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The CW key you never needed, now in Calculator form! Picture the scene. What if you are out operating portable and you suddenly realised you forgot your straight key, your paddle or your bug!? Goodness me what a palava! What to do?! Luckily, you always remember to bring your Casio Pocket...
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Logging QSO’s on a calculator. Does it add up? UPDATED: I have now published the code on my Github repository. I have added lots of new features including the ability to print records to compatible electrostatic Casio printers. Enjoy! I recently happened upon a fantastic Web-based emulator of a...
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A new activity to make you the envy of the parish like the 12 Metre Freestyle Gangster you are! “What do you know about 24MHz?”“Magic. Whole lotta magic.” Cyrus. The Warriors. 1979. This weekend just past I set out on a SOTA activation. My first in a couple of months. This was to be no […]
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When missing your quota isn’t the end of the world. On the afternoon of Wednesday June 24th, 2026, I failed a POTA activation. It wasn’t my first, and it most certainly will not be my last. Indeed my first portable radio operation of any kind was a failure. One solitary contact after the effort of...