Members of the newly formed Secret Nuclear Bunker Contest Group met for its inaugural Christmas dinner this weekend. The event was well attended by 10 members, enjoying a traditional Christmas dinner, crackers and unavoidable cracker jokes. Pre meal drinks, from left to right Chris G8OCV, Dave G7UVW, Bill G0BOF and George M1GEO. Left Kevin M0TBX and […]
Operating GB0SNB special event call from the Kelvedon Hatch SNB
On Saturday I operated from the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker near Ongar. The bunker is a large 3 level underground site, with a 50 meter mast on the roof. The bunker was active until 1994. The bunker has a permanent special call sign GB0SNB and is open to the public as a museum. Working […]
Hytera MD785G review and first impressions.
After my last article on the TYT MD380 I decided it would be nice to get a DMR radio for the home / car use. I read quite a lot online and decided to select a radio that would support roaming. The Hytera MD785G fitted the bill, and is available in both a high and low […]
Operating portable from Cromer Norfolk
A long weekend away in Cromer, time to close up the static van for the winter and hopefully some time for /p. This time I wanted to try a 20m endfed wire, this ran from the tree at the back of the van into the ATU. I connected up another 20m wire and connected that […]
CQ WW SSB 2015
This weekend saw a casual entry into the CQ WW SSB contest, taking part with George M1GEO, Dave M0YOL, Dave G7UVW and Chris G8OCV. I used my TS990, 4e homebrew beam on 21 MHz and HAL 1200 solid state amplifier delivering 400w. 28 MHz was a vertical @ 12m and 1.9, 3.5 and 7 MHz […]
GB0SNB – Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker.
Spent some time this weekend operating from the Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon with George M1GEO. The bunker has a permanent special call GB0SNB and we put this on the air both VHF and HF today. It was nice to see 7 MHz in good shape, full with the JOTA and WAG contest. Here are […]