KA3DRR (Scot): My 10,000 Hour RadioSport Challenge | 9,202 - 13 = 9,189 To Go
RBN Telemetry 10 August 20132013 Worked All Europe CW2013 NAQP CW SummerGood morning from #hamr shackadelic zone as the marine layer has burnt off leaving clear blue sky with expected afternoon...
View ArticleG3XBM (Roger): Rotatable mast bonus
Regular readers may remember that I was asking about rotators some months back. Well, I have just realised that the place where I intend to fix my 2 inch diameter mast at the new QTH is such that I can...
View ArticleG3XBM (Roger): The Chinese HF SSB/CW transceivers are REALLY coming.....
Steve G1KQH has alerted me to a new QRP HF multi-mode transceiver from China that is available on eBay. The English translation leaves a lot to be desired, but this again signals that the Chinese are...
View ArticleW2LJ (Larry): Not much time, but loads of fun!
So as I previously wrote, I did not get to spend a lot of time in the Skeeter Hunt today. But the time I did spend? Yowza!My first 45 minutes, before leaving for the soup kitchen yielded only five...
View ArticleW8MRC (Milford Amateur Radio Club): Club Picnic and Ohio State Parks On The Air
The Milford Amateur Radio Club (MARC) is having its annual club picnic Saturday, 07-September, 2013. The picnic is being held at the Turkey Ridge shelter in East Fork State Park, Bethel, Ohio. This is...
View ArticleIQ2IR (Insubria Radio Team): Frontiera Nord della Linea Cadorna
There are no translations available.Facendo escursioni sul Monte Galbiga e Monte di Tremezzo è pressochè impossibile perdersi, non tanto grazie ai riferimenti dati dell'ampio panorama, bensì per...
View ArticleSV2DCD (Leo): AEGEAN VHF CONTEST 2013 LOGBOOKS RECEIVED TILL TODAY
5B4AIF9A1CEQ9A1I9A7ZZDL2OMDL3BQADM5DXE71WF4GFTHA5CWHG3XHG6ZIC8TEMIK4IDPJ43MESLZ1CEBLZ1FHLZ1KISLZ1KSCLZ1SVLZ1ZBLZ2FOLZ2ZYLZ5DLZ6ZLZ7JLZ9XSP5XSDSV1GRDSV1GRNSV1IWMSV1MESV1MNESV1NJWSV1NKSV1OCN/MSV1ONESV1QE...
View ArticleEA1CS: HL3/SQ9KWW, Corea del Sur
Actualmente Dom trabaja con el equipo de remo olímpico polaco en Chungju, Corea del Sur. Está QRV como HL3/SQ9KWW, desde hý 12 de agosto hasta el 2 de setiembre 2013.Utilizará antenas de hilo y 100w,...
View ArticleEA1CS: CY0P, Sable Is. ( 10 agosto 2013)
La intención sigue siendo volar a la isla de Sable el 30 de septiembre con Maritime Air. Se ha hecho las reservas del aeronave y de los alojamientos, en Halifax, para Murray y Rick antes de la...
View ArticleKB0ASQ (Allen): Know what you want to do
It’s been almost a year since my last post. To be honest, I wasn’t sure I even wanted to keep doing a blog. I seem to get all excited and work on it for a couple of weeks and then life comes and...
View ArticleAE5X (John): A weekend surprise…Vatican City – #300 on dipole/304th overall
I hate to admit how long it took to work HV0A on 17m but I did hear part-time blogger N4EMG work him 45 minutes before I did. The next evening, HV0A was on 40m and I heard N4EMG work him again. I don’t...
View ArticleON5MF / OQ6A (Jurgen): Working split in digi mode with the FTdx5000 (or any...
Do you want to work split in digi-modes using both receivers in your FTdx5000?Pretty easy: use 2 instances of MMTTY each with its own soundcard or its own Signalink USB and configure one of them to...
View ArticleG3XBM (Roger): Virgin Media cock-up
This evening I am VERY annoyed! A day before we are due to move we have been informed by our phone/TV and broadband provider (Virgin Media) that they cannot now do the installation at the new property...
View ArticleEA1CS: VK5CE/P, OC-261.... muy pronto
Craig 12 agosto 2013Hola a todos, sólo un par de días para irme, luego comenzará la DXpedition. He sido informado por el cuidador de la isla, de que el acceso a Internet no estará disponible en mi...
View ArticleVE3WDM (Mike): 2nd annual Skeeter hunt contest
The operating chair TheSkeeter hunt is a great QRP contest that has really caught on with the QRPer's. It's only a 4 hour contest and offers extra points if you want to take on a challenge. Last year...
View ArticleW2LJ (Larry): WooHoo - a new one via QRP!
Subtitle - It pays to know your prefixes!My lunchtime QRP session today looked like it was going to be no big deal. 15 Meters seemed to be dead as a doornail. I heard some activity on 20 Meters, but...
View ArticleAE5X (John): How deep are your pockets?!
Currently on Bay, two unbuilt Heathkits: An SB-220 Unbuilt 2 kilowatt linear amplifier / two Eimac 3-500Z tubes . and an UNBUILT Heathkit SB-104A SB-604 SB-614 SB-644A SB-634 SB-230 HP-1144A SBA-104-1...
View ArticleKA3DRR (Scot): Review Attenuation And Propagation Velocity By W1ZR
Continuing my review of antenna basics, two nuggets of knowledge emerged after reading about attenuation and propagation velocity, written by Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR in Antenna Basics: Understanding...
View ArticlePD0AC (Hans van Rijsse): HF transceiver for under $400: KN-920
Steve G1KQH sent me a link to one of the latest HF transceivers from Chinese origin, the KN-920. With a price tag of only $346.55 a piece (shipping not included), it is a cheap radio for sure. The...
View ArticleIZ1CRR (Maury): S546EB: European Basketball Championships
Members of the Radio club Cerkno, S50E will be active on the amateur radio frequencies signing special event callsign S546EB celebrating European Basketball Championships which will be held in Slovenia...
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