Archive - October 2022

This weekend (29 October to 30 October 2022) sees the CQWW DX SSB contest take place on the HF Bands 160M through to 10M, and this is the busiest and biggest of the year for SSB contacts. It is an opportunity for a modest station to make contact with some of the rarer DX entities as it draws out expeditions and some pf the locals who wouldn’t normally get on the air. It is also a fun contest to choose your strongest band and enter a lesser category to get the winners certificate, if you choose wisely. 

Here is a list of some of the announced expeditions for this years contest:

https://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2022.html?fbclid=IwAR1krY8cz8UeHWeIvsURm7j66Lodq6bdBVqrBdlNKdpEqVHZywi6LKyTbo4

The following has been taken from my friend Tim (M0URX) website. Looks like himself and Charles (M0OXO) had a very busy day sorting and getting these out to the UK post office, hopefully they will be with the world bureau’s soon.

QSL cards have been posted to 82 World Bureaus – Monday 24^th October 2022

Well guys sorry I haven’t posted for a couple of weeks, I came back home from the convention with a stinking cold/flu – tested Covid negative each day – that knocked me off my feet. It was only the early part of this week that I started to feel human. Along with having to attend the Newark Hamfest in my roll for the RSGB as the Beyond Exams co-ordinator it was a long suffering week. But hopefully we have shaken that and can get on with life again.

This weekend here in the UK we have our annual convention, a meeting with a number of talks amateur radio related. This takes place at Kents Hill Park, Milton Keynes and will be attended by delegates from around the world. It used to be called the HF convention many years ago, and it was then amalgamated with the VHF amateur convention and AMSATS convention to what we now have. 

It also gives many of us chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the news. On the Saturday evening a gala dinner is held where in the past some major expeditions have been announced, especially the Five Star groups, and some interesting speakers sharing their knowledge or presentations to exotic parts of the world. This is my first visit there for a number of years, and I am looking forward to seeing some old friends. I am also giving a talk on the RSGB Beyond Exams Brickworks scheme, this is on Sunday morning and will be well worth attending if you are a member of a club and need ideas for what to do within the clubs calendar. 

RSGB 2022 Convention