This three day update seems to work well, it’s a format that I may well stick with throughout the year. Day #10 saw two contacts in the evening, both on 40m as expected and unsurprisingly to Spain and Italy (EA1HDD and IK6BGJ), two of the three countries I hear the most on the band, the […]
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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 […]
Days 6, 7 and 8
These days have been good, no drama like on day #5 where I nearly didn’t manage to have a contact. Day #6 was a 40m day with both QSOs being on 40m, the first to S57O, Franc in Slovenia and a couple of hours later I worked IZ2EWR, Peter in Italy, not too far from […]
73 – A rant
In amateur radio terms, the numbers 73 are an abbreviation for “best wishes” or “best regards”. Note the plural. At the end of a contact people generally sign off using that abbreviation, it’s polite. But if you say “seven threes” or “seventy threes” then what you’re really saying is “best wisheses“. That sounds a bit […]
Days 3,4 and 5
Day #3 started off well with a QSO just a few seconds into the day to R7DX (what a great callsign), Alex who is around 1,800 miles away in Russia. I worked him on 40m and the band was wide open but I was very tired and went to bed straight after. Later on […]
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. […]
My review of 2010
So with 2011 now firmly ensconced on our calendars I thought I should write a review of 2010 as far as my amateur radio activities have gone. I started playing radio again properly half way through 2009 with the rebirth of ClackPak into the Martello Tower Group but for me, 2010 was the year where […]
That’s pretty much it for 2010
I don’t expect to be doing any serious radio for the next few days. Yesterday evening was the last of the RSGB UKAC Contests that the Martello Tower Group are taking part in this year and unexpectedly today I was able to give away a few points in the last of the Christmas Cumulatives on […]
Christmas!
Yes, it’s Christmas, no, I’ve not had much chance to do anything really on the wireless. I worked a couple of stations last week but nothing really of note and I’ve just had a nice couple of hours in the second of the RSGB Christmas Cumulatives. I’ll have another go tomorrow and then I’m back […]
QSOs, a contest and a new callsign
I’ve had a couple of nice although quick QSOs on 40m over the last two nights. I’m now suffering from some quite serious interference on all bands from 160m up to 15m which I think is coming from some Christmas lights in the street so it’s tricky for me to work much in the evening […]
