January 2025

I like to operate as assisted to maximize QSO count.This does not always work well with spots from public clusters because 1) many spots have wrong calls, 2) some spots are outside of local propagation, and 3) attractive spots create pileups. I used CW Skimmer via SDR-IQ radio, lately with Read more…

I did a few SSB contests using TenTec 715 external speech processor. With the processor, stations were giving me about 2S better report, an improvement of about 6 db or 4 times. My signal is finally competitive. In CQ 160 phone, I got a second place in the 4th region. Read more…