VE9KK Blog

20m at 19:10 during the CWops 1 hour contest   With the increase in sunspots and rising flux comes some solar flares and the Kp-index will ...

The bands were alive with CW today even with the not-so-great-sounding solar forecast.   

The wallpaper arrived today for my participation in the 13 Colonies Special Event from July1-7th. This was a great event and my first time ...

The 13 Colonies event ended on Tuesday and for me, it was right down to the wire but I was successful. I was able to contact all 13 colonies...

I am operating in the CW CQWPX contest today and just can't contact anyone. Yesterday all was good but today NOTHING at all. Have a lo...

It was nice to see the bands very active with DX for me it was from 15m to 40m. The Endfed I have at the moment will not get me onto 80m BUT...

No lack of action The  CQ WW DX   CW contest this weekend was the first contest as VE9KK unfortunately, most of Saturday and into the e...

The setup Well the ARRL DX CW has come and gone for 2019 and my effort was one of interest only. I knew I had non radio related things...

I was finally able to get on the radio and give the RAC contest about 2 hours and I had a blast with the new rig. I made only 32 contacts...

I received my November QST and as I flipping through it I came across page 82 regarding online ARRL contest uploading. This caught my inte...

I always enjoy participating in this contest and in years gone past it allowed me add to my DXCC list. This year was a whole other story.....

I was reading a fellow blogger Bob  VA3QV post about the CQ WW CW 2015 contest and how he did in the contest. It got me thinking to head o...

The QRP setup I had a great part time effort in the CQ WW CW contest, I was not concerned with score or putting in a major amount to tim...

Boy was I surprised to get this! It was February 2013 and we just really finished unpacking all our boxes from the move into our new con...

Most of the time I participate in a contest just for the fun of it without any expectation of placing anywhere close to the top. Last week...

The Saturday afternoon sky Not sure why but I have never taken part in any field day, I can remember there have been some years were I w...

This sure was a weekend were the solar activity played a huge role in contest endurance. I entered the contest QRP at 5 watts. I did not t...

Most of the time during these full weekend contests I don't get on Friday evening as I find it to be a ZOO with lots of stations sendi...

So here we are....it's the weekend and time to get some radio time in as during the week I find it very hard to get into the shack onc...

Julie was out and about snapping shots!! For me the ARRL  DX CW contest is over, I have some blog, email and cleaning to do for the r...