This is a question that’s being asked a lot these days. For me, the answer is fairly simple. If it involves RF leaving my station on a frequency which requires me to have an amateur radio licence to transmit on, then it’s “real radio”. That is, it’s “Amateur radio”. That includes, HF, VHF, UHF, etc […]
Category: Amateur radio
Visiting GB6NT at Walton-on-the-Naze
A few days ago was the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend and a group of locals under the umbrella of Colchester Radio Amateurs operated a special event station using the callsign GB6NT from the Naze Tower at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. This location is very close to me and I visited on both Saturday and Sunday. On […]
Running my own DX Cluster again
A few years ago I set up a DXCluster using AR-Cluster on my old Mac Mini with Windows XP installed. It ran for a long time, I had good connections into the network and although it was listed on the DX Cluster info page, nobody ever connected to me. This was fine, the cluster was […]
An unexpected QRP entry into the DMC RTTY 2018 contest
Statistics for the second quarter of 2018
Although this blog hasn’t been very active over the last few months, I’m still operating the radio regularly. The warmer weather has appeared in the UK and I’m spending a lot of time outside walking, riding my bike, eating ice-cream and topping up my sun tan. During the second quarter of 2018, I’ve made just […]
The return of GR6NHU
Updated guide to setting up an APRS RX only iGate using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR dongle and a pre-built image
** image has been updated as of 21/04/2018 to resolve the problems some people had booting their Pi ** Note: 27/02/2022 I am no longer seeding either of the two source files via BitTorrent. The compressed version is available via SourceForge, is not corrupted and will still work if you can decompress it. Other people may be seeding […]
Statistics for the first quarter of 2018
When is an “All Time New One” not an all time new one?
Earlier this month I heard 5A1AL calling CQ on 17m and managed to work him fairly quickly. My log showed him as an “All Time New One” (ATNO). When I looked at his qrz page, he mentioned that he uses ClubLog so I checked my callsign there against his log and was very surprised to […]