Monthly Archives: February 2012

Diamond DXCC

And to think that a few days ago, I was wondering where I was going to scare up a few more to get to the century mark….today I passed number 100 on the Diamond DXCC list.

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ARRL DX CW 2013

I know that I’m a bit late in writing this up, but I’ve been busy. Last weekend saw me making a relatively serious effort in the CW installment of the ARRL DX contest. Most of my contesting experience has involved … Continue reading

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Eureka! MMTTY Working FSK Again (I Hope)

For the past few months, my exploits at working RTTY have been slightly foiled because neither MMTTY nor MMVARI would key the FSK-keyer on my Navigator interface.   Both programs had been happy over the summer, but one day this fall … Continue reading

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CQ WPX RTTY

When not fighting with the proto-antenna, I spent much of the weekend’s radio time playing in the CQ WPX RTTY contest, where the object is (in addition to working as many stations as possible) to work as many callsign prefixes … Continue reading

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Recent Radio Antics

You know, I thought I had made quite a bit of progress on getting a new antenna up for 160, when I suffered two setbacks: First, another branch that was broken and dangling high in a tree from the October … Continue reading

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