GW4VXE's Station Diary

Had a fairly busy morning, so didn't get on the air until we went out to have sandwiches up on Dinas mountain. I took the little Quansheng UV-5K with the CW firmware installed, along with the micro paddle. A few CQs on both 144.050 and 144.300 but no luck on this occasion. It's a good take off from there, so it should have worked up and down the Welsh coast and across to Ireland. Perhaps next time!

Back home and in the late afternoon, had a bit of a tune around 10 and 15m. Had a nice chat with Suad IT9/DK6XZ who I often work in the CWT sessions. I didn't realise but Suad remotes to Sicily from Germany and he was telling me that he had some latency with his remote audio - something I see on my remote system from time to time. Also worked W1AW/0 on 15m and Rich W3RJ on 10m.

Spent a little time checking that the remote to the TS-590SG as well as the FT-847 is all working as that will be in use over the next few days. When I operate remotely, I can only use 100W as I can't switch bands on the amps remotely. Checking it all out this evening, I was pleased to work XQ6CF on 20m, using 100W. That's sometimes a tricky QSO - so I was pleased when Wlad came back straightaway.