Old RadComs

Would anyone like some old RadComs from the ’90s onward? Done up in bundles by year. If no interest, they will be heading for recycling. Peter G4OST

Ardunio For Beginners – A blinking LED

Paul M0ZMB ran a beginners night with Arduino. This included what is involved in the Arduino ecosystem and how to get started. The Arduino Is an open source computer hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and…

Club Dipole – WSPR To the Antarctic 13597 km

In preparation for tonight’s talk on WSPR experiments, the club antenna has been transmitting at 200mw (20dbm) so that live data from DX explorer is available. Band conditions during the early hours were good and a signal was received by…

Vaisala RS41 RadioSonde captured

During Wednesday (24th January 2018) afternoon the daily 11:15am RadioSonde launch from Camburne, Cornwall decided to make its way to Wiltshire rather than France, as is the norm at the minute. I left work mid afternoon to go home and…

Arduino Beginners Course – 21st February

The kits and coursework for the Arduino beginners course are now complete and ready to run. Each kit has the following items: Item Source Qty. NodeMCU Lua V3 CH340G ESP8266 eBay h-quality_electronic 1 10pcs Micro USB cable eBay bigfashionmarket 1…

Receiving RadioSondes or not in my case

I was inspired by this recent Hackaday () post to try my hand at receiving RadioSonde messages. A RadioSonde is the box of electronics (Temperature, Pressure monitors etc , GPS receiver, Processor and UHF transmitter) that sits below a weather…

Arduino Beginners Course

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This week I have received a number of parcels from the great electronics store in the East. The contents of which is the majority of the parts required for the Arduino beginners…