2011 Review

Its that time of year again when I look back at what I set out to achieve but didn’t quite manage; Thankfully I did manage to do a lot of what I set  activity on 6/2/70cms is increased and I’ve made numerous QSOs on each of the bands, the only thing that...

Joined the ARRL

During the RSGB Convention, I decided to join the ARRL not because they had a slick stand at the convention (because they did), but because it will be interesting to read the different articles and hopefully learn some new stuff.

Ofcom Noise Complaint

A while back in April (Go read the post for noise info), I posted saying that I started the process of issuing a noise complaint with Ofcom. After filling in the forms on their website it took about 3 weeks to get a reply from Ian (Senior Field Engineer), who advised...

2011 Ham Radio Plans

I’m not into the whole new years resolutions mostly because I break them about 3 weeks in and never go back to trying to achieve them, so this year I’m going to set some basic plans which are hopefully do able. Contest more This year I’m going to aim...

Family Visit to Alba (Scotland)

After being back nearly 3 weeks from the annual family visit to North East, Scotland or more precisely Elgin I thought I’d share what I had gotten up to, If you follow me on Twitter you might have spotted the odd tweet with a photo or some 140 character post saying...