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Keith, G6NHU: Days 364 and 365 – Some QRSS and a bit of everything to wrap up QSO365

January 1, 2012

It feels a little odd to be writing this final regular update for QSO365. It really doesn’t seem like a year ago that it all started and I’m a little relieved to be posting this update, knowing that the project has been a resounding success with not only a QSO made every day of 2011, […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 361, 362 and 363 – Some nice DX and just what is this ROS thing?

December 29, 2011

I started day #361 in what’s become the usual way, I had two 40m JT65 QSOs, working DK6AN and DG6AOY before switching to 15m SSB and talking with LZ1ND, Ted and 5V7MA in Togo. I then spoke to HS0ZGQ, Joe in Thailand on 10m. After that I worked I2OHO, Luciano and RA3GS on 20m followed […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 358, 359 and 360 – It’s Christmas!

December 27, 2011

Day #358 was Christmas Eve and so I had some QSOs first thing in the morning before I went off to hook up with the other members of the Martello Tower Group at the local cafe for a late breakfast before heading over to Coastal Communications for the traditional Christmas Eve nibbles. I first worked […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 353 to 357 – More midweek 40m data

December 27, 2011

All QSOs over this five day period were on 40m using JT65 and the pattern is the same all the way through with one or two contacts early morning between 06:15 and 06:30 and then maybe one more at least twelve hours later after work. Day #353 KJ4QXC, Dan and UA1ZFL, Vladimir. Day #354 W2BT, […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 351 and 352

December 22, 2011

Just in case there were problems putting my beam back up on day #351 I had a ‘banker’ 40m JT65 QSO first thing, I worked IZ2QPP, Ermes. All went well though and so I spoke to UA9CUA on 10m SSB followed by P39P on 15m. After that I had a chat with M3TUC, Tucker in Carlisle on […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 346 to 350 – Early morning and late evening JT65

December 18, 2011

With my mast down and just a 40m monoband dipole up at 15ft and my 10m vertical, I was quite limited in what I could do this week because I was actually worse off for aerials than I’ve been all year. I started with a long wire through the smarttuner so at least I could […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 344 and 345 – The ARRL 10m Contest

December 16, 2011

These two days were the ARRL 10m contest and I had high hopes for it. I had a mental target of 500 QSOs over the course of the weekend but things didn’t go as well as expected. I started off on Saturday morning and it was difficult to get a run going and that really […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 337 to 343 – Aerial work at the Martello Tower and the 2m UKAC

December 9, 2011

I had a nice lot of QSOs on day #337, largely on the higher bands again. I was up at a reasonable time and had a couple of CQ shouts on 10m, first working UV3QF, Igor and UA6BCB, Vlad. I was then nicely surprised to be called by ZL4CZ, Steven who was a nice loud […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 334, 335 and 336 – Not much happening

December 3, 2011

This is a very small update. The bands have been really dead in the evenings and the fact that I didn’t have an aerial for 40m following it falling down means it’s been a difficult three days. Day #334 was when the aerial fell down, I worked EA3DTD, Toni on 40m using half a dipole and KB2UZY, […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 331, 332 and 333 – Another CW QSO

November 30, 2011

Day #331 started off with some QSOs on 12m, I worked EA9IB, Pedro, EK6TA, Hovik, EW6DX, Igor and SV2HTI, Ilias. After that I spoke to WV4X, Don and IZ0VXL, Federico on 15m before going back to 12m to talk to YO3RU. I then had my eighth QSO of the year using Morse code. I worked ZD8N on […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 328, 329 and 330 – Another new aerial

November 28, 2011

Day #328 was very nearly the end of QSO365! It’s incredible to think that the project could fail this close to the end but it only takes some bad propagation and it could all be over. I got home in the evening and the HF bands were dead. Really dead. I mean, you may think that the […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 325, 326 and 327 – Three average days on the wireless

November 26, 2011

It’s getting to the time of year now that when I get home in the evening, the bands have largely closed down and with an aerial which doesn’t seem to be performing too well on the lower bands I’m starting to struggle a little bit. I’m aiming to take the OCFD down and replace it […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 323 and 324 – The LZ DX contest

November 21, 2011

I’d planned in advance to make a bit of an effort in the LZ DX contest and so on the Saturday morning I attempted to re-route the coax that currently goes to the OCFD I have up and replace it with a mono band 40m dipole but unfortunately due to bad planning I wasn’t able […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 320, 321 and 322 – Lots of JT65A reception reports

November 19, 2011

I didn’t have too many QSOs on these three days, largely because I was running some extended JT65A receive sessions which were quite interesting. On day #320 I spoke to W2WP, Mike and N4CCA, Don on 20m SSB and then I ran receive on 40m JT65 overnight. The aerial used here was an off centre […]

Days 317, 318 and 319

November 16, 2011

I worked a few RTTY stations in the early hours of day #317 on 40m carrying on with the contest from the day before, they were W3LL, VA2UP, IK4CLF, UA9OG, OM7OM, Z37M, WA2TMC, K9NR and IW1QN. In the morning I spoke to RW9JZ, Leo and EW6DX, Igor on 10m SSB. Later I switched to 12m […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 314, 315 and 316 – More great conditions and new DXCCs

November 13, 2011

I had a very good start to day #314, I heard two stations on 10m from New Zealand talking to each other and passing the DX they were working backwards and forwards between them. I called a few times with no response and then the stronger of them said “I’ll take one more call and […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 311, 312 and 313 – I have an amplifier

November 9, 2011

I started off day #311 on 20m when I spoke to IN3LQB, Paul before I moved to 10m and worked A61AS, Salem and TA1BX, Burhan. I then moved to 12m to talk to JT1BV, Naran. This was followed by three PSK31 contacts on 15m with LY2CK, Fred, UY2IC, Aleksandr and UT1Ef, Stanislav. Later in the […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 309 and 310 – The Ukrainian DX Contest

November 7, 2011

Day #309 started as any normal day, I had a few QSOs. I first worked UA3QBL, Vlad and UA4NX, Eduard on 10m PSK31 and then spoke to UN7BEW, Alex on SSB. I also worked IZ1DGG, Alf on 20m and then RA9KY, Nick, HZ1SK, Samir and Z21BB, Fernando in Zimbabwe for a new DXCC. A while […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 307 and 308 – eight new DXCC entities in the log

November 6, 2011

I started off on day #307 working TU2T on 10m followed by CN2DX, Andre and then PJ5/SP6IXF, Janusz in St. Eustatius & Saba for a new DXCC. I then spoke to FG5DH, Christian in Guadeloupe for another new DXCC entity. I then worked TU2T twice more, on 12m and 17m. I’ve said before that I don’t really […]

Keith, G6NHU: Days 304, 305 and 306 – A new eQSL certificate

November 3, 2011

I don’t actually log onto eQSL too often but I did a couple of days ago and realised that I’d reached 75 confirmed countries via their Awards page so I requested and duly received the appropriate certificate. The general perception is that there are more people actively uploading to eQSL than there are to LoTW […]