I found day #43 quite difficult, there was a big contest taking place, the Dutch PACC contest and every single station I heard was calling CQ contest. The idea is to work as many Dutch stations as possible and I didn’t realise this to start with so I called and worked EA5DFV in Spain and […]
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Days 41 and 42 – A QSO on a new band
Day #41 saw just one QSO, that was with Andre, HB9HLM in Switzerland on 80m. On day #42 though I started off quite early and had a nice conversation with Rainer, DJ8CL on 40m. We spoke for about fifteen minutes and he advised me that my audio wasn’t too great so I made a few […]
Days 38, 39 and 40 – How bad can 80m be?
Day #38 started off well. It was the second round of the RSGB SSB 80m Club Championship and I’d planned on operating for the 90 minutes and attempting to beat my score of 30 QSOs from last month. In order to get nicely warmed up, I called CQ on the band an hour or so […]
Days 35, 36 and 37 – A great ‘radio’ weekend
Day #35 was Friday and after work I had a quick word with Andy, IZ1MHQ on 40m. Later that evening I had a tune around on 80m and heard a really strong signal coming from HE3OM in Switzerland. It was a club station and I worked them and discovered that they were operating from Sottens […]
Days 32, 33 and 34 – Quiet
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were all very quiet days with just one QSO each as I’ve had quite a busy week. Day #32 was Tuesday and it was the night of the 144MHZ UKAC contest so I got home from work and had a very quick QSO with Paul, DC1EI on 2m. I was hoping […]
Review – January
I’m going to see if I can write a review of each month with statistics and feelings. It may end up just being statistics without the feelings but I’ll see how I can do. If I’m totally honest, I started the project with a little trepidation. Although some people have a lot of time to […]
Days 29, 30 and 31 – That wraps up January
It’s been a nice weekend on the radio with well over a page full of QSOs in the logbook. This is partly due to a big HF contest over the weekend and partly down to the fact that conditions have been good on VHF with a tropo opening to Europe. I knew there was a […]
Days 26, 27, 28 and a minor “DX only” rant
On day #26 I decided to have another bash on 144MHz to see if it was as successful as when I’d called a week earlier. It took a few attempts and some beam tweaking but I had a nice chat with David, 2E0YUB up in Lincolnshire. Day #27 was ‘cool’. I spoke to SI9AM on […]
Days 23, 24, 25 and more QRSS
On day #23 I wound the radio onto 18MHz again and had a tune around, I found UY5ZZ, Vlad calling CQ DX so I did the same thing I’ve done previously, turned the power down and asked he minded working a QRP station. He was good with this and so we had a brief chat. […]
Days 20, 21 and 22 – More VHF and an old friend
I’ve noticed over the last week or so that conditions on HF have been really poor, I’ve called CQ on both 40m and 80m in the evenings with no replies at all and so my last QSO on day #19 was on VHF. When I turned the wireless on in the evening of day #20 […]
