GW4VXE's Station Diary

I stopped doing daily updates because I was a bit conscious I was flooding the Cloudlog feed with fairly mundane posts.

Reading the Cheltenham ARA newsletter today, Mark G4MEM very kindly mentioned that he'd been reading these posts. Thanks Mark! So, perhaps I should go back to slightly more regular updates.

Bit of a busy day and therefore not much radio activity. In the morning, it was time to write the VHF Column for PW and send it off to Don. After that, it was Bee School near Haverfordwest. An interesting afternoon, despite being stung! Ouch!

Got back and found RI0SP on 20m CW. He's in HR56 now.

Not much doing on 6m today, so far.

I've got a 'What's so special about VHF' talk for the Appledore club tomorrow. Thinking about what I could include, I wanted to develop the story about the Quansheng UV-5K on FT8. After the talk to Yorkshire Mesh the other week, I hadn't tried what Mike G5TAR did, to get the UV-5K to transmit on FT8 by setting the mode to USB (DSB) and then using the phone audio coupled (that's fancy talk for holding the phone close to the microphone and speaker of the rig!) to generate and receive the FT8. It worked just fine! Which of course has me thinking about more possibilities when operating portable!