Nick M5NCW

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Radio: licensed 2021 - having fun learning CW and using digital modes.

Home: I enjoy learning new things, making new software and fiddling about with hardware.

Work: I'm the open source maintainer of the rclone project and I do that and related software contracts.

Dog: Pepper - lovely ball obsessed cocker spaniel.

QRZhttps://www.qrz.com/db/m5ncw
GitHubhttps://github.com/ncw
Homehttps://www.craig-wood.com/nick/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/njcw
Nick M5NCWMar 6, 2023
BirdSite quite broken - this is what I get going to the home page in a browser, even in incognito mode.
Nick M5NCWMar 1, 2023
Managed to catch 3B7M on 30m FT8 this evening 😃 I had no luck with CW on 17m at lunchtime - massive pileup! The 30m FT8 was much quieter perhaps because it isn't appearing on pskreporter for some reason. Perhaps 10.142 is too non standard.
Nick M5NCWFeb 7, 2023

The wife was complaining about the kitchen timer being unreliable. I thought how can such a simple thing be in unreliable?

I changed the battery - all good - or so I thought until I put it on the counter top a bit roughly. Any jolt was causing the battery to disconnect and the timer to reset.

A Scrabble through the junk box to find an electrolytic which would fit in the case (100uF) and it's all fixed. You can take the battery out for 10s now 🤣

Nick M5NCWFeb 1, 2023

The WRTC Award contest is over! I've enjoyed the short CW contacts over the last month.

Highlights would be ZL6WRTC on 80m which was my first and still only antipodean contact on CW!

Managed 283 QSOs which got me 284th place out of all the CW hunters which I'm very pleased with!

Nick M5NCWDec 24, 2022
A Christmas present from LoTW has arrived!