About two weeks ago someone from the club approached me. If I wanted to join the morse training. Since I don’t know morse yet (it isn’t a requirement for a full license in here), I thought it is a pretty nice experience! After two lessons I can decode the characters A – J. So I…
Throw out your QSL-cards!
Funny and interesting article from K9JY about letting go of some things in our hobby. Scot states that he thinks QSL cards are not of today anymore. Maybe he is right. Some years ago when I made my first DX QSO, I had not yet made QSL-cards. I found in my logging program an option…
New radio in the shack: Icom 910H
I was looking for a new radio for a while. For 2m and 70cm I used my good old Yeasu FT-817. Actually my first radio. A perfect radio for mobile and backpack use, but not for the QTH. For in the shack I wanted something a little bigger, multiband capabilities and the most important: more…