Hi all, well I said I was going to try and keep the web site up to date but that has not worked out so well, so anyway, there is some useful stuff here I hope. I am a systems admin living and working in New Caledonia, I have lived here for nearly twenty years and love the… Read More »
Hi all, will keep this short as internet is super slow at home and sometimes down to almost dial up speed. Some stats to date as of this morning QSOs 10,519Unique callsigns 4,697QSOs per station 2.24Kilometers per QSO 7,559 kmCountries 102 The above gives some idea of the bands I’ve been on. Most of the 30M QSO were… Read More »
Small steps, antenna is not so great at the moment. It’s an endfed with 9:1 unun but is up in a not so great place. I’ve used this antenna from 3D2TS for a couple of years and if in the right place works well. I will work on that this afternoon with the help of the 10m fiberglass… Read More »
Hi all, some good news. Plans moving along for a permanent QTH and it’s hoped that I’d move in next week some time. After that setup will be relatively quick. Looks like I won’t have to deal with being in a Hotel and I am confident the new QTH will also allow me to put up some good… Read More »
Hi all, this is just a quick one to say I am now physically located in Nauru but I am at temporary accommodation for the moment. I arrived here last Saturday the 22nd. I could probably get on 10m with mobile whip where I am but I really don’t want unpack all my gear just yet. Plus I’d… Read More »
Got go ahead for travel to Nauru a couple of days back, at this stage on the 22nd of July. As I’ll be starting a new job, radio will be secondary, and I also don’t know where I will be staying yet. But I’d hope to be on the air by the start of August 2023 in my… Read More »
Hi all, just a quick update as I did do over 1000 QSO in a little over 24 hours from C21TS in March. As yet I have no cards printed. I will only get cards printed if I go back to Nauru. So second question will be what model I will use for card requests if I go… Read More »
Hi all, wow, it’s been a while since I did anything on here so was tossing around the idea to do C21TS updates here rather than on Facebook so that the information is available to everyone. Not everyone wants to have, or needs to have a Facebook account. So I am calling this part 2 as part 1… Read More »
After a break of nearly 27 years off the air I decided a couple of months back that it might be fun to get back into Amateur Radio again…. So, asking around locally here (I live in New Caledonia) it seemed best option for buying a new rig was overseas. So I sprung for a Yaesu FT-450D which… Read More »
As a recently newish owner of a Lenovo Carbon X1 I was pretty amazed to see that Lenovo swapped the Fn and Ctrl keys around on the latest generation. It’s one of those things that you have got to ask, what (wtf) were they thinking ? a bit like Windows 8 and the Start Menu really LOL The… Read More »
I was running up a new VM in VMware last night (Windows NT4) and after installing needed to install SP6a. Only problem was after first install of Windows NT there was no tools (needs SP6a) and no network so no easy way to get the files into the NT4 VM. So I thought just mounting an ISO would… Read More »