Oct 29, 2009
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...
Oct 19, 2009
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...
Jul 13, 2009
The contest is over and unlike last year didn’t require a hospital visit just before the start, but I didn’t really feel like putting in a serious effort so it was more of a dabble over 2 hours, Saturday afternoon conditions didn’t seem to bad 10/15m...
Mar 31, 2009
The weekend has passed and the bands have returned to the usual semi quietness after the WPX SSB contest took for 2 today’s of contest activity, this year instead of taking part with the Cray Valley Radio Club I was invited to go down to G6PZ , the last time I...
Mar 22, 2009
This weekend was the yearly BARTG HF RTTY Contest, and even though propagation is pretty poor there was still plenty of stations to work. This was also the first time I got to try the Yaesu FT-950 properly with the new firmware and it preformed brilliant the DSP and...
Jan 11, 2009
It wasn’t till Tim (G4VXE) sent a tweet on Twitter that he’d just worked 20 qsos in the AFS that I remembered about, so I switched from 20m as I wasn’t working much at the time and decided to give 80m a try, normally I find working anything on 80m...
