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Over the last couple of days I have been ” working ” at a location in Yorkshire which seemed rather good to try and operate portable. The location was the TV transmitting mast at Emley Moor which is located at … Continue reading
Greetings from a pleasantly warm Crete where today (27thFeb) we have 21°C and not a cloud in the sky SSB I now have to hang my head in shame. I have to admit that, after over 25 years, the other … Continue reading
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Hello again es good to see some of you at the Christmas Bash last month and at the excellent Club Meeting on the previous Friday when we had a really interesting talk by Stan, G4OAV, about ‘Secret WW2 Wireless Interception … Continue reading
ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ∏ΟΛΛΑ (Happy New Year!) I trust that Santa brought you the new rig you wanted and that you obtained the planning permission for the 80ft tower and 4 ele Quad. I have lost my J49XF contest call. J4 calls … Continue reading
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I have been messing around with the DVB-T SDR thing again, this time to download and decode ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) signals. All aircraft transponders transmit data on 1090 MHz. The antenna used is a discone in the loft. The … Continue reading
Greetings from a decidedly cooler Crete. We have had some topsy-turvy weather these past few weeks with temperatures ranging from 31°C down to chilly 17°C. We have also had the first of our Winter storms which broke one of the … Continue reading
Greetings from a now very quiet Crete. The vast majority of the tourists have left and we now just have the odd independent traveller wandering about… The roads are quiet, most of the Tavernas have shut down, the beaches are … Continue reading
On Friday the 19th October, Marc G0TOC and I went to a meeting at the Royal Gunpowder Mills (RGM) at Waltham Abbey with the General Manager of the site. Much of the preparatory work had been done by Cliff 2E0RCW, … Continue reading
Greetings from an unseasonably warm Crete. During September temperatures usually cool off slightly but instead of the expected 27°C – 29°C, recently we have been having afternoon temps around the 34°C mark. This is all very pleasant as it allows … Continue reading
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For those attending the recent National Hamfest held at the Newark Showground on 27/28 September (show review here), there was an opportunity to see the Icom IC-7100 HF/VHF/UHF multimode transceiver ‘in the flesh’. The pre-production model (Japanese) was on display; … Continue reading
