May so far
Well, May has proven to be good for new CQ Marathon countries - added this month are: 4J, 4L, 4O, 5U, 5W, 5X, 8P, C3, CP, GJ, HB0, JW, OA, OJ0, OY, V4, V5, V8, VP2E, VP8, ZB2 and ZP4, taking me up to 190 DXCC worked so far this year, and all 40 CQ Zones. Most of these...
April at GU0SUP
Well, all of those nice DXCC entities worked during March have now been confirmed on LoTW, so very happy with that. April has started well with some nice DX too... 3D2TS 15m FT8 (called me!!), T30UN 15m FT4, and others. Now up to almost 3500 Q's this year, with 157...
March update
March has been very good to me, with several new slots worked.... eg: CY0S on 30/20/17 & 10m, 9X5RU on 30/15 & 10m, plus LU1ZV, JD1BOI & ST2NH on 10m, FK8HM, TZ1CE & KG6DX on 12m, V26EI on 40m, all FT8. So far this year, I have worked 151 DXCC and all...
RTTY Contesting – Tips for macros
When you are operating in a RTTY contest, please consider the following tips@ If you are calling CQ, then make your F1 macro something like this: CQ GU0SUP GU0SUP CQ (end with another CQ!). If you come across my call whilst tuning around, you can be sure that I am...
CQ WPX RTTY Contest
Had a play in the WPX RTTY contest at the weekend (11/12th Feb 2023), although it was only a part time effort. As I had things to do on Saturday morning, I though I would operate in the "Classic" 24hr category, and fired up the rig around midday. To my surprise, 10m...
QSL’s received (Jan 23)
The latest batch of QSL cards arrived in January 2023, and contain mostly cards from 2020. This may be down to delays in the postal system due to Covid, and also because of the disruption to the Royal Mail service in December '22 and January.'23. These cards are now...
QSL Policy 31 Jan 2023
While I am happy to respond to all bureau cards, please understand that we only get 3 or 4 batches of cards from the RSGB Bureau each year. This means you may have to wait up to one year (or more!) before I even get your card. In the last few batches, I have received...
Right place, right time (twice!)
On the morning of Monday 16th Jan, I popped into the shack and saw that ET3AA was spotted on 12m FT8, a new slot for me. I fired up the radio, and yay! they were quite loud here. Found a place to call them, and got in very quickly. Over the moon with...
Working me on FT8 – hints and tips
I do wish folk would learn how to work FT8! So many callers on my transmit QRG that I can't decode any. And those folk who call me, then start calling CQ, or working someone else on my QRG! That's not the best way to get in my log. If you want to work me, then at...
My first blog of 2023!
12JAN23 Welcome to my new BLOG page! I will post my thoughts, ideas and whatever else here. So far, FT8WW has eluded me, although I did get a signal report from him on the 10th Jan (twice!), but he failed to see my report to him, so no RR73 ...