Its been a long time coming to finally have confirmation of working all 40 Zones. Most of the work was done with a trusty Butternut HF6V and 100w, but over the past two years the Ultrabeam UB20-Mx has made the difference. And to help me bring in the last one, CW has played its part….
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Not had much time post updates on here recently. Been busy and still spending time learning CW. I have tried to get out and do some portable CW with the KX2 and a recent purchase of a Packtenna Mini, which on its first outing performed very well, three QSOs into OM, DL and SP using…
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CW is a fascinating mode. Since the end of my CWA Level 2 course I have been operating 99% CW.. I never thought I would get so interested in it. I have been reading and researching lots of different sites about operating CW QRP and finding out what the best antennas are. There are a…
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Last year I applied to CWOps to take part in their CW Academy program. In September and October I took part in the CW Academy Part 1 course and had a great instructor, Phil G4NVR. This was a very good course and got me going once again in my CW learning path. Then I took…
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For the last few months I have been working on improving my CW, especially increasing my speed and learning to head copy. Back when I was first licensed the requirement was for 12 wpm. Right now 12 wpm seems very very slow and I remember getting up to about 18wpm but hitting lots of walls…
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I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home… I now have Digital, Phone and CW DXCC. 73 Rob
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Its been some time since I posted any pictures of my re-built station, so I managed to get some time today, whilst doing some Meteor Scatter on 6m, to take a picture of the current setup. Its proving to work quite well and its a nice change from having to go into the cold (in…
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Today after a week or so of monitoring the bands and seeing what happens I decided to try to call CQ on 50.280Mhz using a piece os software called MSHV by LZ2HV. This covers a number of modes. I was surprised to get a reply back from DK8NE, Uli and I managed to complete my…
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Well I was reading about Meteor Scatter and thought I would give this a try. I down loaded a program called MSHV and it decodes various modes of transmission. This picture shows the my first ever MS decode and Im impressed, It was received using my 7 element 2m beam this morning and you can…
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Earlier this year, we started having an extension built to our house, that meant that I had to pack up all my radio equipment and take my radio shack appart. I was wondering what I was going to do for radio fun in the mean time and I thought about working some of the FM…
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