Early in 2014, a group of UK-based radio amateurs agreed to run a session at the RSGB Convention, which took place on 10 – 12th October 2014. Here is the video of our session: Thank you to all who participated! … Continue reading
Change, for the amateur radio community, is constant. In the past century we have seen technologies invented, matured and superseded – not just once or twice, but continuously. Now, as always, amateur radio is innovating and evolving, so what should … Continue reading
Club Log’s most wanted list is available at any time from this URL: https://secure.clublog.org/mostwanted.php The data set which creates this list is derived from QSOs uploaded by users, so with the exception of a certain amount of noise from bad … Continue reading
I visited New South Wales in the early part of May 2014, and was QRV on the HF bands from VK2CA’s shack on 10 May. With Allan’s generous help and use of his outstanding HF station, I made a good set of QSOs back … Continue reading
This is an example of a Club Log “Last 10 QSOs” widget, embedded in a WordPress blog. For more details, see: http://clublog.freshdesk.com/solution/categories/59805/folders/100485. Here is the code I used: <iframe name=”iframe” src=”http://www.clublog.org/last10_iframe.php?call=G7VJR&limit=50″ height=”625″ width=”650″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”yes” align=”top”></iframe>
Between 19 February 2014 and 27 February 2014, I was QRV as VP9/G7VJR from the QTH of Ed, VP9GE, near Grotto Bay in Bermuda. I travelled with Martin, VP9/G3ZAY, Dominic VP9/M0BLF and Rob VP9/M0VFC. Thanks for working us all! We’re … Continue reading
A few years ago I produced a report, calculated by Club Log, which showed which modes were in use on the air. Unfortunately, the report became a little too intensive to run regularly, but I was recently reminded to run … Continue reading
In recent weeks we’ve been deluged with DX, and it’s been a great opportunity to do some comparisons. One of the interesting ones is K9W (very strong from Wake Island) and T33A (rather harder, Banaba Island). They are around 2250km … Continue reading
Back in August 2013 I started to learn Go, a powerful new programming language which promised to give Club Log a performance boost thanks to its clever concurrency features. For a review of why I chose Go, you might want … Continue reading
As promised, here are the slides from the RSGB Convention DX presentation I made on 12/13th October 2013. The slides discuss our travels through Chile, to Easter Island and back including various notes on the history of Rapa Nui and … Continue reading