There was a Sporadic E opening on 6m on day #231 and so I was pleased to work HA3LI, Ali, IZ5EME, Marco, IW4AOT, Peter, IK4ASR, Davide and IZ3SQW, Mirko using just my homebrew indoor half wave dipole. I then switched over to 40m and spoke to GP3ZPE/P, Paul on Guernsey and then worked a couple […]
Category: New DXCC
Days 228, 229 and 230 – One more new DXCC and plenty of JT65
My last QSO on day #227 was a new DXCC so it was a nice surprise for my only contact on day #228 to be another new one – I worked Eduardo, CO8LY in Cuba on 17m PSK31. I had a lot more contacts on day #229 though, I started off by talking to IV3SUS, […]
Days 225, 226 and 227 – An unexpected new DXCC
I had one QSO on day #225, I worked IZ5GST, Steve on 40m. 40m was my mainstay earlier in the year but the summer doldrums are making it quite tricky at times on the band right now. Conditions will change rapidly and one moment I’ll be waiting for someone to finish a QSO and before […]
Days 219, 220 and 221 – Hellschreiber and ST0R
I started off day #219 by having a couple of QSOs on 20m, first I spoke to M0GYQ/P, Rob and then a bit later I was tuning around to hear someone asking if the frequency was in use. Predicting a CQ call I listened to hear the same station ask a further twice whether the […]
Days 209 to 212 – IOTA
I had one QSO on both days #209 and 210, I worked DL5MBY, Ulli on 20m RTTY and TP50CE, Francis on 40m respectively. Days #211 and #212 were the Islands On The Air (IOTA) contest and this is an annual event that is very popular. I had sort of hoped to be operating from GU […]
Days 190-193, the insurance claim is nearing completion
I was expecting to be at work on days #190 and #191 but that didn’t happen and so for the first time in nearly two weeks I had some real free time to play radio. I started on day #190 by working DL0YLA, Annette on 40m and then having a very quick QSO with E77WM […]
Days 175, 176 and 177 – I’ve now worked 100 DXCC entities
I’ve done a fair bit of data over these three days, largely but not exclusively down to a contest at the weekend which was 75 baud RTTY and PSK63. Day #175 didn’t include a contest though but I still had a go with some PSK – I worked SP3SLO (Paul), F8KHR (Dom), OK1DOZ (Beda), UT1PA […]
Days 172, 173 and 174 – Svalbard?
On day #172 I switched the wireless on to find it still on 20m from the last QSO of the previous night and so I tuned around to hear RA3PCI, Sergey calling CQ. It would have been rude not to answer so we had a chat and then I moved to 40m to work J48O, […]
Days 154, 155 and 156 – Morse code!
I started off day #154 by having three QSOs on 6m, I worked SM5P, Jan, OZ1AXG, Flem and IS0BSR/P, Marco. Conditions were clearly good as all three of these were via Sporadic E and all were using a home made dipole in my loft. It looks as though it’s right against the side of the […]
Days 133, 134 and 135 – I’ve got a new logbook
I had three QSOs on day #133, I worked KA1ERL, Russell in Rhode Island on 20m JT65 and then switched to SSB and spoke to IR0LJ, Emilio. Later I changed to 40m where I had a nice long chat with Steve, M1ACB in Ipswich. Steve is a member of Camb-Hams and we had a talk […]
