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Controversial thoughts from the shackRSGB 70cms UKAC
Last night, I decided to have a play in the RSGB 70cms UKAC that was after a reminder earlier in the day from Gavin (M1BXF) . Conditions didn’t seem too bad within minutes of the start of the contest I heard F8BRK although was unable to work him no doubt a bigger beam...
Ofcom Noise Complaint
A while back in April (Go read the post for noise info), I posted saying that I started the process of issuing a noise complaint with Ofcom. After filling in the forms on their website it took about 3 weeks to get a reply from Ian (Senior Field Engineer), who advised...
My First Contact Via Arissat-1
I started out on Sunday trying to get a QSO via Arissat-1's transponder. As its passes are within daylight over the Europe, Sunday night I managed to hear myself via the transponder using 25w into a 10 element yagi (computer controlled). The signal seemed reasonable...
Arissat-1 Launched
On the 3th of August during a Russian EVA on the International Space Station the new Arissat-1 satellite was launched after many delays. During the EVA there were problems too with the suspected missing UHF antenna, although people have since been able to use the SSB...
Web Frontend to HRDs Logbook – Web Logbook
A while back I decided I wanted a solution, where I could access my logbook(s) anywhere regardless of where I was currently located. At first I managed to-do this by using MySQL on my web server to store the HRD Logbook and just used an SSH tunnel. This worked fine if...