Month: August 2024

Tonight my entire radio hobby it in jeopardy. For now that’s all I’m going to say.

I’m not saying this is going to happen, but I am starting the “thinking” process for replacing my Icom IC-705 with the new and soon (early 2025) to be released Yaesu FTX-1F. I absolutely love my little Icom IC-705 QRP rig and it has served me very well over the last 5 years but maybe…

Earlier this year I picked up a shiny new Geochron Atlas 4k digital world map. The idea is fantastic and I will say from the start when it’s up and running it looks amazing. A full colour 4k world map showing all kinds of live information like aircraft positions, live weather, ham radio information and…

I said a few days ago my HF Antenna was finished. Since then Storm Lilian has hit with gusts of wind hitting between 70 to 80 miles per hour. The antenna was fine and didn’t budge an inch. Monitoring the top of the antenna on CCTV showed no detectable sway in any direction. I put…

I’ve been using Log4OM2 over the past 6 months which is a free to download and use bit of logging software. I’ve been very impressed with it and it’s integration with other application like WSJT-X and my QRZ.com logbook and lookup. All this integration makes logging calls very quick and easy because most of the…

It feels like a bit of a never ending quest but I think my antenna is now the best it can be for the space and hight I have available to me. After the disastrous attempt at a 56 foot random wire which would have killed people if it fell over (and it would have…

While the new Yaesu FTdx101MP is an amazing radio there are a few things I feel it should have that it doesn’t. One of those things as a Peak Envelope Power option on the power meter. It’s not a massive thing but it is something I like to have set and it was an option…

Well, the story of WA5JIM Jimbo (as I’m calling him now) is just getting stranger by the minute. Here is the reply received when I asked who the hell did he think he was…… Who am I ?  Maybe you can’t get it.  I care about the world. Not my personal agenda. My Ham radio…

Got a strange e-mail this morning from WA5JIM over in the good old USA saying just the following with no “hello”, “good bye” or even an attempt at an explanation. Very rude if you ask me. “Please keep your politics out of Ham radio. We are neutral. We don’t take sides. Its a good practice.”…

My new HF Antenna is located just out of sight from my flat so the only way to check on it is to go out and physically look at it. That’s not a problem for most people but for me and my disabilities it’s not so easy. So I’ve picked up an additional Ring Stick…