Amateur radio blog by Adrian Leggett – Newark – England
Recently my Dad made me some custom wall brackets. I will be using the brackets to support a pole and my new Yaesu G-450 rotator, WIMO SHF-2344 yagi for 23cm, EAntenna EA270ZB13 yagi for 2m and 70cm and masthead pre-amplifier unit for 23cm.
This post shows a technique I’ve used to straighten 10mm Microbore copper tube and forms one of a series of video’s I’ve made to show how I’ve constructed my Quadrifiliar Helix antenna or QFH as it’s more commonly known.
Over the last few days I have been working on first phase of integrating real-time DX cluster information to my new website so I can view activity on the go.
Taking raw data from a JSON API made available by DXCluster.co.uk , I have developed PHP, CSS and JavaScript that adds styling and automatically refreshes the cluster table every 10 seconds. Thank you to DXCluster.co.uk for the continued use and support of the API.
When I was thirteen years old, I remember hooking up an old Amstrad analogue satellite receiver to a homebrew yagi antenna to receive amateur radio television (ATV) from Lincoln repeater GB3VL. That was as far as I got with ATV until a recently.
I’ve just added a new QTH page to my website that contains latitude, longitude, grid square and WAB square details.
Click here to view.
To receive 1.3 GHz (23cm) digital Amateur Television (ATV) transmissions from my local repeater GB3VL, I am using a Humax Foxsat HD/GB (click here for user manual) digital satellite receiver.
Last night I attended Lincoln Shortwave Club for the planning meeting of the National Hamfest, which will be held at Newark Showground on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th September 2017.
Known to exist since World War I, numbers stations are believed to have been used or still being used, for transmission of coded messages to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries.
I will be posting lots of amateur radio related information here so be sure to take a look on a regular basis.
In August 2016 I had the pleasure of visiting the Isle of Wight for a two-week family holiday.
I’ve visited the Island many times since being a small child and love coming here as it is such a beautiful island and there is so much to see and do. There was one difference with this holiday though – I took along my new Baofeng GT-3TP MK3 multi-band 2m / 70cm handheld transceiver.