The results of the IARU Region 1 VHF contest from September 2010 have finally been published. As an entrant to the RSGB 144MHz Trophy I was automatically entered to this one and I’ve been quite keen to see the results for some time as it was the first time I’ve done the full 24 hour […]
Category: Contesting
Days 154, 155 and 156 – Morse code!
I started off day #154 by having three QSOs on 6m, I worked SM5P, Jan, OZ1AXG, Flem and IS0BSR/P, Marco. Conditions were clearly good as all three of these were via Sporadic E and all were using a home made dipole in my loft. It looks as though it’s right against the side of the […]
Days 142, 143 and 144 – RTTY
Day #142 was quite a disappointment after the previous day. I’d planned to be up early and spend six hours operating on VHF in the same contest we worked the day before from the Martello Tower. I was up in plenty of time but once I started operating, it became very obvious very quickly that […]
Days 139, 140 and 141 – Fun on the Martello Tower
Day #139 was very nearly my downfall due to an unforeseen circumstance. I got home from work, had my tea and headed off to the Colchester Radio club with my lad to see a practical demonstration of the CW leg of the 80m CC contest. All was going well until I had a ‘phone call from a […]
Days 133, 134 and 135 – I’ve got a new logbook
I had three QSOs on day #133, I worked KA1ERL, Russell in Rhode Island on 20m JT65 and then switched to SSB and spoke to IR0LJ, Emilio. Later I changed to 40m where I had a nice long chat with Steve, M1ACB in Ipswich. Steve is a member of Camb-Hams and we had a talk […]
Days 127, 128 and 129 – The end of GR6NHU
These were three bumper days on the radio, I operated exclusively with my Royal Wedding callsign for them and ended up with a nice number of QSOs in the log. Over the period I had 166 contacts using GR6NHU over a total of 38 DXCC entities including one new one for me. I know some […]
Days 121, 122 and 123 – Denmark on 144MHz
Day #121 started with a few JT65 QSOs on 20m, I worked RA9WE, YV6BFE, OH2BPO and OK1NZJ before jumping over to 40m SSB and working a few special callsigns – GR0GMN, Jim in Scotland, MR0XDX, Paul in Mablethorpe, 2R0NOC, Colin in Ashford, GB4HRH, Paul, GB5RER, Peter, GB0PPS, Pete in Petworth, GR3)CA, Ken in Derby, MR0MAU, […]
Days 112, 113 and 114 – getting ready to use GR6NHU
I’ve had three nicely busy days on the wireless and I’ve been getting things ready for the special callsign for the Royal Wedding later on this week. The NoV for GR6NHU has arrived, I’ve added it to my qrz.com profile, set up a QSL card design on eQSL.cc and requested a certificate on LoTW. I’ve […]
Days 103, 104 and 105
On day #103 there was a talk at the Harwich Amateur Radio Interest Group (HARIG) that I really wanted to go to. It was also the night of the 80m Club Championship contest. And it was my XYLs birthday! So we went out for a lovely meal, the two of us and our kids and […]
Days 94, 95 and 96 – 144MHz UKAC
Day #94 started with a QSO with Nick, RV3EFR who replied to my CQ call on 15m and then I had JT65 QSOs with RU3KS, Andrey, W3BI, Rick and F1MWV, Jean-Pierre before I switched over to 20m and worked R5AO, Evgeny and OM3CFR, Pavol On day #95 I started off by working RX3AIS, Mikhail and […]
