Over the past few months I have been trying to work out what contests I have taken part in that qualify for my application for a contest callsign. I had not realised but I came first in the CQ WPX CW last year, so that gives me two points for the 5 I need. I…
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GR0MGM – Special call for Royal Wedding
Due to the Royal Wedding station in the UK have been able to register for a special callsign to operate from the 19th May until the 21st May 2018, I decided to get one to see what I could do. I managed to get a couple of hours free this afternoon and thought I would…
Continue readingCW – Improvement continues using Morse Runner
Morse Runner is one of the tools I have been using during my CW Academy courses and still use it now. I am finding it to be rather addictive and the best thing is that it is helping me improve my copying. During todays lunch break at work I took my usual 20mins to have…
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This past weekend I attended the RSGB Convention 2017 held at the Kents Hill Park Conference Centre in Milton Keynes with Andrew G0RVM. There were a number of lectures that I attended, including a beginners guide to SOTA by Michael SansomĀ G0POT, How to improve my contest scores and how to work SO2R in contests. I…
Continue readingWAZ Finally complete
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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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 readingARRL International CW Contest
Even though I had a nasty cold I thought I would give this contest a go. I did it last year and had a good time doing it so I spent a few hours on saturday afternoon concentrating on the Low Power Single Band entry. Im not going to be winning or making lots of…
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