JARTS RTTY

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...

PSK Automatic Propagation Reporter

I’ve been doing more digital modes of late and had far more time to try around with software again i noticed that Ham Radio Deluxe’s DM780 supported reporting to the propagation reporter. It works by automatically sending heard station reports to the reporter system...

Morning on the Air

I’m not known for getting up early for anything, but as I had a very restless night (resulted in zero sleep) by around 6am I was looking for something to do. After a spot of breakfast and a cup of tea and I decided that I’d go and see what was on the bands. I...

Christmas 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...

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...