Over the last few months I’ve mentioned JT65, or to be more precise, JT65A a lot and it’s fair to say that I’ve had a lot of QSOs using it. In fact, at the moment it’s probably my favourite mode of operation. I explained about how a contact is made using JT65 in this blog […]
Category: WSPR
20m WSPR with my TS-590S
A few days ago I decided to look at the datacomms capabilities of my new TS-590S. It has a USB socket on the back and it appears that the complete data interface is built in. I’ve set up a new Windows XP virtual machine just for datacomms and I’ve so far set up software for […]
Days 169, 170 and 171 – WSPR on 6m and Contestia
I started day #169 by working a couple of Special Event stations on 40m, I worked MU/EA1SA followed by GB0GCR and GB2MOF then I had a contact with EA3PT, Jordi on 15m. I then had RTTY QSOs on 20m with TF5B, Billi and PI65ALK. It was the 6m Trophy contest and so I gave away […]
40m WSPR on my new loop aerial
Last night I thought I’d see how well my 40m horizontal delta loop was performing by running some WSPR overnight with just five watts – I can’t go any lower with my radio, the lowest setting is five watts. After one transmit period this is where I’d been seen. That’s pretty good. I left the […]
10MHz QRSS and WSPR
I’ve blogged previously about my total lack of success running QRSS on the 30 metre (10MHz) band and I’ve always blamed my aerial. I ran my home made QRSS kit into my long wire for a few days and nobody heard me. I tried running it into a home made dipole for a few days […]
QRSS on 40m. It’s got to be better than 30m.
I’ve mentioned QRSS a few times and have put together a good page all about it on the Martello Tower Group website which you can read by clicking here. I’ve tried running it on 30m from this QTH either through my long wire or a cobbled together dipole in the loft but neither method has […]
Working VK for the first time – For real
A short while ago I was calling CQ using JT65-HF on 40m when I noticed a trace right at the edge of my screen – VK6BN was calling CQ. I tried to call him but he was right on the edge of my passband and started working someone else. I retuned my radio and when […]
VK land – Signal heard
On day #63 as I went to bed I put my station on the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network running just 5 watts on 28MHz. I’d jokingly said that I expected to be heard in Australia with a signal strength of +20dB. Well, it’s easy to confuse plus and minus isn’t it! When I got […]
Days 61, 62 and 63 – Data, data everywhere
Three days absolutely stuffed full of data contacts. Don’t worry though, I do pick up the microphone on day #64 and that will be in the next blog entry. Day #61 was another of my long days out, I left home at around half six in the morning and wasn’t expecting to be home until […]
