This was my first contest weekend of 2022, and I was taking it easy with the goal of attending the Baltic SSB contest only. This is a 80m/40m contest, and since I don't have a good antenna for 80m at home I used the LA2T club shack and used the opportunity to QRO. The Baltic …
2021 is over, and let's take a look at what happened, and what we have ahead of us for 2022! Looking back through my contest QSOs, I found that I'm just shy of 10k QSOs from various contests, for my own log, and my club's. I have no intentions of letting my foot of the …
Today I signed up for a boat ride from Svalbard to Jan Mayen in late June, 2022. The entire journey is expected to last about 15 days, whereas 4-5 days will be spent on the island where I will operate as JX/LB5SH. Jan Mayen, image courtesy of Google Maps This was originally planned as a …
I joined my group, LA2T, for the CQWW SSB contest this year. Along with three other operators we logged about 2,500 QSOs as LN2T. We had some unfortunate communication problems and planned poorly, so our stations were unmanned for several hours in the middle of prime time, so we missed out on a metric tonne …
This weekend I worked the Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) SSB on behalf of my club, LA2T. We were mainly two operators, with the exception of one extra guy helping out a few hours he had spare. Together we managed to log 972 QSOs for LN2T. My personal goal was 1000 in total, that's close enough …
Just a quick update regarding the CQWW RTTY contest. I tried my best but many hours had to be invested in house chores and other miscellaneous family duties. You know the saying: happy wife, happy life. I managed to log 221 QSOs from my QTH, peaking 100W using an EFHW tossed up in a tree. …
The trip to OY is over, and the experience was a roller coaster like no other. But, before I begin, I'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contacted me during the stay, and a thanks for every QSO made. I worked FT4, FT8, SSB, and CW as much as I could …
My flight from Bergen to Faroe Islands was cancelled and postponed due to heavy fog. The airline company will give it another try tomorrow morning. This unfortunately means I've lost one day of preparations (setting up the equipment, warming up) before the SAC CW kicks in. For now I'm stuck in a hotel in Bergen, …
Today I took yet another Covid-19, this time the variant which includes all the official paperwork required for international flights. The test results were negative, so OY/LB5SH is on schedule. I've also booked a rental car and have packed my bags - the luggage is borderline overweight, let's hope it slips through.
I accidentally fried my KL405V during my trip to Svalbard earlier this year. About a month ago I was browsing for replacement transistors, and stumbled across a seller on eBay with lots of HG branded SD1446 transistors for a reasonably low price. I've read warnings about all about the fake transistors you buy out there, …
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