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Controversial thoughts from the shackIsle of Arran (GS3PYE/P) DX’Pedition ‘11
Just a quick post to say that this weekend I'm off to the Isle of Arran, with the Camb-Hams belows the offical info from the site! I can't wait! The Camb-Hams are off to the Isle of Arran for the 2011 DX’Pedition. The dates will be from May 1st till May 8th 2011 from...
APRS using Google Latitude & APRS.fi
I've been using Google Latitude for a while with Google Maps on my mobile (old school Nokia E71) and often wondered how to send location data from the phone to the APRS network, as there didn't seem to be any applications to-do so unlike for Android and the iPhone....
Local Interference QRM and Ofcom
So I've started the process of dealing with Ofcom regarding a interference noise problem which has started locally within the last month which spreads from 3.5MHz to 145MHz it peaks at its worst around 14MHz making the band pretty unusable. Noise seems to last between...
Envi-Ham Progress
Progress is slowly being made regarding the Envi-Ham project, and slowly getting the pieces I need, getting the license and software was a simple process and took 2 weeks from start to finish and in-between that time a second DVB World dvb-s receiver arrived in the...
Envi-Ham Application Accepted
After reading about the Envi-Ham Project in The Group for Earth Observation Journal and plenty of emails about it on weather satellite newsgroups I decided to send the ESA an email and ask about joining the project myself, this turned out to be a very simple...