2010
I don’t expect to be doing any serious radio for the next few days. Yesterday evening was the last of the RSGB UKAC Contests that the Martello Tower Group are taking part in this year and unexpectedly today I was able to give away a few points in the last of the Christmas Cumulatives on […]
Christmas!
Yes, it’s Christmas, no, I’ve not had much chance to do anything really on the wireless. I worked a couple of stations last week but nothing really of note and I’ve just had a nice couple of hours in the second of the RSGB Christmas Cumulatives. I’ll have another go tomorrow and then I’m back […]
QSOs, a contest and a new callsign
I’ve had a couple of nice although quick QSOs on 40m over the last two nights. I’m now suffering from some quite serious interference on all bands from 160m up to 15m which I think is coming from some Christmas lights in the street so it’s tricky for me to work much in the evening […]
144MHz UKAC Contest, December 2010
Last night was the final 144MHz UKAC Contest of 2010 – I’ve been putting in entries all this year as part of the Martello Tower Group and for a small group, I think we’re doing very well. Yesterday was my daughters birthday so it would have been very unsociable of me to go to the […]
144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest – Part 2
Following on from my entry yesterday about the 144MHz AFS Contest, I’ve done some detective work and found out the results from the 1990 contest I mentioned. I finished 12th out of 91 entries in my section and I was part of the Colchester Radio Amateurs group who finished second out of 37 societies. My […]
144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest
Tomorrow (Sunday 5th December 2010) is the 144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest. This is a contest that I have a real soft spot for as it was the first contest I ever put a serious entry in to back in 1982. I’ve taken a trip down memory lane and dug out my old logbooks to see […]
