SOTA activation with MTR5B and EFHW It’s been a bit of a SOTA extravaganza this month starting with a cheeky activation of my local summit (G/SE-001 Walbury Hill) to record a video of a CW SOTA activation using the MTR5B and EFHW. At the end of February I took my annual pilgrimage with James, […]
SOTABeams WSPRLite Overview This month I started a Virtual Build-a-thon with Chertsey Radio Club…we’re building a Foxx-3 and K16 keyer combo from Kanga UK as a virtual group simply using videos and group Webex sessions once a week. It’s brilliant fun and a great way to meet lots of new people. I’ve been trialling a new toy […]
A little quite on the radio front for the last few weeks but hope to be active over Christmas from Abercastle in south west Wales. If you hear me signing /A I’m in a little cottage at the waters edge (QRA: IO71kx, WAB: SM83, nearest Post Code: SA62 5HJ). This month I built and tested […]
September was a rubbish month for radio even worse than August but on the positive side there was the National Hamfest at Newark. There was a great turn out by Twitter Hams and in particular #lids_cw members who are either trying to improve their CW, trying to learn CW or trying to muster the enthusiasm […]