September Summary

September has proven to be rather hectic and sadly not when it comes to amateur radio; I’ve been plagued with on-going health issues relating to crazy amounts of general pain in the body which no one can actually figure out so now heavily doped up on medication...
Satellite Operating in North East Scotland

Satellite Operating in North East Scotland

I’ve just returned from a two week (July 30th – August 11th 2012) stint in North East Scotland, well to be more exact Elgin but didn’t spend two weeks just in one place, lots of Whiskey distilleries where visited and I can promise you plenty of whiskey was...
Arrow II Satellite Antenna

Arrow II Satellite Antenna

After returning from the Isle of Mull, I placed an order for two Arrow II Satellite Antennas, one being for Mark (M0MJH) and the other being for me! After they travelled across the Atlantic by plane and sat in UK customs overall time for delivery was 3 weeks and...

Amateur Radio Satellites My First Year

Many readers will no doubt have been following the on-going project of using amateur radio satellites, from receive only to fully blown ground station within a couple of months much to the dislike of my bank account. Its been an exciting year full of learning...

ISS Voice & SSTV

Today turned out to be rather interesting, upon getting up Dad (M3JFM) informed me that there was a ISS pass at around 11:30 UTC, so armed with my Olympus DM-20 digital voice recorder I headed into the shack to record the pass using the FT-7800 and V2000 vertical...