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 […]
Category: SSB
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 […]
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 […]
Days 136, 137 and 138 – 40m ragchews
I’ve had three days where the majority of my operating has been on 40m SSB and almost all the QSOs I’ve had have been good proper chats. Don’t get me wrong, I love the quick fire operating style where one just works station after station in quick succession but it’s always nice to slow things […]
Days 133, 134 and 135 – I’ve got a new logbook
I had three QSOs on day #133, I worked KA1ERL, Russell in Rhode Island on 20m JT65 and then switched to SSB and spoke to IR0LJ, Emilio. Later I changed to 40m where I had a nice long chat with Steve, M1ACB in Ipswich. Steve is a member of Camb-Hams and we had a talk […]
Days 130, 131 and 132 – Playing QRSS
I’ve only worked four stations over the three days but have been playing QRSS again. On day #130 I first spoke to ON5KQ, Ulli on 40m – I was only using 10w for this contact and then I had a chat with Terry, G4BFS up near Norwich on the same band. Terry was using a […]
