Amateur radio blog by Adrian Leggett – Newark – England
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.