Great to see some familiar faces at the GMDX convention in Scotland on 18 April 2009. This was a good opportunity to announce the YS1G expedition and a great weekend all round. Thanks to Gavin GM0GAV for the airport connections … Continue reading
While operating on top band at ZD8UW I had quite a few problems getting the inverted “L” to match at 50 ohms. Even after adjusting the element length this is virtually impossible due to the nature of the antenna. To … Continue reading
A lot of logging software suffers from using old, tired architectures. Visual Basic is the main culprit. Applications written this way are often unstable and quirky, and more modern designs are to be preferred (in particular, .Net is really the … Continue reading
Between 31 December 2008 and 09 January 2009, six members of the Cambridge University Wireless Society were QRV from Ascension Island using the call ZD8UW. I was on 160m and 80m CW – the other expedition members were on SSB … Continue reading
I had a great time at K3VOA for about 90mins today. Being a work day, Ken K4WZ took a long break to give me access to the station. I am extremely grateful to him. You may have worked Ken recently … Continue reading
JX/G7VJR and JX/SQ4MP took place between 25 June and 6 July 2008 by Michael G7VJR and Wojtek SQ4MP. The main purpose of our visit was amateur radio, and we were active as much as possible – except when propagation was … Continue reading
Between 26 December 2007 and 3 January 2008, I took a short winter break to the Azores, an unusual but easily accessible location that I had been curious about for some time. I wanted to do a little touring, get … Continue reading
Guernsey Along with Martin GU3ZAY and Phil MU0DEG, I was QRV from Guernsey for a short weekend dxpedition between 31 October 2008 and 2 November 2008. Conditions on LF were pretty good – I was especially pleased to work JA … Continue reading
JW/G7VJR – July 2007 Between 15 July and 22 July I operated from Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Iota: EU-026 Grid: JQ78TF Modes: CW (90%) and SSB (10%) Log search – http://www.clublog.org/logsearch OY/G7VJR EU-018 Faroe Islands 17 – 24 July 2006 I logged … Continue reading
Scotand Between 27 and 29 May 2006 I operated as GM7VJR/p from the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides group, IOTA EU-008. The station was located in the Quiraing, an interesting mountain-top location almost ideally suited to ham radio due to … Continue reading