Although only making 10 QSOs in total this was actually the best 70MHz score so far from M0PCB. Running an Elecraft K3 and a Spectrum transverter driving about 75W from a valve amplifier. Only a single QSO made in the second hour, two of the QSOs on CW, which was nice, especially as one of […]

This was the first CW Club Championship event of the year for me and it was quite good fun. Only turned teh radio on with 5 minutes til the start. Managed to find a frequency and stuck with it for the whole contest. I did contemplate trying to be clever with the SO2V again but […]

This was the first time I remember having  abash in this contest. As time was limited I decided to stay single band low power on 15M. Usual set-up of K3, 100W and the CobWebb. I managed a total of 3 hours and 20 minutes on the air in the end. Some nice runs to the […]

I didn’t manage to get myself on the bands for CQWPX RTTY during the Saturday session. Sunday saw some activity, single-op low power single band on 15m. I managed 76 QSOs in the end before the wind got up a bit too much and I began to worry about the guy ropes being too stretchy. […]

This was my first entry into this contest and it was all a bit last minute. I was a few minutes late getting started and then had to give in and get some sleep after about an hour and forty minutes. Equipment here was the usual 100W from the K3 into a GM0ONX design Inverted-L […]

21 QSOs in total, around 60W to the 4 element LFA. Heard GI4SNA over in IO64, but he wasn’t able to get my prefix. Hopefully next time I’ll manage to work him, I need both IO64 and GI on 2m. A fair amount of local activity, which is good. Best DX was G7DWY in IO93BA […]

Under my own call sign I managed just 22 QSOs in this contest. I was finding it difficult to be heard to start with and then for around 40 minutes during the middle of the contest the band suddenly went long and all but EU and northern GM were almost non-existent. Conditions did improve towards the end but it […]

Finally I was around and able to operate in a 70MHz UKAC. From home I had a 3 element LFA antenna and about 60W from a Spectrum Transverter driving a Bremi BRL-200 converted to 4m by Gavin M1BXF. I only managed 8 QSOs, the band was quiet, and most of those were relatively local. I […]

I did this contest along with Chloe M0GEJ using the The Vulture Squadron Contest Group call sign M0VSQ with 100W from the K3. We shared the operating roughly 50:50 and found it hard going. The dipole seemed to be unhappy at times towards the top end of the band and although signals were very strong we had […]

I only had 3 hours in this contest and managed 150 QSOs in total. A slow start but I managed to find and hold a frequency for quite a while. Perhaps I should have done some S&P in the first 20 minutes and I may have made more QSOs in total. Was running 100W to a 80/40m […]