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 […]
Category: VHF
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 127, 128 and 129 – The end of GR6NHU
These were three bumper days on the radio, I operated exclusively with my Royal Wedding callsign for them and ended up with a nice number of QSOs in the log. Over the period I had 166 contacts using GR6NHU over a total of 38 DXCC entities including one new one for me. I know some […]
Days 121, 122 and 123 – Denmark on 144MHz
Day #121 started with a few JT65 QSOs on 20m, I worked RA9WE, YV6BFE, OH2BPO and OK1NZJ before jumping over to 40m SSB and working a few special callsigns – GR0GMN, Jim in Scotland, MR0XDX, Paul in Mablethorpe, 2R0NOC, Colin in Ashford, GB4HRH, Paul, GB5RER, Peter, GB0PPS, Pete in Petworth, GR3)CA, Ken in Derby, MR0MAU, […]
Days 100, 101 and 102 – My first QSOs on 10MHz
Day #100 started off when I had a contact with KC2ULY, Jeff in New York State on 40m followed by a QSO with UX2SB in the Ukraine. I’d arranged to have a sked on 10MHz later in the day but prior to that I set up my JT65 on that band and called CQ. I […]
Days 94, 95 and 96 – 144MHz UKAC
Day #94 started with a QSO with Nick, RV3EFR who replied to my CQ call on 15m and then I had JT65 QSOs with RU3KS, Andrey, W3BI, Rick and F1MWV, Jean-Pierre before I switched over to 20m and worked R5AO, Evgeny and OM3CFR, Pavol On day #95 I started off by working RX3AIS, Mikhail and […]
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 35, 36 and 37 – A great ‘radio’ weekend
Day #35 was Friday and after work I had a quick word with Andy, IZ1MHQ on 40m. Later that evening I had a tune around on 80m and heard a really strong signal coming from HE3OM in Switzerland. It was a club station and I worked them and discovered that they were operating from Sottens […]
Days 32, 33 and 34 – Quiet
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 […]
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 […]
