Harwell Radio Rally

Today was the yearly Harwell Radio Rally day started off reasonably early for a Sunday, Thankfully there was trains running although other services were affected to engineering works on the line after the 10mins train ride we were in Didcot and met up with Iain M0PCB....

Happy New Year

I’m sat slowly recovering from drinking far to much beer last night I thought I’d look back at 2008 which has been a rather unusual year. The shack changed somewhat with the new addition of the Yaesu FT-950 which has proven to work brilliantly and Dad...

NOAA Geophysical Alert Message Via Twitter

Since yesterday I’ve started sending the NOAA WWV Solar flux, A & K Indexs over the micro commmunications tool Twitter using the @DXAnywhere account. The system automatically pushes out an up date every 3 hours and ten minutes.

MyDel WX2008MK11 Weather Station

At the last Kempton Radio Rally M3JFM picked up one of the MyDel WX2008MK11 weather stations from Martin Lynch and Son, for the reasonable price of £79.95. Inside the box it came with 23 x 14.5 x 3.5cm LCD touch screen extra-bright illuminated and monitor Wind speed...

ODARS Construction Competition

Janet (2E0LLM), Ray (G4FON), Brian (G2KQ) Last meeting at the Oxford radio club was the annual construction competition, where members can bring something along with the chance to actually in a cup to put in their shack for the year, the turn out with items seemed a...

September Events

Last month was probably one of the busiest so far with a number of events taking place all within a short space of time, taking in 3 amateur radio events and one to mark the end of me being a part of the university student fold. SSB Field day For the first time in a...