The CQWW SSB event runs over the last weekend of October and covers all contest bands from 1.8 MHz to 28 MHz. The event is one of the largest international events of the HF calendar and encourages stations to operate from far-flung and exotic parts of the world. We opted for the sun-drenched shores near Ongar in […]
Tag: 2017
CQ WW RTTY DX Contest
The CQ WW RTTY contest runs towards the end of September, and this year George M1GEO and myself decided to enter the contest under our own callsigns from our contest site at the Secret Nuclear Bunker. We decided to keep it simple, using just two aerials. 1/ 80m dipole @ 30m 2/ 40m 1/4 wave ground […]
SSB National Field Weekend with Camb-Hams
This year I joined the Camb-Hams for the SSB National Feild Weekend from their contest site in Worts’ Causeway, Cambridge. I arrived on Friday afternoon to assist with the setup, this included antenna for both 144 MHz and HF for the field day. The HF event runs in parallel with the VHF event over 24 hrs, […]