Hi all, planning some updates here but still having some issues with the website. Will be updating here Saturday if all goes well and shutting down the Facebook page.
Hi all, just to update a bit about where I am at and what’s going on. I’ve mostly been doing this on QRZ but would like to move it back to here as the QRZ page is getting a bit long. At least here I can break things up a bit. I have sorted my issues with updating the website so all good.
I wanted to write about how JTDX helps work new ones but will probably make the subject of a separate post. I think a lot of people don’t really understand just how powerful the notifications and auto seq parts of JTDX are. MSHV and WSJT-X have nothing like this.
To start with just a few stats for the operation so far, which has been 100% FT8. If you want to crap on about so called “human” modes go somewhere else. I am only here because of FT8 and if it wasn’t for these modes I would never have gotten back into ham radio. I am hoping to do some SSB before I leave but I have zero interest in CW.
Stock-take so far, for around 18 months of operating, mostly single rig, single antenna. FYI my current antenna for 30m to 6m is a home made vertical which I rebuilt again a month or so back. It’s 11 meters of wire wound on to a 10 meter fishing pole and fed with a 9:1 unun. No earth. More on this later.
So, as of the 14th of march 2025 I have 88,763 QO logged. But more importantly out of that I have worked 29,224 unique call signs. The number of DXpeditions got up or past 30K uniques is small. So I am pretty happy to have worked more than 29K of you.
To give some idea of just how isolated I am here, check this out.
You can see that nothing much really starts to happen here unless you get out to about the 5,000Km mark when you hit JA. the 0-500Km QSO? I worked C21MM on all bands 😉 plus some /MM.
that’s the 4,000 to 4,500Km chart. So that outer circle is 9,000Km across, and the inner one 8,000Km across, and there is virtually nothing there except for a reasonable chunk of VK4.
Going out to 5500Km we hit JA.
These are the harder places to work at up to 16,000km
Continents ASIA purple and the light blue is OC.
As you would expect most of what I work is JA.
Q’s per band.
73 Phill, see you on the bands.