Day #163 kicked off with a few QSOs in a 144MHz contest – Not as many as I’d have hoped but conditions were pretty dire and although I tuned around for nearly an hour, I only managed to work five stations who were G3NYY/P, TM7T, G0UTT/P, G2XV/P and MI0AYR/P. After that I worked DL0YLC, Connie […]
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Days 160, 161 and 162 – VK on 20m RTTY
Day #160 was another one where I only had a limited amount of time to play radio in the evening and so I had just two QSOs – I worked 9A8DX, Darko on 40m and then DF9DD, Eckhard using RTTY on the same band. Day #161 saw some good Sporadic E conditions on both 6m […]
Days 157, 158 and 159 – QSL cards from the bureau
All three of these days were very busy for me and so I managed just two QSOs on each day but that’s one more than I’ve said I’ll do and I’m still very happy to be playing radio every day. On day #157 I decided to have a shout on 2m for a change and […]
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 151, 152 and 153 – QSOs with the 40m loop
I’ve not had much time available at all this week to play radio and hence all the contacts have been fairly quick affairs and all on 40m using the loop I put up at the weekend. On day #151 I worked M5AFD, Dave in Shrewsbury followed by GI4GOL, Gerry in Belfast and then DL1BI, Andi […]
Review – May
May started off with the last few days of the special ‘R’ prefix for the Royal Wedding and so although I had over 300 contacts this month, it’s my lowest month for QSL cards sent because I’ve not done those for GR6NHU yet. Here are my statistics for the month. QSOs made: 339 Running QSO […]
Days 148, 149 and 150 – A horizontal loop for 40m.
To start day #148 I spoke to Kari, OH6IO on 10m and then moved over to 40m to work M5STC, Steve in Rotherham, G0TRB/P, Roger at Tamworth Castle and GB5GEO, Wayne in Merthyr Tydfil. This was the same day we’d tried to run GB4MTG so I really struggled to have any QSOs in the evening. […]
Days 145, 146 and 147 – A different radio in the shack
I had four contacts on day #145, I started off on 20m working HB9TWG, Beat and then had a QSO with Tony, S54E on 15m. After that I moved to 40m and worked MX0NCC, Chris and GB8C, Gary. Both of these were operating under the Castles and Stately Homes on the Air umbrella and Chris persuaded me […]
Days 142, 143 and 144 – RTTY
Day #142 was quite a disappointment after the previous day. I’d planned to be up early and spend six hours operating on VHF in the same contest we worked the day before from the Martello Tower. I was up in plenty of time but once I started operating, it became very obvious very quickly that […]
Days 139, 140 and 141 – Fun on the Martello Tower
Day #139 was very nearly my downfall due to an unforeseen circumstance. I got home from work, had my tea and headed off to the Colchester Radio club with my lad to see a practical demonstration of the CW leg of the 80m CC contest. All was going well until I had a ‘phone call from a […]
