coventry

Is this the end of the Vulcan in the UK?

XH558, the last flying Vulcan in the UK, possibly made its last public flight yesterday when it visited the Coventry Fly-in. However, unless £400,000 can be found before the end of October the Vuclan may be put up for sale as its essential winter maintenance programme can not be carried out.

Portable PSK-31 Amateur Radio station up and running

This is the first opportunity that I’ve had to get out the portable PSK-31 Amateur Radio station and it does work, though I suspect a better antenna is called for. In the picture you can see the Yaesu FT-817 portable HF/VHF/UHF transceiver, LDG Electronics Z11 automatic antenna tuner (atu), CG Antenna SB-2000 USB radio interface [...]

Vodafone SatNav fails on Nokia E71

I’ve banged on before about how I love my Nokia E71, even though I was anti-Nokia in the past. Well I thought it was time to see if the Sat Nav facility of my new phone would serve as a replacement for my ageing Tom Tom One.