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 […]

I don’t usually enter SSB contests under my own free will, but this series is one where I give points to The Vulture Squadron Contest Group, though not many logs get submitted in a year. 42 QSOs in all across 4 countries. Have been testing out a new antenna for 80m, it’s actually a 40m […]

This was the first 70MHz UKAC I have entered in 2014. A record 25 QSOs were made, compared with previous attempts from home resulting in under 10 QSOs.   View Larger Map

This is always a fun contest, somehow I managed to miss the first 2 of the series, but will try harder from now on. This was an all time best entry for me with 129 QSOs. I spent the whole contest calling CQ, on only a couple of frequencies. For the first time I had […]

I’ve never actually operated in this contest before. It strikes me that it’s a format you either love or hate. As it happens I rather enjoyed it. This was the SSB leg, and although not a busy contest it’s quite short. I made 48 QSOs in total, a mixture of CQing and S&P. The band […]

I was on the G9V team for CQWPX SSB again this year, though we ended up Multi-Two ratehr than Multi-Single due to some technical issues. It was a great contest, and we far surpassed our goals. See www.m0vsq.co.uk for the details.

This is an bi-annual event where FOC members get on the air and work everyone. It’s not a contest, it’s a QSO party, meaning that often a more full QSO takes place rather than exchanging the bare minimum. This March I managed 5 hours of operating spread throughout the day and all bands 160m to […]

It’s not particularly often I find myself operating SSB from home, but this series of contests is a good practice ground for the Vulture Squadron members to get some practice in before the major contests. I made 47 QSOs in 3 DXCCs using 100W from my K3 into the new 40m horizontal loop, fed with […]

This year I was active as VP2MXI from Montserrat, a small island in the Easrtern Caribbean. I’ve written the trip up elsewhere on this site but here is the low-down of the contest as posted to the uk-hf-contesting yahoo group. The Commonwealth Contest ran 0600-0600 local time. I managed 21.5 hours in the chair according to […]