Monthly Archives: February 2015

One of my 2015 goals was to have 250 countries in my log, which I accomplished today on 15 CW when I worked V73NS (not in the ARRL CW DX Contest interestingly enough).  First time for Marshall Island for me. … Continue reading →

So, I’m reading the “ARRL Contest Update for February 11, 2015” this morning, and note the following item:  “This YouTube video by Mike WB6DJI shows how a noise-canceling system can make a big improvement when properly configured and used. He uses … Continue reading →

I’ve been adding a band or two a day for the past five days, and only needed 40 meters to have worked K1N on all bands from 160m to 10m.  It happened tonight around 8 PM with this exchange: WB4SON . … Continue reading →

20-Meter CW seemed fairly sparse this morning about 0900 local time, so I watched my panascope for a bit, determined the pattern, and watched K1N work near the upper edge of the pileup (about 30 KHz).  A couple of calls and I … Continue reading →

On this snowy Patriots Groundhog Day, K1N is cooking away on 20-Meter CW.  Their signal is a solid S6, and the pileup is about 10 KHz wide.  Signals last night on 40-Meters (after the Pats won the Superbowl) were over … Continue reading →

January was a good DX month, with cooperative sunspot activity and plenty of time to enjoy it.  I had hoped to make at least one QSO every day this month, but that was cut short by the Blizzard as I had to … Continue reading →