eQSL confirmation rate: 26% LoTW confirmation rate: 46% If CQ is serious about using eQSL for the confirmation campaigns for their primary awards, the participation better step up. The Triple Play Award has stepped up the usage of LoTW. Learning curve is steep, but second nature once you get the freakin’ hang of the certificate system. (Warning, gross generalizations […]
Just decided to throw in the towel for the CQ WW 160M CW contest. I guess I should be happy with my attempt…part-time netted 29 states and 1 province, no other DX. I am still using the little G5RV, up 10M in the tree, unable to tune but rig not complaining that much with an SWR of 5:1. I am not sure what […]
While this may be TMI, while laying there on the couch during Christmas/New Years recovering from umbilical hernia repair, the Oxycontin-fueled fugue state propelled copious notes on the subject of antennas. This would be my Kubla Khan, dare I be so profane as to even utter this association with the great Coleridge. Besides, my prescription to Percoset ran […]
Updated: Final tally… 51 QSO 23 States 3 Provinces Heard but could not work 5 or so mults…Lots of fun even though I am having some issues with my ghetto-fabulous antenna system: Flimsy G5RV that breaks every other wind storm. === The first ever 24 Hour Feld-Hell Contest starting 1÷17÷2009 0000UTC! Check www.feldhellclub.org for details. If you have MultiPSK or Digital Master […]
I am excited by a couple of firsts today: 1. Had my first WSPR QSO with VE1RG on 14.076.5 this morning. 5 watts is overkill using this mode…it and JT65A represent the state-of-the art QRP modes in my opinion. Love this stuff! I will tell you, this terrestrial use on HF of WSJT sure gives me encourangement for VHF/UHF moonbounce…A long-time aspiration […]