For the 2014 leg of CQWW CW I was invited by Don G3BJ to join the team at G5W in a M/2 HP entry, gunning for the G record. The team comprised myself, Don G3BJ, Mike G3WPH and John G4DRS. As ever Hilary G4JKS and Don were great hosts and the contest was great fun. […]
Category: Contesting
CQWW SSB 2014 – G9V
We nearly pulled the plug just after arriving at site, after finding we were down to half complement due to illness, car failures and family holidays. Nevertheless, we decided to push on but set-up took significantly longer with only 3 people. Given the extended set-up time and lack of our usual night-time ops, we decided […]
FOC QSO Party September 2014 – G4FOC
During September 2014 I was active on the bands with the FOC Club callsign G4FOC. This covered the Bill Windle QSO Party, and although not a contest, is a time of great activity from both FOC members and non-members having CW QSOs with each other. While my time on the bands was limited during the […]
IOTA Contest 2014 – MU0HTJ
Yet again in 2014 the MU0HTJ team were active in the IOTA contest from Guernsey, EU-114. We improved on our previous scores and for a 2nd year in a row won our section, which was Fixed this time due to the kind support of the Guernsey Amateur Radio Society. We ran 100W from an Elecraft […]
MU0PCB – July 2014
The trip to Guernsey became an annual event for the team and 2014 was no different. We also entered the RSGB IOTA Contest again. Rather than renting a van Tom 2U0TKB was able to arrange a loan of the local emergency comms trailer for us to operate from. Again we used the parking area at […]
IARU HF Contest 2014 – GR2HQ
In 2014 I joined the UK national team as GR2HQ. I was operating mostly on 15m CW, with a short foray onto 160m CW. 15m kept going all through the night and we made over 2000q on there. Hopefully we managed to pull our weight for the GR2HQ team.
VHF NFD 70MHz July 2014 – M0PCB
This year for VHF NFD I was busy during the Saturday sessions so decided just to get some time in on the 70MHz band during the Sunday morning session. I was late getting to the usual spot in IO81VT due to a variety of things, not least of which was down to my lack of […]
80m Club Championships CW July 2014 – M0PCB
Somehow I managed to miss the first 40 minutes of the contest. I managed to find a spot near the bottom of the band and put in 64 QSOs in 49 minutes of operating. Not my best score ever, but not terrible considering how late I was to start. The set-up was the usual K3 […]
NFD 2014 – G5BK/P
For NFD 2014 I was back at G5BK/P near Cheltenham. We (M0PCB, M0GEJ, G4ENA and G4ENZ) assembled at 1300 local with seemingly plenty of time before the start to get everything set up. The mast and 265 foot doublet went up in around 20 minutes, the tent soon followed. All going well so far, with […]
70MHz Contest CW May 2014 – M0PCB
I was up in the usual spot in IO81UT for this contest, running 50W from an Icom IC-7100 into a 5 element PowaBeam (from theDXshop.com). I had 21 QSOs in 3 countries, and in fact Scotland was a new one on 4m for me. This was a very enjoyable contest with a few locals active […]