One of my main interests in amateur radio involves picking up radio signals from satellites and (one day) talking to astronauts on the space station. Getting a contact with the ISS may be difficult, but there is an easier thing…
The RTL-SDR is an inexpensive software defined radio dongle based on the RTL2832u chipset. The dongle was designed to be used as a digital video and radio receiver, but with some custom firmware can be re-purposed as a wideband software…
I could not resist the name of this article, it seemed so obvious 🙂 I’ve been in the radio room this afternoon listening to the 2m VHF band, calling CQ on CW and listening to the beacons. The Scottish beacon,…
Back in the 80’s I received my first amateur radio license, a ‘B’ license as it was back then entitling me to use, if I recall correctly, bands above 30 MHz only. We didn’t have 6m and 4m band allocations then…
This weekend just past (16th – 18th October) saw TSGARC members establishing a JOTA station for Olveston 1st Scout Group. John, Garry,Paul, John, Richard, Andy, Rob, Susan, Peter, Peter, Rex, Mike and others attended the 1st Olveston Scout hall from…
Congratulations to Nick Jon and Christian, pictured below who passed their Foundation Exam on the 8th October. Well done Gentlemen. Their thank I am sure go to Peter, Rex and John plus others who have given their time to aid…
I’ve been using SDR and in particular, GNU Radio a lot recently. If anyone else is interested in comparing notes / experiments it would be great to catch up. GNU Radio’s flow graph method of constructing working ‘devices’ (pictured below) has been…
My new callsign has also ‘arrived’: M6JNY. It took a while to choose, as my 2 dozen or so first choices had already gone! To echo Nick’s (M6KKJ) comments: Many, many thanks to all members who helped me qualify. Particularly those…
The Kempton rally takes place 8th November. Andrew
Hi all, I just wanted to post that I got my new call sign – M6KKJ In case you are wondering why KKJ – My kids names are Kieran, Kirsty and Jessica. Special thanks go to Peter and Paul for…