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I use 80m on occasion, and I think I have enough room in the garden to accommodate a 40-10m EFHW with an 80m addition, so after watching a few YT videos I thought I'd have a go. I ordered up a piece of 40mm PVC pipe, a reel of 0.6mm magnet wire and other fittings […]...

I have a lot of noise on my system so am building one of GM3SEK's RF filters to see if it will help. I have wrapped the flex cables in a clip-on ferrite and two glued-together ferrites. I connected the incoming mains via a large kill switch. : and then put the components for the […]...

I wanted to be able to show my on-air status on this website and on my QRZ.com page, so set about figuring out how to do this. It appeared that Node-RED was a suitable piece of software to give me a two-way access to the radio, so I had a play on my dev PC. […]...

I wanted to do something a little more portable this weekend, so I decided to make a signal-stick-esque antenna. I ordered the following items: I deliberately bought slightly larger gauge wire than the BNC could accept as I wanted something a little thicker. This meant using some sandpaper to whittl...

Well, this is new for me. I decided to finally have a go at HF work. With the layout of my place, it made sense to have an end-fed long line antenna. My shack is at the front corner of the house and there's a gap to the fence, and the fence is around 25 […]...

I can't believe this is my first post of 2025! January was crazy busy. I recently change dout my shack radio, from an AnyTone D578 to a Yaesu FTM-500D. It was used, from Martin Lynch, and the price was right to grab it. I decided that the main body could go where the D578 had […]...

Wow! I just managed to get a decent pass at full level. As I said to the invigilator at the end, "I'm going to start second-guessing myself so I'm just going to hit submit"! After having bought the Exam Secrets book and completing all questions and the mock within, and the threee mocks on the [&hell...

You know that thing where you decide "do or not"? Well, I did. I was going round in loops on some areas and thought I'd never get my head round things. So I decided, in my infinite, er, wisdom, to give myself a deadline. So I booked the exam... It's booked for 29th November, just […]...

Well, this morning I took, and passed, my intermediate exam, less than a month after completing my foundation level. And finally my full licence manual arrived so I can catch up a little on the full course. Last night was a 2-hour session going over the licence conditions and operating techniques. N...