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EUMETcast Station Fully Working

Its been over a month since I did a follow up post regarding the Eumetsat Eumetcast receiving station which I know have fully running, the whole process of setting it up was relivity easy once I'd bought all the bits needed, the only bit I had to wait for was the...

EUMETcast Setup Ordered

So after visiting the Newbury Rally and Boot Sale and seeing the The Group for Earth Observation demo of the EUMETcast weather satellite system, I decided along with Dad that we should really get the system to do it so thats exactly what I've done in the evening I...

National Field Day at G5LO/P

The weekend is coming to an end after playing host to the annual CW national field day, although not really being a CW operator like normal I helped the Oxford & District ARS setup for the event from late Friday afternoon to get the antennas setup and ready for...

Alessandro Volta RTTY DX Contest

After spending the morning out with Dad taking photos of stream trains on the Saturday morning. I decided to have a dabble in the Alessandro Volta RTTY DX Contest, this was a purely search and pounce affair to get some QSOs in my logbook as contest activity from me...

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