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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CW Ops
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…
Continue readingFinally all three DXCC….
I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home… I now have Digital, Phone and CW DXCC. 73 Rob
Continue readingG0MGM Station
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…
Continue readingMeteor Scatter on 6m
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…
Continue readingFirst go a Meteor Scatter
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…
Continue readingWorking FM Satellites
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…
Continue readingNew G0MGM shack build
I have been off the air since the end of March as we have doing some extension work on our house. This work has given us a bigger kitchen and an extra bedroom for our youngest son. Also we have managed to convert the old garage into an office/shack for myself. I have started rebuilding…
Continue readingAlex Loop and WSPR
As I have stated in a previous post, the house is having an extension added to it, so the shack is still not available. Since getting back from Dayton I have not had much of a chance to get on the radio much but since I bought the Alex loop antenna, I thought I would…
Continue readingVoice of America Bethany Relay Station
During the weekend of the Dayton Hamvention, there was an opportunity to make the trip to visit the VOA Bethany Relay Station located in West Chester, Ohio. Unfortunately all the antennas and a lot of the real estate where the they were located has been sold off by the VOA but the main transmitter building…
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