I’ve been using RufzXP from time to time in order to keep/build in CW copy speed. It’s a fun way to challenge yourself, build your Morse Code skills and track your progress along the way.
I typically fire up RufzXP (or another CW program), at least once during my lunch hour and run through a [...]
With my XYL and daughter both busy this afternoon, I spent a couple hours playing in the WAEDC SSB contest (that’s the Worked All Europe DX Contest) sponsored by the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC).
The idea behind this unique contest is for non-Europeans to contact European stations. Multipliers for non-Europeans are the European DXCC [...]
Our long drought without a sunspot appears to be over.
In case you don’t follow space weather conditions, August marked the first calendar month completed without a single sunspot since 1913. This long streak of days without a sunspot made for some poor HF (high frequency radio) propagation conditions. While it was certainly possible to [...]
Recovery from the two lightning strikes to my tower is nearly complete. Over the past few weekends, we were able to get the Cushcraft XM-240, 4 element SteppIR, Prosistel PST 61D and Icom IC-746 back on the air. It was a sizable effort (with many thanks to Dave/KIØQ for the tower work and others like [...]