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 […]
Category: FT8
Amateur radio picture of the week
Being in the right place at the right time
Entering the Batavia FT8 contest
150 DXCC entities worked on 17m FT8
Accurate time keeping on an Apple Mac running macOS Big Sur for FT8, FT4 and WSPR
I’ve been using Apple computers for many years now and even though I’ve made a couple of previous blog posts about keeping the clock accurate on a Mac, those methods have never really been needed and I posted them as a sort of belt and braces addition to the built in time-keeping. However with macOS […]
Hexbeam is fixed, DXCC 2021 and general updates
I’ve had a busy January
There’s been lots going on in my life throughout January but that hasn’t stopped me playing radio – I’ve made a point of sitting in the shack for a few minutes every day just to take my mind off of other things and as a result, I’ve managed nearly 550 QSOs so far working 73 […]