WSJT (JT65B)
The last couple of days I’ve been playing around with the WSJT software in JT65B decoding GB3RAL’s 6m beacon signal, Okay distance wise its just down the road, but I’m now hoping to maybe try a proper QSO on 6m if I spot anything.
Launch of DXCluster.co.uk
Just under a week ago Paul (M0TZO) said that he’d found a domain available and I’d love it.. He wasn’t wrong either the domain in question was http://www.dxcluster.co.uk I’ve spent some time getting a prototype of the website up and running using a lot of the back-end code which was already in place on DXAnywhere.com.
The features for the site is open for comments either post them in the comments below or use the feedback tab on the site. I’ll be posting some more news in the feature about progress being made.
January Goals Recap
Being as its now officially the end of January I thought I’d share some feedback on how I’m getting on with my goals for this year. I guess at this point I should be coming up with some good excuses but I can’t think of any and I’ve not done so well.
I’ve yet to seriously start revising for the Advance amateur radio exam but the Harwell ARS Rally is coming up this month, and I’m hoping I can kick start it then by purchasing the latest edition of the training book, my plan then is to write up my notes as blog posts and stick them up here.. I guess we’ll see how this works out at the end of February.
I have started on learning CW using http://www.lcwo.net, but struggling slightly as I find after I get to about lesson 6-7 and more letters/numbers are introduced they all merge together in my head and it confuses the heck out of me, it’s something I’m sure I will overcome in time.
My targets for 1 QSO a day was for me optimistic, some weeks I’ve managed to get on lots and others I’ve failed miserably I can report I’ve made 230 QSOs which to me seems like a small amount and I want to improve on it. Maybe with some improved sunspot numbers it will help?
So let’s hope February can set me on the right track.
BARTG Sprint RTTY
This weekend was host to the yearly BARTG Sprint RTTY, I decided to spend a couple of hours in the shack working the odd station I could hear. What I was pleased to find was that 15m and I made a number of QSOs into North America, 20m was also reasonable maybe a sign of conditions starting to pick up who knows.
Ended up with 80 QSOs, mixed across 40m to 15m.
Summary:
QSO DX JA W VE VK Cont 40m 8 7 0 0 0 0 1 20m 67 28 0 4 1 0 4 15m 5 1 0 3 0 0 1 Total 80 28 0 6 1 0 4 Score: 80*(28+0+6+1+0)*4 = 11200 points
