There was a Sporadic E opening on 6m on day #231 and so I was pleased to work HA3LI, Ali, IZ5EME, Marco, IW4AOT, Peter, IK4ASR, Davide and IZ3SQW, Mirko using just my homebrew indoor half wave dipole. I then switched over to 40m and spoke to GP3ZPE/P, Paul on Guernsey and then worked a couple […]
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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 […]
Days 228, 229 and 230 – One more new DXCC and plenty of JT65
My last QSO on day #227 was a new DXCC so it was a nice surprise for my only contact on day #228 to be another new one – I worked Eduardo, CO8LY in Cuba on 17m PSK31. I had a lot more contacts on day #229 though, I started off by talking to IV3SUS, […]
Days 225, 226 and 227 – An unexpected new DXCC
I had one QSO on day #225, I worked IZ5GST, Steve on 40m. 40m was my mainstay earlier in the year but the summer doldrums are making it quite tricky at times on the band right now. Conditions will change rapidly and one moment I’ll be waiting for someone to finish a QSO and before […]
Days 222, 223 and 224
I’ve run a bit more data over these three days than I have for a while largely because my mind has been preoccupied with the plans for a big move at work and it’s easier to throw the wireless on and have a data contact than it is to actually speak to someone! I’m a […]
Days 219, 220 and 221 – Hellschreiber and ST0R
I started off day #219 by having a couple of QSOs on 20m, first I spoke to M0GYQ/P, Rob and then a bit later I was tuning around to hear someone asking if the frequency was in use. Predicting a CQ call I listened to hear the same station ask a further twice whether the […]
20m WSPR with my TS-590S
A few days ago I decided to look at the datacomms capabilities of my new TS-590S. It has a USB socket on the back and it appears that the complete data interface is built in. I’ve set up a new Windows XP virtual machine just for datacomms and I’ve so far set up software for […]
Review – July
IOTA weekend gave my QSO count for July a big boost with over 150 of my contacts for the month occurring during that contest. My DXCC entity count continues to grow slowly and so does the number of stations confirmed on LoTW. I’ve not written out any QSL cards for July yet but will hit those over […]
Days 213, 214 and 215
One QSO on day #213, I worked 9A2YM, Steve on 12m. I’ve only had four QSOs on 24MHz so it was nice to use the band again and he was a mighty fine signal! On day #214 I started off on one of the other WARC bands and spoke to E77YZ, Adis in Sarajevo on […]
Days 209 to 212 – IOTA
I had one QSO on both days #209 and 210, I worked DL5MBY, Ulli on 20m RTTY and TP50CE, Francis on 40m respectively. Days #211 and #212 were the Islands On The Air (IOTA) contest and this is an annual event that is very popular. I had sort of hoped to be operating from GU […]
