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 […]
Tag: 2015
National Hamfest 2015
Its been a while since I ventured out to an amateur radio rally, having been to a few at Pickets Lock Enfield and Canvey over the years, today saw a trip to the National Hamfest at Newark Showground. The highlight for me was the launch of Pinky, a high altitude balloon The SSDV payload callsign […]