I forgot to mention earlier this week that the QSL cards from January have been posted. All 94 cards were sent to the RSGB Bureau on the 1st of February so if you’re reading this blog because you’ve worked me already, your card is in the post.
Days 32, 33 and 34 – Quiet
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were all very quiet days with just one QSO each as I’ve had quite a busy week. Day #32 was Tuesday and it was the night of the 144MHZ UKAC contest so I got home from work and had a very quick QSO with Paul, DC1EI on 2m. I was hoping […]
Review – January
I’m going to see if I can write a review of each month with statistics and feelings. It may end up just being statistics without the feelings but I’ll see how I can do. If I’m totally honest, I started the project with a little trepidation. Although some people have a lot of time to […]
Days 29, 30 and 31 – That wraps up January
It’s been a nice weekend on the radio with well over a page full of QSOs in the logbook. This is partly due to a big HF contest over the weekend and partly down to the fact that conditions have been good on VHF with a tropo opening to Europe. I knew there was a […]
Days 26, 27, 28 and a minor “DX only” rant
On day #26 I decided to have another bash on 144MHz to see if it was as successful as when I’d called a week earlier. It took a few attempts and some beam tweaking but I had a nice chat with David, 2E0YUB up in Lincolnshire. Day #27 was ‘cool’. I spoke to SI9AM on […]
QRSS for the third time
As mentioned over the last two days, the G0PKT QRSS transmitter has now been spotted by a number of ‘grabbers’ around the world, the furthest away being just over 1400 miles away in Russia. Not bad for a transmitter and aerial that cost less than £20 to put together and runs around 150mW output. As […]
Days 23, 24, 25 and more QRSS
On day #23 I wound the radio onto 18MHz again and had a tune around, I found UY5ZZ, Vlad calling CQ DX so I did the same thing I’ve done previously, turned the power down and asked he minded working a QRP station. He was good with this and so we had a brief chat. […]
QRSS, woo!
I arrived at work this morning to an email from Mauro, IK1WVQ to tell me that he’d spotted the G0PKT QRSS beacon on 30m. This is the first time we’ve had a reported signal and looking at the trace he sent me, the signal really was quite strong. It stayed with him for a large […]
Days 20, 21 and 22 – More VHF and an old friend
I’ve noticed over the last week or so that conditions on HF have been really poor, I’ve called CQ on both 40m and 80m in the evenings with no replies at all and so my last QSO on day #19 was on VHF. When I turned the wireless on in the evening of day #20 […]
New aerial plans
I mentioned in the blog last year that I needed a new aerial and that I had plans for a Carolina Windom. Although I’ve got the Windom I don’t think I’ll be putting it up. I’ve recently become a member of the Hadley Wood CG and have had a lot of discussion with their very […]
