Ham Radio Operator - M0YKS

Early this morning I ended up working 145 FM portable from North Pennine summit on the air 028 whilst walking the dog. I used: My hand held radio Kenwood TH-7F and 5 watts into a Diamond SRH771 antenna. Despite been up and about early in the morning I still managed to work Kevin - M0XLT & Adrian M3IAO. Watch the video to see how I avoided the MUD bath up on The Rombalds Moor SOTA.

This week has proved to be quite interesting and i am pleased to report good DX has been worked on my Humble Ham Station. After adding some 1/4 wave radials for 20M to the Hustler 6 btv i seem to be working Stateside even easier than before! with good QSO's with AB1AI, W5 OU ,N3PF,N3 UEV ,K4 VV and the well known W2 ONV .These contacts all took place early evening just as the Sun was setting,all on the 20M Band. I went on to Work Cuba for the first time but more surprisingly was that it was on the 40M Band using a simple G5RV and 50 watts.The cuban station was CO8LY and 5/9 reports were exchanged. VO 1 CRM from Canada and FM5 DN from Martinique were both worked on 40m late evening time. Two more new DXCC were added to my collection taking it to 111 Countries in total,the new DXCC worked were D44BS from Cape Verde Island, and YW 0 DX operating as a DXpedition group from Aves Island both rare DX Stations especially using the G5RV and also on 40M. YW 0 DX is part of the...