These have been three good days on the wireless, a bit of voice, a bit of data and a couple of new DXCC entities have appeared in the log. After work on day #70 I slapped the radio onto the PSK section of 40m and worked Luca, IZ3NWP near Venice before changing to 80m where […]
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QSO365 has a Twitter account
Currently I post all my updates via Twitter using the account of the Martello Tower Group but I thought that perhaps the QSO365 project should have an account of its own so I’ve created one. Over on the right of the page you’ll see a blue button that says “Follow me on Twitter”. If you […]
First QSL card received
On Friday I received my first QSL card for the QSO365 project from JY4NE in Jordan from a QSO made on 28MHz on day #50. Let’s hope this is the first of many. Of course this also shows off my wireless, the MFJ-434B voice keyer and microHam USB Interface III very nicely.
QSO365 Sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons
The sharp eyed among you may have noticed a banner which appeared at the bottom of this blog a couple of weeks ago. I’m very pleased to announce that QSO365 has been sponsored by Martin Lynch & Sons Ltd. The following article was published in the April 2011 edition of Practical Wireless magazine. Martin has […]
Days 67, 68 and 69 – Another new DXCC
Day #67 was another one of the early start, late finish days. Before heading out to work I had a QSO with WB1ABQ in Vermont on 40m and then just before midnight I had QSOs with CT2KCG and K1LPS, also both on 40m. Day #68 started early with me working YY6IEA in Venezuela on 40m […]
Days 64, 65 and 66 – Three very busy days
Day #64 dawned and with it the fact that it was a Saturday morning with contests throughout the day on both HF and 144MHz. Before I did any contest operating though I had two PSK31 QSOs on 40m with DC2QT, Heinrich in Germany and G6UWK, Jon who is in Manningtree, about ten miles away from […]
Replacing the Schottky diodes in my FT-847
Some time ago I blogged about Radio improvements and tweaking things to make them better, specifically a number of modifications that I’d had made to my Yaesu FT-847. I talked in that entry about swapping the cheap switching diodes out for low noise Schottky diodes to reduce the HF noise floor and I said I […]
Working VK for the first time – For real
A short while ago I was calling CQ using JT65-HF on 40m when I noticed a trace right at the edge of my screen – VK6BN was calling CQ. I tried to call him but he was right on the edge of my passband and started working someone else. I retuned my radio and when […]
VK land – Signal heard
On day #63 as I went to bed I put my station on the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network running just 5 watts on 28MHz. I’d jokingly said that I expected to be heard in Australia with a signal strength of +20dB. Well, it’s easy to confuse plus and minus isn’t it! When I got […]
Days 61, 62 and 63 – Data, data everywhere
Three days absolutely stuffed full of data contacts. Don’t worry though, I do pick up the microphone on day #64 and that will be in the next blog entry. Day #61 was another of my long days out, I left home at around half six in the morning and wasn’t expecting to be home until […]
