Jan 18 2012
SOS Radio Week 2012 starts at 00:00 on Saturday 21st January and concludes at 23:59 on Sunday the 29th. The event will see over forty-five sponsored Amateur Radio stations contact as many other Amateur Radio stations throughout the UK and around the world to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Some of [...]
Nov 26 2011
The Southport & District Amateur Radio Club ran it’s now annual special event station to celebrate Lancashire Day earlier today. St. Marks Church Hall was the venue for the station and Amateur Radio operators all over the world were contacted to share in the celebration. I was able to work several DX countries including the [...]
Nov 20 2011
I really enjoy working (contacting) Amateur Radio stations around using the digital PSK mode. Instead of the more usual CW (Morse) or Phone (talking) modes, PSK is a mode that enables Radio Amateurs to communicate using computers, keyboard to keyboard. The fantastic thing is that twenty, or more, different PSK contacts can take place in [...]
Sep 10 2011
Attending the Warrington Communications Fair today. This is a new rally on the calendar and has been attended by several regular exhibitors, plus some local computer companies. What makes this rally unique is that is held in public – right in the middle of the Warrington Maker (upstairs). What a great idea. Instead of running [...]
Aug 26 2011
My Echolink Internet linked simplex node is now on the air on 433.975 MHz – the node number is 609629.
Aug 18 2011
I worked my first American Amateur Radio station using phone (voice) mode this afternoon. K8CW was 57 on to Mynydd Mawr at the foot of the Lleyn Peninsula and I received a 57 from Alan. Equipment used was an Icon IC-706MKIIG transceiver, LDG Z-100 automatic antenna tuner and Snowdonia Radio Company (SRC) HF 8010 vertical [...]
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