Amateur Radio

CAT6 Cables

I've been working on a cure for a problem encountered during long RTTY QSO's where the transceiver will drop out of transmit and lock...

EA RTTY Contest

This past weekend I worked the EA RTTY Contest. Multipliers were Spanish provinces, DXCC countries, and US/VE call areas. My effort was very casual due to a number of tasks to complete around the house as well as attending the Lone Star DX Association lunch meeting. Managed to work 101 contacts across all bands 80 to 10. However, 15 meters was the real workhorse band. Read more...

DXCC 200

Just received the stickers to upgrade my DXCC CW certificate for 200 countries. I took a slightly different route to get to the 200 county level. I had about 170 countries on Logbook of the World and another 30 QSL cards that didn't show up there. So I had the cards checked by a DXCC card checker... Read more...

BARTG Spring RTTY

Got on the air this weekend for the BARTG Spring RTTY Contest. Managed to get in just over seven hours spread over Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon. Got the Moxon up in the air and it served well getting my 100 watt signal into Europe. Read more...

NAQP RTTY

Ran the North American QSO Party RTTY version on Saturday. This was the first time I put in play N1MM Logger and MMTTY demodulator software on a Windows computer. Read more...

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