This year, amateur radio operators in the UK have been granted the use of two special prefixes after applying for a Notice of Variation (NoV). These two prefixes are GQ for the Jubilee and GO for the London 2012 Olympic games. I posted the news article about these prefixes here and about my NoVs here. […]
Updated Log search and OQRS
I have updated the log search page to use the ClubLog widget which also includes the Online QSL Request Service (OQRS) facility. You can access my log by using either the Logbook and OQRS link at the top of the page or simply by clicking here.
The Ipswich Rally and new elements on my Hexbeam, it’s good to be back on the air
It’s surprising how just a few days without being able to play radio can affect someone. I was up unusually bright and early this morning and off to Ipswich for the East Suffolk Wireless Revival 2012 (Ipswich Rally) where I met up with a few friends for breakfast before heading into the rally. Unfortunately the rally […]
Statistics – June 2012
A busy start to this month but but a quiet last week due to my aerial damage saw just a handful of new DXCC entities although I’ve been told that it gets difficult to find new countries from now on. I’ve been increasing the band slots for existing countries though and now have my DXCC […]
I’m without an HF aerial again after melting the G3TXQ Hexbeam
Last weekend was the Ukrainian DX Digi contest and I intended to run for a while but not make a serious entry, I’d decided to do a single band for a few hours. The contest started at 13:00 local time and I kicked off using PSK63 which turned out to be a good choice because […]
BBQ on the Martello Tower – How to start a fire the ‘Yan’ way
It’s been a couple of years since we last had a BBQ on top of the Martello Tower so last night was time to correct that. Tuesday is our club meeting night and we decided to have a BBQ and do some repair work on the 10m vertical. It took quite a while to get […]
This is what happens when one doesn’t have a full address on qrz.com
For various reasons I don’t have my full address showing openly on qrz.com but it’s there in the form of a QR code. I’m also QTHR in any callbook. Luckily Royal Mail and the Post Office are on the ball. This arrived today. That’s the second QSL card I’ve had delivered with that ‘address’ on […]
I’ve been on HF for two years exactly
It was while we were setting up for the 144MHz May contest back on the 15th May 2010 that Tony, G0MBA mentioned he had an FT-847 for sale because he’d replaced it with a TS-2000. Without worrying too much where I’d scrape the cash from, I said I’d have it to replace my ageing FT-736 […]
Statistics – May 2012
What a great month May was – A nice number of QSOs, the most DXCCs I’ve worked in a single month ever and a decent amount of new entities including Yemen, The Philippines, Mauritania, Jamaica and Bhutan. I also worked South Shetland Islands for my first QSO into Antarctica. QSOs made: 801 DXCC entities worked: 117 […]
CQ World-Wide WPX CW Contest 2012
This weekend was the CQ World-Wide WPX CW Contest, the second largest CW contest of the year and I decided to give away a few points and perhaps try and pick up some new DXCC entities on the way. I’m still not fully proficient at Morse so this was never going to be a serious entry […]
