HogCon 2008 - Whats On
10:00 - Welcome to Hogcon 2008
Admission: £4 - no need to book, just turn up. If you can have the correct money that would be a great help.
Door Prizes: W1REX of Tuna Tin fame has kindly donated a Mystery Door Prize and the G-QRP Club have kindly donated a copy of the new Drew Diamond book (Volume 3).
10:15 - GB2QRP - Special Event Station
We will have a QRP station at HogCon for people to try out their creations or just put a few QRP Q's in the log. We are planning to have a Doublet up and at the very least a K2 and KX1 and for the more SSB minded among you, if we have finished building them a BITX20 and MKARS 80 …feel free to bring along your own radio and put it on the air….we want to see your homebrew. The station will be available for the whole day.
11:00 - Hans Summers G0UPL Talk
“QRSS and other adventures in extreme homebrew QRP”. This will give many fascinating insights into the world of QRSS and MEPT and is right at the cutting edge of todays QRP zeitgeist…check out his fabulous site and see some of the things he's been up to…
13:00 - Lunch break / QRP Show and Tell
Bring along your projects.
14:00 - Dom Baines M1KTA Talk
"QRP DXpedition to Mauritius". Doms' insights into life on air from 3B8/M1KTA as featured in the world famous SPRAT 135.
Dom plans to cover the following: -
Why 3B8?
What was involved in trying to operate from there and hints for others (NB: 3B9, 3B7 and 3B6 can all be reached from 3B8 relatively easily)
What equipment did I take?
Why operate from someones shack and not /P?
Why did I have to wait 72 hours before operating and why was this a good thing?
An operating timetable (so if want to try a DX trip whilst on holiday some hints) DXpedition qrp with a blank sun…. you must be mad!
QRP operating does not mean you are ‘road kill' to use American phrase.
1st hand newbie DX operator errors….how NOT to handle a pile up!
DX Cluster spots are not always a qrp operators friend.
What exactly does operating split really mean when you are the DX station.
QRP operating modes.
Backup rig etc.
What else did I do radio wise whilst there?
QSL cards, the aftermath of DX operation what it will mean to you.
16:00 - Close.
Updated 20/09/08