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 [...]
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 [...]
Last weekend was the yearly SSB field day, I’d not taken part in this contest for a couple of years properly but this year I decided take part along with the Oxford &DARS. The weather outlook for the weekend was bleek at best, with the forecast being rain and heavy rain so either way it [...]
Saturday saw the yearly EU HF Championship and unlike other years when I normally miss it, as I’m normally on holiday, I was able to take part! Conditions overall wasn’t too bad and I spent 3hrs 40mins search and pounce using the Yaesu FT-950 and the 80m CW special Windom for logging I used Win-Test [...]