G6PZ score summary, CQWW SSB 2011, mutli-single category ( Read more... )

Record book rewritten!

Objective achieved!

The title comes north!

Another New Year, another 80m IRTS contest. After losing both the contest and the high QSO total last year by a whisker, I was determined not to make the same mistake this time. To that end, I ‘gently persuaded’ GI3PDN to let me run his amplifier. We couldn’t get it going on both CW and SSB without undue hassle, so I decided to run it on SSB and ( Read more... )

What I got up to last weekend... for the ham radio uninitiated, the 2730 "QSOs" are the number of individual contacts I made. Should be enough for the top three in Europe in my category, maybe even to win it ( Read more... )

Five days late but there we are... conditions have improved greatly in the last 24 hours and I was working stations in Alaska and Hawai'i last night and this morning - dead the wrong side of the pole from here ( Read more... )

A big package with two 18m Spiderpoles arrived from Germany this afternoon ( Read more... )

From spaceweather.com:Solar activity doesn't get much lower than it is today: There are no sunspots, no coronal holes and no solar wind streams heading toward Earth. Furthermore, the sun's x-ray glow is at its dimmest. It's just a quiet day on the sun.
It's always darkest just before the dawn - let's hope this heralds the impending start of Cycle 24

I had to work on Saturday so only made it to this year's RSGB HF Convention at teatime on Saturday, and I also hadn't booked which meant a last minute dash to get a dinner ticket and somewhere to sleep for the night. I'll learn one of these days. Honest.

Snaps of the weekend are available at G3TXF's site and Martin Lynch's webshots page. I am ( Read more... )

A really cool recording made by Fabian, DJ1YFK during July's VHF/UHF contest. This is what G5LK/P (operated by me from near Ipswich) sounded like with Fabian (who was operating DM7A just south of Dresden on the Czech border). The distance was 822km or about 513 miles. The frequency was 1296 MHz, or not too different from what mobile phones use ( Read more... )

Belgium's UBA has its results here. Your scribe operated casually for about 6 hours and came 61st World, 27th European Union and 3rd in England in this very European Union focused contest.

The final standings for the RSGB's 80 metre club contest are also out. These are a series of 90 minute weekday evening sprints, 6 each on data, SSB and CW, ( Read more... )