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 […]
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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. […]
QRSS, woo!
I arrived at work this morning to an email from Mauro, IK1WVQ to tell me that he’d spotted the G0PKT QRSS beacon on 30m. This is the first time we’ve had a reported signal and looking at the trace he sent me, the signal really was quite strong. It stayed with him for a large […]
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 […]
Days 17, 18 and 19
Week days are always going to be a little hectic and this week so far has been no different. I wasn’t at work on Monday but I had loads of things to get done so around mid morning I took a break and put the radio on. I was expecting the bands to be busier […]
Days 13, 14, 15 and 16 – Saudi Arabia!
It’s been a busy few days for me on both the wireless and in ‘real life’ but I’ve been able to keep the project going without too much trouble. On day #13 which was Thursday I was home from work and back out again very quickly with my daughter to visit my mum. This is […]
Days 10, 11 and 12
This three day update seems to work well, it’s a format that I may well stick with throughout the year. Day #10 saw two contacts in the evening, both on 40m as expected and unsurprisingly to Spain and Italy (EA1HDD and IK6BGJ), two of the three countries I hear the most on the band, the […]
Day 9 – Namibia!
I won’t normally blog twice a day and I generally won’t blog on the same day as I had the QSOs but as I’m not going to be on the wireless again today I thought I may as well post. I’ve had three QSOs today, the first was on 7MHz where I worked IK4HLQ, Joe […]
