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: Experimenting with HF Packet Radio I’ve been discussing HF packet radio with Alan, G0WDA, for a month or two. Alan would like to get active with it as an alternative route for bringing …
: WWA Sprint Contest - July 2025 On 30th June 2025 I worked CS2WWA on 20m FT8 and then noticed a number of other callsigns ending with WWA. I looked up CS2WWA on QRZ.com and saw it …
: Radio projects This blog is as much about the present as the past. There will be more history eventually, but now something more current. Having retired just as the …
: The Packet Radio years (1986-1996) An early experiment with amateur radio data was using RTTY on 2m with the Newcastle group of friends. A couple of them decided to write a RTTY …
: Early licenced years I’d got my Class B license! A Class A licence needed a morse code test pass for access to the HF (shortwave) bands and my morse wasn’t up to spec then …
: My pre-Amateur Radio History Back in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s my grandad gave me a MW/LW radio. I listened to the commercial stations, but when I tuned away to the emptier …