For the first time in a while I managed to get out to the /P spot in IO81VT for a 4m contest. I used my Icom IC-7100 with 50W into the 5 element Powabeam up at about 5m AGL. I made 27 QSOs, activity seemed down on previous entries. Best DX was GM4ZUK/P but a […]

This is the first time I have entered one of the UKEICC evening contests. The format was different, without the need for sending ‘5NN’ but just my locator to four characters. Worked 59 QSOs, 100W into the Inverted-L, logging with DXLog and without an RBN or cluster connection.

This is the first one of these contests I’ve done for some time. I didn’t get chance to get out portable but was test driving the IC-7300 from home, 50W into a badly adjusted halo on the back of the house. Thinking on what improvements I can make to the 4m aerial, at the very […]

  This BWQP was a lot of fun, had some nice chats with some friends, met 5 members I’d not worked before. Seemingly surprised a couple of guys with band conditions. As usual 100W into a G3TPW Cobwebb (20-10m), 40m Inverted-V dipole, 80m Inverted-L. I was using DXlog to log, seemed to perform well though […]

We got back home from Toronto at around 1430z on Wednesday 16th March. At 2000z I was on 80m doing the Club Championship CW contest. As I was half asleep from the overnight flight and a long drive back from the airport I didn’t do any SO2V or S&P etc, just sat and held a […]

Only a small effort, I was on late and had to leave the shack early. Contest : RSGB First 1.8MHz Contest Callsign : M0PCB Mode : CW Category : Single operator Overlay : — Band(s) : 160 Class : High Exchange : GL Grid square : IO81UT Operating time : 00h 45m BAND QSO DUP […]

Conditions were very good on most bands with some nice DX worked. This time I entered the Open QRO section as I decided to run the amplifier. I was averaging about 200W output depending on band. The antennas were the usual Cobwebb, dipole and Inverted-L. The station worked flawlessly and other than CQ calls I […]

I hadn’t put this one in my calendar for some reason, and was occupied on both Friday and Saturday evenings. I spent just over 2 hours early on Sunday evening and worked what I could hear – well I worked those who could hear me! I did get a couple of small runs going when […]

I’d been doing an awful lot of engineering in the shack since I got the antennas sorted and everything worked very well. I was SO2R for the first time ever, which was only due to a fortunate ability to collect an incoming parcel on Friday – also a day off. The parcel contained band decoders […]