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Playing with the new FT8 mode on 50MHz, I spotted something interesting on semi-local signals affected by aircraft scatter. On JT65A, I noti...

Randomly, I was browsing through Facebook this morning and I noticed Paul G4RRA say that he was about to drive up to the site for the RSGB 7...

The Raspberry Pi2 was delivered very quickly - thank you CPC! However, owing to a bit of silliness on my part I didn't get it running un...

I was excited to see the Raspberry Pi 2 announced today One is on the way. It will be interesting to see how it works out - particularly f...

I'd not been on DSTAR for a while. Mostly because the Raspberry Pi that I generally use for the gateway has been busy on ADS-B duty. L...

You might remember that before Christmas, I missed the opportunity to try receiving some SSTV pictures from the ISS. Although I missed it, ...

Yesterday, it was a cold but dry day and I thought it would be fun to go out in the garden and see what I could hear and work on SO-50. I q...

One of my favourite tweeters on radio matters is Patrick WD9EWK  Patrick is a keen member of AMSAT and the wider amateur satellite community...

With my return to work on the horizon on Monday, I've been thinking about what a nice holiday I've had. Although I've had to do ...

It was great to have Justin G4TSH join us for Christmas again this year. In between the the obligatory and very enjoyable Christmassy ac...

No posts for the last little while! Like most people, I guess, the run up to Christmas has been busy. But since finishing work on Friday, in...

Last Friday, I was working from home. I generally have one of the radios on in the background and of late, it has been the revived TS-940S,...

After its' trip to James M1APC, the TS940 arrived back here on Thursday. I had a slight fright when it arrived back, when it needed a r...

Having enjoyed using the IC-740 over the last few weeks and making some fun HF QSOs, there was another of my old HF rigs that I wanted to ge...

How long have I had my FT-8900? Four, five years, maybe? Of course I knew it received AM on air band and have used it on there from time to ...

Interesting news that I've picked up over the last couple of days is that both Wouxun and TYT will be offering a version of their quadba...

It was with much sadness that I read of Julian's death last Friday on Twitter and then on his blog Like many others who have tweeted o...

I was very conscious, having been playing with the rig that I really hadn't put it on any sort of decent antenna. Well, I still haven...

With more digital radio appearing on the bands - I noticed the GB7BS (Bristol DMR) repeater coming on stream last weekend, you might want to...

I had a few minutes to play in the RSGB 70MHz activity contest this evening. Although I was still only using the vertical antenna which is ...

For the last few weeks, the IC-740 which was sitting quietly under the bench had been niggling at me. I had no HF rig on the operating bench...

After my post mentioning the release of the new Noble 70MHz rig, I very quickly had an email from Rob PE9PE. Rob and I operated together on...

Rob, PE9PE got in touch to let me know about the new 70MHz mono-band rig from Noble Radio The rig produces 10W out - you can see a full ...

Earlier in the week, the nice people from Flightaware got in touch and mentioned they had some software called PiAware. This software run...

Just a quick reminder that next weekend is the August Bank Holiday weekend and Practical Wireless are encouraging VHF/UHF operators to opera...

Unfortunately, our concerns were well-founded. Yesterday, on the AMSAT bulletin board, the official news of VO-52's passing was announce...

It's been a busy couple of weeks here, all good, but busy. Last weekend, a visit to the shack coincided with a pass of VO-52 according t...

I'm indebted to Roger, G3XBM for pointing me at the news that the VC1T expedition was heard in the UK on 144MHz by G4SWX, but unfortunat...

The UKube-1 satellite was launched this evening with the first pass due over the UK at 2014 local time. Coincidentally, supper had finishe...

Some would say it was 30 years too late, but here in the UK, today was the day that AM and SSB CB was made legal on the CEPT 'mid' ...