International Marconi Day In Review

The weekend has passed and I’m pleased to report it was really enjoyable, I made my way down to the G6PZ contest station Friday afternoon, getting to the station is super easy and I was in luck with the trains which seemed to be running like clock work! and...

Marconi Day – GB6MD

This weekend I’m off down to operate GB6MD for International Marconi Day on Saturday the 25th April ’09 the station will be located at G6PZ so we should have a big signal on the bands, modes of operation will be CW, SSB and RTTY. I’ll post a report...

Reinstated QFH Weather Antenna

After reconnecting up the weather satellite receiver (RX2) and connecting it up to the Diamond V2000 vertical to decode the NOAA APT satellite passes it was finally time to put a dedicated antenna back up, in the form of a quadrifilar helicoidal antenna (QFH) this...