I’ve been a bit cheeky with my QSO count this month as I’ve included the contacts I made while operating as GP0PKT from Herm Island for a few days as part of the Martello Tower Group DXpedition but even without those, I managed a nice lot of QSOs and the DXCC entities worked only includes […]
Audio recordings
Recently I’ve been saving audio snippets from when I work DXpeditions. This started when I worked the 7O6T DXpedition back in May and I’ve tried to do it since then. I thought it would be good to keep all these audio clips online and so you’ll see there’s a new page on the site which […]
It was thirty years ago today…. Part 3
…. I received my licence. A poorly photocopied sheet, issued by the Home Office with my details hand written on in biro.
RSGB Convention 2012
Tomorrow I’m off to the RSGB Convention at Horwood House, Milton Keynes and will be there until Sunday afternoon. The programme of events is very varied and there’s plenty there to keep me interested all weekend, along with it being a major social event. If you go and you spot me, please be sure to […]
The Martello Tower Group are going to Herm
I suddenly realised that although I’ve been shouting about our upcoming DXpedition to Herm on Twitter and getting publicity in many other places that I’ve not blogged about it here. Myself and five other members of the Martello Tower Group are going to Herm which is part of the Channel Islands in just three days […]
Statistics – September 2012
I wound up my GO6NHU operations at the start of the month so whereas G6NHU didn’t get much use over the last two months, I’m back to that again. The design for my QSL cards for GO6NHU is nearly finished and will be ordered in the next week or so. My goal is to work […]
More work on the Hexbeam following another failure
On the 25th August I was warming up for the SCC RTTY contest and having a few quick QSOs prior to the start when I noticed my SWR had jumped from 1.1:1 to over 2:1. This is exactly what happened before so I went into the garden and peered up at the aerial. This is […]
The ongoing saga of my weather station
In January, I bought and installed a weather station and you can read my blog entry about that here. I said in that post that I knew these stations tended to last about a year but I wasn’t quite prepared for how much trouble I was going to experience. Firstly the solar sensor had a […]
2012 QSOs for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Yesterday was the final day of the London 2012 Paralympics and so I’ve now finished operating using my special callsign of GO6NHU, in fact I finished operating a few days ago. I’d set myself a goal of making over 2000 QSOs with the special callsign and once I hit that goal I decided to stop […]
Working Amateur Radio satellites – A blast from my past
I’ve tried many facets of amateur radio including working through ‘repeaters in the sky’, or as they’re more commonly known, satellites. I recently dug out an envelope of old QSL cards and in amongst them were four cards back from 2000 where I had QSOs through the now long defunct SO-35 ‘Sunsat‘. Three of the […]
