I said in my last entry that I’d been preparing for a trip away and it so happened that at 07:00 on day #97, I flew out of London Stansted bound for Amsterdam. I live about an hour away from the airport and I planned to be there by 06:00. That meant leaving here at […]
Category: JT65
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 […]
Wanted: 30m (10MHz) JT65-HF sked
I’ve tried to work people on 30m, I’ve called CQ using both PSK31 and JT65-HF but there never seems to be anyone around. I know that my vertical seems to both transmit and receive at least reasonably well on 30m but I’m still waiting to have my first QSO on the band. It’s the only […]
Days 91, 92 and 93 – Rotating PostCodes (RoPoCo)
There were just two QSOs on day #91, the first was on 18MHz (17m) which is a band I feel I should use more with Tony, IT9PQO in Sicily and then I worked EA2DCF on 40m JT65. Day #92 saw contacts on 28MHz with Norman, 5B4AIF in Cyprus and RN4AZ, Peter in Russia followed by […]
Days 88, 89 and 90 – Quiet
After the hectic last weekend, these three days have been very quiet with just one QSO each day. Part of the reason for this is that I also spent quite a while writing out the QSL cards for March, here’s just a few of them all written out and ready to go to the bureau. […]
Days 85, 86 and 87 – CQ WPX and more DXCCs than you can shake a stick at
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 […]
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 73, 74 and 75 – The 50’s American Diner
Day #73 started off with a 20m QSO with YO3FTI, Andrei in Romania before I changed to 80m and worked Chris, G4LOP near Skegness and then SP3BQC, Jurek in Poland. On day #74 I was purely on 80m for the 3 QSOs I had with DO1WRB, DD6AJ and G3RED, Wolfgang, Michael and David respectively. I […]
