Rotor interface

Last year I purchased a pneumatic 11m mast that can support a head load of 35kg.  Currently I use an SPID RAU rotator from AlfaRadio mounted at the top of the mast to rotate antenna’s.  At 6kg the rotor is reasonably…

Steve’s Foundation Test Pass

‘Young’ Steve took and passed his Foundation Exam this Friday evening. Steve  completed the test in 25 minutes with an indicative score of 23 out of 26. Steve now needs to start thinking of a suitable callsign. The test was…

Field Event Planning 2016

As those who were at the programme planning session last week know I rather haphazardly stepped into the planning for this years event!! Know I was really happy to honestly LOL. On a serious note I will be asking for…

HF Propagation talk

Just a quickie to say that the slideware from the HF propagation talk in January this year by Peter, G4OST is now in the Lecture notes section of this website. Andrew G0RVM

Radio restoration

A big thank you to Mike M1DPB for a fascinating talk about restoring vintage radio’s last night. For those that could not attend, Mike brought along a couple of radio’s, pictured below, and presented the restoration steps he had taken plus…

Vintage radio’s

A few weeks ago I was handed two images by Stan (G3RYM).  They show some vintage radios being displayed at a TSGARC meeting.  The gentleman in the purple top is Mike M1DPB. If you can provide any further information such…

Improving your ground system

Electrically conductive cement.  Invented around 30 years ago but I suspect forgotten, follow the link to Sankosha website for excellent ground resistance calculators and information on pro-ground systems: 

Propagation forecast tools

Many thanks to Peter (and his able assistants) for the informative presentation on ‘Propagation Forecasts’ this past Wednesday, I found it fascinating and very useful. On a related note I happened to stumble across the following news on the RSGB website: The…