21 QSOs in total, around 60W to the 4 element LFA. Heard GI4SNA over in IO64, but he wasn’t able to get my prefix. Hopefully next time I’ll manage to work him, I need both IO64 and GI on 2m. A fair amount of local activity, which is good. Best DX was G7DWY in IO93BA […]

Under my own call sign I managed just 22 QSOs in this contest. I was finding it difficult to be heard to start with and then for around 40 minutes during the middle of the contest the band suddenly went long and all but EU and northern GM were almost non-existent. Conditions did improve towards the end but it […]

Finally I was around and able to operate in a 70MHz UKAC. From home I had a 3 element LFA antenna and about 60W from a Spectrum Transverter driving a Bremi BRL-200 converted to 4m by Gavin M1BXF. I only managed 8 QSOs, the band was quiet, and most of those were relatively local. I […]

I did this contest along with Chloe M0GEJ using the The Vulture Squadron Contest Group call sign M0VSQ with 100W from the K3. We shared the operating roughly 50:50 and found it hard going. The dipole seemed to be unhappy at times towards the top end of the band and although signals were very strong we had […]

I only had 3 hours in this contest and managed 150 QSOs in total. A slow start but I managed to find and hold a frequency for quite a while. Perhaps I should have done some S&P in the first 20 minutes and I may have made more QSOs in total. Was running 100W to a 80/40m […]

I had forgotten that there was a UKAC on new years day, and only saw a reminded a few hours before the contest. There didn’t seem to be as much activity this month as there has been previously. I spent about an hour before moving down onto HF, but I did work a new grid […]

Interestingly I’d not made any other QSOs between the 144MHz AFS contest and this event so I’ve got quite a string of 2m SSB and CW QSOs in the log, which is novel. I didn’t work many new stations, and no new squares. I’ve spotted a trend towards not being able to work much to […]

I’d not made a proper note that this contest was on, though thankfully I caught sight of a contest calendar during mid morning. Managed 20 QSOs in all over a couple of modest operating periods using 80W and a 4 element LFA yagi at around 10m AGL. I was pleased to complete a QSO with […]

This was the first time I’d used the 6m Moxon from its new position on the upgraded VHF rotator. I was using the K3 and 100W. Conditions very very variable, with signals becoming audible and then fading out completely within minutes. Not much activity heard from IO81UT and only 5 QSOs made. View Larger Map

As other things got in the way for the October session I finally made it for another UKAC. It was nice to work F8BRK, GD8EXI, G4FZN/P and the best DX was G0EHV/P up in IO94 ET. No all time new squares for me this time, but a fun 20 QSOs nonetheless. Only spent an hour […]