The other day I had a QSO with Glen, W1ND. We have worked before, but this time, he mentioned that he had started a blog: the W1ND QRP Blog. Check it out. He has some interesting posts on his end-fed, random wire antennas. He’s had much more success with these than I have.

If you’ve ever wanted to try out digital voice on HF, check out the upcoming FreeDV Activity Day!

I’m one of the maintainers of the FreeDV project and have been working on getting more activity on the bands as of late. Back in early November, we had our first Activity Day and it resulted in the most simultaneous FreeDV users in quite a while, so we figured we’d make it a quarterly thing from now on.

The CWops have this thing they call the CW Test, or CWT. CWTs are held every Wednesday/Thursday, and include four, one-hour sessions at times that favor different geographic areas. They’re not exactly contests, and some CWops think of them as practice sessions for the “real” contests, but people post their scores to 3830scores.com and brag about them on the CWops mailing list, so they’re more than just practice sessions.