After spending the morning out with Dad taking photos of stream trains on the Saturday morning. I decided to have a dabble in the Alessandro Volta RTTY DX Contest, this was a purely search and pounce affair to get some QSOs in my logbook as contest activity from me...
The last couple of days I’ve been playing around with the WSJT software in JT65B decoding GB3RAL’s 6m beacon signal, Okay distance wise its just down the road, but I’m now hoping to maybe try a proper QSO on 6m if I spot anything.
This weekend was host to the yearly BARTG Sprint RTTY, I decided to spend a couple of hours in the shack working the odd station I could hear. What I was pleased to find was that 15m and I made a number of QSOs into North America, 20m was also reasonable maybe a sign...
During the last month I have been playing around with the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) on 30m seeing who could hear my 5 watts around the world, I was impressed to see its actually quite a lot of people even running low power on the Yaesu FT-950. WSPR is...
I’ve spent a couple of hours today in the shack operating in the OK DX RTTY contest, conditions didn’t seem very special I started off at around 10am on 40m working the usual European stations but soon came across P40YL in Aruba then K1SFA. then soon moved...
