Author Archives: Rob Smith

Field Day Practice

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Rob Smith

There is nothing like practice. The CQWW WPX CW contest (May 25 & 26, 2013) is a great opportunity to brush up on your CW skills and get reacquainted with your contest logging software. Before the contest, there are some … Continue reading →

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Field Day Thoughts

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Rob Smith

Field day (June 22-23, 2013) has many purposes. The first that comes to mind is an emergency preparedness. Field day provides a good excuse to call the club members together to setup the equipment in a remote operating area. Thus … Continue reading →

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A contact here and there

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Rob Smith

The weekend was full of fun activities. One of them was the CQ WW RTTY WPX contest.  I had set up and tested the equipment before the contest. The old PC was using MixW software, connected using a RIGblaster Pro … Continue reading →

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DX Clusters on the web

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Rob Smith

The DX cluster sure has evolved from the days of local friends announcing on the 2 meter repeater the DX stations that they heard. Before today, there were two DX cluster web pages that I like to watch: DX Summit … Continue reading →

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Recent Activity

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rob Smith

So far in 2013, I have not had a chance to get on the air.  All I have had time to do is to occasionally listen.  Perhaps this weekend I will finally dust off the key, warm up the equipment,  … Continue reading →

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