I started off day #154 by having three QSOs on 6m, I worked SM5P, Jan, OZ1AXG, Flem and IS0BSR/P, Marco. Conditions were clearly good as all three of these were via Sporadic E and all were using a home made dipole in my loft. It looks as though it’s right against the side of the […]
Building a 40m (7MHz) horizontal delta loop
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent quite a lot of time reading about different options for wire HF aerials and one kept coming back into my head as being something I could easily try at this QTH – A full wavelength horizontal ‘delta’ loop for 40m. My garden is the right sort of size […]
Days 151, 152 and 153 – QSOs with the 40m loop
I’ve not had much time available at all this week to play radio and hence all the contacts have been fairly quick affairs and all on 40m using the loop I put up at the weekend. On day #151 I worked M5AFD, Dave in Shrewsbury followed by GI4GOL, Gerry in Belfast and then DL1BI, Andi […]
Review – May
May started off with the last few days of the special ‘R’ prefix for the Royal Wedding and so although I had over 300 contacts this month, it’s my lowest month for QSL cards sent because I’ve not done those for GR6NHU yet. Here are my statistics for the month. QSOs made: 339 Running QSO […]
Days 148, 149 and 150 – A horizontal loop for 40m.
To start day #148 I spoke to Kari, OH6IO on 10m and then moved over to 40m to work M5STC, Steve in Rotherham, G0TRB/P, Roger at Tamworth Castle and GB5GEO, Wayne in Merthyr Tydfil. This was the same day we’d tried to run GB4MTG so I really struggled to have any QSOs in the evening. […]
GB4MTG was a disaster so it’s rescheduled for 31st May
On Saturday morning at 09:00, myself, M1EAK (Colin) and G0MBA (Tony) met at the Martello Tower to activate it as part of the Castles and Stately Homes on the Air weekend. I’d managed to organise the special event callsign at short notice and we were all really looking forward to a lot of QSOs throughout […]
Days 145, 146 and 147 – A different radio in the shack
I had four contacts on day #145, I started off on 20m working HB9TWG, Beat and then had a QSO with Tony, S54E on 15m. After that I moved to 40m and worked MX0NCC, Chris and GB8C, Gary. Both of these were operating under the Castles and Stately Homes on the Air umbrella and Chris persuaded me […]
GB4MTG – QRV tomorrow from the Martello Tower
Just a quick post – Members of the Martello Tower Group will be operating GB4MTG as part of the Castles and Stately Homes On The Air (CASHOTA) weekend tomorrow Saturday 28th May from the roof of the Martello Tower in Point Clear, Essex. Please look at our qrz.com page for more details by clicking here.
Days 142, 143 and 144 – RTTY
Day #142 was quite a disappointment after the previous day. I’d planned to be up early and spend six hours operating on VHF in the same contest we worked the day before from the Martello Tower. I was up in plenty of time but once I started operating, it became very obvious very quickly that […]
Now it’s time to run QRSS on 80m
Having had lots of fun running QRSS on both 30m and 40m I decided to try another band so a few weeks ago I ordered the 80m QRSS kit from QRP Labs and it was almost completely assembled within an hour of me receiving it – I documented that in the blog post here. It […]
