AMATEUR RADIO | SCANNING | SHORTWAVE LISTENING
Okay, this is the best day ever in my ham adventures – I finally made contact with a station in Antarctica. I have been trying off and on for over 20 years. FT8 is such a great mode for hunting DX; I highly recommend learning it. DP0GVN DPØGVN is a club station located at the … Read more
Cool beans! I just worked a rare DXpedition team in Benin, a not well-known country in Africa on FT8 mode using WSJT-X. This Russian team is pictured below, and I managed to capture the contact on video. It’s always fun to work a DXpedition. When I first saw this callsign TY0RU come up in my … Read more
Here is ham radio operator VK6AL making an FT8 contact with me on 20 meters this evening. This contact was over 18,000 kilometers from my location which is near Toronto. The radio being used is the Icom 7300. It is fed to my EFHW vertical with a 9:1 unun. I do need to use the … Read more
Yesterday it was Gibraltar, and today it was Kazakhstan for two new countries in my logbook. This brings my total up to 136 I think. Digital mode FT8 running 30 watts into my 31-foot end-fed vertical and 9:1 unun. The DX conditions sure have been excellent recently on HF. WSJT-X is the most popular software … Read more