So today I was recharging the C cells for my venerable FT-290R MK I, wondering how I was ever going to fit the CTCSS board to it as everything was packed tighter than a tin of sardines. It suddenly occurred to me that if I could reduce the size of the batteries then I’d have [...]
And this was the moment I got packet radio running on my ancient Atari ST. It was nice to combine my two hobbies (retro computing and amateur radio!), but more importantly, it was nice to have an application for my old Atari again! Right now, it’s better than a PC as it only consumes 120w [...]
… and if I ever get the stamina to use it for more than fifteen minutes at a time, I’ll end up with a sending arm like Popeye.
I knocked up a little table with the centre frequency for the new 5MHz allocations. Be warned! Check this information before you TX, if the MoD knock on your door, it’s your fault for not checking my work
“but now the time has come,ours is not to reason why,the satellites are calling,our morse transmissions die.” The last transmission from GLD (Land’s end LF maritime CW station). I think it sums up how the operator must have felt, closing down and going SK after all those years of continuous operation. Here’s the link. (Edit: [...]
Sirs, I have learned with dismay that recently Peter 2E0SQL, Dan M0TGN and Rob M0VFC had joined me in being blocked by your official Twitter account, @RSGB_UK. These people are all uniquely involved in furthering amateur radio in the UK. For example, Peter is one of the coders and minds behind hamtests.co.uk which [...]
I’ve recently moved QTH, and, with the a potentially problem neighbour (First conversation : “Hi, I’m Janice, I’ve already called the council on you”) I’ve been reluctant to put up any of my HF antennas. Two weeks later and I can’t stand it any more. I found a 20m length of steel washing line which [...]
It seems that the country has gone a little prepping crazy (what with the runaway success of NatGeo’s Doomsday Preppers TV show), and it seems that even though in every episode the experts tell the subjects of the show to get a ham radio, the UK prepping scene seem remarkably unaware of ham radios, their [...]
This book is a strange, hybrid beast. While QRP literally means “low power”, to most of us QRP enthusiasts it means something more – a homebrew ethic: build it rather than buy it. First disclosure: this book has no circuit diagrams to speak of. For those of us used to leafing, goggle-eyed through the wealth [...]
