Portable Amateur Radio
If you have followed my on Instagram or Facebook then you already know I enjoy Digital Modes in Amateur radio such as JS8Call and APRS and I have a few computer options ranging in cost and power consumption from the Raspberry Pi…
Hi all, looks like I have a few minutes this morning to write a quick post for a change 🙂 Ive been out portable most weekends mainly on 2m and 70cm, these bands interest me because of the low use here, Ive…
I do most of my Amateur Radio operation and for the most part I use the digital mode JS8CALL picking a spot to set up somewhere in the great outdoors and spend a couple of hours on the radio. But sometimes its…
Earlier this year (or maybe late last year its hard to tell these days!) I got myself the Slidewinder Coil from M1ECC antennas and after chatting with them I found out about the new Military Folding antenna they would be selling. I…
Today saw me out on Winsford Hill a couple of miles from home with my icom IC-705 and HB9CV portable antenna. This is quite a popular spot for walkers, picnickers and park the car and look at the view types of folk.…
For the past couple of days we have been exploring Exmoor National Park around our new home. Being right in the middle of it we don‘t have to go far but Exmoor covers almost 700 square kilometres or 300 square miles, for…
Introduction JS8Call has been in around for a few years now, but its sadly still not very popular. Many Amateur Radio Operators around the world are using the WSJT-X software constantly to make contacts comprising of a simple signal report exchange and…
Over the past weekend we went out to a couple of high points in Exmoor national park so that I could try out my 2m/70cm Inflatable Antenna that I bought from www.radiogeeks.co.uk . Both places were just a few miles from home>…
Sometimes we don’t have to look very far for a solution to carrying our gear into the field. Whilst looking for an easy way to fit my HF Air antenna into my LC-192 backpack I realized that the pouch I had already…
As you may know (if you’ve been following my posts on instgram and twitter) I’m a big fan of quick to deploy simple antennas. But I wont use any old gimmick or rubbish. It has to work. So a could of years…
