My north American amateur radio licence turned up a couple of days ago, forwarded from my good friend Bill. I can’t bring myself to spell it the American way though, hence ‘licence’. Now to study for Amateur Extra.
Days 304, 305 and 306 – A new eQSL certificate
I don’t actually log onto eQSL too often but I did a couple of days ago and realised that I’d reached 75 confirmed countries via their Awards page so I requested and duly received the appropriate certificate. The general perception is that there are more people actively uploading to eQSL than there are to LoTW […]
Review – October
A great month with lots of QSOs and loads of new countries. That’s down to a mixture of great conditions, a new aerial for the higher bands and the CQWW SSB contest. Even though time is running out, I’m still quite quite confident that I should be able to get 100 DXCC entities confirmed on […]
Days 302 and 303 – CQWW SSB weekend
This weekend was the CQWW SSB contest, arguably the largest HF contest of the year and it was an event I’d been looking forward to for some time. Last year I just gave away a few points using a relatively low and inefficient aerial but with the beam up, I knew I was going to […]
Days 299, 300 and 301 – Three new DXCC entities in the log
Just a few QSOs for these three days but there are some good ones – On day #299 I first worked PT2CM and SZ7SER on 20m SSB and then EI9HX and 9A8DX on 40m. On day #300 I had 3 QSOs and all 3 were new DXCCs for me. They were all on 20m and […]
Days 296, 297 and 298 – I finally worked T32C
Day #296 was the day of the aerial work although before we started tearing my aerials down, I had a quick ‘banker’ QSO just in case things didn’t go well. I worked JG1WNO, Hiro on 10m JT65 early in the morning. After all the work was done and my beam was up, my first QSO […]
Which HF amplifier?
Now the beam is up and that project is almost completed I’ve decided that the next addition to my shack should be an HF amplifier but I don’t know which one to go for. I can read reviews from now until my eyes fall out but I’d like views and opinions from people who actually have, […]
Days 293, 294 and 295 – First SSB contact to VK
Conditions have been great over the last couple of weeks. I’ve not been going out of my way to have long strings of QSOs though, just tuning around and picking people off as I feel like it. On day #293 I spent most of my time on 10m working A65EE, Adil, ZS6CX, Glen, RD3ZV, Alex, […]
Mast is up, beam is up – It’s all done in time for CQ WW SSB
The crowds descended on my QTH again today in order to finish what we started back on the 10th September, just six weeks ago. Today we had Chris, M6GSD, Tony, G0MBA, Colin, M1EAK, Yan, M0YNK, Bill, G0OAX and Chris’ son, Dean here. To start with, Chris drilled the holes to mount the chemical anchors for […]
I’ve got a new callsign – KB3WPE
I just checked the FCC website as I’ve been doing most days since I passed the FCC Technician and General class exams and discovered that yesterday I was issued KB3WPE.
