Day #67 was another one of the early start, late finish days. Before heading out to work I had a QSO with WB1ABQ in Vermont on 40m and then just before midnight I had QSOs with CT2KCG and K1LPS, also both on 40m. Day #68 started early with me working YY6IEA in Venezuela on 40m […]
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Days 64, 65 and 66 – Three very busy days
Day #64 dawned and with it the fact that it was a Saturday morning with contests throughout the day on both HF and 144MHz. Before I did any contest operating though I had two PSK31 QSOs on 40m with DC2QT, Heinrich in Germany and G6UWK, Jon who is in Manningtree, about ten miles away from […]
Days 55, 56 and 57 – Data!
Over these three days I had 21 QSOs and only used the microphone once! The one time I used it I called a contest station who only wanted to work French stations so I tuned away. On the afternoon of day #55 I had a delivery from Slovakia. This parcel contained a microHAM USB Interface […]
Days 52, 53 and 54
A fairly quiet three days because my kids are away and so it’s just the wife and me at home. On day #52 I first worked OZ3FD, Henry on 80m when I was running just 10 watts and then I had a chat with Jim, MM0SMD in the fantastically named “Dufftown”, Scotland. I did a […]
Days 49, 50 and 51 – Three new DXCC entities
I’d just arrived at work on day #49 when my mobile phone rang, it was Yan, M0YNK with exciting news. He’d just arrived outside his work QTH and had noticed that 10m was a little lively. In fact it was more than a little lively as I could hear in the background, it was very […]
Days 46, 47 and 48
Day #46 saw two QSOs, first I spoke to EA3WD, Vic near Barcelona on 40m and then I moved to 80m and worked DF0AF, Klaus who was operating a special event station commemorating five years of the First Assistance Samaritan Team. I also had two QSOs on day #47, both on 80m with DF2DD, Carsten […]
Days 43, 44 and 45 – The birth of radar
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 […]
MKARS80 – Everything from bag two is fitted
The MKARS80 kit comes with all the parts in a number of bags, the previous blog post about it was when I’d completed bag number one and now spent some time fitting all the components from bag number two. I think it’s starting to look quite good.
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 […]
