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Controversial thoughts from the shackChristmas Eve & Day
I know in earlier posts I wanted to make a couple of contacts every day, although this hasn’t happened in reality. During the last couple of days, I’ve managed to put in some hours on the bands and even worked a few new DXCCs by doing some digital mode work on 30m...
Merry Christmas
Just a quick note to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, hope everyone gets lots of lovely presents and enjoys the festive week! 🙂
Day 2 – Low Number of Contacts
I meant to write this yesterday night, but for no other reason than completely forgetting. Sadly I didn’t even come close to my target number of contacts of 10 per day, conditions at my QTH seemed very poor to say the least and after one hour and a half I literally...
Back on The Air!
Finally we’ve broken up at University for the Christmas holidays, the last month is been manic trying to finish assignments and meet deadlines for my final year project (check out magicbug.co.uk for info) but made thankfully. This evening I managed to turn the radio...
Prefix Search (Web based)
I’d been planning on finishing this project for a couple of months, but never really got round to it in till last weekend! The project is a web based prefix search which does a live search against the cty.dat file. Seems to work well, not sure how useful it will...