Last weekend it was the biggest contest of the year being the CQWW SSB sadly no M/* event took place for me so I decided to have a dabble at home doing a bit of search and pounce. Conditions on Saturday seemed very poor and I found it hard to get heard by all so [...]
24 Oct, 2008
Posted by: peter In: general
Janet (2E0LLM), Ray (G4FON), Brian (G2KQ)
Last meeting at the Oxford radio club was the annual construction competition, where members can bring something along with the chance to actually in a cup to put in their shack for the year, the turn out with items seemed a bit low with only 5 items but never mind!
Items [...]
Last weekend was the JARTS RTTY contest, so I decided to have a dabble and see what I could work in-between decoding and processing International Space Station passes. conditions to my surprise were reasonable and managed to work 9M2 a couple of times on 20m although I never managed to log any JA stations perhaps [...]
18 Oct, 2008
Posted by: peter In: space
Today turned out to be rather interesting, upon getting up Dad (M3JFM) informed me that there was a ISS pass at around 11:30 UTC, so armed with my Olympus DM-20 digital voice recorder I headed into the shack to record the pass using the FT-7800 and V2000 vertical again. I took the audio out of [...]