The National Hamfest 2017 (29th and 30th September) was once again held at Newark Showground. The site provides a large area for both camping and caravanning, with the show opening on Friday and continuing on Saturday. The location provides the ideal opportunity to meet up with friends from around the country, and browse the stalls […]
Year: 2017
CQ WW RTTY DX Contest
The CQ WW RTTY contest runs towards the end of September, and this year George M1GEO and myself decided to enter the contest under our own callsigns from our contest site at the Secret Nuclear Bunker. We decided to keep it simple, using just two aerials. 1/ 80m dipole @ 30m 2/ 40m 1/4 wave ground […]
SSB National Field Weekend with Camb-Hams
This year I joined the Camb-Hams for the SSB National Feild Weekend from their contest site in Worts’ Causeway, Cambridge. I arrived on Friday afternoon to assist with the setup, this included antenna for both 144 MHz and HF for the field day. The HF event runs in parallel with the VHF event over 24 hrs, […]
LEFARS and SNBCG Field Weekend.
The August bank holiday provided a great time to play some radio, and join forces with another club for the weekend. Many of team SNBCG are also members LEFARS, and with an active portable group, this was set to be a busy weekend. I arrived on Friday evening with Peter G0IPA and Dave G7UVW to […]
18 MHz beam project (Part 2)
If you haven’t arrived here from Part 1, you may want to check this out first. Part 2 final assembly and testing. The collection of poles had been previously cut to size, this weekend was about the final assembly and mounting the driven element to facilitate testing. The beam is 3 elements and requires a […]
18 MHz 3e Beam Project (Part 1)
As featured in Practical Wireless December 2017. In 2015 I finished a 4e beam for 21 MHz, the performance was very good allowing me to work some great DX including a pile-up of JA.stations You can read more about that project here. A handy guide showing the aluminium sizes required (in both metric and imperial) and the total […]