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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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…Now That’s What I Call Jamon Volume 1. I’m bored. I’m the chairman of the bored. So, with boredom deeply-rooted within my psyche, I decided to give myself something to do…by having a bit of a giggle and making a silly amateur radio-themed video. You can take a look, if you feel so compelled, by...
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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...
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince… We are gathered here today to mark the passing of a voice that has been a constant, quiet companion to so many of us for a century. BBC Radio 4 Longwave, born in 1926, left us in the early hours of this morning, June 27th 2026, at the age of one hundred. […]
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An Elecraft KH1 and FT8? Together? On the same platform? That can’t be right? I am not a great fan of FT8. That concludes this blog entry. Thanks for reading. Okay, I’ll write a bit more if I must. I don’t really hold a candle for all of the new-fangled data modes e.g. FT8, FT4, […]
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Repairing my Elecraft KX2 with the most expensive perspex on Earth. A few months back I was out in the field operating portable when I noticed something was wrong with my Elecraft KX2. It had developed a crack in the protective LCD bezel. Essentially a piece of clear perspex with some holes in it...
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Boats, birding, classic cars, fountain pens and a double POTA ATNO activation. They say that amateur radio takes you to places you’d have likely never ventured to otherwise (they say a lot don’t they?). I’ve only held my licence since 2024 and through the hobby of amateur radio I have already...