My neck of the woods…

Well it’s obviously on a away day trip or relationship with mine, exactly the same yesterday 🙄

I’ve not used one but have a G90 that’s used as a back up for main rig, played well borrowed a 5105 years back for a few days, TBH S/H xiegu make a lot of sense for out and about.

Eventually obtained a kx2 at a price I was happy with, wanted the small form factor, sold the kx3 for more than I paid for it.

But agree very thin on the ground.

Station diary a very useful addition Pete, tried it tonight on the clubnet…great place to make and share stuff mentioned.

ukbota.net/hunt2/
wwbota.net/cluster/
also as mentioned field spotter.

Same till the lawn mower let the magic smoke out 😁

Today we had the club junk sale, some really nice bits and bobs, at great prices, many having clear outs of old unused stuff, was I tempted!! err yes…😁

QRP sotabeams ATU, RTL SDR dongle and a 5M vertical Ali pole less than a tenner, and indulged for a little more in a fine SWR, Power meter..

Some this way have as well Simon, I’ve a RX buried in god knows where..but dirt cheap to kit up on..

Finally got the old 24cm FM ATV TX stuff out of storage, only 20 years or so 😁

About 10w I guess to a old 20el quad loop with some equally old cable, P5 to a station 10mins away then around P3 20 miles, a big interest in mode locally again.

Will do…chat regularly.

First rally or the year @theRSGB members stall attending with RR13 at the g5fz.co.uk/lswc-radio-ral… in Market Rasen near Lincoln…pop by, say hello.

Oooh now that looks slick George and as I’ve finally reached the holy grail and obtained a kx2 it might spur me on to learn, finally, after many trials and tribulations, CW, add me to the list of interest please.

Receive only today…transmitter needs some work on it..

Some interest in ATV this way, so wrapped up warm, got 3cm stuff out of mothballs and went out portable to see if still worked on RX…Bingo, last used 20y ago..know thing have moved on to digital, but this analogue was rather pleasing..now to improve and update stuff.

ONBOTA Website had a revamp, has UKBOTA did earlier been fun hunting all last few weeks.

Pile ups have been manic my ears wouldn’t cope with all that, always another day.

A good call and addition IMHO…

Thank you for similar thoughts, and see @mm9sql.com uses on DxChrono so guess still a large demand for…

Exactly…thanks for sharing thoughts.

Would appreciate some feedback on the NCDXF beacon network, recent conversations, some had not heard of it, one said very old technology, personally I don’t think it is, it’s long established no need to log on anywhere and often listen as an indicator of propagation, your thoughts guys.

DATV pictures

DATV pictures

DATV pictures

Dipped me toes into DATV, 70cm, impressive results, SDRangel initially then SDRtelevision a big improvement on decodes, local station just using vert colinear on 1w 10mile…then other further afield on beam.

Bunkers website is IMHO one of the best radio related source going at the moment, so much work gone into providing all.

Need to get out and activate, loads this way, but have lots going on at moment…BOTA has grown, as I knew it would a few years back alongside POTA, combined radio and outdoors..great combination.

All good in the flatlands, just to hunt a few bunkers playing with 70cm DATV and Xmas shopping.

Have a great day Simon

was more novelty value, but compromised antennas are useless with QRP, still need to satisfy the curiosity of where and if still have 😁

Is that one of those air antenna things, I’ve one somewhere as well…now thats a job for the weekend to find 😁

That’s a brilliant uptake, as it happens I’m at hospitals a fair bit at mo with family things, I’ll take a few, but not ideal waiting area this way, I’ll place em randomly in departments waiting area, be a change from Home and Gardens and like…

Yes do that as well, these were historically old, 2006 onwards era…the dentist last time showed little interest except extracting money…often leave random copies around places.

Only way to promote hobby is to be proactive Phil so completely agree with you on all.

And to the next pile, enjoyed this magazine, shame it went…always a good read IMHO.

I do the same every year with AA, usually come down to my level of pay, else say will move to another and play leap frog each year for new members deal with each other 😁