Tag: 40m vertical

Easter Weekend Radio Fun

Easter weekend is often the start of the better weather and lighter evenings, so provides a chance to go out portable for the first time in the year. Unfortunately, this bank holiday weekend in true British tradition was wet and cold with rain forecast and temperatures soaring to a tropical 7C. This didn’t stop  Chris G8OCV, George […]

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 […]