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 […]
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Day 9 – Namibia!
I won’t normally blog twice a day and I generally won’t blog on the same day as I had the QSOs but as I’m not going to be on the wireless again today I thought I may as well post. I’ve had three QSOs today, the first was on 7MHz where I worked IK4HLQ, Joe […]
First QSOs of 2011
The first two days QSOs have been easy, if it’s like this all year then it’ll be a breeze! I still don’t have much experience in HF propagation so I still don’t really know what to expect but the bands seem to have been in a fairly good way over the last couple of days. […]
10MHz QRSS Transmitter kit
I mentioned yesterday that I’d been building a QRP Labs 30m QRSS transmitter so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail here. QRS is accepted as the Q-code for ‘please send slower; in Morse and QRSS is a derivative of that in that it means ‘send extremely slowly’. Very slow Morse code is […]
