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. […]
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Review – March
March has been a great month, one where I’ve been really active on the wireless. The bands are starting to open nicely and I’ve ‘discovered’ the 15m (21MHz) band or to be more precise, I discovered I had an aerial which works on 15m and it’s quickly become my band of choice. There have been […]
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 […]
QSO365 in the press
I posted an entry to the blog a few days ago where I reproduced an article about QSO365 that appeared in Practical Wireless magazine. PW isn’t the only place that this website has been mentioned in. The following piece appeared in the March 2011 issue of RadCom and is reproduced with kind permission of the […]
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 […]
Days 70, 71 and 72 – Two more DXCCs and the SolderSmoke book
These have been three good days on the wireless, a bit of voice, a bit of data and a couple of new DXCC entities have appeared in the log. After work on day #70 I slapped the radio onto the PSK section of 40m and worked Luca, IZ3NWP near Venice before changing to 80m where […]
QSO365 has a Twitter account
Currently I post all my updates via Twitter using the account of the Martello Tower Group but I thought that perhaps the QSO365 project should have an account of its own so I’ve created one. Over on the right of the page you’ll see a blue button that says “Follow me on Twitter”. If you […]
