UPDATE This has been released, it’s currently in beta but that’s just really for some final checking as everything appears to be working well. There have been a lot of changes and features added since the early screenshots below. See https://qso365.co.uk/qcluster I’ve started work building a macOS app to access the DX cluster network and […]
For the last week or so, I’ve been running a special event station from home, exclusively using FT8 because it means I could operate my station remotely from my home office. It’s a very simple matter to just click callsigns as they respond to CQ calls, manually hit the ‘log’ button and start the cycle […]
On the 16th April I read the Daily DX as normal and was excited to see that Marion island was going to be activated just a week later. Not that I’d ever heard of Marion island but the post said that “Prince Edward & Marion Is. are listed as #11 in Clublog’s DXCC Most Wanted […]
I’ve never been one for morning TV but quite often, before I go to work in the morning, I’ll switch the wireless on and work a few stations using FT8. This morning I tuned to 17m, pointed the aerial towards Europe and started calling CQ. It took a few shouts before an EA4 (thanks Antonio) […]
In 2017 I set myself a little mini challenge to work 100 DXCC entities on 17m FT8 and when I started, I described FT8 as a new mode. In 2017 it really was a new mode and I wonder who could have predicted back then how big it would become. I reached 100 entities in […]
I’ve been using WSJT-X for a very long time, since it was called JT65-HF and one thing I’ve always found a little tricky was making fine adjustments to the Pwr control slider. I often want to make small adjustments and I’ve found that clicking on the slider itself can cause much larger adjustments than required. […]
Anyone who chases DX can’t fail to have noticed that the Jarvis Island DXpedition is now on air and has been for less than 48 hours. I did have a listen yesterday but didn’t hear them anywhere. I set up HamAlert notifications specifically for N5J with the source set as G, GM and GW in […]
It’s been a while since I posted any updates here, not because I’ve got nothing to say but because I’ve been busy working on the station and playing radio. My new aerial is up but I’m not going to say anything about that now, that’s for a future update. I’ve had a good year so […]
QSOs made: 2,022DXCC entities worked: 141New DXCC entities worked: 4Total DXCC worked and confirmed: 286 Solar cycle 25 is really starting to ramp up now and this is demonstrated clearly by the fact that for the first time in many years, the country I’ve worked the most is the USA with 436 QSOs. Unsurprisingly, 15m is […]
I’ll kick off with the statistics for the whole of 2021 and then go into the details. QSOs made: 8,265Unique QSOs made: 5,776Average QSOs per day: 22.6Days missed: 0 <- This is the most important statistic, it means that QSO365 #3 was a success. DXCC entities worked: 168New DXCC entities worked: 1Total DXCC worked and […]
