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Recent Blog Posts

Foxdelta FoxTrak

After messing about with APRS using my mobile and APRS.fi, I decided it was time to-do things properly and ordered the Foxdelta FoxTrak for around £14 plus postage and it arrived 5 days later from India which is pretty darn impressive! and to wire it up correctly I...

Baofeng UV-3R

After reading on G4ILO's blog about the Baofeng UV-3R, I thought I'd order one to give it ago as I only had a 2m VX-150 plus the UV-3R looked a lot lighter and something I might be more inclined to carry around so on the 16 May I ordered one from radio-factory on ebay...

RSGB 144MHz May Contest

During the weekend I decided to have a little play in the RSGB 144MHz May Contest, although from the outset limited myself to the 6 hours category which I think was a wise decision. I wasn't expecting a huge number of QSOs after all I'm using a 5 element beam at about...