At the end of our holiday in Sweden this summer, we stayed in Haverdal, about 50 minutes driving of Grimeton Radiostation in Varberg. This one I did have to visit of course. History In 1895 the Italian physicist and later Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) had realized wireless telegraphy, i.e. the possibility of transmitting…
Tag: cw
QCX mini kit
My latest interest in the Parks On The Air program gave me enough reason to buy a nice little kit: the QCX mini from QRP-labs. After watching a great deal of POTA-video’s on YouTube, I decided to get a portable, CW-only rig. I didn’t mind if it is a single band version. QRP-labs After some…
More Morse code practice
Hope you all had a very pleasant Christmas! Just before the holiday started I’ve made up my mind: I’ll attend for the Morse code exam in Belgium on 28th of June 2016! After reading the announcement on HamNieuws (Dutch) I was convinced this is the right motivator to finally get my code up to speed….