Category: Review

Acom 1500 HF+6M Linear Amplifier user review

Acom 1500

In April 2012 I reported on this site that Acom had announced a new amplifier. At the time, I had an Acom 1000 and in the comments, I said “I don’t think I’ll be swapping my Acom 1000 for an Acom 1500 any time soon!”. Technically I was correct, it wasn’t any time soon. In […]

Review of 2022

QSOs made: 2,022DXCC entities worked: 141New DXCC entities worked: 4Total DXCC worked and confirmed: 286 Solar cycle 25 is really starting to ramp up now and this is demonstrated clearly by the fact that for the first time in many years, the country I’ve worked the most is the USA with 436 QSOs. Unsurprisingly, 15m is […]

QSO365 #3 is complete – Ten QSOs per day in 2021

Number of QSOs made per band during QSO365 #3

I’ll kick off with the statistics for the whole of 2021 and then go into the details. QSOs made: 8,265Unique QSOs made: 5,776Average QSOs per day: 22.6Days missed: 0 <- This is the most important statistic, it means that QSO365 #3 was a success. DXCC entities worked: 168New DXCC entities worked: 1Total DXCC worked and […]

QSO365 #2 is complete – A QSO per day in 2018

Top ten countries worked during QSO365 #2

To start with, I’ll post the basic statistics for the entire year of 2018 and then go into the background. QSOs made: 3789 Unique QSOs made: 2962 Average QSOs per day: 10.4 Days missed: 0 <- This is the most important statistic, it means that QSO365 #2 was a success. DXCC entities worked: 160 New […]

Statistics – December 2013

December was another month where I did very little on the wireless regarding actual QSOs made but I did operate QRSS/WSPR on various bands for most of the time. My interests are shifting slightly towards low power experimentation but I’m still keen on trying to increase my DXCC count. In December, I worked one new […]

Statistics – November 2013

I’ve had a very busy month with very little time to play radio and despite the fact that there have been a number of DXpeditions in November, I was only able to work one of them which was San Andres Island. I did manage to pick up some new band slots on 40m though and […]

Statistics – October 2013

The two new countries worked in October were Guantanamo Bay and Republic of the Congo. QSOs made: 807 DXCC entities worked: 94 New DXCC entities worked: 2 Total DXCC worked: 263 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW: 244 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW/QSL cards: 259

Statistics – September 2013

Much better than last month – I actually had time to play radio in September and had a lot of fun doing it. The two new DXCC entities I worked were Libya and El Salvador. QSOs made: 653 DXCC entities worked: 60 New DXCC entities worked: 2 Total DXCC worked: 261 Total DXCC confirmed using […]

Statistics – August 2013

As can be seen, I’ve barely touched the wireless this month.  I’ve been doing a lot of preparation work for Herm 2013 and have been running QRSS for almost all the month and as a result, my QSO count is the lowest it’s been since I started this blog.  I hope to have more available […]

Statistics – July 2013

The new DXCC entity worked this month was Iran. QSOs made: 402 DXCC entities worked: 55 New DXCC entities worked: 1 Total DXCC worked: 259 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW: 235 Total DXCC confirmed using LoTW/QSL cards: 253