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 […]
Tag: QSO365
Spain and a new square
Every Saturday I take a drive to Frinton-on-Sea to stock up on bread for the week. I’d done the shopping and was just getting back into the car when my phone pinged at me to tell me I had a new email. I glanced at it and saw that it was a DX-Sherlock warning of […]
My son passed his Foundation Exam!
After a brief period of study, my son David sat and passed the Foundation Exam at Colchester Radio Amateurs yesterday. He’s not shown any real interest in radio in the past but about three months ago I bought the Foundation Now! book and passed it to him to see if anything sparked. It did and […]
144MHz UKAC Contest, December 2010
Last night was the final 144MHz UKAC Contest of 2010 – I’ve been putting in entries all this year as part of the Martello Tower Group and for a small group, I think we’re doing very well. Yesterday was my daughters birthday so it would have been very unsociable of me to go to the […]
144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest – Part 2
Following on from my entry yesterday about the 144MHz AFS Contest, I’ve done some detective work and found out the results from the 1990 contest I mentioned. I finished 12th out of 91 entries in my section and I was part of the Colchester Radio Amateurs group who finished second out of 37 societies. My […]
144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest
Tomorrow (Sunday 5th December 2010) is the 144MHz Affiliated Societies Contest. This is a contest that I have a real soft spot for as it was the first contest I ever put a serious entry in to back in 1982. I’ve taken a trip down memory lane and dug out my old logbooks to see […]
‘wireless’
It’s been mentioned to me that I often use the word ‘wireless’ instead of ‘radio’. It’s not something I do consciously, I’ve always considered the words totally interchangeable and I suppose I just like the word. I’ve been doing it since before such things as wireless networks became commonplace and for me it’s just natural. […]
Multiple QSOs yesterday
I know I haven’t started yet but I thought this was worth mentioning. I’ve not used the radio in my car much for a few years. I drive from home to work which is a journey of about fifty five miles and for last four years or so I’ve been car sharing – I drive […]
Some of my QSOs to be in Morse!
That may be quite a shock to people who know me but I’m determined that I will use Morse code to make some real QSOs in 2011 and what better way to do it than as part of my QSO365 project. I’ve never studied Morse code at all but over the years I have picked […]
A new aerial is needed
In order to achieve what I hope to do in 2011, I will need to improve my HF aerial. At the moment I have a ‘long’ wire which is fed via an SGC Smartuner. It’s not too bad on 40m but on all the other HF bands, it’s pretty poor. I’ve bought a second hand […]
