I enter a fair number of contests, for voice contests I’ve always used SkookumLogger, for data contests I’ve always used Fldigi and the less said about what I use for CW the better! I’ve always worked non assisted in contests, even those where there is no non assisted section and so therefore I’ve always been […]
This post has been a long time coming, regular readers may remember that back in March 2023 I made a comment that I’d decided what aerial I was going to buy and then I posted in April 2023 to say that I’d had deliveries but I’ve barely mentioned it since. As per the printed sheets […]
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) […]
On the 1st January 2025, I renamed my wsjtx_log.adi file and told JT-Bridge to only show me QSOs from 2025, effectively meaning that every station I heard using WSJT-X was flagged as new. After I’d made a few QSOs, I wondered how long it would take to work 100 DXCC entities. After I’d been operating […]
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. […]
I have been emailed details of a new RTTY contest which will run for the first time this year on Friday 4th October 2024. It’s scheduled for the first Friday of October each year going forward. It’s called the URC DX RTTY Contest and the rules are pretty standard in that everyone works everyone. The […]
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 […]
Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 30th December 2025 using a Raspberry Pi 4, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.21. See note below, you have to ensure you select Bookworm as the operating system. I appreciate that the last post here was about the HamClock and I […]
For some years I’d been aware of HamClock and around April last year I decided to investigate further and built one using an old Raspberry Pi 3B that I had spare.If you’ve never heard of HamClock, it’s described on the authors page thus: “HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio […]
