Spring has arrived!

The days are growing longer and temperatures reached 24c this week. Time to get the lawn mower serviced. 

Partition wall in progress

Work has began to convert the down stairs garage / storage area into an office - Radio Shack :-)

Preparing the vegetable garden

Spring is around the corner, so I've made a start turning over the soil that was occupied by the runner beans.

CQ WPX contest

Fresh Strawberries

Our strawberry patch still producing several kilos of fruit each week. These beauties freshly picked today!

Ist contact on 6m

I made my first DX contact on 6m this evening! ..... I was tuning around the bands when I noticed a strong beacon signal on 50.019Mhz which was XE1RCS/B, so I put out a CQ on 50.110Mhz, and sure enough a Mexican station (XE1RZL) came back to me almost immediately ... we exchanged 5/9 reports - not bad!

QSO with G0VQY on 10m

My antenna farm - CE6/M0CBF, Pucon Chile

Had a nice chat with Penn, G0VQY on 28Mhz during my lunch hour today, conditions very strong; my first G-land contact from our home in the south.