I was expecting it to be tricky on day #124 as I knew I’d be potentially very late home from work after a meeting of the Hadley Wood Contest Group so I threw the wireless on first thing in the morning and was rewarded with a JT65 QSO on 20m with VK4BDJ, David in Queensland, […]
Days 121, 122 and 123 – Denmark on 144MHz
Day #121 started with a few JT65 QSOs on 20m, I worked RA9WE, YV6BFE, OH2BPO and OK1NZJ before jumping over to 40m SSB and working a few special callsigns – GR0GMN, Jim in Scotland, MR0XDX, Paul in Mablethorpe, 2R0NOC, Colin in Ashford, GB4HRH, Paul, GB5RER, Peter, GB0PPS, Pete in Petworth, GR3)CA, Ken in Derby, MR0MAU, […]
Review – April
Coincidentally April saw exactly the same number of QSOs as January although I worked more DXCCs but only one new entity. It’s been a good month on the air with the band conditions changing a lot and now in the evenings I’m working much more 20m than I’ve done so far this year and the […]
Days 118, 119 and 120 – GR goes live and wires in the ground
I had just one QSO in the morning of day #118 as G6NHU and that was with JA7CSS, Hiro on 15m and then I stayed off the radio until the GR callsigns came active at 23:00z (00:00 local) and in that hour I had three contacts, all using JT65. The first was on 20m with […]
First few hours of GR6NHU
Here’s what I worked in the first few hours.
Days 115, 116 and 117 – QRSS grabbing on 40m
I started off day #115 by working Roger, ON7TQ on 40m. He had a huge pileup going and was spending a couple of minutes talking to each person so it took a while to work him but it was a nice QSO once I did. Conditions seemed so nice on 40m that I decided to […]
A day without the internet and an 80m QRSS transmitter
I woke up yesterday morning to find the worst possible scenario (except perhaps for a zombie apocalypse). The internet had failed! I tried rebooting my modem and even went as far as resetting it but not only was it not connecting to the internet, I couldn’t even connect to it. So I arranged to have […]
Days 112, 113 and 114 – getting ready to use GR6NHU
I’ve had three nicely busy days on the wireless and I’ve been getting things ready for the special callsign for the Royal Wedding later on this week. The NoV for GR6NHU has arrived, I’ve added it to my qrz.com profile, set up a QSL card design on eQSL.cc and requested a certificate on LoTW. I’ve […]
“New” aerial – Well, same aerial but higher
It’s no secret that I’ve been meaning to do some aerial work for a while now and it’s just taken much longer than planned. My long wire starts just under the eves of the house and goes to an anchor point a mere five foot or so above the ground which really makes it very […]
What constitutes a QSO?
When you’re speaking to someone, a QSO is very easy to define. Generally an exchange of callsigns and signal reports is the accepted minimum required to complete a contact although I notice that signal reports aren’t even mentioned on the ARRLs Logbook of The World. During HF contests the signal report is always a 5-9 […]
