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Over the past several weeks, I’ve had a project to resurrect an old PK-232MBX AX.25 packet radio Terminal Node Controller (TNC, or basically what we’d today call a MODEM) so I can send email over radio. The ultimate objective is to use WinLink Express with our local Raynet group. In particular, we’re involved in a…
This weekend, for the combined reasons of interference from Low Power Devices and also an opportunity to enable a new DMR repeater for Cambridge, the well-established GB3PY repeater has moved frequency. It was on 433.200MHz (+1.6MHz split) and is now on 430.900MHz (+7.6MHz split). This brought an interesting question: other than website and email, how…
I’m a couple of weeks late writing this post but on the weekend of 23-24 March, I again headed down to the UK Scout Headquarters station at Gilwell Park to join the team operating GB2GP for the CQ WPX SSB contest. Rather than me repeat what has already been said, a write-up of the event…
Following the snow on Pen Y Fan yesterday, I decided to cut my long weekend short and to head back to Cambridge on Easter Sunday, stopping at Black Mountain on the Welsh-English border on the way home. GW/SW-041 Black Mountain 6-point Black Mountain is a lovely walk, which I last did just before Christmas. I…
Having stayed the night at the very comfortable Cwmdu Campsite (only ten minutes’ drive from Mynydd Troed – where I finished yesterday – and Mynydd Llangorse), I awoke to a very wet pitch. It had rained heavily all night, and I was aware that that rain would have fallen as snow on the summits. I…
I spent the Easter weekend in Wales operating from some of the SOTA summits in the Brecon Beacons. After staying in Gloucester overnight on Maundy Thursday, I started Good Friday by heading up Waun Fach. GW/SW-002 Waun Fach I approached Waun Fach from the South-West, starting from the crossroads at NGR SO190267, just above Waun…
This weekend saw a large group (17 of us) from the Camb-Hams and various friends going to the Dutch national radio flea market at Rosmalen in central Holland. I haven’t been for four years, but this is always a great event. Visitor numbers were notably down this year, and a few of the usual traders…
The Arkwright Scholarships are awarded to 16 year olds who show promise to be future engineers, and are designed to help them through their sixth-form studies. As part of this, the current scholars had an opportunity to visit the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB)’s National Radio Centre at the historic Bletchley Park today, where…
Last summer, I spent a week at the UK Scout HQ, Gilwell Park near London, for the YOTA event. This weekend, I had the opportunity to return to the shack to help operate GB2GP – the permanent special event station for the Scouts – in the ARRL DX Contest. It was a really fun weekend,…
This post is part 3 of a series of three posts about my time doing SOTA in the Wicklow mountains. For part 2, see Wicklow Mountains SOTA Trip – Day 2: Djouce and Trooperstown Hill. EI/IE-014 Sorrel Hill After leaving my B&B in Laragh, it was a 50 minute drive in frosty conditions via the picturesque…