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Controversial thoughts from the shackGoals for 2010
As we move into another year I've decided to set myself some goals to give me some focus, I hope I can achieve them and I'll keep everyone regularly updated. Revise and sit Advance Exam After sitting the Intermediate exam at the RSGB Convention back in October 2009,...
Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR)
During the last month I have been playing around with the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) on 30m seeing who could hear my 5 watts around the world, I was impressed to see its actually quite a lot of people even running low power on the Yaesu FT-950. WSPR is...
OK DX RTTY Contest
I've spent a couple of hours today in the shack operating in the OK DX RTTY contest, conditions didn't seem very special I started off at around 10am on 40m working the usual European stations but soon came across P40YL in Aruba then K1SFA. then soon moved to 20m to...
SSB Field Day Results
I've just noticed flicking through Radcom the results for this years SSB field day are out, and G8PX/P came 5th in the open section with a final score of 40,5216 and 837 QSOs. We found conditions very hard going on the the higher bands 20/15/10m but also due to...
Radio Hams & Social Media
There seems to be a large amount of negativity with a select few radio amateurs who seem to spend all their time bashing social media, but what becomes apparent is their total lack of understanding of what social media actually is which is quite simply content created...