#6m Philippines worked

 

Unfortunatly missed the RR73 from 4G1G. Will see if I'm in the log after all? However I was not really satisfied with this contact.

Luckily I was able to work fellow Dutchman DU6/PE1NSQ an hour later. There was more DX on the bands but you need to be there to work it. I work remote during breaks on the job. I can't be on the radio all the time.

PSK reporter looks like it is broken? It doesn't report everything anymore. Certainly not what I received today. Only a few that picked up my signal.

Todays heard DX: JA (Japan), UN (Kazakhstan), EX (Uzbekistan), VK3 (Victoria, Australia), DU (Philippines), BA (China), VU (India), VK8 (Northern Territory, Australia), XV (Vietnam), N1 (USA), VO (Canada). 

My quest to learn CW (11)

 It is almost a year ago I started learn CW seriously. I knew it would take a long time.

It's a fun slow journey. I will try to take another way after I finished the 28/12 wpm lessons. I'm already at lesson 40 and my guess is that it will take another few days before I reach a 100% score. However I'm not on the right path learning to decode daily QSOs on the bands. An old wise man told me that I better learn same speeds like 12/12 wpm and so on. So I already adopted that for the "plain text training" part of the course. He also gave me the advice to learn and train abbreviations like they use in QSOs, I do that in the "word training". I also continue with the call training and figures (number, both normal as shortened) training for use in contests.

Close!

6m DX 31 okt

 Exciting times! @6m

Difficult to work the DX. Very deep QSB and signals come and go within a minute. Worked UN3G and W4SO. PSK reporter not showing everything. I also received Indonesia and several VK6 stations at +3dB max. That's strong enough for SSB. I believe my neighbour station Jaap PA0O worked a VK6 station on SSB. Unfortunately I'm not able to do other modes since I work remote through the week.