CQWW SSB 2009 at G6PZ

The weekend has passed and the bands have returned to there normal less busy state, after they we’re took over for 48hrs for the yearly CQWW SSB contest, this year I took the trip down to G6PZ in Weston-Super-Mare on the south west coast of the UK. I arrived at...

JARTS RTTY

After getting my upgraded licence and callsign at the start of the week, I thought this would be a good contest to give it a proper airing, though I didn’t put in a full time effort I managed around 7 hours in the shack doing some search and pounce. Conditions...

Passed Intermediate Exam

Last weekend was the yearly RSGB Convention (HFC), this year though I took the Intermediate exam on the Saturday afternoon and I’m pleased to report I passed and now have the callsign 2E0SQL.. I did give it a short airing this afternoon and worked 33 QSOs first...

National Hamfest

Yesterday I took the train just a bit north of Oxford to meet up with Iain (M0PCB) and Steve (2E0SPF) at 8:30am, we then took the 2 hour drive up to Newark to attend the National Hamfest, on arrival it looked like a nice venue plenty of parking and space to move...