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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Assembling a Cushcraft MA5B and finishing the second Alimast section
Some time ago I bought a second hand but never assembled Cushcraft MA5B and yesterday I collected it with the plan to get the aerial all built and ready to go. It’s a couple of years old so it comes from the time … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, Construction, Sponsorship
Tagged Aerial-Parts of Colchester, Alimast, cushcraft ma5b
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Band conditions – wallop, what happened there?
Today is Saturday. I woke up and got up around 08:00, at 08:15 I was on the wireless giving away a few points in the CQWW RTTY contest. I only operated S&P and in 45 minutes I’d worked 25 stations … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, HF, QRSS
Tagged cqww rtty contest, cushcraft ma5b, Hans Summers, mini beam., QRSS, solar flare, solar flares
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Days 246 to 255
To get me back up to date, I’m going to do a couple of big updates and because each one will cover around ten days it’s going to be a log extract in the form of a list as I … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, Contesting, FM, HF, JT65, PSK, QSO365, SSB, VHF
Tagged QSO365
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Assembling a section of Alimast
In my last update, the final image shows a single section of Alimast standing on the concrete. I bought four sections of Alimast from Aerial-Parts of Colchester, each being 2.5m long for a total of 10m (33ft). These four sections … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, Construction, Sponsorship
Tagged Aerial-Parts of Colchester, Alimast
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The next stage of the new mast – Mounting the pivot pins in concrete
My new Alimast from Aerial-Parts of Colchester tilts over using a pivot system and so the ground anchor consists of two pivot pins mounted in the ground. These two pins have been linked together for ease of securing in concrete … Continue reading
Posted in Amateur radio, Construction, Sponsorship
Tagged Aerial-Parts of Colchester, Alimast
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Building a Nixie Clock
A week or so I was inspired by a post on a forum I frequent to build a nixie clock. If you don’t know what a nixie tube is, the best way for me to explain it is to reproduce … Continue reading
Days 243, 244 and 245 – Late night data
These days were while I was still on holiday and as tends to happen when I’m not at work, I become slightly nocturnal. On one day in particular I went to bed, really couldn’t sleep and ended up getting up, … Continue reading