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Controversial thoughts from the shackSix Metres
Just after having lunch today I noticed that DXAnywhere statistics where showing that there was a lot of activity on 6m, so decided that it might be worth while switching the radio on and seeing if it was possible to work anything. I wasn't disappointed the band...
Culumus Web Page Theme
I've been running the Sandaysoft Culumus software since October last year and have nothing but praise for the software, it allows you to do everything from downloading data from weather station base units, to Tweeting the information. One thing I've always thought was...
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 arrived...
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 once I get home...
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...