On the Bench

Seem to be getting more QRM than ever today, the QRM eliminator I've ordered is a day late, but probably held up within the European postal services, the tracking stopped working a few days ago and its all in Ukrainian!

Its been some months since I brought the QRM eliminator and I still haven't used it,  mainly because I changed radio, which cured a number of interference problems 

Height Adjustment

Been trying to make small improvements to the antennas performance all the time, but I recently decided to raise the antenna by another 5 feet, this has made a good improvement, especially on groundwave contacts. The background QRM has dropped a little on FM and range has improved. I've been trying to QSO with a station (Gavin) in Haverhill Suffolk, about 55 miles North of me. We finally made a decent contact after both of us have made made small changes to our setups over the last few weeks. Still suffering with a bit of noise from local houses sadly, but hoping my QRM eliminator will arrive soon and will help cut it down or even out.

I'm now onto the the next part of my shack...

First QSL Cards Arrive

I'm quite excited that my first real QSL cards have arrived, not those digital low quality images it seems a lot of DXers seems to want to send, which is fantastic news after sending out at least 20 QSL packages so far. 

A big thanks to 108AT277 Kevin, who's bumper package arrived within days of the contact, along with Kevin was another Scottish operator 108LR178 Callum, whose card arrive a day later.

Then a few days later, these cards dropped through the letterbox, from 35WR035 Frank near Salzburg Austria, who I have heard a few times over the last few weeks, but haven't been able to get back too, but finally made contact when the conditions fell right one evening and after a few emails, details where exchanged. Thanks Frank, great QSO