Tag: HF

My ‘new’ HF aerial – A SteppIR UrbanBeam

This post has been a long time coming, regular readers may remember that back in March 2023 I made a comment that I’d decided what aerial I was going to buy and then I posted in April 2023 to say that I’d had deliveries but I’ve barely mentioned it since. As per the printed sheets […]

Working JA via long path grey-line propagation on 17m.

I’ve never been one for morning TV but quite often, before I go to work in the morning, I’ll switch the wireless on and work a few stations using FT8. This morning I tuned to 17m, pointed the aerial towards Europe and started calling CQ. It took a few shouts before an EA4 (thanks Antonio) […]

JT65A, working DX with low power

Over the last few months I’ve mentioned JT65, or to be more precise, JT65A a lot and it’s fair to say that I’ve had a lot of QSOs using it.  In fact, at the moment it’s probably my favourite mode of operation.  I explained about how a contact is made using JT65 in this blog […]