John Rowden

After a small setback (a flat battery) we have resumed transmission using a mains power supply. I have included the DX10 table showing the  best 10 (in terms of range) . The DX10 table gives you a snapshot of the system…

Today at around 4.pm I connected my wsprlite antenna analysis system to the club 40m Dipole after completing the 40m low pass filter. It is now transmitting at 200mw and here is the first image from the spots map. The…

Last week was the second week with Paul m0zmb  showing  some of his experiments using the Arduino open source electronics platform.  We looked at a full colour LCD display from Tony G0WMB and my (John m0hfh) experiments to link the Arduino…

qrz log1 gb4vbr qrz log2 gb4vbr A  short days operating from a low G5rv and 100watts using mainly club equipment yielded 8 countries see qrz.com for full details. Thanks to all club members who turned up, and participated in a…

We have erected Two antenna’s and some tuning is underway, The first is a ZL7 2-2m 7 element special Yagi on lone to us by Andy ( G7OPB) from Berkeley; on Sunday we measured the resonant frequency  144.4 to 145…

The commonweath contest is one of the longest running contests on HF. TSGARC will be sending CW this Saturday as part of the commonwealth contest organised by the RSGB. We will be testing a directional 80m loop as darkness…

After last nights excellent and informative talk by Gary on Network systems in which a 5G was mentioned, there is a talk at the RSGB meeting in Redland on Monday 28th November by Prof Andrew Nix (University of Bristol) on…

The celebration of the huge part Marconi played in the invention of Radio will be marked by transmission of signals from around the world next Saturday 23rd April. Many special event stations will be in operation. Here’s a link to one…

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