…. I received my licence. A poorly photocopied sheet, issued by the Home Office with my details hand written on in biro.
Category: Amateur radio
RSGB Convention 2012
Tomorrow I’m off to the RSGB Convention at Horwood House, Milton Keynes and will be there until Sunday afternoon. The programme of events is very varied and there’s plenty there to keep me interested all weekend, along with it being a major social event. If you go and you spot me, please be sure to […]
The Martello Tower Group are going to Herm
I suddenly realised that although I’ve been shouting about our upcoming DXpedition to Herm on Twitter and getting publicity in many other places that I’ve not blogged about it here. Myself and five other members of the Martello Tower Group are going to Herm which is part of the Channel Islands in just three days […]
Statistics – September 2012
I wound up my GO6NHU operations at the start of the month so whereas G6NHU didn’t get much use over the last two months, I’m back to that again. The design for my QSL cards for GO6NHU is nearly finished and will be ordered in the next week or so. My goal is to work […]
More work on the Hexbeam following another failure
On the 25th August I was warming up for the SCC RTTY contest and having a few quick QSOs prior to the start when I noticed my SWR had jumped from 1.1:1 to over 2:1. This is exactly what happened before so I went into the garden and peered up at the aerial. This is […]
The ongoing saga of my weather station
In January, I bought and installed a weather station and you can read my blog entry about that here. I said in that post that I knew these stations tended to last about a year but I wasn’t quite prepared for how much trouble I was going to experience. Firstly the solar sensor had a […]
2012 QSOs for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Yesterday was the final day of the London 2012 Paralympics and so I’ve now finished operating using my special callsign of GO6NHU, in fact I finished operating a few days ago. I’d set myself a goal of making over 2000 QSOs with the special callsign and once I hit that goal I decided to stop […]
Working Amateur Radio satellites – A blast from my past
I’ve tried many facets of amateur radio including working through ‘repeaters in the sky’, or as they’re more commonly known, satellites. I recently dug out an envelope of old QSL cards and in amongst them were four cards back from 2000 where I had QSOs through the now long defunct SO-35 ‘Sunsat‘. Three of the […]
Statistics – August 2012
Pretty much all I’ve done this month is work data modes using my special Olympic callsign of GO6NHU. I’ve used my normal callsign just a handful of times, mainly for picking up the five new DXCC entities (Comoros, Guyana, Micronesia, Liberia and Zambia) and for a few more unusual stations such as RI1ANF on South […]
Fixing the aerial mount in the roof of my car
Around twelve years ago I bought a car. On that car, I had fitted two aerial mounts on the roof, proper drilled through mounts with SO239 sockets for putting aerials for 2m/70cms. The problem is that after time, water has got under the mounts and caused rust to form. I’ve not been too worried about […]
