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 […]
Category: Contesting
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 […]
Days 79, 80 and 81 – Another couple of DXCCs
Day #79 was the second day of the Russian DX contest I mentioned in my last entry and I was hoping to make it up to 100 QSOs before the end. I didn’t quite manage that as I only added another twenty to my previous total, bringing me up to ninety. The additional QSOs were […]
Days 76, 77 and 78 – DXCCs everywhere
Days #76 started off just after midnight. Now I appreciate that one day always follows the previous but in the case of day #76 it started on the wireless at 00:05 when I worked OX3XR, Peter in Greenland on 40m JT65 for a new DXCC. That was followed by VE3ZUP in Canada on the same […]
Days 64, 65 and 66 – Three very busy days
Day #64 dawned and with it the fact that it was a Saturday morning with contests throughout the day on both HF and 144MHz. Before I did any contest operating though I had two PSK31 QSOs on 40m with DC2QT, Heinrich in Germany and G6UWK, Jon who is in Manningtree, about ten miles away from […]
Days 43, 44 and 45 – The birth of radar
I found day #43 quite difficult, there was a big contest taking place, the Dutch PACC contest and every single station I heard was calling CQ contest. The idea is to work as many Dutch stations as possible and I didn’t realise this to start with so I called and worked EA5DFV in Spain and […]
Days 38, 39 and 40 – How bad can 80m be?
Day #38 started off well. It was the second round of the RSGB SSB 80m Club Championship and I’d planned on operating for the 90 minutes and attempting to beat my score of 30 QSOs from last month. In order to get nicely warmed up, I called CQ on the band an hour or so […]
Days 35, 36 and 37 – A great ‘radio’ weekend
Day #35 was Friday and after work I had a quick word with Andy, IZ1MHQ on 40m. Later that evening I had a tune around on 80m and heard a really strong signal coming from HE3OM in Switzerland. It was a club station and I worked them and discovered that they were operating from Sottens […]
Days 32, 33 and 34 – Quiet
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were all very quiet days with just one QSO each as I’ve had quite a busy week. Day #32 was Tuesday and it was the night of the 144MHZ UKAC contest so I got home from work and had a very quick QSO with Paul, DC1EI on 2m. I was hoping […]
Days 29, 30 and 31 – That wraps up January
It’s been a nice weekend on the radio with well over a page full of QSOs in the logbook. This is partly due to a big HF contest over the weekend and partly down to the fact that conditions have been good on VHF with a tropo opening to Europe. I knew there was a […]
