CQWW SSB SOAB/LP

Oct 29, 2008

Last weekend it was the biggest contest of the year being the CQWW SSB sadly no M/* event took place for me so I decided to have a dabble at home doing a bit of search and pounce. Conditions on Saturday seemed very poor and I found it hard to get heard by all so...

ODARS Construction Competition

Oct 24, 2008

Janet (2E0LLM), Ray (G4FON), Brian (G2KQ) Last meeting at the Oxford radio club was the annual construction competition, where members can bring something along with the chance to actually in a cup to put in their shack for the year, the turn out with items seemed a...

JARTS RTTY

Oct 20, 2008

Last weekend was the JARTS RTTY contest, so I decided to have a dabble and see what I could work in-between decoding and processing International Space Station passes. conditions to my surprise were reasonable and managed to work 9M2 a couple of times on 20m although...

ISS Voice & SSTV

Oct 18, 2008

Today turned out to be rather interesting, upon getting up Dad (M3JFM) informed me that there was a ISS pass at around 11:30 UTC, so armed with my Olympus DM-20 digital voice recorder I headed into the shack to record the pass using the FT-7800 and V2000 vertical...

ISS Talks to Budbrooke Primary School

Oct 17, 2008

Earlier today the International Space Station, had an arranged contact with the Budbrooke Primary School in Warwick. I was lucky enough to be able to hear the ISS on 145.800 for most of the pass using the FT7800 and a V2000 vertical. You can listen to the audio file...