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 […]
Statistics – August 2012
Pretty much all I’ve done this month is work data modes using my special Olympic callsign of GO6NHU. I’ve used my normal callsign just a handful of times, mainly for picking up the five new DXCC entities (Comoros, Guyana, Micronesia, Liberia and Zambia) and for a few more unusual stations such as RI1ANF on South […]
Fixing the aerial mount in the roof of my car
Around twelve years ago I bought a car. On that car, I had fitted two aerial mounts on the roof, proper drilled through mounts with SO239 sockets for putting aerials for 2m/70cms. The problem is that after time, water has got under the mounts and caused rust to form. I’ve not been too worried about […]
GO6NHU QSO count reaches 1,000
I’ve been making a point of operating on a daily basis using GO6NHU and noticed this morning that my QSO count has just crept above 1,000, I’m currently on 1,017 QSOs. I’ll produce a set of statistics when I’ve finished with the callsign in September. GO6NHU is my special prefix to celebrate the London 2012 […]
It was thirty years ago today…. Part 2
…. I passed the RAE. Wednesday 4th August, 1982. This dropped through the letterbox. It had taken nearly three months from sitting the exam and this was what I’d been waiting for. I passed! This was only the half way mark though, I had to apply for my licence so this was done quickly and […]
Statistics – July 2012
The QSO count makes July look like a better month than it actually was but HF conditions haven’t been good for the majority of the month so I feel that’s reflected slightly in the number of DXCC entities worked. I agree that ninety-two is a lot but I really thought it would be higher than […]
The CQ WPX RTTY Contest 2012 results are out
Back in February I blogged to say that I’d put a serious entry into the CQ WPX RTTY Contest 2012 and I’m happy to say that the results are now out in the July edition of CQ Magazine. I subscribe to CQ in the digital form and I’m always very pleased when the email comes […]
