Quiet Band RadioWire antennas and HF band notes from the Šiauliai plain
QTH
Šiauliai
County
Šiauliai County
Logging since
2020

All times UTC · MHz

Paper book · transcribed in full

Station log

Every page kept for this station, newest first. The earliest one that survives being typed up is from 21 April 2024; what came before that is in a shoebox, in pencil, and mostly illegible. Times are UTC, as they are in the book.

Station log — Šiauliai, kept since 2020
No.DateUTCBandModeEntryMin
005014910 mCWA contest weekend spent listening more than calling

Two days of a busy contest weekend used as an antenna test rather than a score: how it was planned, and what the notebook got out of it.

Operating · typed up 25 Aug 2026 · 4 parts

6
0041112160 mCWReading the solar numbers without pretending to be a physicist

Sunspot number, solar flux and the K index explained the way a newcomer needs them: what each one changes on the bands this evening.

Propagation · typed up 11 Mar 2026 · 4 parts

7
003160540 mSSBA tin box, a ferrite ring, and the noise that went away

Three winter evenings spent making a common-mode choke and a dummy load from scrap: what changed on the receiver, and what did not.

Homebrew · typed up 30 Jul 2025 · 4 parts

6
002104115 mCWWinter nights on the low bands above the Šiauliai plain

What eighty and one-sixty metres really do here between October and March, hour by hour, from four winters of notes kept beside the radio.

Band conditions · typed up 9 Feb 2025 · 4 parts

8
001073317 mLISTENForty metres of wire in a garden thirty metres long

How a full-size forty-metre wire goes up in a garden nine metres too short: where it bends, what the feed point does, and how it behaves.

Antennas · typed up 12 Aug 2024 · 4 parts

7

Entries are not rewritten once they are in the book. Where a later page contradicts an earlier one, both stay and the later page says which it replaces — the reasoning is in thenotes on how the log is kept.