Radio Contesting

I had some fun this weekend with the ARRL RTTY Roundup. I enjoy the fast exchanges on RTTY and the slight degree of automation...

Jim Wilson - 3-January-2016

Radio Contesting

Listening to white noise on 3 bands For this year's September VHF Contest I deployed my new Icom IC-910H on 2 meters and 70 centimeters...

Jim Wilson - 14-September-2015

Antennas

The 2015 CQ VHF contest is complete. For me it was 27 hours of good fun. On Saturday I was able to get 50...

Jim Wilson - 19-July-2015

Amateur Radio

The IARU was running this past Saturday and into Sunday morning. I managed to sit down at the rig for all of two hours...

Jim Wilson - 12-July-2015

Antennas

You might have caught my earlier posts on six meter VUCC and VUCC 125. The next steps of 150 and 175 came fairly quickly with...

Jim Wilson - 6-July-2015

Radio Contesting

The ARRL VHF June contest was a great deal of fun. Of course, it had the usual silent periods. But that was followed by...

Jim Wilson - 15-June-2015

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