Today started off with me continuing to compare the two morse decoders MRP40 and CW Skimmer in view of PC4T Paul's insistence that the l...

For several years now  I have been of the opinion that the best Morse decoder for Windows PCs is MRP40 by Norbert Pieper. A few days ago Pa...

At last, I finally got the QRP keyer using KD1JV's Simple Keyer Chip boxed and working. The completed keyer As usual, nothing went...

I'm sorry if you are one of the many people who have sent me email expecting a reply, but unfortunately answering emails is one of the t...

Earlier in the year I was hunting through some folders on my hard drive and discovered an unreleased version of my Morse training program Mo...

Keen followers of SOTA will have read about this on the SOTA Reflector, but during the last couple of months Richard G3CWI has been activat...

This is a really cool little project. It isn't clear what it does from the picture, but it's a device that makes a Morse key look t...

Kevin, GW0KIG, has just written in his blog about struggling to brush up his Morse . He first learnt the code at the age of 19 and has ...

It seems that everyone is making New Year's Resolutions for 2010. I've never been much of a one for making resolutions, since I'...

On Thursday evening my wife and I were settling down to watch a film on TV when the lights went out. Because of heavy rain Cockermouth was o...

A few weeks ago I emailed Jerry, W5JH, who makes the Baby Black Widow paddle kits for the Elecraft KX1 and QRP Kits PFR3 to ask whether he ...

Just after lunch today I had a tune around on the little guy, the HB-1A QRP CW transceiver . On 10.116MHz, the 30m QRP activity frequency, I...

I made a couple of CW contacts with the HB-1A QRP rig today. It was harder going than I expected, as no-one replied to my CQs, and I couldn...

A knock on the door this afternoon heralded the arrival of my latest QRP radio - an HB-1A 3-band (40/30/20m) CW transceiver from China. Ship...

Congratulations to John, N8ZYA for receiving the eQSL confirming his contact with LZ2BE on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast , made using 5W of ...

If I take a radio when I go out for a walk, it's usually a VHF handie. That's partly because my wife Olga always comes with me and I...

There is an IARU contest on this weekend and the thought occurred to me that this might be a good opportunity to try to make some SSB contac...

Roger, G3XBM, writes about a talk he gave last night to a local radio club, and notes on how few young people were there . He comments that ...

Thanks to Larry, W2LJ, for mentioning this wonderful story in KB6NU's blog . Read it, it will probably be the most heartwarming thing yo...

Due to the fact that Tech-Pro.net will be closing its software downloads site, G4ILO's Shack has become the download page for Morse Mac...