I’ve been meaning to write a little round up of CQ WPX SSB for a couple of weeks but it got a little side tracked so this its now time to play catch up a bit, this year I again joined The Vulture Squadron Contest Group using the callsign G9V (Rather good for...
CQWW SSB in England seemed to be automatically dogged with terrible weather forecast for hurricane force winds and as you can appreciate this made everyone twitchy however at Birdlip we didn’t get affected too much apart from some strong gusts on Sunday which...
This year I took part in the CQ WPX SSB Contest with the Vulture Squadron Contest Group operating in Birdlip, Gloucestershire using the callsign M0VSQ. Overall conditions were much poorer than last year specially Saturday when it was near on impossible to get any sort...
Last two consecutive weekends, have been the RSGBs yearly Affiliated societies contests and I managed to have a play in both neither was a serious effort due to the antenna being a 1/2 G5RV with loading coils for 80m which is a compromise for starters then also being...
During the last two weekends it’s been the RSGB Affiliated Societies Contests 2012, 80m CW and SSB at first I wasn’t really setting out to take part, just considered giving away some points to those giving it a serious bash, but even so was easy to make a good amount...
