A newly minted country means a new DXCC entity - Montenegro. The three week long DX festival from a brand new country in the balkans has started off with massive pile-ups thanks to what must be a dream station. Today, I’ve heard the 4O3T station working 20 meters for the second time. Although the operator [...]
Just ran into a roadblock with the SL-1+ and my pair of Icom radios. I have the Icom IC-746 at home and the IC-706 MKIIg in the car. The idea was to order the Tigertronics unit with a connector that would allow it to work with either radio. So, when ordering the unit, I checked [...]
Spent some time today working on the Tigertronics SL-1+ in an attempt to interface PocketDigi software on my iPAQ 2215 to my Icom. The SL-1+ goes together quickly, but with the Icom and the 6 pin connector, I must provide power to the unit. That meant a trip to Radio Shack for a connector, [...]
The IARU 2006 HF Championship was this weekend. I worked a few europeans on 20 meters Friday on the way home from work a CT3 (Madeira Island), a G6 (in the UK) and a DQ2006 special event station in Germany just before the contest and heard a lot of Italians today (celebrating the World [...]