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Controversial thoughts from the shackNew Amateur Radio Satellites
If you’re keen on amateur radio satellites you might have noticed that in the last two months there’s been an increase in satellites available to use on the 19th of September on a rocket from China saw the launch of a six satellites under the brand of CAS-2 all...
Contesting in Guernsey
July saw the annual return to Guernsey for the IOTA Contest, although this year certainly felt different with the loss of Louis 2U0FER, however we promised ourselves we’d carry on the trip. The trip as always starts with the travel across 3 days before the IOTA...
PSAT – PSK31 Satellite Transponder
On Wednesday the 20th of May while away on the Isle of Mull, another group of satellites got launched into space, included in this military launch was PSAT a satellite which has onboard a APRS digi on 145.825 but a PSK transponder...
Automatically change CW Skimmer frequencies via a timer
Last week during the regular confabs’ with Iain (M0PCB) we was discussing how best to utilise the RF Space SDR-IQ receivers we both have so that we can make a poor man’s CW Skimmer Server. We had already both seen comments about W3OAs applications but neither of us...
Operating at 2SZ
Back in October (17th-18th infact) I had the opportunity to be part of the team operating as 2SZ marking the 90th anniversary of the first ever radio contact from the UK to New Zealand, back then the operator was Cecil Goyder who was at the time a pupil at Mill Hill...