GW4VXE's Station Diary

Clocks went forward this morning and an early start owing to have to medicate Cedric the cockerel at 0815 meant I was in the shack early. Found FO/F6BCW on 20m CW but didn't seem to get anywhere with the pileup. T31TTT was on 20m FT8 coming through with about 6 streams. They came back about 2nd call which was very pleasing for a new country.

Bands didn't seem that exciting during the day. By the evening, there was a lot of noise on the bands (damp and the overhead power lines no doubt) but CY0S were strong enough to be heard on 17m and had a minimal pileup, so it was nice to work them on CW for a new band country.

Spent a little time playing with a nice radio control package called Wfview which talks to the TS-590SG. I'd hoped that it might work as a remote control package, but it seems their client/server setup only works for Icom radios at the moment. Looks promising for the future though.