Last weekend was the yearly RSGB Convention (HFC), this year though I took the Intermediate exam on the Saturday afternoon and I’m pleased to report I passed and now have the callsign 2E0SQL.. I did give it a short airing this afternoon and worked 33 QSOs first...
As I posted earlier this month I’d applied to the Office of Communications for the UK amateur radio callbook data in the hope of making the data available on-line via a custom search engine. Over a month passed without communications but things did start heating...
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...
Last weekend I coded up a simple contest calendar system for DXAnywhere the idea for this is to allow people to filter alerts if it was a contest weekend, but after a while I thought with all this information it would make a good web service. Tweets get sent out every...
After about 3 years of not decoding APT weather satellite pictures, I decided 1 weeks ago to setup the Rig RIGSAT RX2 again and connected it up to the Diamond V2000, for the software I decided instead of using the Time-step software to use a free application called...
This weekend was the yearly WPX RTTY contest, and I managed to put in a couple of hours on Saturday conditions seemed pretty poor and didn’t pick up any real DX. Seemed to work a good section of Europe and into the USA, ending up with 102Qs on 20m. Equipment:...
