Sri Lanka, new DXCC on 12m

French Polynesia on 12m!

BARTG RTTY HF Contest 2022 – Results

Very pleased to see my BARTG RTTY score, operating with my contest callsign G2K.
RX/TX: Icom 7600 /
Amplifier: Acom 1010 at 300W
Antennas:
* 80m – Inverted L
* 40m – Dipole and 1/4 wave vertical
* 20m, 15m – Dipole
* 10m – Dipole and 5/8 wave vertical

5th in World – Single Operator All Bands

3rd in Europe – SIngle Operator All Bands and top UK station!

My Certificate

My 5 band fan dipole

Spacers are 3D printed from my own design (printed in Black PETG for uV protection)
Spacing between each element is 10cm (4″). The spacers (21cm long):

The mast top piece is also 3D printed in PETG:

Email me if you would like the STL files for the spreaders and mast top piece. At £20 a roll of PETG the spreaders cost 17p each, the mast head piece 29p. Less than a cup of Costa Coffee – a total of 18 spreaders. The spacers were printed on my Anycubic Vyper 3D printer.

The mast is a DX Commander Classic mast available from M0MCX at DX Commander here.

Approximate radiation pattern on a Great Circle Map from my home QTH:

The great circle maps were generated here: https://ns6t.net/azimuth/azimuth.html
I know the radiation patterns are not totally accurate, but they’re good enough!

12m Galapagos Islands – on new 12m antenna

Update 14 April 2022, also worked on 30m.

This makes my Galapogos Island confirmed on LOTW 5 bands:

Hawaii on 20m – nice!

Two in a row!!

S9+ noise across HF – SEVERE geomagnetic storm

Nice path in Japan on 10m this evening

1st in England (and UK)!

G2K CQ WPX SSB

Moxon centrepiece (hub) for HF (10m) Moxon

Cubicle quad antenna – 3D printed parts

I need to make one of these!

Another March – another 2m & 70cm contest!

A look around the antenna field …

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G2K – ARRL DX Phone contest – March 2022

I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked with this contest with almost all my operation focused on the Sunday. A total of just 260 QSO of which exactly half were on 15m (the band I had decided to focus on) with rest split: 80m (7), 40m (35), 20m (88). 36 US States/Canadian Provinces worked on 15m.

Not good HF condx for ARRL Intl DX contest!

Learning to create *.STL files for 3D printing!

Spreader for Quad loop beam with end nocks

Propagation tools – UK Ionogram

Ionogram Information from the UK Solar System Data Centre at Chilton (RAL). Critical frequency is currently 3.1MHz (ie. foF2) and Maximum Usable Frequency MUF(D) is 8.13MHz. https://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ionosondes/view_latest.html. Registration is required to access the data after which login just requires an email address (leave the password blank.

The RAL is the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: htt ps://stfc.ukri.org/about-us/where-we-work/rutherford-appleton-laboratory/