August turned out to be another busy month from the shack, with plenty of activity across the HF bands and a few particularly satisfying DX catches along the way. By the end of the month, the log had grown by 518 QSOs, involving 457 different callsigns and contacts with stations in 78 countries. That works […]
Looking on 7 MHz RTTY today I noticed a cacophony of noise covering around 20 KHz of the band. I couldn’t hear the DX station but the DX cluster confirmed it was the DX station TX3X from Chesterfield Reef. The cluster suggested they were 7.045 and listening up, I could hear people calling from 7045 […]
This weekend saw the ARRL DX phone contest, and with 28 MHz in good shape this provided lots of USA stations. I did hear quite a few M3 and M6 stations (10w) making contact with the USA, so even low power provided results. With many of the big contest stations out this weekend, signals ranged […]