Winter decided to play tricks, and masked himself as Spring, with heights of 16.5° C in the last two days. It was impossible to resist the field call, and so I decided it was the perfect day to walk outside the tactical light backpack that Santa brought for Xmas. J-pole, FT-.290 IIR and some cable were all I stuffed in, and then it was the road. Read more →
In front of a shortwave rig, today, you only had to pick up your flavor. The JARTS contest, the Jamboree On The Air, and the Worked All Germany contest, plus the ongoing XX9, T30 and 3B9 DXpeditions, provided enough options for a full radio day. Like it often happens to me, I wnet for a bit of everything. On teletype, I worked my first UA0 ever (UA0AYA, to be sharp), and a couple of UN6 (which makes Read more →
This is an ode to ham radio:
Long time, no talk. Not that I missed news to talk about, but hey writing is a creative activity. You’ve to be inspired to put your pen on paper. Today it feels just fine, and I’ll tell you about the main changes in the IX1CKN world (even if they’re mostly concerning my SWL/BCL side of the hobby). Read more →
Several times I stressed, on this column, how hard is for yours truly to get decent signals from the US. At late night, with propagation doing his job just fine, I experienced best stations crossing the Pond at 5/6-7, on 40 meters. Give me one at 5/8 and I would have red-crossed the date on the calendar.
A couple weeks ago, being an early rising bird, I was exploring Read more →
Yours truly isn’t too much into the Olympic Games hype (exception made for the special callsigns related to the even, which is fun to work), but amateur radio has its sporting side, so title for this post is quite a forced option. Straight to the point, now: I got lately results for Helvetia Contest 2012, held last April, which I was glad to join as a resident in a bordering region, and the proud owner of a swiss Read more →
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