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Holiday Comms
Easter holidays are here again and I’m visiting North Devon with my Clansman PRC320. I’ve been experimenting with the SPDX contest. Some predictions showed that 20m would be the best bet in the daytime with perhaps some action on 40m in the evening. Unfortunately my holiday home faces 180 degrees in the wrong direction so […]
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I’m a big fan of the fan dipole!
I started experimenting with the fan dipole concept in the summer, building one out of bits of stick and tape for a quick bit of experimentation. I thought it was about time I came back to the concept for some further testing. The principle of a fan dipole is pretty simple. Dipole antennas for multiple […]
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The Mighty V-Beam!
I’ve been researching a few ideas for antenna’s over the last month which inspired me to create the biggest antenna I think I’ve ever built – the mighty v-beam!! But let’s rewind a few steps – what I am really interested in is broadband antennas. There are many designs for broadband antennas but one thing […]
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A real test for Clansman
I’ve had an old Clansman PRC-320 for a while now and recently modified it to add lower side band modulation (LSB) to make it more useful on the amateur radio bands. It’s had a little testing at home but with the Christmas holidays starting it seemed like now would be a good time to test […]
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I do not like the zoo!
Today the family decided to go to the zoo for the day…. I’m not a big fan of the zoo so it seemed like a great opportunity to get away for a few hours of HF. I decided to walk from my holiday cottage to Northam Burrows which is the site of a Second World […]
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SOTA/POTA
Today was my first Summits On The Air (SOTA)/Parks On The Air (POTA) activation. I was lucky enough to have the loan of a Codan Sentry 6110 HF radio so I thought I would give SOTA a try on Butser Hill. This is also a POTA location so I’m counting that as a buy one […]