On the first weekend of July the Cheltenham ARA arranged a club field day to coincide with the RSGB VHF NFD contest. I wasn’t able to attend on the Saturday but I did get along for the Sunday morning session on 70MHz. I took along my Icom IC-7300 (40W) and 5 element Powabeam antenna. The […]

Only 8 QSOs in this contest, from home. Station was an Icom IC-7300, 50W into a dual band 50/70MHz Moxon antenna. Best DX was G8BCG down in IO70. Unfortunately a lot of the 70MHz UKACs clash with my local radio club meeting.

In 2017 I happened to be on a DXpedition to Ghana with G3VMW, G3XAQ, G4BWP, 5B4AGN and G6MC. Of the team members I was the most enthusiastic about the Commonwealth Contest and so for the 24 hours of the contest I had the shack pretty much entirely to myself. Some more details of thetrip are […]

I don’t have a particularly good antenna for 160m at home, but felt like giving a few points away on Sunday evening. Thanks to those who heard my puny signal! Only worked 39q in the end, hadn’t clicked that the contest ended at 2200z – just as I was about to CQ for a while. […]

This was my first contest of 2017. Conditions on 40m for local QSOs was terrible, so mostly Gm stations worked there at the start, with a few G stations later on. I had SO2R set-up, the K3 and KPA500 on 80m and the K2 with Hunter 750 on 40m. Both outputting 200W. I logged with […]

Again my local club, CARA, decided to have a bash at another contest. This time it was SSB Field day. Like NFD I provided the station and a 120 foot doublet this time. We actually used my IC-7300 as it’s easy to extract from the shack, unlike the K3. It performed very well, but integration […]

I didn’t manage to get out to my /P location for this contest, instead I had a few QSOs with the IC-7300 feeding the new EAntenna 6/4m dual-band Moxon antenna. I only worked 5 stations, all SSB, though I did call CQ on CW for a while. I only spent around 45 minutes in the […]

This year I was an operator on the GR2HQ, UK team for the IARU HF Contest. I travelled up to join the folks at the Brimham Contest Group G6MC, a club I used to be a member of back in my University days. I spent my time on 20m CW, which was great fun. Plenty […]

This year my local club, CARA, managed to put a 4 person team together for NFD. I was in charge of providing the station, which was a K3 and 265 foot doublet at 11m above ground in and Inverted-V configuration. We made 1000q in the contest, which fell to just under after adjudication and did […]